I am using pre-beta versions of ColdFusion Blackstone on some of my applications (so as to test new features), and I've been updating the version used on a fairly regular basis, without any real downtime. How is this possible? Simple. I have ColdFusion running on top of JRun4. When I want to move...
I flew out of Detroit this morning. That is something I do quite frequently, so why do I mention it here? Because something odd happened; I was not asked for ID. Really. I even asked "do you need to see ID?", and the TSA screener shook her head no and waved me through. Not that I think that...
There has been some good buzz in the press and blogs about event gateways in ColdFusion Blackstone, and folks are starting to try to wrap their hands around the concept and what this all means. So ... ColdFusion has long been an incredibly simple way to build Web apps. That's why we all use...
Operated by The University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the IEM 2004 US Presidential Winner Takes All Market is a real-money futures market where contract payoffs will be determined by the popular vote cast in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. The overview, assets, graphing...
"Blackstone" beta applications are now officially being accepted. Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/programs/beta.html for more details.
Good news for elementary schools! Last week Macromedia announced a program which makes it easier than ever for K-6 schools to introduce Macromedia tools to teachers and staff, and in turn to make it easy for teachers to introduce these tools to students in the classroom. The Macromedia K-6 Site...
According to the German publication, Technology Review, Siemens is developing a cell phone with a built in gas sensor. The phone (if it were to ever see the light of day) could be used to detect ozone, bad breath, and as a breathalyzer (detecting alcohol on your breath). And who said that cell...
The sites are back up. As DNS changes can take a while to propagate, I have the old server redirecting to a temporary host name. Aside from that, the move seems to have gone painlessly (too painlessly?). I have always self hosted, I was involved with a start-up and had access to a dedicated data...
I have slowly been moving my servers over to a new hosting provider. DNS has been moved, some sites are already cut over, and having successfully completed dry-run moves of my primary sites, I plan on cutting those over later today. Downtime should be minimal, and the only gotcha I foresee is DNS...
Details for MAX 2004 in Taiwan are now online (in Chinese) at http://www.macromedia.com/tw/macromedia/events/max_gc/. Speaker information (oddly enough, in English) is at http://www.macromedia.com/tw/macromedia/events/max_gc/speaker_bios/.