Microsoft has announced that it will not be releasing any new versions of Visual FoxPro, although it will continue to support the technology for another 8 years or so. This is no surprise to anyone, I'm actually amazed that Microsoft continued to maintain FoxPro for as long as they did. I may be...
I get e-mails from recruiters pretty regularly, and I generally pay no attention to them (I like what I do and am not planning a job change any time soon). But this morning I received an e-mail from a Microsoft recruiter that caught my attention because the detailed message explained that they were...
Firefox users love FireBug, a plug-in used to debug Web pages. Using ColdFusion custom debugging templates (first introduced in CFMX, but largely ignored by most), Ray Camden and Adam Podolnick have created ColdFire a ColdFusion extension to FireBug so that it can display ColdFusion debug output....
I just needed to phone someone in Hong Kong, and could not remember the time difference. So, I typed "time in hong kong" in the Firefox Google search box (thinking I'd find a world time site somewhere), and Google reported "Current local time: 10:23 AM on Tuesday, March 13" as the first answer. Too...
Giorgio Natili wrote to tell me about the formation of a new Italian Flex Usergroup .
Ben Nadel has written up a report on CFUnited Express in New York City last week. I'm glad he enjoyed the event, I certainly did. And if you are in the Atlanta area, we'll be doing it again this week.
Steve House (who I mentioned previously in this blog) has posted SelectTree , a really nice Flex 2 drop-down Tree control.
At 360Flex this week I mentioned that we were planning enhancements to Flex Data Services integration in Scorpio . I showed a slide with some bullets, and several of you have written to ask what it is exactly that I said. So, with the obligatory disclaimer this this is a plan, not a public...
It's Friday, so time for job postings. This week we have: Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) OSU Center for Knowledge Management is seeking a full time ColdFusion/Flex developer to work on a faculty information system, among other projects. Details online . University of Illinois (Urbana, IL) is...
Paul Mignard wrote a report of his trip to MAX back in October. And he created a Scorpio Man cartoon (see page 23 of the PDF). It's a bit more aggressive then I'd have liked, but still pretty cool! :-)