With the release of the long awaited Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince this Saturday, students at The Holt Primary School in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire (in England) were planning to come to school on Friday dressed up as witches and wizards. But the BBC is reporting that head-teacher Paul...
This evening we celebrated ColdFusion's 10th birthday (the birthday was actually July 10th, but that was a Sunday) with a party in the appropriately named Minnesota room in the Macromedia Newton office. Lots of ColdFusion's founding fathers joined us, including JJ and Jeremy Allaire, Charles...
ColdFusion MX 7 cumulative hot fix 3 has been released (for all editions and platforms), fixing about 20 issues and including one recent security update. ColdFusion MX 7 cumulative hot fixes are installed in the ColdFusion Administrator. Details are on the hot fix page .
The Innovative House (IHOUSE) has a mission of: to offer the last word in high-tech solutions for homes, apartments and hotels. Be it the Smart Shower (a "hot and cold water mixer with digital computerized controls that allow precise regulation of both water temperature and pressure" where a "voice...
The public beta for the next generation Flash player, Flash Player 8 , is now open. Be sure to read the FQA before downloading.
I have been wearing Bluetooth headsets for, well, about as long as they have been available. My favorite have been the Sony Ericsson HBH series, but my HBH-60 died (well, the battery did, and it can't be replaced) so it was time for a new one. I do not like the Plantronics and Jabra headsets, they...
phpBB is one of the most popular forums and thread discussion applications out there, and cfopenBB is a open source initiative with a goal of porting phpBB to ColdFusion. Some preliminary coding has begun, and cfopenBB is asking for those in the ColdFusion community who are interested in...
The full page ad for the new Samsung SCH-i730 caught my attention. This is a Windows Mobile™ 2003 Pocket PC device, slightly smaller than the Treo 650, but with a larger screen thanks to the slide out keyboard, Bluetooth, integrated WiFi ... oh yeah! ... until I noticed that it is a CDMA...
The ColdFusion's 10th Birthday has an interactive ColdFusion 10 Year Timeline. Very cool, check it out .
MySQL is a great DBMS. I use it regularly because it is fast, lightweight, portable, and it just works. But it is also a really annoying product at times, demonstrating its grass roots community driven upbringing. Case in point: MySQL is not a single DBMS engine, it is actually a collection of...