Tag: Stuff

November 18, 2005

Test Entry

This is a test entry. And yes, I know, the link is not working. Yet.

I just arrived in Hong Kong, and checked in to my hotel in Kowloon, facing the beautiful harbor. I am here (along with lots of other Macromedians) for MAX Greater China , 2 days, 3 tracks, over 30 sessions, BOFs, and much more. And with any luck I may actually get to see the outside of the hotel...

Charles E. Brown Blogging

Charles E. Brown, Macromedia Certified Trainer and author of books on Dreamweaver Fireworks and more, is now blogging .

Stuff

November 1, 2005

O?uz Demirkap? Blogging In English

O?uz Demirkap? has been blogging in Turkish for a while, and has just started an English language blog .

Guilty For Hazing Death? Whatever Happened To Personal Responsibility?

CNN is reporting (an AP story) that four fraternity members pled guilty in the death of a college student who was "forced to drink large amounts of water during an initiation rite". The judge in the case wanted to consider a torture charge with a potential life sentence. All four men will serve...

Minor Enhancement To CF Docs Bot

As requested by several users, my CF Docs bot now allows you to do partial lookups, so if you did a search for "array" it will return all functions that start with the text "array", and so on.

SQL Server 2005 Impresses

I've spent a chunk of the weekend playing with the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) edition of the forthcoming Microsoft SQL Server 2005 , and I am more than impressed. And I am not even talking about features, functionality, or the installation and configuration experience (which was, by...

Urgent Message From CFer Qasim Rasheed

Qasim Rasheed is a member of the ColdFusion community (many of you met him at CFUNITED this year), and he also helped out on my Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes . He asked me to post the following: You might be already aware that an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale...

Macromedia User Group Community Katrina Relief Efforts

The San Diego ColdFusion User Group has set up a mailing list to support anyone displaced by Katrina so that anyone who needs help or can offer help may subscribe, and the response has been unbelievable. Most of the usergroup managers are on this list and are offering Katrina victims places to...

Pearson - A Big Company With An Even Bigger Heart

Pearson is a big British company that lots of folks don't know, although most of you do indeed know some of the Pearson Education brands (Que, Sams, Peachpit, New Riders, Addison Wesley, and more, and that's just in the tech world; there is also Financial Times, Penguin, Dorling Kindersley, and...