The New York Public Library has launched NYPL Digital , a gateway to the library's rare and unique collections in digitized form. Hundred of thousands of images, photos, maps, and more, and more recently 700 audio recordings in MP3 format . And the entire collection is browseable and searchable via...
Macworld UK (a ColdFusion site, btw) has a short blurb about my upcoming UK CFUG presentation .
Ugh, I just wasted time debugging a MySQL script only to find that I had created a syntactically invalid comment. So, as a future reminder to myself (and to warn others), MySQL supports 3 different comment styles: # marks the start of a comment (until the end of the line) -- also marks the start of...
I'm going to be over in Europe the week after next, and will get the chance to talk to the UK CFUG in London while I am there. If you're in the area on June 22nd, please drop by. Details on the UKCFUG web site .
This one is relevant today, being Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and advancing the principles of organic architecture. And The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation website is powered by...
Last week I mentioned that my new Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide was shipping. As with all of the Study Guides, this book has an accompanying preparatory exam that can be used to gauge exam readiness (or just for fun, kind of). That exam is now online and can be accessed...
When images are associated with database records, those images are usually stored on disk. The images are related to their respective records by storing their names in a table or perhaps by using the record's identifier as part of the file name. The advantages of storing images as files are...
This morning Macromedia announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation. The announcement referred to Zorn , the code name for an Eclipse based tool for building Flex powered applications. Eclipse is also of interest to parts of the ColdFusion community, and CFEclipse has a growing following. I...
Several of you wrote to tell me that several Breezos originally created for ColdFusion MX were no longer available, it seems that these got lost during Breeze server migration. I've reposted them, and here are the new links: Java and ColdFusion MX - The Marriage Of Power And Productivity When One...
Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework, and it supports ASP, ColdFusion, Io, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby backends. Steve Smith of Ordered List has posted an update to the ColdFusion code to support POST variables (in addition to the already support GET...