Macromedia has launched the Macromedia Knowledge Base, a self-service guided search tool that will enable customers to quickly find precise MM information! The Knowledge Base is located at the top of http://www.macromedia.com/support, as well as all the product support pages, and provides access to...
InfoWorld has posted a review of Macromedia Flex 1.5, also comparing it to Laszlo Presentation Server. See http://www.infoworld.com/Macromedia_Flex_1.5/product_46683.html?view=1&curNodeId=70.
This one sent to me by Peter Tilbrook. The BSA (Business Software Alliance) Website at http://www.bsa.org/ is powered by ColdFusion (it appears to be CF5).
ColdFusion Queries can be created using the QueryNew() function which takes a list of query columns (as a parameter, or by subsequent QueryAddColumn() calls). These queries are not typed, and this has created problems when using these queries (perhaps when querying queries). Blackstone solves this...
As per the description at http://www.anysoldier.com/, "Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, an Army Infantry Soldier with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was in the Kirkuk area of Iraq when he started the idea of AnySoldier to help care for his soldiers. He agreed to distribute packages that came...
I am in beautiful San Diego today, and just finished a series of ColdFusion related meetings with various Government agencies. I love spending time with Government ColdFusion users, the range of applications being built, and the spectrum of developers and skill-sets that make up the ColdFusion...
It's nice to see the use of FlashPaper becoming more mainstream. Sharp is using FlashPaper in a product compatibility table at http://www.sharp3d.com/partners/NVIDIA.asp. This is a great example of embedding FlashPaper within a page (as opposed to the usual PDF take-over-the-page interface). Thanks...
Firaxis Games is the creator of "Sid Meier's Pirates" (Time Magazine's Coolest Video Game 2004) and other highly rated games including the Civilization series. And Firaxis' Web site at http://www.firaxis.com/ is powered by ColdFusion (CF5, it appears). Thanks to Peter Tilbrook for bringing this one...
Proporta is shipping a Bluetooth foldable keyboard. This one is available in QWERTY and AZERTY models (AZERTY? Why?), runs on 2 AAA batteries, and works with just about all PDAs and phones. Details at http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=982&t_mode=des.
This one has bugged me for a long time. ColdFusion allows you to build SQL statements dynamically (using variables, expressions, conditions, and more), but have you ever wanted to know exactly what that final generated SQL was? ColdFusion obviously knows what it is, and if you have debugging turned...