Ben Forta's keynote heavy on Flex
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1/17/2011I am watching Ben Forta's keynote, and it if very heavy on Flex. Adobe annouced today the availablity of CFMX 7.0.2 nad Flex 2 today. Flex Builder 2 is selling for $499, and they have a free version F...
Ben says ColdFusion is much faster
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1/17/2011I was not able to attend Ben Forta's keynote or CFUnited this year. Part of the keynote this morning was on the new features in ColdFusion 8, but they also went over performance gains in ColdFusion 8....
Beware of hosting providers without server admins
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1/17/2011I volunteer my time to maintain the website for my rowing club. I would list the domain for the site, but the site is down right now. I am in the process of trying to have the domain transfered. The h...
Beware of purchasing Flex Builder 3 from the Adobe Online Store
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1/17/2011I purchased the Flex Builder upgrade today from the Adobe Online Store. When I went to find the serial number for my download, I was presented by a 'Contact Customer Service'. So I contacted Adobe's C...
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Rich Client Apps and Google Gears
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1/17/2011I was watching some of the interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview yesterday from the D5 conference. Bill and Steve got a question if Mac OS X and Windows applications are dinosaurs compare...
BlackBerry for XMas!
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1/17/2011I was lucky enough to get a BlackBerry for XMas this year. It is a 7100, and is part of a plan with Cingular. I have had a Nokia 3650 for the last three years. My first complaint is the BB did not com...
Blog Comments fixed
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1/17/2011Good news. I fixed the SES problem with my comments. I have sacked my QA department. Please do not feel bad for them. They now work as Windows Vista QA testers....
BlogCFC v5 just released
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1/17/2011Ray Camden just released version 5 of his \BlogCFC\ blog software. Ray had some new contributors this time around, and one of them is a co-worker of mine, Charlie Griefer. I just wanted say thank you ...
Blogging from 34000 Feet
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1/17/2011I have never been on a flight with WiFi before. I am currently at 34000 feet over Kansas flying at 457 miles per hour. I think I paid around $10 for the access. I have heard that this was coming, but ...
BlueDragon 7.0 beta1 released
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1/17/2011The folks over at New Atlanta hae released a beta of the next version of their Blue Dragon server. You can download it by going to the \page\. Blue Dragon is a CFML server that works in Java and .NET....
BlueDragon.NET
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1/17/2011I have recently started evaluating BlueDragon.NET from \New Atlanta\. I heard that MySpaces will be switching to BlueDragon.NET soon, and I was curious to see if I can leverage .NET and ADO.NET with m...
Book Review: iWoz
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1/17/2011I just finished reading iWoz, Steve "Woz" Wozniak's autobiography. The book was co-written by Gina Smith, but is written in the first person. I have been a fan of a lot of the work that Steve and Appl...
Boot Camp and VMWare both available for Intel Macs
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1/17/2011When Apple first announced the MacBook Pro earlier this year, I thought about ordering one then, but decided against buying one for several reasons. One is that I just bought a PowerMac last year befo...
Branch target offset too large for short?
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1/17/2011I saw this error in the CF\_talk list yesterday. I have had this error in ColdFusion before. As far as I can tell this happens when there is a lot of repetitive code in your CFCs. I was using a meta c...
Brian Knight Shows Off New Tool for Migrating DTS packages to SSIS
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1/17/2011I read on \Brian Knight's blog\ about a new tool that converts DTS packages to SSIS packages on SQL Server 2005\\. Brian says that the built in migration wizard that comes with SQL Server 2005 is only...
Bruce Chizen likes the developer community
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1/17/2011I was reading Jen deHaan's \blog\ about the second day keynote. I was happy to read about Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen's comments. Adobe wants to leverage the Macromedia relationship with developers, and e...
Bulk transformations in SQL Server
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1/17/2011One of the mistakes I have seen developers make is not using bulk transaformations in SQL. It does not matter if you use MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or MySQL, all of the RDBMS's provide developers a wa...
Bye Bye Bruce Chizen, Long Live Bruce!
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1/17/2011I just read on Ryan Stewarts blog that Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen is stepping down as CEO. I always liked the cut of Bruce's jib. I think his tenure will be most remembered for the merger between Adobe ...
Carlos Costa and The Shoot Down
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1/17/2011I went to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from 1988 to 1992\\. While there I had the opportunity to meet Carlos Costa. Carlos was in the same program I was in which is the Aeronautical Science pr...
Cast Iron Application router
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1/17/2011Next week I start training on the Cast Iron Application Router. This is a hardware device designed for streamlining enterprise application integrations. It can connect to applications through a range ...