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...
IIS 6 has been remarkably successful since it was introduced just over a year ago. As per Netcraft (reported in May 2004), "2,100,000 hostnames were identified on Windows Server 2003, with a gain of 390,000 hostnames since April 2004. Around 50% of these are new sites, while just under 100,000 have...
This one sent to me by Jared Rypka-Hauer. The Gates Millennium Scholars was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college...
During the MacroChat this afternoon, I mentioned that Symantec was using ColdFusion on their public site, and several of you e-mailed to tell me that you looked and only saw .html URLs. So, go to http://www.symantec.com/ and click on "Products and Services", just about every link in the Products...
Wow, I make one little "by the way" comment in a MacroChat, and the e-mails start immediately! So, just to be sure that I don't get misquoted ... I first demonstrated the ability to deploy ColdFusion applications without deploying source code in my keynote at DevCon 2001 in Orlando. There were no...
By popular demand, the Central NJ CFUG has been added to the upcoming Summer 2004 User Group Tour. The current tour schedule is on my homepage, http://www.forta.com/.
Macromedia has created a hot fix for Verity so as to support additional versions of Linux. Verity is now supported with ColdFusion MX 6.1 on the following Linux versions: Red Hat (7.2, 7.3, 8, 9), Red Hat AS (2.1, 3.0), Red Hat ES (2.1, 3.0), Suse (7.2, 7.3, 8.0). The HotFix is downloadable from...