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May 28, 2007

Ray Suggests Drinking Coffee?

Ray Camden has posted a cryptic message suggesting that you start drinking coffee because it'll be a late night. Hummmm.

Google Maps Adds Flash Based Street View

Oh, this is just too slick for words! Here is a Google Maps link to the Adobe office (former Macromedia office) in San Francisco . The street view is using Flash. More details posted by Ted Patrick .

Apache Derby is an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java - it has a tiny footprint (2MB or so), includes an embedded JDBC driver, and supports both simple local access as well as client-server type access. So what does this have to do with ColdFusion? Well, Jason Delmore...

Site Back Up

My sites were up and down for the past hour or so while I upgraded the servers to the latest and greatest version of Scorpio (the version that we plan to release as the public beta). Sorry for the inconvenience, we're back up now.

HomeSite Scorpio Support

We've been talking about Scorpio Eclipse extensions, and many of you have seen me using Dreamweaver with Scorpio language awareness ... but what about HomeSite (including ColdFusion Studio)? While we'll not be adding any new functionality to HomeSite, you will be pleased to know that we do indeed...

Today's Irresponsible Journalism Award Goes To Mary Brandel

I debated posting this entry. On the one hand the story in ComputerWorld today demands a response, and on the other hand as the story is an attempt to draw traffic and readers, I'm helping by responding. But, so many of you have asked me to respond that I feel I have no choice but to do so. So ......

Oliver Merk Is Blogging

Oliver Merk is a long time CF and Flex guy, manager of the Toronto Flex User Group, an Adobe certified developer ... and he is now blogging .

ZIP And JAR File Access In Scorpio

During last night's usergroup presentation I mentioned another new Scorpio tag, one we've not yet discussed publicly, and the tag that will now appear last in alphabetical CFML tag listings. provides access to ZIP and JAR files, supporting the following actions: DELETE deletes one or more files...

U.S. Scorpio Tour Wrap Up

20 flights (almost all on schedule), 2 train rides (including a last minute impromptu one), 16 hotel stays (one with the added fun of being stuck in an elevator, a glass elevator make that), over 3,000 miles driven, 24 usergroup presentations, a conference and a 1/2 day seminar and several customer...

Multi-Threaded Application Development In Scorpio

ColdFusion MX7 introduced the ability to asynchronously spawn ColdFusion requests using an event gateway. While many take advantage of this capability, it has some significant limitations, the biggest of which is that threads can only be spawned, there is no way to monitor spawned threads or wait...