Dave Gruber, Tim Buntel, and I will be co-hosting the ColdFusion MacroChat today at 3:00 PM Eastern (12:00 PM Pacific, 8:00 PM UK, 9:00 PM Europe). No specific topic, as long as it is CF related it is fair game. So bring your questions, comments, suggestions, whatever to...
SpyBot S&D (for "Search & Destroy") is a great little utility that will help you find adware, tracking cookies, and other little nasties. I had been using an earlier version for a while (more to keep an eye on what cookies are being used for than anything else), and now v1.3 is out. SpyBot...
I've posted several rants about bad customer service, and these caught the eye of Adam Bailine who calls himself "a bad customer service junkie". He e-mailed me to tell me about his book "Service this: Winning the war against Customer Disservice". I have not seen the book yet, so no reviews, but...
South African IT publication, ITWeb, is running a story on a large call center application created for Benefit Recover Services. As per the description, "The call centre, which deals with a large number of pension funds, required a system that would allow operators to locate and contact people,...
Ray's newest article is up on the Macromedia Dev Center (see http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/updating_legacy.html). If you are still using ColdFusion 5 (or 4.x), and are considering an upgrade to CFMX, then be sure to read this one. Even if you are already running CFMX, this...
I recently installed a great little firewall appliance. Or rather, I tried to. HotBrick (http://www.hotbrick.com/) is a relative newcomer to the space, but their devices are appealing. I tried the VPN 600/2 (the smaller of the two devices). It features 2 WAN ports (offering load-balancing and...
A video report from Intel Research Center shows an app that will report free parking spaces based on your specified criteria. Unfortunately, it also will help meter-maids write tickets more efficiently! See http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2-5209834.html.
What a shocker. ZDNet is reporting that parts of Longhorn won't be fully in place until 2009. Who would have thought?!?! http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5212077.html
Several months ago I posted an entry about changing the JRun JRE (http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=1026). A couple of users have asked me how to change the ColdFusion JRE if using ColdFusion in standalone server mode (with embedded JRun). The instructions are actually, the same,...
I don't know how I feel about this one. "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" is my favorite series (I'll confess to rereading the full 5 volume trilogy every year or so). But a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie? I guess it was inevitable, but honestly, I am not sure that I want to see what some...