We all know that patents have been awarded for the most ridiculous of inventions, but just how ridiculous some of them are may surprise you. For example, patent 6,637,447 for "Beerbrella" (yep an umbrella that clips onto your beer bottle), patent 6,206,000 for a "canine scuba diving apparatus",...
ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit (new sixth edition) is now shipping. This edition was co-authored by Ray Camden , Leon Chalnick, and Angela Buraglia . Details can be found on the book page .
A day before it is scheduled to ship, ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit has made Amazon.com's Early Adopter Computers & Internet , debuting and #2. As per Amazon, " These are the newest and coolest products our customers of Computers & Internet are buying. This list, updated...
Lots of you have asked me about books being updated for Blackstone, so here is the scoop ... The update to ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit will be out at about the time that Blackstone ships (sorry, I can't give you that exact date yet). One exciting change this time around, Ray...
The 3rd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" has just been released in Romanian by Teora. Information on this book, and a link to the new Romanian edition, are at http://forta.com/books/0672325675/. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at...
The 3rd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" has just been released in French by Campus Press / Pearson Education. Information on this book, and a link to the new French edition, are at http://forta.com/books/0672325675/. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at...
The 3rd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" has just been released in Swedish by Pagina Förlags AB. Information on this book, and a link to the new Swedish edition, are at http://forta.com/books/0672325675/.
I finally got some time to look at Jeff Peters' "ColdFusion Lists, Arrays, and Structures". Jeff has been an active member of the ColdFusion community for quite some time, and has been a strong advocate for Fusebox (the subject of a book he published a couple of years back). This new title checks...
The 2nd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" is now available in Polish, published by Helion (http://helion.pl/, book page at http://helion.pl/ksiazki/sqloko.htm). I do not read Polish, and so have no idea how good a translation it is, but I was pleased to see that the translators...
TechBookReport positively reviewed my Regular Expressions book a few weeks ago, and so I was really pleased to see that they just reviewed my other Teach Yourself book, "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes". As per the review, "Don't be fooled by the '10 Minutes' claim, this is by no means a...