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CFHTTP Trouble: Connecting to Web Services that Use GZip Compression

Dec 30

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Rob Gonda posted this today, which I had also experienced while attempting to connect to the Yahoo! Maps API.

The solution in my case was to add charset=”utf-8″ to the cfhttp call.

The Faith-Based Encyclopedia Blinks

Dec 14

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Here is an interesting take on Wikipedia.

Where is ColdFusion Headed Under Adobe?

Dec 12

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From the ColdFusion Developer Journal:

“Adobe has been very successful in selling into the enterprise. This can only help ColdFusion going forward,” says Dave Mendels, SVP of Adobe’s new Enterprise & Developer Solutions business unit (pictured), in this exclusive interview with ColdFusion Developer’s Journal. ‘Scorpio’ is still on course, Mendels confirms, and the ColdFusion product development team is already hard at work devising the best way to harness synergies between CF and Adobe’s LiveCycle products.

Read this CFDJ article…

So What’s Ajax All About?

Dec 12

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Here is a list of resources about Ajax compiled in the last few months:

• Introduction to Ajax: Understanding Ajax, a productive approach to building Web sites, and how it works – IBM.com
• Adaptive Path Article: Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
• Prototype Library
• Rico – JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications
• DWR – Direct Web Remoting
• CFAjax – An implementation of DWR for ColdFusion MX
• Wiki
• Developer.com Article: Measuring the Benefits of AJAX
• AjaxInfo.com – Resource for Developers
• Sajax – Simple Ajax Toolkit, very early adoption
• Book: "Ajax in Action" – Manning Publications
• Business Week Article: Ajax: How To Weave A Faster Web
• Ajaxian
• From DHTMLto DOM Scripting – Chris Heilmann

Why The Web Is Like A Rain Forest

Oct 26

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Here is an interesting description of Web 2.0 by Stephen Berlin Johnson.

Macromedia MAX 2005 Opening Day

Oct 17

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Over 3,000 developers attended the first day of Macromedia MAX 2005 which opened today at the Anaheim Convention Center. It was a good day despite the rain that seems to have followed those of us from the North East.

I personally began the day with a hands-on session on the new ColdFusion Application Framework, presented by Simon Horwith.

The general session was a hit, Macromedia’s CEO and the Chief Software Architect introduced a couple of hot new technologies aimed at improving the current, and recently released, Flash family of products, Flash 8.5 and the improved ActionScript version 3. The new Eclipse-based Flex 2 IDE is now available for download at the Macromedia Labs.

It is also nice to know that even though CFMX 7 was released early this year, the CF product team is already working on the next version of the application server. They were actively collecting input, ideas and wishes from attendees representing some well known fortune 500 companies.

Towards the end of the day I attended a workshop on best practices for data visualization. Most of the solutions were Flash based, although Flex and Web 2.0 were also discussed. The focus was primarily on design and ease of use providing users with rich and intuitive controls to slice and dice massive data sets, perfect for financial applications.