December 3, 2006
It's not that often that I need a debugger for my SQL code, but every once in a while it's an absolute must, and today is one of those days. I have a several hundred line stored procedure which works with multiple view and table variables, dozens of variables, and three levels of nested cursors....
December 3, 2006
If you do anything with Flex charting components, you MUST check out Ely's post entitled Some Thoughts and examples on making Custom Flex Charts simpler .
December 3, 2006
Now that it looks like I'll be keeping my Samsung BlackJack (until I find something better, that is) I needed to install a Flash Player on this device. A preview release of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 (both Pocket PC and Smartphone) is up on Labs . Installation is simple enough. Once...
December 2, 2006
The Detroit Free Press is running a story today about three Michigan senior citizens (aged 81-86), all of whom are accused by the U.S. Justice Department of being Nazi guards (or of assisting the Nazis). The debate now is what to do with these men. The DOJ's Office of Special Investigations wants...
December 2, 2006
Ari Zanuto is one of the founding members of the Brazilian ColdFusion community, he's a former co-worker, and is an Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) Certified Instructor. Ari recently launched ZarMedia , a hosting company offering ColdFusion hosting (Windows 2003 based, running ColdFusion 7.0.2)....
December 1, 2006
I did not realize this until I needed it today, but ... ActiveSync syncs Outlook features, right? Calendar? Yes. Contacts? Yes. Tasks? Yes. E-Mail? Yes. Notes? Nope! Outlook notes are synchronized if you have a Windows Mobile device, but not if you have a Windows Smartphone device! I can't think of...
November 30, 2006
I just spent some time helping a very irate customer. You know, the "ColdFusion sucks" "we're going to dump CF" "how can you sell this ****" brand of irate. The cause of all of this anger and frustration was very serious ColdFusion performance issues. And I am sure the individual has been under a...
November 30, 2006
Hal Helms has written an article entitled A New Vision for ColdFusion . For the most part, I agree with everything Hal says, although I don't really see this as a new vision, as much as being true to the original vision and intent. This one is recommend reading.
November 29, 2006
ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 (containing a total of 14 fixes) has been released.
November 29, 2006
As Ray Camden just posted , RIAForge has hit a major milestone, it's 100th project posted. Thus far, RIAForge has blown away our usage projections!