Archive for April, 2007
Pagerank of ColdFusion sites
One Firefox extension I’ve always had installed is the SearchStatus extension (I wouldn’t recommend running it at work though, as the Alexa stats can be skewed by a single developer hitting a page repeatedly). I’ve had a few sites throughout the years, none too popular, but to my surprise today I noticed the pagerank on [...]
Installing Windows Vista on a Raid 0
When I first installed Vista back in February I had my share of problems trying to get it working. I had recently upgraded to a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard and the nForce Raid drivers weren’t cooperating during my very hastily done install. At the time [...]
Coldbox 2.0 Final Released
If you’re interested in checking out ColdBox, Luis released version 2.0 earlier today. For a framework that doesn’t get too much press it’s amazingly mature, with more documentation than any other I’ve come across (aside from those techspedition Fusebox books that have outdated practices). The sample applications that come with the framework offer even more [...]
Setting Up Smith, the latest free ColdFusion Server
If you’re like me, you hear about a lot of new CFM servers but never go beyond reading the reviews. I admit it, I’ve never installed Bluedragon, Railo, Coral or (until recently) Smith Project. A recent post on CFDan.com plus a mention of Smith Project on Helms and Peters Out Loud had me [...]
Adobe to Open Source Flex
As mentioned on Daniel’s View, Adobe is set to immediately open source much of the Flex sdk under the Mozilla Public License. Read more about it in Adobe’s press release. With Adobe’s initiative to help Mozilla by open sourcing Tamarin, the Javascript compiler, and now Flex out in the free world what will come next?
ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio) is Coming
It seems this is the first week ColdFusion 8 is hitting headlines everywhere — and it’s still in a closed beta! I’m sure it won’t be long until there’s a public beta, but until then there are a slew of released features from official usergroup presentations and Ben Forta’s blog. Here’s a quick highlight [...]
Book 5: Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source
Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source
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Book Review for one of the few Flex books available
If you’re looking to learn Flex, you more than likely will come across this book at some point in time. With Flex 2 not even a year old, only a few books have had a chance to come out on [...]
Problems with OpenID?
FactoryJoe.com has a great article about Problems with OpenID on Highrise that outlines some of the major issues with how OpenID can be implemented. There are quite a few straightforward issues, such as assuming the person registering owns the provided OpenID URL even without authenticating it, or not giving user friendly feedback that can save [...]
Cleaning Up the Interface
Spurred by my coworkers recent entry, or reentry, to the blogosphere I decided to do a little updating of my own. For a while now I’ve been wanting a cleaner, easier to extend interface that was more targetted for reading, rather than navigation all around in ways that will generate the most ad revenue. This [...]
myOpenID release & redesign
JanRain has updated the popular OpenID portal myOpenID.com with a new look and features including anti-phishing and transport layer security providing for the ability to authenticate quickly and very securely from your machine without the use of a password. The redesign of the site has been on-going and this is phase 1 of the re-work [...]
