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...
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...
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.
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 has been released. Details on the CFEclipse site.
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...
Continental Airlines has been offering free WiFi in their President's Clubs for quite a while now (a service that I take advantage off whenever possible). Although, in truth, it's not actually free Wifi, because access to the lounges is paid for (usually an annual fee to Continental or a partner...
The Detroit News ran a story this week about a bill being considered by Lansing that would mandate that schools start after Labor Day. The rational being that a longer summer would mean more tourism revenue. As explained by a representative of the Michigan Hotel, Motel & Resort Association, "it...
Title says it all. See the Studio 8 page for more details. And at 8:00 am on 8/8, what an incredible coincidence. ;-)
Mike Chambers just shared some really important information about Zorn, and the ability to create MXML/AS applications without needing a Flex server.