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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Several of you have contacted me with problems using Flex beta 2 to connect to ColdFusion via Flash Remoting. A couple of the issues turned out to be configuration problems in flex-enterprise-services.xml (installed under WEB-INFflex, and needed by the Flex compiler). Here is the file as it works...
We've found the problem that prevented my Flex Data Services demos from working last night in London. And in case anyone else runs into this one, here's the scoop. The FDS installation contains a file named flex-enterprise-services.xml which (among other things) defines the channels used for player...
I am in Adobe's Munich offices, getting some work done before this evening's presentation. Last night's event in London went very well, a full house and a very lively and interactive crowd. The only problem was that my demos involving Flex Data Services (formerly Flex Enterprise Services) refused...