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May 30, 2006

First Ever Search Engine Wedding Proposal Couple Just Married

A few months ago Barry Schwartz proposed to his girlfriend via a custom Ask.com search . Well, apparently the couple is now married . So sweet.

Stuff

May 30, 2006

WHIR: OHL Online Draft Powered By AJAX, ColdFusion And Oracle

Web Host Industry Review is running a story about how "minor league hockey organization the Ontario Hockey League has begun conducting its draft online through an interface resembling those used in many online fantasy sports pools." As per the story, the application saves time and money, and "is...

ColdFusion Using CF

May 28, 2006

Accessing CF Debug Output In Flex

ColdFusion debug output is returned to Flex apps as part of the ResultEvent (as of beta 3 of CF 7.0.2). Of course, CF debugging must be enabled. This example does a simple text dump of returned debug information: public function ResultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void {...

Using TABLESAMPLE To Retrieve Partial Resultsets

I just discovered a new SELECT clause that has been added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2005. TABLESAMPLE can be used to return a sampling of rows (either a fixed number or a specified percent of the table rows). Here is how it is used: /* Get a sample 5 rows */ SELECT * FROM table TABLESAMPLE (5 ROWS) /*...

Emmy Huang On Flash Player 9 For Linux

Emmy Huang (Product Manager for Flash Player) has posted an update on Flash Player 9 for Linux (bottom line, it's being worked on).

PHP Version Of RegEx Tester Posted To RegEx Book Page

My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes uses a little RegEx Tester utility to aid study, and versions of this utility have been posted for multiple languages. The next most requested language is PHP, and I just posted a PHP port of the utility created by my co-worker Charles Bihis....

SQL Server 2005 Express Installation Woes

I needed to do a fresh install of SQL Server 2005 Express yesterday, and no matter what I tried the installation kept failing with really strange errors about invalid or missing MSI files. The solution? Manually extract the installer files to a temporary folder and then run the extracted setup,...

ColdFusion Position In Chicagoland

Abercrombie & Kent , a luxury adventure travel company located in Oak Brook, IL, has an immediate opening for a ColdFusion Developer. Details posted online .

Jobs

May 23, 2006

Adobe Looking For Bay Area CF Developer

Looking for a ColdFusion position in the Bay Area? Adobe is looking for someone to join an in-house development team. Details posted online .

KraftMaid Powered By ColdFusion

KraftMaid is one of the largest and most recognized brands of cabinetry for the home. KraftMaid products are sold by Lowe's and The Home Depot as well as 1600 independent deals here in the U.S., as well as in over a dozen other countries. I visited the KraftMaid site today (I needed to contact them...