Lots of you have sat through our conference general session keynotes before, but I'd bet that few of you have any idea of just what is involved in a creating production like these. And the word production is no exaggeration, really. The general session is created and managed like the live...
I am posting this from the convention center auditorium, where a large crew has assembled to fine-tune tomorrow's keynote session. One big change this year, the keynote is not the first session of the day, it's been pushed back to 10:30 (I suspect that the allure of nearby Bourbon Street had...
I am in New Orleans, posting this from the back of a taxi, almost there ...
I'm on my way to MAX, in DTW waiting for my flight down to New Orleans. I am hoping that the flight is less evenful than last years.
Have you ever needed a reminder for your next MAX session (the time or room)? Have you ever needed quick access to your daily MAX session schedule? I know I have, I even once showed up late to a BOF I was supposed to moderate. Ouch! If you've ever been in the same boat you'll love this one. A...
How appropriate! The official New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau site at http://www.neworleanscvb.com/ is powered by ColdFusion.
convertDotNetDataSet() is an invaluable ColdFusion UDF that, as its name suggests, converts a .NET data set to something ColdFusion can easily consume. Details at http://clearsoftware.net/client/convertDotNetDataset.cfm. Thanks to Ryan Hartwich for bringing this one to my attention.
This is not new, but I had to locate it for a customer, and so I thought it worthwhile to mention here. IBM consultants Kwang S. Kang and Kulvir Singh Bhogal wrote an article which shows how ColdFusion and IBM WebSphere can share session variables. While the instructions are WebSphere centric, the...
I've been less than impressed with Jabra's Bluetooth offerings to date, but that may change shortly. The BT800 is supposed to feature a LCD display (think caller id), noise cancellation, 6 hours of talk time, charging via USB connection (something I have already for my SE HBH60 using a 3rd party...
Synfonic is another new SMS based search engine, Directory 411 allows searching of addresses and phone numbers and more, Traffic 511 provides traffic information (San Francisco Bay Area only, for now). Details at http://www.synfonic.com/. We'll be seeing more and more SMS powered applications in...