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...
Nokia has announced a Bluetooth keyboard (see http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,58982,00.html). Aside from the conflicting release dates (Q3/2004 on product page, Q4/2004 on FAQ page), reading between the lines gives one the sneaking suspicion that Nokia wants this keyboard only used with Nokia phones...
I finally got some time to look at Jeff Peters' "ColdFusion Lists, Arrays, and Structures". Jeff has been an active member of the ColdFusion community for quite some time, and has been a strong advocate for Fusebox (the subject of a book he published a couple of years back). This new title checks...
I have no patience for analysts. I have little respect for them, and even less for those who pay them big bucks for their "expertise". Not all analysts mind you, I have not had to deal with them in lots of industries, and maybe some in some industries have some opinions of some value. The ones I...
I introduced Blackstone to over 40 user groups today. From Australia to Brazil to South Africa to Germany to Colombia, to all over the USA and Canada, and all in about 3 hours. Impossible? Not if you are using Breeze, and each time I present a Breezo (Breeze presentation have been dubbed "Breezos")...
My FlashForward presentation went very well. I talked about the basics of using Flash for more than animation, Flash as a client to back-end processing. Demos, an overview of CFML, CFC basics, using the Flash Web Services and Remoting components, we went through it all, and the audience responded...
I was just in New York City last week (for a user group presentation), and am on my way back, this time to speak at Flashforward. I have an afternoon session today entitled "ColdFusion-Powered Flash: An Introduction", and will cover the use of Flash for more than animation, CF and CFML basics, and...