I presented Blackstone and The Future of ColdFusion to the Louisville, KY, CFUG last night. The event was sponsored by CFXHosting, and graciously hosted by UPS. The presentation went well, all the demos worked, and the group was genuinely excited by what they saw. One non-CF user in the group said...
I am on the way from Toronto to Louisville. Last night was the 1st stop on my Summer 2004 User Group Tour. About 80 attendees upstairs of a bar named Rhino, looking at a presentation projected onto a textured reddish brown wall (it actually worked better than I expected). Turnout was a bit lower...
Software is a living evolving entity, and this is especially true of software that is mid-development. I'll be presenting Blackstone to the Toronto CFUG in under 2 hours, and I am holed up in my hotel room frantically tweaking demos (or rather, making demos that worked with prior Blackstone builds...
I'm shutting down for the night. I have an early flight to Toronto tomorrow, and then tomorrow evening we kick off the Summer 2004 User Group with a presentation to the Toronto CFUG. Over the next five weeks I'll be checking in from locations all over North America, and will try to post notes,...
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...