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February 17, 2004

Hello from Japan

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...

ColdFusion

February 16, 2004

New Article: Building a Client-Server Application with Flash and ColdFusion

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...

Brandon Purcell on Multiple CF Instances

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.

ColdFusion

February 13, 2004

Computerworld: Securing your Bluetooth Devices

Interesting article on security and Bluetooth at http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,89495,00.html?nas=MW-89495.

Mobile

February 12, 2004

Computerworld: "FlashPaper could outperform PDF"

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.

Hackers Targeting Flash Community Sites

ZDNet is running a story about a series of attacks on Flash community sites, see http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39146184,00.htm. The attacks exploited a flaw in a PHP based mailing list program allowing hackers to install code that gave them root access.

Stuff

February 11, 2004

New CFDJ Column: The Case Against Coding for Portability

"Conventional wisdom dictates that code, all code, be written with portability in mind. After all, you wouldn't want to have to revisit and rewrite code when moving between platforms or environments, would you? And while I do believe that coding for portability is a good thing in general, I also...

MySQL Admin Alpha Available for Download

MySQL Administrator is a powerful GUI for managing MySQL servers. It can be used to configure databases and tables, manage users, run backups, view logs, and even monitor server health. MySQL has needed this badly, and the alpha of this tool can now be downloaded from...

Two New Flash Wizards Released

The Macromedia Flash team has released two new Flash Wizards. The "Data Connection Wizard" simplifies the process of connecting back-end data (Web Services or XML) to a data set and data grid, setting up all the controls and bindings. The "DataGrid Column Editor" generates ActionScript code for...