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...
So Real Networks has jumped on the "we can't compete in the market, gee, let’s resort to litigation" bandwagon, and filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft (lots of details and links at news.com ). As per the filing, Microsoft used "monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing...
SearchDatabase.com just posted an editorial on databases and object abstractions, stating quite emphatically that object design should not be mapped to database design (I agree). The author also lists three rules (all of which I agree with); keep your business rules in the database, use the...
Geek.com is running a story on how the AMD Opteron 248 outperforms Intel Xeon 2.8GHz MP in server benchmarks. So what has this to do with ColdFusion? The test was performed using a ColdFusion application. To quote: "In a two CPU head-to-head comparison running a stressful Web server script and a...
See how 25 companies such as Comcast, Ben and Jerry's, and the Washington Post use Flash to integrate video right into their site designs. The video quality is very impressive. See http://www.macromedia.com/go/fvg/.