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December 19, 2004

Flex Builder 1.5 Now Available

Flex Builder 1.5 is now available. This new version has been updated to support all the new capabilities of Flex 1.5. Details on the Flex Builder page .

Flex

December 18, 2004

WiFi Detection Done Right

I've not bought a Wi-Fi detector yet for one reason, while these devices are great at locating Wi-Fi access, they won't let you know whether encryption is enabled or not (and so you end up having to boot up anyway, which makes the device somewhat useless). What I was waiting for was a device that...

Heckle Gus For A Good Cause

ColdFusion developer (and CFUG manager) Steve Gustafson is on a diet, losing weight to help raise money to fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease") by accepting pledges for each pound he loses between 12/10/2004 and 6/29/2005. To pledge, check his...

Write For EasyCFM, Win An iPod

Charlie Griefer just brought this one to my attention. Easycfm is also running a tutorial contest. Tutorials received between December 15th, 2004 and January 15th, 2005 will be eligible to win an Apple IPod (40GB), with the winner to be decided by vote. Details at Easycfm .

ColdFusion Stuff

December 15, 2004

Write A Tutorial, Win A Personal Audio System

dream.in.code is looking for new tutorials (on several subjects, including Flash and ColdFusion), and is running a contest looking for the best tutorial submitted to their new tutorial area. They are giving away a Klipsch ProMedia 2.0 Personal Audio System to the winner. Here are the details .

If All Else Fails, I Could Get Into The Spam Business

When I first heard the words "Desperate Housewives" (on a TV ad for that show) my initial reaction was "sounds like the kind of subject line that my spam filter should trap". An sure enough, I was just going through my spam filter logs and there it is, a whole bunch of messages with the subject...

Macworld Reports That A New ColdFusion Is On The Way

Yesterday I blogged a CNET story on Blackstone, a story from August which I misread as being new. Well, Macworld.co.uk just did the same thing , and is running a short news story on Blackstone pointing to that same CNET article . I guess they must use AltaVista too. Worth noting, Macworld.co.uk is...

Ericsson Says So-Long Bluetooth, Hello WiMAX

DesignTechnica is reporting that "Ericsson has joined the WiMAX Forum as a principal member. Earlier in the year Ericsson announced it would stop supporting Bluetooth." Ah, just think of the devices we'll be lusting after in a year or so.

CNET On Blackstone

CNET is running a story on the upcoming Blackstone release. All in all a good write-up, although I think they missed the boat a bit on the forms features.

My Take on CFSCRIPT

I mentioned Sean Corfield's thread on last week, it now has over 30 comments, and is very compelling reading. But my own take on is a little different, let me explain ... was originally created to make ColdFusion more palatable to developers using traditional scripting languages (Perl was the...