Honestly, I have never needed to do this myself, but apparently many ColdFusion users have, and several have asked me for advice in the past few days. So ... If you were to store CFML source code in a database so that it may be retrieved via a simple database query, what would be the best way to...
I just arrived in Houston from Rio de Janeiro, and am waiting for my connecting flight to Detroit. I had no Internet access at all in Rio, the hotel was having ISP problems, dial-up kept dropping my connection, and there was no time to get online between meetings. So this is my first time online...
Macromedia and local partners put on a full-day event here in Brasilia yesterday; designer centric content in the morning, developer centric content in the afternoon. The event was very impressive, the theatre has seating room for 500 and there were an estimated 100 standing as well for the...
Today I arrived in Brasilia, capital of Brazil. Brasilia is a "planned city", fear of invasion and a desire to develop the Brazilian heartland were the primary reasons for moving the capital from Rio de Janeiro. Brasilia is therefore bang in the middle of this huge country. Construction took place...
I arrived in São Paulo, Brazil, a few hours ago (and almost did not make it, my flight from Detroit to Newark was very late because of East Coast weather, and I had 20 minutes to make the connection which required changing terminals at Newark, and for the record, inter-terminal trams belong...
Sounds impossible, but some traffic lights can indeed be manipulated remotely. Originally designed for emergency vehicle use, control is now available to all via a $300 device called the MIRT (http://www.themirt.com/) allowing drivers to change red lights to green in 2 to 3 seconds from more than...
The syntax for calling Oracle (8.1 or higher)stored procedures which return reference cursors in Macromedia ColdFusion MX is different from that of previous versions of ColdFusion. A new tech note on this subject has been posted at...
Which web server technology powers the US Federal Government? Most Government sites are private and behind firewalls, but the public face of the .gov domain hold valuable clues. A search on Google looking for specific file extensions (use "allinurl:cfm site:.gov", for example) yields the following...
The new Flash Professional forms interface is a highly intuitive and usable alternative to the timeline that so many of us coders fear and loathe. Forms are screens that are displayed and hidden as needed, and forms are created and managed in a hierarchical tree view within Flash Professional. But...
Royale is the internal code name for an initiative at Macromedia that addresses the requirements of enterprise programmers who want to develop Rich Internet Applications. Or put differently, it's a whole new way to build great looking apps. The Royale team is now accepting applications for beta...