If you are currently restructuring your website to become more “search engine friendly” here is a nice piece of code using ColdFusion, that will also let Google and other search engines know that you have moved your content to a new location and to update their links.
Instead of having 404 errors or broken links to […]

It’s probably quite a well documented subject already, but just thought I would shed some light on producing dynamic CSS using ColdFusion. Instead of linking to a static stylesheet in your webiste, you can link to a .cfm template and get ColdFusion to produce the CSS code for you, allowing you to switch graphics, colours, […]

Wifime has been launched today in the UK, offering low cost wireless mesh networking solutions, for the hospitality and catering industry.
Offering an “all in one” easy to setup and install solution, Wifime will allow every hospitality business, the opportunity to offer their guests and customers a wireless internet connection, without the worry of network maintenance […]

This is a really nice demonstration / working app from Adobe. The application is built using Adobe Flex 2 and runs in Adobe AIR. The application has been built to showcase Flex 2’s visual components and the interactivity a Flex application can provide.
The application allows small groups to share digital content, exchange ideas, centralise information and […]

The Adobe AIR cross platform runtime is now available for Linux and is available for download from Adobe Labs. This is quite a significant step towards the Adobe AIR runtime working across all three major platforms (Windows, MAC and Linux) and will strengthen the case for the building or rich desktop based apps within Adobe AIR […]

I ran into an annoying problem today, that was eventually solved by forcing the current processing thread to sleep.
The basic task was to stop a windows service on the server, perform some deletions, do some copying, then restart the service.
After issuing the <cfexecute> command to stop the service on the server, I would then receive […]

Anybody who is seriously looking at developing Adobe AIR applications should attend this. The Adobe OnAir tour comes to London on 9th April 2008.
The agenda for the London event is online and will be held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SD.
They also have some really nice Adobe OnAir Desktop Wallpapers available for download.
The event is […]

Inkscape is a nice little open source tool for creating SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).  Nice little application to have in your toolbox if you can’t afford the expensive Adobe options.
The site is at http://www.inkscape.org.

Found a nice simple RSS reader example at Jonathan Fisher’s blog (northcubed). It is built using Flex Builder 3 and runs in the Adobe AIR runtime on the user’s desktop. Chromeless windows are supported and full source code is available to view or download.

This can be a handy piece of code to have in your toolbox if you have a ColdFuson host that will not allow you to create DSN’s. Using this method, you can wrap this in a nice CFC that allows you to query a Microsoft SQL database. The object code example is as follows …

<cfscript>
classLoad = […]