Practical eCommerce is running a story about Teri Gault, and a system she developed to help shoppers save money by best leveraging shopping coupons. Trying to help her family through financial difficulties in the late 90s, Teri became an expert on how to best take advantage of shopping coupons. And...
The ColdFusion MX 7 demo page now features a new Captivate demo showing how to use the ColdFusion Flex Application Wizard. A new ColdFusion MX 7 Performance Brief has also been posted.
I was not planning on posting this yet, but several of you have e-mailed me to ask about the user group tour that has been mentioned on some lists and group posts, so ... Yes, a Scorpio tour is indeed being planned. Final dates and venues are still being worked out, but we're shooting for May...
This is not a new site, but it's one I've been meaning to mention for a while. UGTV is Charlie Arehart's online repository of recorded user group presentations, and there are now 88 presentations posted (including two of mine). While most of the presentations are ColdFusion related, there are also...
The November Flex + ColdFusion seminar in Toronto was so successful that we're doing it again, this time in Ottawa. Join me for a half day seminar to learn why there's simply no quicker or easier way to create Rich Internet Applications than the combination of Flex 2 and ColdFusion MX 7. I may even...
I am not a big fan of storing CLIENT variables in the registry (I thought doing so was a hack when we first introduced CLIENT variables close to a decade ago, and still think that using the registry as a data store was a mistake). Actually, I am not a big fan of CLIENT variables altogether. But...
A new hot fix addresses an issue when using in ColdFusion to send a large number of emails (usually more than 500) and the emails contain attachments with long filenames, some of the emails do not get sent and are moved to the Undeliverable folder.
WebProNews is running an article by Ben Cortese entitled Consuming RSS Feeds With ColdFusion , a good basic introduction to working with RSS in ColdFusion.
Ugh, I did it again. The CF Docs Bots were offline the past few days because my serial number for JBuddy-CF expired at the end of 2006. I've updated the serial number, and the bots are all back online. Sorry about that. The addresses remain the same: AIM: cflivedocs Google Talk: cfdocs@gmail.com...
Rob Gonda has announced an implementation of AjaxCFC for jQuery , it uses the existing AjaxCFC ColdFusion integration, but uses the jQuery Ajax engine. Keep an eye on Rob's blog for the beta announcement.