Ingres has a long and significant history in the DBMS world. It was developed at UC Berkeley between 1977 and 1985 (and is an ancestor of PosgreSQL which also originated at UC Berkeley). It became a somewhat successful commercial product, and was then acquired in 1990 for $110 million by Sandra...
The first virus for 64-Bit Windows has been identified (story at http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21400348). It used to be that the porn industry pushed next generation technologies, it looks like virus writers may be beating them to it. Wonderful, it just warms the...
Yep, Cold Fusion (with a space) Laser Therapy targets acupuncture points to help end addiction to smoking and nicotine. We always knew ColdFusion was good for you, and now NBC13 in Alabama agrees (see http://www.nbc13.com/health/3354434/detail.html). :-)
My Summer 2004 User Group Tour (see http://www.forta.com/, right column) kicks off in Toronto on Monday, and I am looking forward to meeting lots of you at lots of stops over the 5 week period. For those of you who are members of a group not on the schedule, I am pleased to announce that I'll be...
As per Comcast engineer network engineer Sean Lutner, (see http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5218720.html), Comcast users send 800,000,000 e-mail messages a day, of which 700,000,000 seem to be generated by bots, "a breathtaking figure that adds up to six or seven spam-o-grams for each American...
TechBookReport positively reviewed my Regular Expressions book a few weeks ago, and so I was really pleased to see that they just reviewed my other Teach Yourself book, "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes". As per the review, "Don't be fooled by the '10 Minutes' claim, this is by no means a...
Apparently, Microsoft has paid Opera $12 million to avert a potential lawsuit over a claim that Microsoft deliberately made pages on MSN incompatible with Opera's browser. Story on http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5218163.html and elsewhere. Which raises two questions ... 1) So what? If I want to...
Our very own Tim Buntel is now blogging at http://www.buntel.com/blog/. Tim is the ColdFusion Product Manager at Macromedia, and in his words is "here to give you a wee look into the world of ColdFusion". For those of you who can't place the name, think back to the last two conferences ... Day 2?...
ThinkOutside (the maker of the Stowaway keyboards used with many PDAs, see http://www.thinkoutside.com/) announced plans for a Bluetooth keyboard back in December 2003. And since then I have been waiting for the actual device. Well, it looks like the wait is over. The Mercury News is running a...
During yesterday's MacroChat, lots of you asked question about making ColdFusion available to colleges and universities. I mentioned that there was indeed a program in place, but I did not have the details and URL to hand at the time, and so am posting the information here. Macromedia Developer...