Over the past few months I have met with over twenty user groups, briefed about a dozen members of press, visited dozens of customer sites in numerous countries, and addressed more conferences than I can recall. In all, I have had the opportunity to chat about ColdFusion with hundreds (or...
Flash now supports SOAP and Flash Remoting as ways to connect to back-end systems. From a ColdFusion perspective there is little difference, a CFC method can be invoked either way, but internally much is different. FlashORB has done a great job of comparing the two and benchmarking the results. See...
It's been a while since I was last in Brazil, and so I'm excited to announce that I'll be visiting South America's largest country again in October (I have been craving a genuine caipirinha, but that is not the primary objective for the trip, I promise). The trip will be during the week of October...
As mentioned previously, I have been actively soliciting user input as to future ColdFusion directions and features. I have received several requests for additional internet protocol tags, including (to access newsgroups), (read and perform DNS lookups), (as its name suggests, and could also return...
Windows users are familiar with .ini files, those plain text files that are really useful for storing configuration data and things like that. Java has a similar type of file, a properties file (usually with a .properties extension), and a set of APIs (rather ugly APIs, actually, in...
I just arrived back in the U.S. after two weeks in Japan and Europe. Spending less than 18 hours in each of England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands this week meant that I barely got online to check e-mail, never mind to post blog entries. My trip had two objectives: 1) brief partners and...
Hello from Germany, this time in Nürnberg (most famous for the 1945-1946 Nürnberg trials in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals). I spent most of the day today talking to ColdFusion partners and users to get their views on what the next ColdFusion should...
Which is the faster way to check whether or not a string is empty, or ? The commonly held view is that it is the latter, but, after a heated debate today on the subject of optimization, I decided to test it for myself. The result? Almost no difference at all, in fact, I had to run the test...
I opted not to installed ODBC support when I installed ColdFusion MX 6.1, and of course, now I need it. I discovered an installer that looked like it should do the trick, but it didn't, and a reinstall of CF did not seem to work either. The solution? Here it is (courtesy of Mike Nimer): 1: Locate...
Oscar Trelles has posted a Flash MX 2004 crack on his blog (http://www.oscartrelles.com/blog/archive.php?post_id=1063726883), he's written a serial number generator. Oscar, I only wish you could capture and post the facial expressions of happy users, you rock!