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Web Spiders Looks After The Digital Needs Of Multiple Clients
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:02
Over the last fortnight, developers, system analysts, and programmers at Web Spiders were busy working on two different projects at the same time. First, we had to mobilize an eCommerce website for a reputed party products retailer in the United Kingdom. The client was B-Loony Ltd. and their eCommerce site “Perfect Party UK” was created by [...]
Microsoft Kinect and Adobe AIR
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:02
This past weekend I had the pleasure of working with the Michigan Historical Museum for their celebration of Michigan’s 175th Birthday. I was asked to do a display involving the Microsoft Kinect, to showcase some of the possibilities of the technology. I introduced the patrons to demos of my Kinect Space Invaders game in addition to [...]
Free Roughen and Zig Zag Custom Shapes for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:02
Two sets with Roughen (16 shapes) and Zig Zag (14 shapes) free for personal and commercial use. Lines and basics shapes: rectangle, circle and star included in sets, if you need any other specific shape just let me know or leave comment. Downloads from links below without any requirements like pay with tweet or join to download. Roughen Custom Shapes Zig Zag Custom Shapes If you have any problem to install shapes contact me or watch video How to install Photoshop patterns on Windows, follow instructions and place Roughen.csh or Zig Zag.csh file in Custom Shapes folder. Roughen shapes preview
Open Source Conference For CFML Developers
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:02
Just in case you didn't know...there's a pretty cool conference coming up called OpenCF Summit. It's a conference where you can listen to, meet, speak with, and even yell at many of the lead geeks and engineers working feverishly on a slew of free and open source software from the CFML world (that's ColdFusion Markup Language for you non-CFML-knowing peeps). The conference runs February 24-26, 2012 in Dallas, Texas. Considering the conference costs only $72, it's quite the steal! Plus, did I mention there's a ton of free and open source software? So get on over to http://opencfsummit.org to learn
Skype Blocking Web Services with IIS, ColdFusion & Railo
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:02
I recently installed Railo and when I tried to set it to port 80 it failed and after asking around I found that Skype had a hold on that port, closing Skype and all was fine.I recently installed a local version of ColdFusion. Setup a new website to run https on port 443 and got this message when IIS tried to start the website.the proces cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)I immediately thought of Skype again, I closed Skype and started the website fine after that, seems Skype had a hold on
HTML5 Sound Visualization
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:02
Recently BLITZ was asked about modifying an audio driven flash site we completed a few years ago. In that time, technology on the internet driving rich consumer experiences has shifted from a plugin based platform dominated by Adobe Flash to a reliance on the native capabilities of the browser. This is significant, as [...]
Your Say: How tidy is your desk?
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:02
We want to hear from you. Each week we give you a chance to share your thoughts, opinions and ideas. Have your say! How tidy is your desk? Does it stay that way? Are you more productive when it’s clean or messy?
Hoping for a Web App Future
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:02
If I think back to 2006/2007 I was very happy with how things were shaking out. The web was on the upswing and we were moving away from native applications. All of the great things about the web, it’s ubiquity, … Continue reading →
Railo, ORM and MySQL 5.5.x gotcha
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:02
I was testing the ORM stuff in the latest version of Railo (3.3.1.000 final) and after setting up the ORM settings in Application.cfc, when I tried to run the code, I could not get Railo to create the database tables, even with dbcreate=”dropcreate”. Here is my code, that was not working :- The above code [...]
CF101 Archive: October 2006 Five Cool Things with ColdFusion
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:02
Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them. This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site. This is one of my favorite