Blog

August 30, 2005

Opportunity For Senior CF Developer In Pasadena

Sami Hoda of eCivis Inc wrote to let me know that his company is looking for an experienced ColdFusion developer in Pasadena, CA. Details are online .

ColdFusion

August 30, 2005

ColdFusion Reporting RTF Output

ColdFusion Reporting generates reports in PDF, Flash Paper, and Excel formats. The most requested additional format is RTF (for use with Microsoft Word primarily), and (if all goes according to plan) we hope to add support for RTF reports in the ColdFusion MX 7 updater (codenamed "Merrimack").

New ColdFusion Powered AusAID Site Online

The new Australian Government's Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) site is now online. The program concentrates on reducing poverty in developing countries and provides aid to more than 58 million people living in poverty around the world, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. This new site is powered...

Using CF

August 28, 2005

AIM: Make Your Passwords Strong, But Not TOO Strong

I update all of my IM account passwords on a regular basis, and did so this morning. They all updated properly, except for AIM, which complained that "you used non-alphanumeric characters". The characters it was complaining about? @ and !, both of which apparently are not allowed. Oh well, I guess...

SQL And Regular Expression Books Now In Russian

I now have books available in Russian! Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd edition) and Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes have both just been released in Russian by Williams Publishing. Links to the new Russian editions are on the book pages. The full list of non-English...

Determining MySQL AUTO_INCREMENT Values

Back in 2000 I posted a tip on using SQL Server triggers to obtain assigned identity field values. Someone recently asked if this was doable in MySQL, and the answer is yes, now that MySQL 5 finally provides basic trigger support. Suppose you had a table named products which contained a column...

Trillian Pro And Google Talk

Google has entered the IM space. If you are a Trillain Pro user, here are instructions for connecting to Google Talk using Trillian. FYI, Google Talk uses XMPP (as does Jabber), and so it'll be easy to create a ColdFusion event gateway to Google Talk.

.xxx Top Level Domain Delayed

As the name suggests, the .xxx top level domain is planned as a virtual red light district, the idea being that by grouping adult oriented material into a single TLD it would be easier to block and control access to these sites. As per the proposal, use of the .xxx TLD would be entirely optional,...

CFEclipse 1.2 Released

CFEclipse 1.2 has been released. Details on the CFEclipse site.

Goodbye Comcast, Hello SBC Yahoo DSL

Comcast has been aggravating me endlessly. Service has been unavailable far too often, support can't answer basic questions, the connection keeps going down ... in fact the only thing that stays up is the price, and that has kept going up and up and up. DSL wasn't available way back when, which is...