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I am about to head to the airport to fly home. MAX 2004 Greater China in Taipei was quite an experience, over 600 attendees, 5 tracks, dozens of sessions, press interviews, way too many photo shoots (both formal and spontaneous), and some of the most friendly people I have met anywhere. This was a...
I am in one of the session rooms at the Westin Taipei, on floor B3 (as in the 3rd level basement) and on my cell phone. The phone shows 5 bars, and the reception and call quality is better in this subterranean hall than just about anywhere in the US. I was even on a call that started in my room on...
I went to bed at about 1:00 am local time, slept on and off for a few hours, then got bored and got up at about 5:00 am. I'm going to need lots of caffeine today. I just finished my keynote segments in the opening session of MAX here in Taipei. Kenneth Lau, Greater China Country Manager, made...
I am sitting in my hotel room, and the building just started shaking, well, more like rocking to and fro. At first I thought that I was just tired and imagining it, but nope, this is real, it's an earthquake. Nothing on the news here yet, well, nothing that I can understand. A quake hit Japan (1000...
It's almost midnight in Taiwan, 11:00 am back home. I spent the last two hours with the Macromedia China team going over the keynote, sessions, and press plans. I need to crash, more to follow ...
I am sitting on a plane (747-400, the most awe inspiring commercial jet ever created, look at one head on, there is a majesty to its size and shape that is beyond compare), about to take off for Taipei, an 18 hour flight (with a short stop in Osaka). I'll get there Monday evening local time, just...
Several of you have e-mailed me to ask for the code used in my "ColdFusion Done Right" session (I assume it is the hangman game that you want). I have posted the entire ZIP file online, you can download it from http://www.forta.com/misc/WD201H_CFDoneRight_BenForta.zip.
The 3rd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" has just been released in Romanian by Teora. Information on this book, and a link to the new Romanian edition, are at http://forta.com/books/0672325675/. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at...