Support for dynamic datasources was dropped on ColdFusion MX (it had been introduced in ColdFusion 5), and this has made it difficult to connect to data files without having to define a datasource. I was asked about this several times while in Japan, and promised to respond via e-mail with details...
Here is a nice little free utility, courtesy of V-Mobile Software. Bluetooth Dialer is a Pocket PC application which can dial a phone number on your phone directly from the PDA contact list. Select the contact person name on your PDA and send it to the phone to dial (without needing to store phone...
I'm about to head to Narita to fly back to the U.S. MAX 2004 Tokyo was an incredible event, thousands of attendees (even more than at MAX in the U.S.) and two days of sessions, presentations, shop talk, and of course bars (including one at which I was hit on by a rather drunk non-English speaking...
One of the local Macromedians has a USB Flash disk. I know what you are thinking, "so what, we all do". True, but does yours look like a duck? I am serious, this Flash disk is in the shape of a small rubber duck, the kind a kid would play with in the bathtub. But this rubber duck has a little USB...
I just arrived in Tokyo for MAX 2004 Japan. A crowd of about 3500 is expected for the event which starts in the morning. Should be fun.
With being on the road again I completely missed this announcement. DRK6 is out, details are at http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume6/. ColdFusion developers will like the tag (modeled on ), as well as several Internet protocol tags including the ever useful...
Last week I commented on the newly released Flash MX 2004 Wizards, and stated that I'd be posting a detailed article demonstrating their use shortly. Well, that article is now live at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/dc_wizard.html. The article will walk you through building...
Looking for details on installing and configuring multiple ColdFusion MX 6.1 instances with IIS and Apache? This article is where you should start: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/multi_instances.html.
Interesting article on security and Bluetooth at http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,89495,00.html?nas=MW-89495.
Nice article on FlashPaper, and it's potential as an alternative to PDF. See http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=453219018&fp=16&fpid=0.