I used much of my quiet time over the holidays to play with Flex (the in-beta product formerly known as Royale), and honestly, it's been a quite a while since I have had this much fun. Flex is highly addictive, and has that same instant-gratification feel that makes using ColdFusion such a...
This is just too cute for words, Make-a-Flake (at http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/) lets you design your own snowflake using paper, scissors, and Flash. This is a really nice example of Flashifying a familiar experience.
2003 was a pretty intense and very hectic year. New products, a new baby, new books, over 150,000 actual miles logged, dozens of speaking engagements, a new blog, trips to over a dozen countries, a new Macromedia conference ... Wow! Thanks for all your support this past year, both personally and...
I recently needed to change the JRE used by JRun (to a newer version). No problem, just stop JRun, remove the old JRE, install the new one and restart JRun. Right? Nope. JRun stores the JRE path, and that needs to be updated to reflect the new JRE location. It took a few minutes to find where this...
Macromedia and IBM are pleased to announce the availability of ColdFusion MX Enterprise 6.1 for IBM zSeries mainframe. This integrated infrastructure is designed to provide the most productive, scalable and powerful web application platform for enterprise customers. This new product offering is...
I've been a Red Cross Blood Donor since the 80's, and have given gallons of blood. Blood donation is mildly inconvenient, not painful, and saves lives. It is something I feel very strongly about, and I regular encourage others to become donors too (especially in the winter when blood supplies run...
This was long overdue, take pictures on a Concord digital camera, and then send them to your PC (or PDA, or phone) via integrated Bluetooth (http://www.concordcam.com/products/wireless/wireless.htm). I have no idea if this is a decent camera or not, but I'd look at it just because of the Bluetooth....
I received a package today, it contained copies of the Turkish translation of my "Certified ColdFusion MX Developer Study Guide" (I had no idea that it was being translated, so a pleasant surprise indeed). The translation is by Medyasoft (at http://www.medyasoft.com.tr/) who also translated my...
Standpipe Studios has upgraded Vertabase Pro, its Web-based project management application. This new version runs on ColdFusion MX 6.1, and provides new graphical reporting capabilities, increased flexibility of individual task reports and improved data entry. Vertabase Pro, available in hosted and...
Dreamweaver features color coding and language awareness for lots of languages, all built in. Files are associated with a language by file extension, but what if you wanted to add an extension? I recently needed to edit an XML file as an XML file, but it did not have an XML extension, and so...