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...
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....
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.
Here are some questions that I received about my new MySQL Crash Course . I am posting the answers here in case anyone else has the same questions: Does the book cover MySQL 5? The book was written for MySQL 4.x and MySQL 5, and most of the content applies to both. However, there are chapters that...
My newest book, MySQL Crash Course , is now shipping. This book is based on my bestselling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes , and builds on top of the lessons and structure of that book. By focusing on just MySQL, this book goes into far more detail than the SQL book, and even includes...
FusionReactor (which I first mentioned a couple of weeks ago ) has been updated, and now supports stack trace even on Java 1.4.2.
MaxNOC has released (under GNU license) Looking Glass , a ColdFusion Components that can perform ping, traceroute, dig, whois, DNS lookups, and more.
Rob Mackenzie wrote to tell me about Underscore Framework , built on Fusebox basics, but enhanced to include natural URLs and simplified configuration files and more. This is based on work that Rob has been using in production systems for about two years, and he recently wrote up documentation and...
Check out the new "got coldfusion?" mugs at ColdFusionGear . Thanks, Will!
Lee Asher (Expert Author) has written a story for WebProNews entitled ColdFusion: Quicker Scripting, At A Price . He seems to have gotten lots of the story right, although not entirely so. He really does not seem to have gotten the ColdFusion/Java relationship, however. And then he makes the...