TechBookReport has posted a review of my MySQL Crash Course , and concluded that "If you want to learn SQL and aim to implement your database using MySQL then this is definitely the book to use".
I presented Flex 2 to the Chicago ColdFusion user group this evening. This has always been a great group to talk to, a lively and very interactive bunch, and the conversation and questions were right on target. I fly to Minneapolis first thing tomorrow morning for a midday session there. Details on...
I'm on the way down to Kansas City to present "Flex 2 for ColdFusion developers" to the KCFusion user group. This group is consistently once of the best attended, so this evening's event should be lively and fun. If you are in the area, please drop by.
One of the examples that I have been using in my user group presentations is a ColdFusion Session Tracker. This application uses Flex Enterprise Services to push real time session details to a connected Flex client. The display is a grid of sessions showing request count and when the most recent...
Matt Chotin has blogged that the Flex Enterprise team is looking for Dev and QA folks to work in our Newton, MA office.
My blog has been inundated with spam lately, some comments, but mostly trackbacks. Ray's code filters lots of them out, but many do get through. I've written a quick and dirty admin tool to let me clean them out quickly, but it's still a pain. So over the past few weeks I have been keeping tabs on...
Lead ColdFusion engineer Tom Jordahl will be discussing ColdFusion and "Mystic" in his general session at cf.Objective (adding to the already illustrious speaker list ). He'll also present a session on Web Services and Java, and will go in to detail on how ColdFusion uses the Apache Axis WSDL2Java...
The PayPal Integration Center provides SDKs that can be used to accept PayPal payments from within your applications. ColdFusion MX 7 is a supported platform (it uses the Java SDK), and a ColdFusion Component is also included (it uses the Java APIs, and exposes simple high-level methods that can be...
I've blogged my experiences with AT&T Wireless before, both the good and the truly bad . A while back Cingular acquired AT&T Wireless, and apparently, also acquired AT&T Wireless incompetence, as demonstrated by the following ... Two of my family members have AT&T Wireless phones on...
The CFDJ folks dropped by to see me while I was in NYC yesterday. Simon Horwith used the opportunity to interview me about ColdFusion, Flex, and life at Adobe. The interview runs about 25 minutes, and is live online now .