Oracle has released a beta of Oracle Database 10g Express Edition , an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute. And yes, it works with ColdFusion MX 7. Thanks to John Farrar for bringing this to my...
Want to generate labels using ColdFusion Reporting? Dean Harmon has posted a label creation wizard that you can download and drop it to your existing ColdFusion Report Builder. Please note that you MUST be using ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 to use this wizard (it will not work with CFMX7).
CNN is reporting (an AP story) that four fraternity members pled guilty in the death of a college student who was "forced to drink large amounts of water during an initiation rite". The judge in the case wanted to consider a torture charge with a potential life sentence. All four men will serve...
The lists have been buzzing the past few days over the use of XML, framework configuration storage, and more. And the conversation has more recently shifted to a ferocious debate about naming conventions. And to be brutally honest, I am both dismayed and appalled. As far as I am concerned there are...
This message from Vineeta Srivastav of Lintas: One of our clients in Midwest region has a need for Macromedia Flex Developer. Skills Required: Strong Flex, Cold Fusion, Oracle and SQL development experience with TOAD, UNIX Shell Scripting, Java, and Web Services/XML would be definite assets....
ColdFusion developer Tuan Le has been blogged at Google Maps Mania . His 2RealEstateAuctions app meshes Google Maps and eBay real estate listings to display regional real estate listings. The back end is ColdFusion MX 7, using Flash Forms for data entry.
This one forwarded to me by coauthor, Ray Camden . Devil7 is a UK blogger, who is (in his own words) "sick of using ASP and too thick to go Dot Net… hence the ColdFusion stint". He's been blogging his progress working through our ColdFusion MX7 Web Application Construction Kit .
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.
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.
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...