CIO Magazine ran a story on Web Services last month. The story is presented as a quiz entitled "Are You Ready For Web Services?" with 12 multiple choice questions, each with answers worth from 0 to 5 points. I have issues with a few of the supposed right answers, but question 8 really irks me: 8.I...
This sent to me by Russell Schneider of Super Warehouse in San Diego, CA: Super Warehouse is a high energy and fast growing ecommerce company looking for an experienced Cold Fusion and/or Java developer with at least 3-5 years of experience. Can work remotely or on-site. Prefer fusebox experience....
Hugo Sombreireiro has written a review of ColdFusion MX 7 for SitePoint. Thanks to Casey Franklin for sending me the link.
Here is your chance to help spec what could very well be a feature in the next major ColdFusion update! Ready? One frequent ColdFusion feature request is for Microsoft Exchange integration, and this is something we are considering for "Scorpio". Most ColdFusion use is on internal networks -...
Paul Mignard likes ColdFusion , or so it seems.
This one sent to me by James Edmunds. For all of you college football fans out there, the official Bowl Championship Series site is powered by ColdFusion MX. (I am posting this one even though, as a Brit, I still don't understand why the name "football" is used for a sport in which feet never come...
CFDJ interviewed David Mendels, Senior Vice President of Adobe's Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit, and asked some pointed questions about the future of ColdFusion and Adobe's commitment to the product. The bottom line is "Don't Panic", but for more details read the interview
I am posting this with my LAN connection unplugged and WiFi disabled. And no, I am not using a dial-up connection. This is 3G at work. Cingular has just rolled out 3G coverage in parts of the country, and so of course I replaced by GPRS card with a new HSDPA/UMTS EDGE/GPRS card (a Sierra Wireless...
My computer started acting up today. The first indication that something was wrong was when POP mail requests started throwing strange error codes (SMTP and Exchange mail worked, just POP was failing). And then FTP transfers started retry lots of random packets. The only change I made to my...
A developer asked me how he could get absolutely accurate time information for an application that he is working on. He cannot rely on local server time as he has no control over the machine, and can't verify that it is accurate (and can't change the time if not). There is no NTP (network time...