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I have been doing some code review lately and am seeing quite a few cases that look something like this: You have a structure with some information in it and you are looping over the structure and adding the data from the structure into the database. No bid deal right? Well yo

Peter gave an extremely well-received presentation at cf.Objective() covering what's new in Mach-II 1.6 and even a bit about what we have in mind for version 2.0, and if you've been curious, be sure to download his presentation! We'll have an officia...

Oh snap. Someone built a giant work NES controller that doubles as a coffee table. Pretty sweet: Here's video of the coffee table in action while they play Super Mario Bros.

So it’s amazing how much dust gets kicked up after we ship a product. As soon as Flex Builder 3 went out the door, we immediately started working on Flex 4…new states syntax, improved components…a small project called Thermo:). And somewhere in there, we started scheming about wha

Yesterday MySpace, Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp), and Twitter announced the Data Availability Initiative. While I could write at length about how this shows the big companies have already realized how to diminish the DataPortability group's brand by linking anything they do "da

A lightbulb in a firehouse in California has been burning more or less continuously since 1901. You can check on the light's status on its WWW home page. (thx, john) (link)

This code returns the position of a given element in a given container, relative to other elements of its type. Very useful for finding position indexes of list items, pictures, form items, and more.

Don’t you agree with me? I think WP is moving towards that direction now. In the very near future, I am positive that it will become full fledged CMS (content management system) instead of being just a blogging platform. With its open source and open platform nature, it will be so much easier

Fresh TechnologiesWelcome to the May edition, the spring has started so it is time for some fresh new content. This edition focuses on building applications with jQuery, AJAX and other JavaScript technologies. As a bonus we include an ASP.NET project and a Photoshop article that teaches you all abou

For the uninitiated, PicLens is a full screen visual browser of photos and videos. It's available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. It is a very fast, very slick, frankly awesome way to view visual assets on your computer. I'm not one to play fan boy of any technology, but Piclens is just t

Liz posted the latest version of her Flash Lite application World Time. Alessandro

Now that Model-Glue 3 has been announced and available for folks to play with, it's time to start working up some demos so folks can see stuff in action. Joe has included a few demos in the zip, but if I don't play with it myself, I don't learn. Before I go any further, and yes, I will be repeatin

A previous post detailed the simple algorithm for the underpainting technique I have been messing around with in order to attempt an “impressionistic” style. I have spent a little more time working with it and in addition to the broad brush strokes that lay the base color, I have made pr

When debugging, some of you may have noticed that looking at a managed callstack looks a little different then a native one.  One of the big differences is that you don't see the parameters that are passed to the function.  So what can we do Read More......( read more ) Read More......

El martes en la mañana Scott Guthrie anunció que este libro estaba a sólo $16 ; cuando normalmente cuesta $54.99. Hoy (Viernes 9 de Mayo) este libro está a $27.49, y aunque yo lo compré hace ya más de un mes cuando estaba a $35, igual vale la pena hacer...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Kay Smoljak is running a series of interviews with framework developers and has a summary article on SitePoint that includes a survey of people's framework usage. It's going to be a great series of articles and makes interesting reading (FarCry and COOP have been covered so far with Fusebox, Mach-II

tight: http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

I gave this presentation at CF.Objective last week and promised I would post it. Sorry it's taken me so long!!! I was on the road talking with customers, and had a very tight schedule. Here is the "Developing ColdFusion Java Hybrid Applications" Presentation, example code, JXL CFC (I need to get

Yesterday, I discussed that as I am learning more and more about Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in ColdFusion, one of the biggest mental hurdles seems to be data validation. Well, data validation and the translation of data errors into user-friendly error messages. I talked about how the transla

Via The Inquisitr I came to Domize an ajax based search engine for domains. “Domize is a secure, instant domain name search tool. As you type a domain name into the query box we immediately check its availability.” It comes with an iPhone version and the live search is very fast. When yo

Thought this was a pretty nice graphic from CSO Magazine (of all places) showing different botnets and how they map to the IPs and domains that serve as command and control: http://www.csoonline.com/article/348317/What_a_Botnet_Looks_Like