Archives - June 2009
LoI - Jun. 25, 2009
Lee Brimelow explains his latest dead drop. http://theflashblog.com/?p=1095 10 Skills developers will need in the next five years - Justin James put together a list of the 10 things developers will need to know in the next five years to stay employed. Do you agree or disagree with his list? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=643 Adobe Platform evangelist Ben Forta has been posting to his blog about the new features coming up in CF9, codenamed Centaur. Working With Spreadsheets In ColdFusion http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/18/Working-With-Spreadsheets-In-ColdFusion Marcos Placona put together a "CF A Day" service that randomly displays a CF tag or function and gives a brief description of it. It also has links to the Adobe documentation. This could be useful for discovering some of those hidden gems in CF that you may not be familiar with. tBlurb.com - a new online service that lets you share snippets of code. From the site:
ColdFusion Functionality Exposed As Services http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/19/ColdFusion-Functionality-Exposed-As-Services
Look, No Datasource http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/20/Look-No-Datasource
The New ColdFusion LOCAL Scope http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/21/The-New-ColdFusion-LOCAL-Scope
Executing Code on Server Startup http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/22/Executing-Code-On-Server-Startup
More on ColdFusion and Spreadsheets http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/22/More-On-ColdFusion-And-Spreadsheets
Fun Shtuff
Top floor, please - speculation on how a space elevator might be put into place
http://www.spaceward.org/elevator
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LoI - Jun. 11, 2009
Google Wave - Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Be sure to watch the demo video (it is long though.) Mach-II API documentation - link to the online Mach-II API documentation. http://www.mach-ii.com/cfcdocs/1-5-0/index_frames.html ColdFusion Performance Tuning - A good article discussing many techniques for improving CF8 applications, including tuning the JVM, the ColdFusion Admin, and CFML code. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/coldfusion_performance.html What's new in Mach-II 1.6 - 1.8? Kurt Wiersma, one of the Mach-II team developers made a remote presentation to the Dallas/Ft. Worth CFUG covering the new features in Mach-II versions 1.6 and 1.8. It was recorded and placed online. It too is long but worth watching if you are interested in what is happening in the Mach-II world. http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p28814534/ Fun Shtuff The Trouble With Twitter http://think-lab.net/blog/post.cfm/twouble-with-twitters-supernews
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LoI - Jun. 04, 2009
Google: Web and browsers will lead app development - an article on how Google execs think that the web and browsers will drive the next major round of apps being developed. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/28/google.browser/index.html?eref=rss_tech 10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn't Commit http://line25.com/articles/10-html-tag-crimes-you-really-shouldnt-commit Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected - this article takes a look at the new search engine put together by Microsoft. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10251432-2.html Fun Shtuff Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Version - this is a must-see! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA Fluid sims in Blender - some very cool animated fluid simulations done with the Blender FOSS program. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/03/fluid_sims_in_blender.html
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