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October 23, 2005

Minor Enhancement To CF Docs Bot

As requested by several users, my CF Docs bot now allows you to do partial lookups, so if you did a search for "array" it will return all functions that start with the text "array", and so on.

MySQL 5 Released

The long awaited MySQL 5 has been released. New to this significantly update are views , triggers , stored procedures , and more. I've been using MySQL 5 since very early beta days, and it has been solid and stable (and every bug I reported has been fixed). Download your copy now.

SQL Server 2005 Impresses

I've spent a chunk of the weekend playing with the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) edition of the forthcoming Microsoft SQL Server 2005 , and I am more than impressed. And I am not even talking about features, functionality, or the installation and configuration experience (which was, by...

MSN Spain Running ColdFusion MX

This gem sent to me by Claude Englebert of Acelis.net. match.msn.es is powered by ColdFusion MX. Ok, so it is actually MSN Spain branding on top of Match.com International (every one of the over 30 non-USA Match.com sites are ColdFusion MX powered), but it's still a useful one to name drop where...

University of Gloucestershire Using My SQL Book

I recently received this message from Andrew Tomlinson, a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Gloucestershire (a ColdFusion powered site) in the U.K., and am sharing it with Andrew's permission. Thanks! :-) Just a short email to let you know that we have adopted Sams...

Macromedia Labs Online

Macromedia Labs is online. This new site is your source for early looks at emerging products and technologies from Macromedia, and you can download the Flex 2 alpha (including Flex Builder 2 and the ColdFusion adapter) right now.

CFUnit Primer Now Online

CFUnit is a unit testing framework for ColdFusion, modeled after the popular JUnit framework. CFUnit is an open source project hosted on SourceForge and is freely available. The idea behind unit testing it to build a framework of scripted tests that are frequently executed to verify each method or...

Miss Me At MAX :-(

MAX 2005 is right around the corner, and excitement is building for what is shaping up to be an incredible event (and the biggest MAX to date). I, however, am miserable. Ever since the first Allaire Developer's Conference in Boston in 1999, I have not missed a single DevCon or MAX. Until now....

Urgent Message From CFer Qasim Rasheed

Qasim Rasheed is a member of the ColdFusion community (many of you met him at CFUNITED this year), and he also helped out on my Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes . He asked me to post the following: You might be already aware that an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale...

Lots Of Content For Our Users Down Under

Check out the Macromedia Asia Pacific Events page to learn more about over a dozen upcoming online seminars at times that will work for users in Australia and New Zealand. Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8, and Flex Builder 2, and more are being covered.