July 23, 2007
Job postings should make requirements clear, and should list any and all preferences. And I guess I see the value in telling potential employees what will cause their application to automatically be rejected. But, here is an example of how doing so can make you look petty, immature, and very...
July 22, 2007
Rachel Unck of Rick Steves' Europe wrote to tell me about this really nice example of at work .
July 21, 2007
Rey Bango has posted notes on how to shrink the Spry JavaScript files that ship with ColdFusion 8 .
July 20, 2007
Three positions this week, including one in the UK: General Dynamics IT (UK) is looking for an experienced ColdFusion/Flex developer to join their development team. 3-5 years of current experience as a ColdFusion developer are required. ColdFusion certified applicants are given preferential...
July 19, 2007
MySQL has released a beta of a new version of their Java driver. As per this post , MySQL Connector/J 5.1.2 is a Type-IV pure-Java JDBC driver that is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon alpha release. And this new driver...
July 19, 2007
Ray Camden loves playing with ColdFusion, and has been coming up with creative projects to experiment with ColdFusion 8 features and functionality. His latest proof of concept is coldfusionBloggers , a ColdFusion blog aggregator which, as per the FAQ , is "2 CFCs, a front page, and a processing...
July 18, 2007
A week or so ago I offered discount codes for MAX here in the U.S., and lots of you eagerly grabbed them. And others wanted to know if I had discount codes for MAX Europe , and I didn't. But ... I do now! I don't have many of these, but if you want a one-time use discount code for 10% off the cost...
July 17, 2007
Jim Cassata sent me a link to The IT Crowd . Funny stuff! :-)
July 17, 2007
My laptop bag has scared TSA security personnel at several airports recently, requiring manual bag inspections each time. And when it happened again this week I finally figured out what it is that was freaking them out when the bag went through the x-ray machine - it's the spare laptop battery I...
July 16, 2007
A while back I posted examples of using ColdFusion 8 Ajax support to power an auto-suggest control and related controls . Both examples required that the back-end CFC methods create arrays (1 dimension for the former, 2 dimensions for the latter). And I pointed out that I hoped we'd be able to...