This is not a new site, but it's one I've been meaning to mention for a while. UGTV is Charlie Arehart's online repository of recorded user group presentations, and there are now 88 presentations posted (including two of mine). While most of the presentations are ColdFusion related, there are also...
The November Flex + ColdFusion seminar in Toronto was so successful that we're doing it again, this time in Ottawa. Join me for a half day seminar to learn why there's simply no quicker or easier way to create Rich Internet Applications than the combination of Flex 2 and ColdFusion MX 7. I may even...
Several users have asked if Flex Builder now supports Eclipse 3.2x, and the answer is yes, as of the just released Flex Builder 2.0.1. Eclipse 3.1 is still installed by default if you select the "Flex Builder and Flex SDK" option, but if you have an existing Eclipse 3.2x installation then select...
I signed up with LinkedIn a long time ago, and tend to not pay much attention to it until I receive an invite, which inevitably gets me to browse link trees finding other contacts I may know. Thus far, my only business use for LinkedIn has been routing requests from individuals who want to contact...
Flex 2.0.1 has been released. In addition to enhancements and improvements to Flex itself, 2.0.1 adds support for Max OSX, and also support the creation of Apollo apps. Ted Patrick has posted a great overview of the changes in this release.
When performing full-text searches you usually want not just results, but a ranking indicating how close a match is to what you are looking for. In SQL Server 2005, ranks are accessed via ranking functions - FULLTEXT searches are ranked using function FULLTEXTTABLE() and CONTAINS searches are...
SQL Server 2005 supports two forms of full-text search, FREETEXT and CONTAINS. CONTAINS is used to search for rows that contain words, phrases, partial phrases, words with the same stem, proximity searches, synonyms (using a thesaurus lookup), and more. Here is a simple example: SELECT note_id,...
FREETEXT provides a simple mechanism by which to perform SQL Server 2005 full-text searches, matching by meaning as opposed to exact text match. Here is a simple example: SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE FREETEXT(column1, 'rabbit food'); FREETEXT(column1, 'rabbit food') means perform a FREETEXT lookup...
SQL Server 2005 features an integrated full-text search engine, which several people have e-mailed me to ask about recently. (ColdFusion users can use to perform queries using SQL Server full-text searches). If you want to play with SQL Server 2005 full-text search capabilities, you need to do the...
My On The Road page has finally been brought up to date (just in time to hit the road again).