As many of you know, my notebook fried (or baked, or grilled, or something like that) in Houston on the way to MAX 2003. Fortunately, the hard drive was fine, and so Macromedia IT dug up a similar machine and dropped my hard drive in it so that I'd have something to use. Last night I received my...
I have been driving my new 2004 Acura TL with integrated Bluetooth for three weeks to the day (I blogged this car back in early November), and thought that I'd share my experiences thus far: * First and foremost, this is the perfect use for Bluetooth, the integration is smooth and clean, and in the...
Navman Europe has released a GPS receiver that connects to your PDA via Bluetooth (so no dangling cable). Info at http://www.navman-mobile.com/product_details.php?id=AA005403. Now if they come out with software for other platforms (like Symbian) then I'm sold!
The Flash Pro team is forming an advisory group to better understand the needs of developers and to determine how these needs should impact future product development. Those participating will have direct contact with the Flash team and other advisory board members and will be provided with free...
I finally got around to updating the "On The Road" section of this site. Lots of new pics posted to http://www.forta.com/about/theroad.cfm.
One of the first reviews of Macromedia Flex, online at http://javaboutique.internet.com/reviews/macro_flex/.
This one was found by a ColdFusion user at Lockheed Martin who sent me a CFC that could not be invoked via SOAP, on every call it threw "Duplicate declaration of local variable t" errors. The problem? "t" is kind of reserved, the CFC to Java conversion code defines "t" as java.lang.Throwable. This...
Paul Colton was one of the creators of JRun (originally by Live Software, later acquired by Allaire, and now part of the Macromedia family of products). I'd lost touch with Paul since he left Allaire, but French online magazine dotnet-fr is running an interview with him. As per the interview (which...
Steve Nelson has created some really nice HomeSite (and ColdFusion Studio) add-ons. He has a documentation generator, a test generator, and several utilities specifically for Fusebox users. The full tool list is at http://www.secretagents.com/index.cfm?&fuseaction=tools.listtools.
Back in September I blogged that I had discovered that Barnes and Noble had bought Google keyword sponsorship for the term "Ben Forta". Well, Amazon.com has just done them one better and bought keyword sponsorship for the word "Forta". Hey, maybe I should be auctioning off my name on eBay or...