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December 8, 2005

ColdFusion Man

Paul Mignard likes ColdFusion , or so it seems.

ColdFusion Powers Bowl Championship Series Site

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...

David Mendels On Where ColdFusion Is Headed Under Adobe

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

Blogging Via 3G

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...

Bad Bad Cingular Data Acceleration

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...

ColdFusion UDF To Access NIST Time Servers

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...

Looking For Several ColdFusion Developers in Michigan

A friend of mine over at PowerOne Media just sent me an e-mail to tell me that he is looking for several ColdFusion developers (at several skill levels) at their Ann Arbor, MI location. Primary responsibilities to include working on a ColdFusion based online automotive product, and some technical...

ColdFusion Jobs

December 4, 2005

Adobe Bloggers

Contrary to what many believe, there are in fact Adobe Bloggers ! Yeah!

Treo Update, This Time Hardware

I received a package from Palm this morning. It contained a little plastic SIM card tray to replace the one in the top of my Treo 650. As per the accompanying note: Palm has learned that some SIM cards may not fit tightly enough in the SIM tray provided with the Treo 650 product. As a result, the...

Hello From Adobe

Yes, I now work for Adobe. Although, what I am doing is no different to what I was doing while working for Macromedia. I am talking to customers and developers, answering questions, working on some new articles and content, tinkering with ColdFusion/Flex integration ... for now, as far as...