Today I arrived in Brasilia, capital of Brazil. Brasilia is a "planned city", fear of invasion and a desire to develop the Brazilian heartland were the primary reasons for moving the capital from Rio de Janeiro. Brasilia is therefore bang in the middle of this huge country. Construction took place...
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...
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...
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...
I've just finished reviewing all of the ColdFusion related MAX sessions, providing comments and critique where appropriate. I've been swamped the past few months, and was quite late in getting outline and draft feedback back to presenters, but I have finally caught up, and the presenters have been...
Microsoft ASP is one of the most popular scripting languages out there, or rather, it was one of the most popular scripting languages out there. With the introduction of the Microsoft .NET platform, Microsoft is no longer developing ASP; it's investing in ASP.NET instead. ASP.NET is an entirely new...