Ryan Block says HD DVD is on a Death Watch
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1/17/2011 I was reading on \Engadget\ that they believe HD DVD is on a Death Watch. It seems to me that HD DVD has been on a Death Watch since Warner Bros dropped all support at the beginning of the year. In th...
Safari coming to Windows
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1/17/2011 Steve Jobs at WWDC 2007 has just announced that Apple is releasing a version of Safari for Windows....
SAP ABAP will not generate Proxy to ColdFusion SOAP Web Service
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1/17/2011 We have a partner who is using SAP and ABAP to consume web services. We are trying to provide a ColdFusion Web Service that they can call with ABAP. They get the following error when they try to gener...
Scorpio Demo today at the JaxFusion User Group
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1/17/2011 Adam Lehman from Adobe will be giving a presentation today at the \JaxFusion User Group\. The \presentation\ will cover the next version of ColdFusion. The meeting will be held at Vurv in Jacksonville...
Scott Guthrie shows off IronRuby
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1/17/2011 I \read\ on Scott Guthrie's blog today about how Microsoft will be showing off a version of IronRuby at the next Mix. There is already a version of Python that runs on .NET through their DLR implement...
Sean Corfield comments on ColdFusion as an OO language
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1/17/2011 Sean Corfield has a great post at his \blog\ in responce to my post about ColdFusion as a true OO language. Yesterday I tried to avoid the arguments for or against ColdFusion as a Object Oriented lang...
Sean Corfield presentation on CFC Factories
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1/17/2011 Sean gave the first presentation I went too on creating factories for CFC based objects. As always, Sean is a great presenter and covered the topic well. He ended the presentation with a discussion of...
Sean Corfield presents Duck-Typing at CFUNITED
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1/17/2011 I watched Sean Corfield's presentation on duck-typing this morning, and he brought up very valid points on why we should not type parameters and returntypes. The bigest advantage that I saw was perfor...
Serialize name value pairs into XML in SQL Server
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1/17/2011 I wrote a gateway service that allowed an Oracle database server to talk to a SQL Server database server about two years ago in ColdFusion MX 6.1\\. Back then I was able to use a centralized auditing ...
Sharepoint 2007 Custom Workflow Initiation form Gotcha
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1/17/2011 I recently came across a nasty bug in Sharepoint 2007\\. When a custom workflow uses an intiation form to collect data for the start of a workflow, it will only collect this form when the workflow is ...
Sharepoint Workflow and the System.ArgumentNullException when referenceing the WorkflowProperties
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1/17/2011 I have been building Sharepoint Custom workflows this year and came across a nasty problem when I tried to reference the workflowProperties field in the onWorkflowActivated activity. I kept on getting...
Small Datetime gothca in SQL Server 2000
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1/17/2011 I have been working on a lot of data coversions lately. One of the problems I run into is parsing dates from one RDBMS to SQL Server. 2000 has several different date formats. The one I have been runni...
Quote Service not working on BlueDragon.NET
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1/17/2011 I have a SOAP based web service that I wrote when ColdFusion MX 6 first came out, and it does not work in BlueDragon.NET. The web service is called a quote from Mr. Spock. (Yes, I am a GEEK.) It has a...
Sony installing RootKit on PCs with some of their music CDs
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1/17/2011 I heard this weekend that Sony hired a company to develop a rootKit to be installed on the computer of the person listening to its CDs. If you are not familiar with rootKits, they alter the default fu...
Blue Ray vs. HDDVD: Why Sony will lose
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1/17/2011 This definitely will follow my own personal opinion on technology. If you have been living on another planet for the last year, you might have heard that there is a format war ala VHS vs. Betamax. The...
SouthWest Signal Needs ColdFusion Developer
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1/17/2011 SouthWest Signal has been trying to place a ColdFusion developer at their offices in Jacksonville, Fl. Here is the job description; Southwest Signal Engineering is expanding and we are looking for aCo...
Speculation About The Death of JRun
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1/17/2011 I have seen two blog postings by \Matt Woodward\ and \Dave Carabetta\ about the ending of the JRun 4.5 Beta (Cheeta). Let me speculate about what Adobe might be doing about JRun. Currently the standal...
Spry 1.1 adds DataSet explorer tool
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1/17/2011 Adobe released a new prerelease of the Spry Ajax framework today. One of the things included in this release is a DataSet Explorer. Spry uses the xpath to flatten XML into JSON array structures that a...
Spry meets YouTube
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1/17/2011 I was speaking to one of my user group members, Luis Casillas, about Spry at our last meeting. I told him I had been thinking about writing a Spry example that searches YouTube tags, displays results,...
SQL on Rails?
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1/17/2011 A buddy sent me a link to this web site for \SQL on Rails\. I found this hysterical. Watch the \screencast\. If you have ever watched a Ruby on Rails screencast, you will get the joke....