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September 5, 2006

Marcel Boucher On ColdFusion / LiveCycle Integration

Marcel Boucher has posted an excellent example of how to access LiveCycle Form Server forms using ColdFusion .

September 4, 2006

Checking In From Paris

Hello from Paris, where I have a short 2 hour stopover here on the way to Bangalore, India. I am flying Air France, an airline I have not flown in a long time, so this may be old news to some, but it was a first for me, and had to share. The plane was equipped with personal screens in the back of...

Print Your Own ColdFusion Quick Reference Sheet

Dream In Code has posted a PDF ColdFusion Quick Reference Sheet that you can download for free.

ColdFusion

August 31, 2006

Anyone ColdFusion Users Also Using Breeze?

If you are a ColdFusion shop, and also use Breeze for meetings and presentations, please let me know (so that I may pick your brains).

SonicWALL Gets It!

I needed to replace my router/firewall recently (my old Symantec Firewall Appliance was behaving erratically and regularly killing connections, and reinstalling the firmware did not help). I looked at multiple options, and ended up selecting a SonicWALL device. My initial experience with SonicWALL...

Jeff Peters On The Directory Watcher Event Gateway

I've written and talked about event gateways for a while, and the very first time we ever mentioned gateways publicly was when I demoed the Directory Watcher gateway at CFUNITED 2005. Jeff Peters saw that demonstration, and noting that its significance failed to resonate with many, has written a...

ColdFusion

August 29, 2006

Microsoft XNA Beta Released

Want to write your own games for Xbox 360? Microsoft has announced the availability of the XNA beta , initially to build games for Windows, but eventually to build games for Xbox, too. More details on the FAQ page. Now you have a really compelling reason to learn C#!

Class On Using PDF Files And Forms With ColdFusion

Sterling Ledet is offering a class entitled "Using ColdFusion or Java with PDF files and eForms". If you work with PDF files and forms check this out (select "ColdFusion - Using ColdFusion or Java with PDF files and eForms" from the drop down).

Presentation To Thames Valley CFUG

I'll be in the U.K. briefly next month (on my way back from India), and will use the opportunity to present ColdFusion and Flex 2 to the new Thames Valley CFUG. The event is on September 12th and registration is required .

Simple ColdFusion Date Difference Calculations

DateDiff() is usually used to perform date difference calculations. But for simple difference calculations you can subtract dates from each other, like this: #Now()-mydate# days since #DateFormat(mydate)# The returned number will likely not be an integer, and will contain date fractions too, so you...