I have just been informed that the Detroit ColdFusion User Group meeting tonight has been cancelled as the building has been closed due to a gas leak . I've been given the dates of the next meetings, and as soon as I know which one I can attend I'll post details.
I know I am asking for trouble with this one, but ... I run both Firefox 1.02 and IE 6.0.28 (the former far more than the latter). Firefox crashes on me at least once every few days, and when it does it leaves parts of itself running and I have to manually kill those processes. IE, on the other...
I'll be speaking to the newly revived Detroit Area ColdFusion User Group this evening. And it just so happens that the Detroit Area Macromedia User Group is meeting this evening too (minutes from where the CFUG is meeting), so I plan to drop by that event as well. Details on the respective web...
Google has released a lightweight version of Google Local specifically designed for mobile devices. To use this you need a mobile phone or device that supports XHTML (WAP 2.0). Supports search, driving directions, and more. Details at http://mobile.google.com/loc_search.html.
USA Today is running a story on Flash on cell phones. Nothing you've not heard before, but still worth reading.
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...
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...
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 .
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.
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 .