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.
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...
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...
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...
Macromedia has posted Security Bulletin MPSB05-02 - Workaround available for ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater file disclosure . This issue only effects J2EE Configuration - ColdFusion MX 6.1 for JRun4 (Updater 1) (CFMX7 on JRun4 is not effected).
The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit web site is powered by ColdFusion MX. The site is running a CFMX powered CMS named NQcontent (which is also used by lots of other organizations . This one sent to me by Anthony Cooper, thanks.
Lots of you have been writing to ask about the new Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit which is already shipping, and which Amazon.com still shows as "yet been released". Amazon has confirmed that they do indeed have the book and they are looking into why the availability...
Kevin Hoyt blogged that he'll be presenting a Breeze session on Flex/ColdFusion integration on Friday, April 8th at 2:00 PM Eastern.
John Cleese in a Flash video entitled Institute for Backup Trauma about all that can go wrong with tape backups. This is an ad for a company named LiveVault, but worth watching anyway (all the way until the end, until the third button). ;-)
We all know that patents have been awarded for the most ridiculous of inventions, but just how ridiculous some of them are may surprise you. For example, patent 6,637,447 for "Beerbrella" (yep an umbrella that clips onto your beer bottle), patent 6,206,000 for a "canine scuba diving apparatus",...