As previously discussed, ColdFusion Blackstone is expected to feature an event gateway that will allow ColdFusion to respond to requests from sources other than HTTP. Sean Corfield has been playing with this feature extensively, and has blogged some details of his IRC gateway which allows...
The following is an excerpt from an e-mail I received from Jeff Guillaume ... Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator (HPANA), http://www.hpana.com. HPANA has become one of the most visited fan sites online with 3 million+ page views monthly, a community of over 14,000 Muggles, and it's all custom...
I meant to blog this yesterday, but forgot. So, in case you are one of the few who did not hear this yet, FlashPaper is now available as a standalone product. See http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashpaper/.
Government Computers News (GCN) is running a story about an application "which operates within the [Navy's] budget office, uses business intelligence software to make sense of everything from supply chain data to aircraft maintenance costs." The system "draws from 133 Navy and DOD data sources,...
I don't check bags when I fly, but if I did ... Bluebird is a Bluetooth luggage tag. Once paired, Bluebird will communicate with your phone as soon as it is in range (within 30 feet), sending a signal to the phone, and flashing brightly to get your attention. So, no standing at the carousel,...
If you travel across time zones, or simply need to chat with folks in other continents, countries, or states, Time Ticker (http://www.timeticker.com/) is the most useful world time site I have found. The Flash interface allows for time zone selection, as each time zone is selected a list of...
Macromedia has announced Contribute 3 (http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/) and the new Web Publishing System (http://www.macromedia.com/software/webpublishingsystem/), and several of you have already written to ask about the relationship between the Web Publishing System (WPS for short)...
Several months ago I blogged a particularly bad customer service experience, and subsequently mentioned a book on the subject by Adam Bailine. Adam recently sent me a copy of the book, and I had the chance to peruse it this weekend. The book is "Service This! Winning the war against Customer...
Whois has long been the brute force way to learn about host and domain name registrations, and Network Solutions has long been one of the frequently hit online whois tools. Now Network Solutions has added lots more information to returned data, including IP location, server software, traffic...
This one is old news, but I was just reminded of it while catching up with e-mail. Jakob Neilson has an article on useit.com on a competition to identify the world's ten best government intranets. The Winning sites (in the U.S., Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Canada) are listed in the...