The blog RSS feed is now working. Seems the problem was that the XML being generated was invalid, tags were being converted to upper case by Dreamweaver because of some preferences I was playing around with. Fun fun fun. Anyway, it is working now. Links are on the left (for full mode use...
In response to my article on the Flash Data Connection Kit (at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/data_conn.html) many of you have written to me asking about comments I made as to how to use (or not use) the Firefly components in production environments. Some of the specific...
CFFaq.com is now online in Turkish, bringing the number of live languages to twelve. Thanks to Bora Ünal 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.
I spent the day in Washington, DC today (thank goodness for air conditioning!) meeting with various government agencies all of whom use ColdFusion. I love spending time with government agencies as they tend to be a microcosm of the real world - all sorts of developers with all sorts of needs and...
I have too many IM accounts (at least one on each of ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and MSN). For a short time now (thanks to Jonathan Wall) I have been using Trillian (from http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/) as my integrated IM client, and it works really well (so well that I paid the $25 for the Pro copy within...
With special permission from ColdFusion Developers Journal, my latest " on " columns are now all freely available online. Links are at http://www.forta.com/cf/resources/.
Macromedia recently released Macromedia Flash MX Data Connection Kit, a Macromedia Flash MX add-on designed to simplify building rich data front ends in Macromedia Flash. To introduce you to the new Data Connection Kit, and to jump-start using this new tool, I wrote an artile...
I've been putting it off for, well, forever it seems. But, here it is, my blog is now online. Hopefully I'll be making regular postings, and at some point in the not so distant future I'll merge my "CF Tip-of-the-Day" into the blog. Thanks to Ray Camden for the blog code, if you want a copy of...
Here's another tip to improve Dreamweaver load time. In Preferences select the File Types / Editors screen and add .cfm and .cfc to the Open in Code View list. You'll lose support for design view and the Insert bar, but the load speed will be much faster. (Applies to: Dreamweaver MX)
When the Dreamweaver Application window is open (particularly with the Databases or Component tab selected) Dreamweaver will keep refreshing window content. This can have a real impact on Dreamweaver performance, and so it is best to keep the Application window closed when it is not being used....