The TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2006 has been released. Java and C have treaded places for the #1 and #2 spots (Java is now in the lead), Python and Delphi are slipping, C# is on the rise, Ruby misses the top 20 by one spot ... and ColdFusion climbed from 25th to 16th (the biggest...
Several users have wanted to know if ColdFusion supports SQL Server 2005. And the answer appears to be yes. I am using ColdFusion MX 7.01 with the default SQL Server driver, and am connected to SQL Server 2005, and so far so good. Microsoft does have a new SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver in beta, but...
Lego Mindstorms is one of the best toys-for-overgrown-kids out there, and now Lego has one-upped themselves with the announcement of the Mindstorms NXT, the next generation Mindstorms featuring a new 32bit brick, new sensors (including sound and touch), and Bluetooth support. The product is due out...
Yes, a new codename for a new update to ColdFusion. "Scorpio" (which Tim Buntel and I announced at CFUNITED last year) is still the next major version of ColdFusion, but we have some goodies up our sleeve that you'll really want sooner than that, and thus ColdFusion "Mystic" (as first leaked by...
Ray Camden's new project, ColdFusion Cookbook is up and running. Check it out! (And contribute, too)!
Apparently CNet's News.com staff writers Declan McCullough and Anne Broache just can't resist the lure of sensationalism and fearmongering. After yesterday's blatantly inaccurate and highly inflammatory Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you (which undoubtedly generated lots of page views...
CNet's News.com is running a story by staff writers Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache with the sensational title Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you . The key points of the article are: A 2003 directive makes it illegal for federal agency web sites to track user activity or monitor user...
The CF Docs Bots were offline the past few days. Apparently, my serial number for JBuddy-CF expired at the end of 2005. I've updated the serial number, and the bots are all back online. Sorry about that. The addresses are unchanged: AIM: cflivedocs Google Talk: cfdocs@gmail.com Yahoo IM: cflivedocs
A ColdFusion user asked me for a way to programmatically determine if a URL exists, so I threw together this UDF. It uses to attempt to retrieve a specified URL (not resolving any internal URLs, and not throwing an error upon failure). If an HTTP status code 404 is returned then the UDF returns...
TMCnet has a story on cookie use on the NSA site, and explains that despite hyper and overreaction, the "It's much ado about little". And I quite agree. And buried in the story is a little note that stats that the NSA uses "Adobe ColdFusion to deliver its public Web pages".