I arrived in Cologne, Germany, last night (by way of Frankfurt), and checked in to my hotel to discover that their high-speed network is down. Well, it is a good thing I have dial-up as a backup. Right? Nope, the modem in my notebook is dead, I tried to pick up a PCMCIA modem before I left the US...
I just arrived in Milan, a little later than planned, and I am on my way to the event venue (posting this from inside of a taxi). I'll be discussing ColdFusion Blackstone and Flex with partners and users this afternoon, and then it's up to Cologne (via Frankfurt). Ciao!
The usergroup event this evening went really well. A standing room only crowd of 80 attendees packed into the venue, an old church that had been renovated into a high-tech office, and the response and feedback to Blackstone was phenomenal. What most impressed me was how tech-savvy and current the...
I am in Amsterdam, the only place in the world where I have seen multi-story parking lots for bicycles. It has been a while since I was here, and longer since I spoke to a usergroup here, so I am looking forward to tonight's event.
I'm heading out of the door to catch a flight to Europe. I'll be presenting Blackstone (and more) this week at events in Amsterdam, Milan, and Cologne. If you are in the area, drop by!
A few weeks ago I blogged a series of posts on defending ColdFusion against other technologies (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=1266). Marco Casario has translated these posts in to Italian, and they can be found at: Defending ColdFusion against ASP.NET...
To MAX, and to election day in the US. Without turning this into a political forum, the upcoming election is one of the most important in US history, and looks to be an incredibly close race. If you are a US citizen eligible to vote, and are attending MAX in New Orleans, you will need to arrange...
I spoke at a conference recently. As a presenter I was given a login to a site to upload speaker materials, read feedback, and more. The site sent me occasional e-mail reminders (need your bio, provide session description, etc.), and every e-mail included, as a reminder, my login and password. Yes,...
Macromedia has created a hot fix to address a problem with ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater in the server configuration (which uses an internal version of JRun 4) or the J2EE configuration running on JRun. If a request is sent to ColdFusion MX before the ColdFusion application is fully loaded and running,...
The majority of ColdFusion deployments are on Windows boxes, and so it is no surprise that users have frequently requested a simple way to authenticate users against Active Directory and Windows domains. In the past this required the use of LDAP (and the tag), a process neither clean nor intuitive...