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January 2, 2008

Adobe Media Player On Labs

The AIR based Adobe Media Player (demonstrated at MAX 2007) is up on Labs for download.

January 2, 2008

WebManiacs is a five day conference made up of three events - CFManiacs, FlexManiacs, and AIRManiacs. This is a chance to learn all about creating award winning web sites and web applications using ColdFusion, AIR, and FLEX. I plan to attend (at least the first day, maybe more), and you should,...

ColdFusion Helps NTIA Digital TV Conversion

The official National Telecommunications and Information Administration Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program web site is powered by ColdFusion.

The Simplest BlogCFC Post Code

I wrote an app that I use to allow BlogCFC posts via e-mail. This particular blog is an internal Adobe blog, and anyone with a valid Adobe LDAP login can post to it. (I also wrote some code that updates Ray's login code so as to update tblUsers table with new users as needed). BlogCFC has grown...

Speaking At Books & Co In Dayton

I'll be in Dayton, OH, next week for a customer meeting. And while I am there, I'll be chatting about ColdFusion 8 at an event at Books & Co in Beavercreek. The event is on January 9th at 7:00pm. Incidentally, this Books & Co location is at The Greene Town Center, and the The Greene site is...

Presenting In The Flex AIR Pre-Release Tour

We are scheduling a massive big Flex 3 / AIR Pre-Release Tour in the upcoming months. The whole Platform Evangelism team is involved in this effort, along with many others, and I'll be presenting in just a few locations. In the U.S. I am currently scheduled to present in Atlanta GA, Cary NC, and...

Public Service Announcement: Check You Free Annual Credit Report

The FTC requires that copies of your credit report (from all three major national credit reporting companies) be made available free of charge annually, and free must really mean free! Checking your credit report is important, if for no other reason than to make sure that there are no accounts or...

Microsoft Releases XNA Game Studio 2

XNA Game Studio is a development environment for creating games for Windows and XBox 360. And the XNA team has announced that XNA Game Studio 2 has been released and is ready for download. Lots of new samples and tutorials too. Cool stuff!

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December 24, 2007

How To Shrink A Virtual PC Virtual Hard Disk

Microsoft Virtual PC uses virtual machine hard drive images as disks. These VHD files are typically dynamic in size, they grow as necessary. And I had one grow on me yesterday to over 40GB in size! Microsoft provides a Virtual Disk Wizard which can be used to compact virtual disks (when the virtual...

WebKinz - How NOT To Cater To The Young

If you have yet to run into WebKinz , don't feel bad - it may just mean that your age is measured in double digits. For the uninitiated, WebKinz are stuffed animals that each come with a secret code that uniquely identify them. Armed with their stuffed animals, kids go to the WebKinz site, create a...