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April 11, 2005

USA Today: Steve Elop On Flash And Cell Phones

USA Today is running a story on Flash on cell phones. Nothing you've not heard before, but still worth reading.

Macromedia At CFUNITED

Macromedia is the Platinum Sponsor of CFUNITED-05, and lots of members of the ColdFusion team will be present too (including Tim Buntel, Damon Cooper, Dean Harmon, Tom Jordahl, Mike Nimer, and myself) along with other Macromedians (including Christian Cantrell and Sean Corfield). (I mention this...

Interesting Apache iBATIS SQL Map File Syntax

Apache iBATIS is a framework that can be used to abstract database interaction. Or, in the words of the about page: iBATIS couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. So why do I mention this? Look at this code snippet extracted from a SQL map XML file: SELECT...

e-book: Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes

My Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has been released in e-book format (I do not know which edition of the book this is). You can buy the e-book version from Amazon.com .

Books

April 10, 2005

ColdFusion Security Essentials Slides Posted

The slides that I used in my "ColdFusion Security Essentials" presentation last month (down in Rolins, GA) are now online at http://www.forta.com/cf/resources/CFMX7_Security_Essentials.swf.

MAX 2005 Will Be ...

October 16th-19th, 2005, at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim, CA. More details to be posted soon to the Macromedia MAX 2005 page. Call for topics and speakers is now open .

Car Has No Bluetooth? Motorola Has A Solution

I am not a fan of Motorola cell phones and related peripherals, but this device may be worth a look at if your car is not Bluetooth enabled. The Motorola Bluetooth blnc IHF1000 Car Kit uses the Bluetooth Hands-Free profile to act as an external voice operated speakerphone.

Mobile

April 10, 2005

Using Flash Remoting With CFMX7? Watch Out For This One

I mentioned this in a comment on a prior post , but it is important enough to warrant its own mention. If you are using Flash Remoting to access ColdFusion code, you may run into an issue in which ColdFusion could construct an invalid URL when appending a jsessionid. If this occurs the web server...

Powered By Detroit A Success

Detroit played host to Powered by Detroit this weekend, its first ColdFusion/Flash conference, with about 150 attendees from all over. I attended day two (today, Sunday) and presented a general session on CFMX7, and then took part in a panel along with Mike Dinowitz and Simon Horwith. Thanks to...

Build IM Apps With ColdFusion and Conversant SoapBox

Conversant's SoapBox Server 2005 is a leading Windows based XMPP server, supporting text messaging, managed contact lists, secure chat rooms, and more. ColdFusion MX 7, via the XMPP protocol gateway, can interact with SoapBox Server providing messaging capabilities to CF apps, presence awareness...