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December 12, 2004

Here's The Machine

About a dozen of you have e-mail me to ask what the machine costs, and have asked for more specs. So, here it is (for sale on IBM's web site).

This AMD powered box is a speed demon ... I just installed a full Microsoft Office 2003 installation, from start to finish, under 2 minutes! Launch Word for the first time ever, just over 1 second. Launch Excel for the first time ever, under 1 second. I wish there was a way to easily determine what...

Just Delivered, My New 82 Pound Baby

I missed cool tool Friday, but I am posting this from my new toy and just had to share ... Yesterday I took delivery of a new computer, an IBM IntelliStation A Pro. This baby is a dual-CPU AMD 64bit Opteron 248 2.2GHz (with 1MB L2 Cache), 3 GB RAM, 80GB SCSI HDD, NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 video,...

Press Release: Naval Air Systems Command Using Breeze

Naval Air Systems Command Uses Macromedia Breeze to Deliver Rich Media Training to 30,000 Personnel Worldwide. Story here .

Need Reports In Excel Format?

Lots of you have asked for Blackstone to generate reports in Excel format. Well, this is not a promise, but it looks like you may just get your wish. Stay tuned!

Sean Corfield on CFSCRIPT

Good thread on CFSCRIPT vs. CFML tags at http://www.corfield.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=BACC06F9-B68E-AFB1-2DCB29FE5E4EE752.

Billboards That Communicate With You Via IR And Now Bluetooth

U.K. company Hypertag is selling an innovate electronic billboard, one that encourages user interaction by sending messages to nearby mobile devices. As per the web site http://www.hypertag.com/, "It works by allowing infra-red mobile phones, and PDAs (e.g. Palm Pilots or Pocket PCs) to interact...

Two ColdFusion Powered Community Sites

MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/ is an online community allowing members to create profiles, post pics, maintain blogs, and build networks of links to other friends and members. MySpace claims to contain over 5,000,000 profiles. Mobog at http://www.mobog.com/ enables anyone with a mobile...

CFEclipse Is Well Worth Trying

CFEclipse is a CFML plug-in for Eclipse (the popular open-source Java IDE originally created by IBM, and now managed by the Eclipse Foundation). The CFEclipse plug-in provides Eclipse with CFML awareness and functionality (code completion, syntax highlighting, code insight, language help, CFC...

Accoona Disappoints, Should Be Worried

Accoona (http://www.accoona.com/) is the latest search engine that is going to change our lives. Or not. Accoona uses AI based technology that allows you to rate the relative weight of each word in your search, so as to be able to fine-tune searching. Accoona proudly call this "SuperTarget", and of...