If you’ve recently created an account on the forums you’ll have found that you can’t login once you’ve registered - not much use huh? Well i’ve just tracked the problem down and fixed it (at last!) so you should be able to login now and post with no problems.
Hey, this is pretty cool but boy it’s a pain without a proper keyboard!
sorry to all those folks who have been asking about my LearnFB series of articles, these along with the zip files have now all been restored. Thanks for your interest!
Microsoft have at last released Beta 1 of the long awaited IE7 to MSDN subscribers. Naturally I was keen to see whats gone on in the product. First obvious sign is that you could be mistaken that you were in Firefox and not Internet Explorer - welcome tab browsing to IE (activated with same key press as Firefox, CTRL + T), the top right corner has the familiar search box as per Firefox. Hitting a site with an RSS feed a button lights up in the menu bar showing the available feeds - no livemarks like in Firefox though. Clicking on a feed no longer shows the raw XML rather an XSLT’ed prettified version of it (if it’s well formatted!). As for CSS changes, there’s nothing obvious - it still fails the Acid 2 test. All our sites look just the same as they did in IE6, perhaps we’re missing something here - but it is only Beta 1 after all but you’d kinda expect CSS to appear being as it’s quite major to us web folk. Alpha transparency has made it into this release though - at least that’s one thing!
if you’re reading this then it must have worked. I’ve just changed my blog to run Ray’s BlogCFC. I was running a bastardized Fusebox version of it but everytime Ray did something cool I needed to rewrite tons of stuff and to be honest I haven’t got the time to be doing all that.
In the process I’ve followed the trend and moved over to the new URL, http://john.beynon.org.uk - I’ve got rewriterules in place to map the old URLs over to the new URLs and am maintaining a few of the old URLs for RSS feeds to the new site.
I’ve put a number of rewrite rules in place here too, for instance appending /2005/05 would filter my blog for entries in June 2005, this works for days too, eg /2005/07/27 would show this entry. Hopefully the changes won’t force aggreators to request my feeds, apologies if they do but I’ll be able to keep up with BlogCFC releases with much more ease now.
and how cool is it? I can’t believe I’ve been missing out on such a great new medium of mass communcation. I don’t own an iPod but I do have Egress installed on my PocketPC which I found is podcast friendly. I then discovered the Daily Source Code pod show and boy what a great production. Anyone got any other pod casts to check out?
Rather than going via the CF administrator to load CFMX7 updaters onto a server you can just drop the .jar file in the lib/updates under your CF installation and restart CFMX - makes it much easier to manage installs across multiple servers/instances and it’s scriptable too 
Those of you that have played with Windows 2003 load balancing will already know it’s pretty good at doing what it says on the tin ‘Load Balancing’. It’s super simple to setup two boxes in a web farm and then load balance port(s) between the two nodes for no additional cost other than server hardware and OS. Having just graduated to dealing with large(ish) scale ColdFusion Enterprise environments there’s a couple of gotcha’s I’ve stumbled across and thought I’d share them with you. These ideas also apply to single server installs of CF too minus the load balancing stuff of course.
But London just got awarded the 2012 Olympic Games!!! Wooohoo!
A few months ago i found myself in a position where I needed to justify purchasing CFMX Enterprise, now I find myself in a similar position with Flex.
A few weeks ago i downloaded Flex and today I received the courtesey followup call from presales. I told the guy that hell yeah, I’m interested in buying Flex and using it but it’s nearly impossible to justify.
Is there anyone out there that has quotes done for the same project done in vanilla Flash the same project done in Flex? I suggested to the guy that it should be a case study on the Macromedia site - someone out there must have done it?
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