March 25, 2007
Ordering a pizza seems to be a popular example use case when building applications. Close to a decade ago, when I was first teaching the "FastTrack to ColdFusion" course, students needed help brushing up on basic HTML form functionality and how to work with the submitted results. So, I had them...
March 24, 2007
Simon and Schuster was founded back in 1924, originally as a publisher of crosswords and games, but over the years as the home of many important imprints and significant authors and publications. Simon and Schuster is now owned by CBS, and the Simon and Schuster website, SimonSays.com , is powered...
March 23, 2007
Four positions to post this week: eBay (San Jose, CA) an expert ColdFusion/J2EE developer for an internal web-based workflow application. Requirements includes at least 3 years of ColdFusion or J2EE experience, and at least 5 years of Oracle experience. Experience with Flex, Flash, Java is a plus....
March 21, 2007
I presented the opening keynote at Spring this morning. The first half of the presentation covered Flex Data Services, I demonstrated practical benefits of using Flex Data Services (now known as LiveCycle Data Services) as opposed to just client initiated AMF calls via Flash Remoting. Less than...
March 20, 2007
I was working on a report today, and needed horizontal dotted lines between columns in each row, essentially joining the columns to make it easier to read across. There is no automated way to do this in the ColdFusion Report Builder, but Mr. CF Reports (aka Dean Harmon) sent me this brilliant hack...
March 19, 2007
A week or so ago I did something foolish, I installed Vista on my primary laptop. Ok, so foolish may be a bit strong, after all, I did take precautions. Rather than upgrade my existing machine, I bought a new hard drive and installed Vista on that (so that my old configuration remained intact, just...
March 19, 2007
Wow, this is Labs week! Newly posted to Labs is Flex Data Services 2.5, now known as LiveCycle Data Services. Go get it !
March 19, 2007
Adobe is conducting a series of site visits in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next couple of weeks, and here is your opportunity to give your feedback to our researchers. We are looking for people who are working full-time with web technologies. If this describes you, please fill out this...
March 19, 2007
I usually only post these once a week, on Friday's. But this ColdFusion opportunity at an organization we all love so dearly, well, it's too good to wait, so ... Mozilla (home of Firefox and Thunderbird) is looking for a freelance ColdFusion developer who can design, develop, and deploy a set of...
March 18, 2007
In honor of the free posting of the Apollo alpha on Adobe Labs, lynda.com is making a 14 part online Apollo training course by Mike Chambers (almost an hour of content) totally free to the community.