Ever since I have converted over to using Gmail's online interface, I have also been using Google Calendar ever so frequently. The workflow Google invented for these products is very efficient and I enjoy using both of them. While Google Calendar is great in that I can view and edit it anywhere, it's not so great, when I am not somewhere there is an Internet connection for my computer, or for my iPod Touch. One way I attempted a while back in keeping the these calendars in sync, was to use the ...

Tonight I released a major new update to RIAForge. The change allows project owners to specify other RIAForge users as admins. Right now these admins can't do much. They can only edit project details (the text attributes). But the idea was for me to add the basic low level support, have folks give it a try, and then I'll gradually extend other capabilities to these admins as well. So for example, you can have someone help with managing project issues. Oh, and speaking of project issues - I app...

A picture is worth a thousand words... This is from NOAA's hurricane strength prediction chart for Gustav. I've got a feeling it will continue to pull to the right. I was pretty impressed by the data services at NOAA, especially the use of RSS feeds. I just wish there was a feed/API to get the long/lat of Gustav currently. In theory you could look for: THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM GUSTAV WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 19.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE 74.4 WEST OR 90 MILES...150 KM...SOUTHEAST OF GUANTANA...

I was chatting with Russ McRee this week about the danger of sites that dump too much debugging/error information when an error occurs.  This isn't specific to ColdFusion.  Programmers or all languages do this all the time.  CF does give us a LOT of potential detail though and that can be dangerous.  Luckily with ColdFusion it is quite easy to remedy so I thought I would do a quick reminder post.  To myself as much to anyone else who may read. There are two ways I see th...

A while back, I created an AJAX file upload demo using jQuery and ColdFusion. The demo worked quite nicely, but people using FireFox 3 were telling me that FireFox never stopped loading. That is, the page would execute fine, but the window would signal (via the Status Bar and loading circle) that it never completed loading the page. Based on some feedback fro ... Read More »...

A few weeks after the Apple iPhone 3G came out, I upgraded my phone. I got the new Black 16 Gig model and installed all the updates that have been released for it. And, I only have one thing to say: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !       ... Read More »...

Acrobat 9 supports the embedding of Flash/Flex based SWF files within PDF documents. In addition to supporting SWF playback, this capability exposes functionality found only in Acrobat, as explained in this post by Acrobat Technical Evangelist Joel Gearci....

Just a few minutes and a RIAForge update. First off, ScopeCache was updated to support file based caching. That just means you can now cache to the file system and have it persist even more server restarts. The next change was to GoogleCal. A user submitted a nice update to the addEntry code to better support all day events. Tonight I took a look at RIAForge and wondered how hard it would be to add support for multiple admins in a project. I got it about 90% done. The system is rather simple. A...

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A TechNote posted last week explains how to stream images in ColdFusion, and provides simple sample code....

Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives. read more...

An AJAX quickie for you this morning. A user asked if it was possible to use a CFC to drive content to cftooltip. He had noticed that unlike other AJAX UI items, the cftooltip doesn't let you use a bind to point to a CFC/JavaScript/URL source. It only provides one argument - sourceForTooltip. This does not mean, however, that you can't use a CFC. Do no forget CFCs under web root can still be accessed via URL. Here is a very simple example: The content to be wrapped. The content to be wrappe...

Dave sent me an interesting bug this weekend. Turns out if you use an HTML grid, and if you use enctype="multipart/form-data" in your form (required for file upload forms), you get a bug when posting to the server. If you want to try this right now, skip to the end of this post and run the CFM there. (By the way, a huge thank you to David for sending me a question along with a script I could just save and run. That makes it a thousand times easier to help!) David's script simply has a grid and a...

In my prior post I introduced the basics of home automation via X10. X10 is not a new standard and specification, it has actually been around since the 1970s. And over that time is has not evolved much, if at all. X10 is incredibly popular, because of its simplicity and extensibility and low cost. But X10 also has some very real problems: X10 signals are not 100% reliable and can be affected by other other plugged-in devices. Erroneous and seemingly random signals are not uncommon, and are ha...

Google API Translation at work Over the weekend, I wrote a resuable script that converts snippets of English text to 20 other languages using the new Google translate Ajax API for our Teamwork Project Manager software. The script was hacked together quickly and isn't the best most structred code in the world but it works well - it cycles through any strings in the languages table that haven't been converted yet and one by one, converts them to a foreign language. Every time, the script has 2...

I recently found out about one ColdFusion based company that is considering sending up to 10 people to RIAdventure this year.  How fantastic is that!   For those of you that don't know, RIAdventure is a networking/social cruise for RIA interested people in February from Miami to Bahamas. So I decided to find out a bit more about the company and their interest and talked to Mark Phillips, Principal of Vertabase.   The company has been providing project management / time tracking si...

An article by ComputerWorld entitled, "Not all USB drives are created equal", gives you a good idea of the technology behind USB thumb drives, what to look for, and why you should care. Read more @ http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=323413....

The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . Currently, all of my FORM processing happens in the Controller layer. That is, my Controller is responsible for taking the user-submitted FORM data, stuffing it in ... Read More »...

More often than not, you're placing ColdFusion (or any server-side language) code within HTML to set pre-existing values of a form. You can cut down on tons of excess server-side code by setting those values using Javascript. Here are a few examples of how you can use jQuery with ColdFusion to set form values. [More]...

Isaac Dealey is the author of two frameworks: onTap and more recently, an ORM (object relational mapper) called DataFaucet (subject of a future framework interview). Here’s his answers to my 10 framework questions. See other framework interviews: Geoff Bowers on FarCry, John Farrar on COOP and Mark Mandel on Transfer ORM. 1. Hi Ike! Give us your [...]...

I'll keep this blog post short and sweet because the more I think about it the more I get close to the verge of exploding. Here's my situation: I had Visual Studio 2008 Professional installed. From scratch, clean install. Everything works great, all is good in the Microsoft world of .NET. Yay me! Now, I have a particular need to compile and run code that will only work on .NET 3.5 SP1 so I install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1... and it completely and totally prevents me from building any WP...

Yesterday I took my three kids to see the new Clone Wars movie. I knew it was coming to TV eventually, but I couldn't pass up the chance to see more Star Wars on the big screen. My boys are pretty big Star Wars fans themselves (gee, I wonder where they get that from) and my daughter, well, she loves her daddy so that was enough for her. The title of this blog entry is a bit of a joke. I am not one of those Star Wars fan who hate Lucas or thinks he is raping the franchise. I do think some parts ...

From AIR to ZK, this is an alphabetical round-up of the fast moving-world of application development tools and frameworks spawned ever since the appearance of Google Maps, the canonical early RIA. The list includes AIR, Appcelerator, ATF, Curl, Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP, Ext JS, Flex, Grails, GWT, JavaFX, Kabuki, Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 platform, Novulu, OpenLaszlo, Prototype, Rico, Ruby on Rails, Seam, Silverlight, ThinWire, TIBCO GI, ULC, WaveMaker, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Zend Framewo...

As many of you know, I am a bit of a home automation nut, and for close to a decade I've been wiring and rewiring parts of my home, while tinkering with all sorts of gadgets (some very useful, some admittedly less so). Part of the appeal is the fun factor. But there is a very practical aspect to this as well. For example, I have a large saltwater marine reef fish tank in my house (it sits in the wall between my office and the family room). A healthy reef tank needs reliable lighting, with diffe...

Gartner now says worldwide IT spending should be up 8% this year to $3.4 trillion. But if you factor out the vagaries in the US dollar the number is closer to 4.5%. Gartner figures software should be up 10% and service up 9.4%. It reckons that “Software-as-a-service/cloud computing, Service Oriented Architecture/Web 2.0 and open source software are causing huge changes to the software market. Many of these factors are impacting market growth as enterprises replace assets with per-use services.”r...

After a couple weeks of reloading the whole GMail app to check for new messages, I found a better way. It always seemed silly to have to do it, but there isn't a refresh button like on the desktop interface. Like so many things with Google products, all it takes is stepping back [...]...

Recently I've been asked about the benefits of cloud computing in comparison to that of virtualization. Generally my answer has been they are an ideal match. For the most part virtualization has been about doing more with less (consolidation). VMware in particular positioned their products and pricing in a way that encourages you to use the least amount of servers possible. The interesting thing about cloud computing is it's about doing more with more. Or if you're Intel, doing more with Moore.r...

David Young, Co-Founder & CEO of cloud-computing specialist Joyent, is the latest Cloud Computing pioneer to join the distinguished Speaking Faculty of SYS-CON's pathbreaking "Cloud Computing Expo" being held November 19-21, 2008 in San Jose, California. He will speak on "The Open Cloud: Building a Customer-Centric Cloud Computer" - a session in which Young willl explore the essential characteristics of building a cloud infrastructure that gives customers the freedom to change vendors while expl...

Via MossyBlog on Twitter… here’s an interesting site: Dear Adobe. You can submit your gripe or rate other people’s gripes. It’s pretty interesting – I spent a good 15 mins going through other people’s complaints. Hopefully Adobe will take notice – while they’ve been great with releasing early betas and asking for feedback via [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dear Adobe", url: "http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/dear-adobe/" });...

Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon are putting out the technology that the enterprise and SaaS providers need to move beyond testing the waters and take advantage of the Cloud today. The latest, and most important from the data storage perspective, is Amazon’s Elastic Block Store, or EBS. read more...

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Newlin Associates has been retained to conduct a search for qualified candidates for the role of Applications Developer. Founded in 1998 and located in Napa, our cleint is the leader in on-demand, transaction-driven business systems for artisan wineries, [more]...

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Seeking ColdFusion consultant with strong backend server experience to optimize/troubleshoot performance on an existing website. Requirements: - Strong CFMX 7 server experience (installation, testing, maintenance) - Experience with Apache Web Server [more]...

I am looking for several Junior to Mid-level ColdFusion developers. I am looking for people with experience developing SQL queries against Oracle/SQL Server RDBMS.  This is an opportunity to otain a secret clearance.  Contact me at wcurrence@techusa.net [more]...

I am looking for several junior to mid-level ColdFusion developers with experience developing SQL querues against Oracle/SQL Server RDBMS.  This position is near Baltimore, MD.  It is an opportunity to obtain a Secret Clearance.  Please contact Bill [more]...

Looking for contractor to participate in a new application development project that will utilize the Unified development Process (UP), ColdFusion/Flex 2, Java, and an Oracle database. The contractor must have heavy experience with modular programming usin......

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I am the web manager for a software company that currently hosts its own website, www.proginet.com.  We are trying to launch an online store and require a coder to construct the product and download pages based on designs already produced. We have a third [more]...

Vacations To Go is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Web Developer. We are a fast-growing internet travel agency serving customers worldwide. This full-time position is located in Houston, Texas. The developer will be part of a team [more]...

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Please note, this position is SUPER HOT!! All candidates must be submitted by 08/26!! Our Austin Client has a contract opportunity for an experienced Coldfusion developer. This contract has an expected duration of one month with possible ex......

Our client in Knoxville, TN, has an immediate contract to hire opening for a ColdFusion developer with a strong web background. This client offers competitive pay, career growth, great benefits, bonuses (8% to 30%), an employee focused culture and a great [more]...

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