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...
I'll be presenting at 5 user groups during the next two weeks (2 in the D.C. area, and 2 in Brazil). Details and links have been posted to my homepage.
I have long been a fan of "How Stuff Works" (http://www.howstuffworks.com/). When the book (also named "How Stuff Works", http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764565184/benfortascoldfus/) came out I bought it immediately and was not disappointed. Marshall Brain (yes, his real name) and his team...
I seem to be getting more and more questions like: "How can I get better Java support in CF4.5?" and "I need Web Service calls to timeout but am still using CFMX" and "I know CFMX6.1 has a better , but I am still at CF5", you get the idea. There are regular posts on cf-talk and other lists asking...
This one has nailed me several times this week, so ... The Flash MX 2004 DataGrid component allows for the browsing and editing of data, including data retrieved from ColdFusion (via Flash Remoting or SOAP). Data grids are typically populated by datasets (which in turn are populated using...