January 6, 2006
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...
January 6, 2006
Ray Camden's new project, ColdFusion Cookbook is up and running. Check it out! (And contribute, too)!
January 5, 2006
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...
January 4, 2006
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...
January 2, 2006
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
January 1, 2006
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...
December 31, 2005
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".
December 27, 2005
I have no idea when they did this, but, Google has gotten a little more intelligent yet again, this time figuring out flight searches. Do a Google Search for new york to san francisco or dtw to lax , and you'll be prompted for dates, and will be able to click to search Expedia, Hotwire, Orbitz, and...
December 20, 2005
I was just on a web site (no, not a ColdFusion powered site, and no I will not name names) browsing for specific content. The URLs used typical name=value query string conventions, and so I changed the value to jump to the page I wanted. And I made a typo and added a character to the numeric value....
December 19, 2005
Todd Sharp has created Genesis , a ColdFusion MX 7 Flash Forms based database query tool. This is a really nice utility, as well as a pretty cool demonstration of Flash Forms use.