My most recent book, MySQL Crash Course , has just been released in Italian by McGraw-Hill Informatica. Information on this book, and a link to the new Italian edition, are on the book page. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at http://forta.com/books/intl.cfm .
Another Labs release, this time an update to the XMP Toolkit . XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) is a labeling technology used to embed metadata within media files. The XMP Toolkit allows developers to programmatically access metadata in AVI, EPS, INDD, JPEG, MOV, MP3, MPEG, PNG, PS, PSD, TIFF,...
Subject says it all, the pre-release version of Flash Player 9 for Solaris (both Sparc and x86 systems) has been posted to Labs.
Spring is next week, and it's not too late to sign up. Once again they've lined up top-notch speakers including fellow Adobians John Cummings and Kevin Hoyt, as well as Phillip Kerman, Rob Gonda, Joseph Lowery, Steve Drucker, Dan Switzer, and many other well known names. It's been a few years since...
Several ColdFusion positions to post this week, including one in Germany: REOTrans, LLC (Hawthorne, CA) is looking for a full-time ColdFusion developer. Requirements include 3+ years as a Senior Developer coding high traffic, mission critical, ColdFusion applications in a code managed development...
Now there is one less barrier to Flex experimentation and adoption. In addition to Flex Builder and the free Flex SDK, you can now write Flex code and compile it on the fly, just like you do ColdFusion (or ASP, JSP, and PHP). The Flex Module For Apache And IIS has been posted to Labs.
The Toronto CFUG is hosting a meeting tonight on server virtualization and consolidation. If you are not in the Toronto area you can still take part via Connect. Details posted by Ryan Favro (who will be presenting).
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....