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December 19, 2006

Grab The Red Hot Scorpio Desktop Wallpaper

My desktop wallpaper is now a really cool piece artwork created by Roberto Riutort featuring the Scorpio pre-release logo. This one is red hot, or should that be hot red (actually, I think I'd have preferred for it to be in ColdFusion Blue rather than Adobe Red). If you'd like it for your computer...

December 17, 2006

The Register Interviews Mark Anders

The Register is running an interview with Mark Anders , formerly a key member of the Microsoft ASP.NET team, and now one of the brains driving Flex 2. Not an overly technical interview, but worth reading primarily for the comments on Microsoft and WPF.

December 16, 2006

Turning Off 3G on Samsung BlackJack

Last night my Samsung BlackJack stopped making and receiving calls. That's generally not a good thing for phones to do (or not do). The display showed that I was connected to Cingular and that I had strong signal strength, but any calls placed would hang up immediately, and if anyone tried to call...

December 14, 2006

ColdFusion Positions In Ottawa And Minnesota

Centurion Networks Inc. (Ottawa, ON, Canada) is looking for two senior ColdFusion developers for a client in Ottawa. Requirements include 4+ years ColdFusion experience and 3+ years experience with Microsoft SQL Server (including stored procedure development). These positions could be contract with...

December 14, 2006

Adobe Investments Venture Fund Page

Someone e-mailed me asking about the venture fund announced at MAX 2006, and wanting to know where they could learn more, and whom to contact with proposals. After a bit of digging I found this page , and am blogging it so that I have it when I need it next.

December 12, 2006

RIM Wants To Destroy My BlackJack

Many have commented on the fact that the Samsung BlackJack is the most BlackBerry like alternative to BlackBerry itself. From the scroll wheel to the form factor to the color and more. But apparently, when it comes to appearances, we actually are able to distinguish the BlackJack from the...

December 11, 2006

Bluefish IDE Supports ColdFusion

Bluefish is an open source IDE intended for experienced web designers and programmers, and it supports a variety of programming languages, including ColdFusion. Check out these features and screenshots . Bluefish is supported on Linux, Solaris, OS-X, and more.

December 10, 2006

Dynamic SQL In SQL Server

We all rely on writing dynamic SQL in ColdFusion, but what if you need to write dynamic SQL on the server, perhaps in a stored procedure? While I'd not recommend overusing this technique (there are performance penalties to this one), if you need server-side dynamic SQL, the EXEC() function can...

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