August 26, 2004
This is a little one, but it has bugged me for years, and I am pleased that Blackstone fixes it. When you use you can populate the list with a query and also insert your own options using tags. Those options are always placed below the query, which often makes for rather unintuitive forms. For...
August 25, 2004
I know that this is not funny, but, well, it kinda is! :-) The island nation of Sri Lanka lost data connections on Sunday leaving 800,000 subscribers without Internet access. The problem? Indian ship "State of Nagaland" dropped anchor in the Sri Lankan port of Colombo, and the anchor severed an...
August 25, 2004
This courtesy of Andy Allan. The following Scottish football sites are powered by ColdFusion, Scottish Football Association (http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/), Scottish Football League (http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/), and Aberdeen Football Club (http://www.afc.co.uk/). And then there is...
August 24, 2004
I mentioned this one during my tour, the ColdFusion MX 6.1 updater is now available. This update to ColdFusion MX 6.1 consists of several fixes that have previously been available separately; the JRun Updater 3 (for ColdFusion server configurations only), new releases of DataDirect JDBC drivers and...
August 24, 2004
Consider the following situations ... * You don't have access to the ColdFusion Administration, but need to make simple changes (like registering your IP addresses for debugging). * You need temporary datasources (perhaps for data import tasks) and want to be able to programmatically create (and...
August 24, 2004
Do you have (or have you used) a quad-band GSM phone? The only ones I have seen are the Motorola v400, Motorola v500, Motorola v600, the NEC 525, the Palm Treo 600, and the Sharp GX32. (It does not look like Nokia or Sony Ericsson have any to offer, even the new SE p910 comes in three different...
August 24, 2004
"Windows Network & .NET Magazine" (at http://www.winnetmag.com/) is powered by ColdFusion. There are lots of static pages on this site, so you may have to dig around to find the .cfm links, but they are indeed there. Thanks to Steve Young for this one.
August 23, 2004
PC Welt (http://www.pcwelt.de/), ComputerWoche (http://www.computerwoche.de/) and ComputerPartner (http://www.computerpartner.de/) are German IDG publications, and all of their Web sites are powered by ColdFusion (CFMX and CF5). Thanks to Hansjoerg Posch for pointing these ones out to me.
August 22, 2004
Macromedia is now shipping Flex Builder, which is designed to provide an interactive development environment for Flex. Flex Builder is now available and bundled with the Flex trial CD and Flex purchase. Details at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/flexbuilder/.
August 20, 2004
After installing Windows XP Service Pack 2, the Windows Firewall is enabled by default. This can prevent ColdFusion MX 6.1 from functioning correctly. The technote at http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/windowsspxp2.htm describes the steps that need to be taken in order to...