Story on ZDNet about the "circling mob of domain prospectors wait at the bottom of the domain drop, waiting to snap up any choice names, then resell them". Chase Manhattan lost carfinancing.com because no one renewed the domain, and others have fallen victim too. This one is worth a quick read, see...
I have an XBox (well, the family does, I don't get to use it that much), and have games that my older kids enjoy. But the younger ones want to play too, and so I am looking for title suggestions from any junior XBox players (3-5 year olds). Nothing violent (duh!), so nothing involving shooting...
I mentioned this application in the MAX 2003 opening keynote, but this is the first reference to it that I have seen in print (or e-print). Government Computer News (GCN) is running a story on E-Tran, an application that will let the SBA (Small Business Administration) approve loan applications...
This is quite the compliment. UK IT Magazine, The Register, has proclaimed that my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has established itself as the gold standard for introductory SQL books", and is recommending both that book and my new "Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes"....
IBM is previewing the upcoming release of DB2, codenamed Stinger. This release boast significant speed enhancements, self-tuning databases, the ability to write stored procedures in .NET languages, Java type-4 drivers included, improved mirroring and redundancy features, a new DB2 Express aimed at...
Interested in the history (and pre-history) of Flash? Check out Jon's story at http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/.
We have publicly stated that ColdFusion "Blackstone" will provide a way to generate printable output. I first mentioned this at MAX 2003, and both Tim Buntel and I have publicly demonstrated PDF generation prototypes as well. But we have made no public statement about the planned print formats, and...
I have been running a poll on my site for a couple of months now, asking users how they develop their applications (on a live production server, on a shared development server, developers running the free developer edition locally, or on a separate development instance on a production server). With...
In March 2004, NPD Research, the parent company of MediaMetrix, conducted a study to determine what percentage of Web browsers have Macromedia Flash installed. The results of this survey are now online at http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/. Lots of stats available,...
DRK7 is available, see http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume7/. This edition includes content for ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Flash, and more.