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April 8, 2006

Tumi Powered By ColdFusion

Tumi is a leading brand of high-end travel and business products (including luggage popular with frequent travellers). And the Tumi web site is powered by ColdFusion (and Fusebox).

And The Week's Nonsensical Reporting Award Goes To ...

Eric Lai of Computerworld for his story entitled "More Oracle users plumping for Linux". (I was unable to find the original story on Computerworld, but it has been echoed on Techworld.com and elsewhere). The story is about Oracle users wanting to consolidate servers and move to Linux. It also...

A Touch Of Microsoft Irony

My laptop is still out for repair, and Adobe IT sent me a temporary one so that I could at least connect to VPN and get some work done. Rather than configure Outlook on this temporary machine, I'm just using Outlook Web Access (the Exchange web interface). But here's the ironic part of all this,...

Dead Laptop

My primary laptop is dead. Well, not actually dead, but useless at this point. I had installed laptop encryption software, and everything seemed to be fine, but then it started blue-screening on startup. Hey, I guess that's one way to secure laptop contents! The Adobe IT folks are looking at it for...

Keeping On Top Of E-Mail Is Tough, Please Don't Make It Tougher

I get lots of e-mail. And I don’t mean SPAM (which I get even more of). I mean real e-mail, stuff that I need to read and lots that I need to reply to. This includes mail from co-workers, product teams, sales folks, customers, partners, readers of my books, and lots of end-users. And mailing...

Public Deployment Of Flex 2 Apps Requires Beta Flash 8.5 Player

We're being really open with the Flex 2 beta. Anyone can download the bits from the Labs site, and you are free to share the MXML/AS code you write and even deploy the Flex 2 apps that you create. Just keep in mind that in order to execute your apps, users will need to be running the Flash 8.5...

Google Web Page Statistics

I was discussing HTML tag usage with someone yesterday, and we were speculating about tag usage (which tags are the most used, which attributes, and so on). So how to move from speculation to actual data? Google analyzed over a billion pages in December 2005, and posted the results on their Web...

RSS Filtering Via Feed Rinse

This one is intriguing, Feed Rinse allows you to define your RSS feeds, define filters, and then access a single filtered RSS feed. The tag line proclaims it "like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions", and while the inspiration seems to have been profanity filtering, this seems like a useful...

Marc Garrett On IM Gateway Bots

A while back I posted a series of entries on building IM bots ( Part I , Part II , Part III ). I've not seen much else posted on the topic, until now. Marc Garrett has posted an excellent article on using ColdFusion to build an IM e-commerce bot.

Checking In From Amsterdam

The Munich presentation on Tuesday evening went very well (despite running into yet another configuration issue). Lots of interest in Flex and ColdFusion, great questions, and the session ended up running well over 2 hours. The FusionReactor folks also briefly introduced the newest version of their...