The Windows to Linux port tripped me up again, and this is an embarrassing one because I have written about just this issue, and apparently ignored my own advice. Nothing major, in fact it went unnoticed for several months (as this is on the first site that I ported), but a gotcha nonetheless....
I've been playing with the polling application included in DRK4, you can see an example of this on the left side of my blog page. Pollster comes with a ColdFusion administrator tool used to define polls (the question, what the answers are, etc.) as well as to report or show responses. After you...
I've come down with a horrible flu. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that this is not fun. I was supposed to present to the Southern California ColdFusion Users Group (SCCFUG) tonight, but that is not going to happen now. The group web site at http://www.sccfug.org/ will post the...
Looking for translations of any of my books? Various books have been translated into a total of 12 languages (that I know of). At the request of several of my non-English speaking readers I have posted a list of all translations that I am aware of at http://www.forta.com/books/intl.cfm. If you know...
My blog now has a WAP interface. Why? Well, it started as playing around, and then I gave a copy to Ray Camden and have since been keeping up with his blog via my cell phone (in airports, taxis, wherever). It's been working so well, that I added lots more functionality to the code over this past...
German Macromedia partner Interlake GmbH is graciously offering free ColdFusion and Flash Comm Server hosting to any ColdFusion community or user group sites. They have also created a Flash Comm application that can be branded and used by user groups to broadcast meetings. To learn more visit...
CFFaq.com is now online in Romanian, bringing the number of live languages to thirteen. Thanks to Andrei Oprea for the translation. Visit http://www.cffaq.com/ to browse the FAQs, as well as to comment on questions and answers, or to suggest additional questions.
A user asked me for a list of the various online exams hosted on my site, so I threw an exam listing page together at http://www.forta.com/books/exams.cfm. Old (as in updated) exams are listed too, as are exams I host for other authors (the Flash ones). If you are feeling brave, try the ColdFusion...
I spent some time today playing with the latest version of BrowserHawk (sent to me by Richard Litofsky of cyScape, thanks). If you've never heard of BrowserHawk, it is a server-side utility which reports browser capabilities and features (whether cookies are enabled or not, which plug-ins are...
Lots of chatter on the lists today in response to the announcement that Contribute 2 has a product activation feature designed to curb the use of unlicensed software. While I am not a big fan of activation schemes in any form, the fact of the matter is that casual piracy is a big problem (decreased...