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...
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...
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.
ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 (containing a total of 14 fixes) has been released.
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!
I presented CF/Flex and Scorpio sneaks to the Toronto CFUG earlier this week. At the event, Oliver Merk announced the formation of a new Toronto Flex User Group , and the inaugural meting is set for January 23rd, 2007. This is great news for the Toronto community!
Marco Martins wrote to let me know about the new Brazilian National ColdFusion User Group . ColdFusion has some very important customers and deployments in Brazil, but community support withered somewhat during the Macromedia era, and this new group is going to be an important part of...
A user e-mailed with an interesting question. He has a ColdFusion powered Flex application that uses lots of DateField controls. By default, DateField displays left and right buttons to change months, but no buttons to change years. Changing years is supported by specifying...
SQL searches are usually case-insensitive, because most databases are set up by default for case-insensitive searching. Case sensitivity is defined by collation sequences, rules which define how strings are compared taking into account the specifics of individual languages (case, special...
In addition to the comments I posted yesterday regarding my new Samsung BlackJack : Pros: Batteries can be charged via the included charger, or by connecting the phone to your computer, it uses the same USB connection to sync the device and to charge the battery, which is very nice. No need to...