August 2, 2004
PHP is not one that comes up often, there is not a significant overlap between PHP developers and ColdFusion developers. But, in the interests of presenting the complete story, here is what you need to know. PHP is also script based, pages contain code which are processed by the PHP engine. The PHP...
August 2, 2004
Comparing ASP.NET to ColdFusion is difficult. Actually, it is not just difficult, it is simply incorrect, and not an apples-to-apples comparison. In order to defend ColdFusion against a "we are moving to ASP.NET" claim, you (and whoever is involved in the decision making) needs to take a big step...
August 2, 2004
Microsoft ASP has been an important player in web application scripting since, well, since a year or so after the introduction of ColdFusion. From an application development process viewpoint, ColdFusion and ASP are not that different. Both are script based, both are very page centric, both embed...
August 2, 2004
Peter Ent, a Boston based developer, has posted his thoughts on Flex, Flash, and JSP. If you are interested in Flex, this is worth reading: http://www.keaura.com/flex/.
August 1, 2004
The FMP3 is a little device which accepts USB drives containing MP3's, and then broadcasts them using an FM modulator (frequency configurable using a little dial) so that you can play the music over your car stereo. Of course, a device like this needs power, and power in cars usually comes from...
August 1, 2004
Picture a cell-phone, one that looks not all that different from the one you own, until you rotate the back of its body to display a keyboard (half the keys to the left of the device and half to the right). Confused? Check out the pics at...
August 1, 2004
About 9 months ago, I blogged an entry about The Wharton School portal being powered by ColdFusion (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=925). In that time, the folks at Wharton have been busy, and CFDJ is reporting that they just rolled out the 10th version of the site, looking...
July 31, 2004
Spike Milligan has posted a blog entry on how to replace CF tag processing with your own functionality. Obviously, this is a dangerous thing to do (not that I would not do it myself). But having said that, this makes for interesting reading. See...
July 29, 2004
Macromedia will be hosting a MX Conference in Taiwan on November 9-10, and it looks like I'll be attending. I have no details yet, but will post them as soon as they are available.
July 29, 2004
We are finalizing details of my Blackstone trips to Europe and Japan, and I'll post more details as soon as I have them. For now, these dates are planned: Tokyo, Japan: August 23rd-25th Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 6th Milan, Italy: September 7th Cologne, Germany: September 8th I'll be...