Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has posted an interesting blog entry that makes the case that open is more an issue of portability than one of available source code (see http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040808#rewriting_history_and_vocabulary). I've read this one through several times, and it...
Simon has been an active part of the CF community for a long time, it's good to see him blogging at http://www.horwith.com/.
It's been close to a week since I last posted. I took a few days off, and was completely offline (I did not even have my notebook with me). But, I am back, and am now going to have to wade through an overflowing inbox, so posts will be light for the next few days. Now, what happened while I was...
The FMP3 is a little device which accepts USB drives containing MP3's, and then broadcasts them using an FM modulator (frequency configurable using a little dial) so that you can play the music over your car stereo. Of course, a device like this needs power, and power in cars usually comes from...
Picture a cell-phone, one that looks not all that different from the one you own, until you rotate the back of its body to display a keyboard (half the keys to the left of the device and half to the right). Confused? Check out the pics at...
We are finalizing details of my Blackstone trips to Europe and Japan, and I'll post more details as soon as I have them. For now, these dates are planned: Tokyo, Japan: August 23rd-25th Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 6th Milan, Italy: September 7th Cologne, Germany: September 8th I'll be...
Australians Robin Hilliard, Andrew Muller, and Matt Voermanhave launched their new Macromedia Professional Services company, RocketBoots. And they are blogging at http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/.
ColdFusion developer Tom Kitta wrote to me to tell me about his freely available XML based ColdFusion powered guest book application. If you want a guest book for your site, go to http://www.tomkitta.com/coldfusion/gb/. Thanks Tom.
Several months ago I blogged the worst customer experience I ever had while trying to get information from AT&T. Well, once again I am blogging about AT&T customer support, but this experience was the exact opposite. I had a simple technical question (pertaining to GSM network frequencies),...
We're not yet officially accepting Blackstone beta applications, but Tim Buntel blogged the application URL last week (http://buntel.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=ED6B51CA-4E22-1671-588F1BE8B0B89CAD), so what the heck ... To apply for the Blackstone beta ahead of the rush, go to...