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).
I am not a big fan of storing CLIENT variables in the registry (I thought doing so was a hack when we first introduced CLIENT variables close to a decade ago, and still think that using the registry as a data store was a mistake). Actually, I am not a big fan of CLIENT variables altogether. But...
A new hot fix addresses an issue when using in ColdFusion to send a large number of emails (usually more than 500) and the emails contain attachments with long filenames, some of the emails do not get sent and are moved to the Undeliverable folder.
WebProNews is running an article by Ben Cortese entitled Consuming RSS Feeds With ColdFusion , a good basic introduction to working with RSS in ColdFusion.
Ugh, I did it again. The CF Docs Bots were offline the past few days because my serial number for JBuddy-CF expired at the end of 2006. I've updated the serial number, and the bots are all back online. Sorry about that. The addresses remain the same: AIM: cflivedocs Google Talk: cfdocs@gmail.com...
The Seattle Times Company is looking for a full-time developer who must know or learn (among other thing) ColdFusion. Details posted online .
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Ultimate Fighting Championship is the world's leading mixed martial arts sports association, and the Official UFC web site is powered by ColdFusion. The site seems to have been created by Getfused (also a ColdFusion site) in partnership with EZ Tech Group (yes, also powered by ColdFusion) who also...
It's been a year and a half since I mentioned Backup For Workgroups, a top notch, lightweight, low-cost, backup solution. I use it to backup the servers and workstations on my home network to a NAS (which in turn gets mirrored offsite). And it's been working flawlessly since then, just as it is...