The Flash Pro team is forming an advisory group to better understand the needs of developers and to determine how these needs should impact future product development. Those participating will have direct contact with the Flash team and other advisory board members and will be provided with free...
I finally got around to updating the "On The Road" section of this site. Lots of new pics posted to http://www.forta.com/about/theroad.cfm.
Paul Colton was one of the creators of JRun (originally by Live Software, later acquired by Allaire, and now part of the Macromedia family of products). I'd lost touch with Paul since he left Allaire, but French online magazine dotnet-fr is running an interview with him. As per the interview (which...
Back in September I blogged that I had discovered that Barnes and Noble had bought Google keyword sponsorship for the term "Ben Forta". Well, Amazon.com has just done them one better and bought keyword sponsorship for the word "Forta". Hey, maybe I should be auctioning off my name on eBay or...
PakTribune.com, the online version of the Pakistan Tribune, is running a story today on how, with the merging of powerful back-ends and usable front-ends, the true power of the Internet is just now becoming a reality. To quote: "One of the most recent signs of this new evolutionary phase is the...
MAX is heading to Tokyo, Japan. DevCon Tokyo last year was an incredible success, and I have every reason to believe that MAX (February 19-20, 2004) will be too. I am not sure exactly what I'll be presenting there yet, but if you're in that part of the world, I hope to see you there. Details are at...
www.com.br has published an interview they did when I was down in São Paulo last month. It looks like the full article is for subscribers only (http://www.europanet.com.br/euro2003/index.php?cat_id=21), but here's a cover shot http://www.europanet.com.br/upload/www/capa42g.jpg. (Thanks to...
The Builder.com 2nd Annual Readers' Choice Awards have been published. In the "Best Java Application Server" category Apache Tomcat won, 1st runner-up is a tie between ColdFusion MX / JRun and IBM WebSphere. Dreamweaver MX won "Best Web Development Tool", and by a significant margin too (almost 40%...
This find sent to me by William Steiner (ECICFUG Manager). The official NFL shop at http://www.nflshop.com/ is powered by ColdFusion MX (on Linux or Win2K, or both, Netcraft is inconclusive on this one).
Bad hair day? Cold Fusion, "the latest in Extensions trends and technology", saves the day (and apparently, Dreamweaver is involved too). Details at http://hairextension.com/ultra_sonic_cold_fus.htm.