December 6, 2007
I mentioned the Samsung BlackJack II a week or so ago, and I stand my most of my original comments. With one big exception: My biggest complaint with the original BlackJack was a lousy Bluetooth restriction whereby only one paired device could be active at a time. You could pair as many devices as...
December 5, 2007
CFUnited Europe will be held in London on March 12th-13th, 2008. Today I was able to confirm that I will be attending, and will present a keynote session.
December 4, 2007
Ted Patrick is auctioning off rare Flex 2 Team bags (filled with Flex 2 goodies), with all proceeds going to charity.
December 4, 2007
Mike Nimer was a key member of the ColdFusion team for a long time, ever since Allaire days. He is an expert on ColdFusion and Flex, as well as on using them together (he wrote the chapters on ColdFusion Flex integration in my new CFWACK Volume 2 ). Earlier this year he decided to launch his own...
December 3, 2007
Web Host Industry Review has posted a page entitled Choosing a ColdFusion Host , which provides a basic overview of ColdFusion, and then some pointers on what to look for when choosing a hosting company. The article explains that customers may not need to buy a license if they use a hosted...
December 2, 2007
Part III of Charlie Arehart's ColdFusion 8 Server Monitoring series is online on the Adobe Developer connection. This time Charlie explains Automated monitoring and request management with Alerts and Snapshots .
December 1, 2007
ColdFusion 8 ships with an embedded Apache Derby engine, which is used by the ColdFusion example applications, and can also be used for your own applications (and indeed, is used for all example applications in the CF8 edition of ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit ). Information on Apache...
December 1, 2007
Due to scheduled network and server maintenance (in the wee hours this morning) some of you may have had problems getting to my web server. Part of this change required DNS changes too, and so it is possible that some of you may still have difficulty getting to the site for the next few hours (as...
November 30, 2007
Fake eBay messages have long been favorites of phishers - click on a bogus link and you'll likely go to a fake eBay page that will prompt you for your login and password. We've all seen these before, and I don't fall for them. But today I received a fake eBay message that made me look, and look...
November 29, 2007
Two positions this week: eBay (San Jose, CA) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least 2-3 years of experience with ColdFusion, at least 2-3 years of SQL experience (Oracle, MySQL), and familiarity with frameworks and related technologies (Model-Glue, Fusebox, ColdBox)....