I almost missed the news of this but yesterday, Microsoft announced the pricing for Windows Anytime Upgrade and the Windows 7 Family Pack. Family pack bundling is something that Windows has needed for a while now and I'm kinda glad that the pricing seems pretty good.
16 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 9:49 PM - Categories: Tech News | Microsoft
In a world of internet censorship, it's hard to know exactly what your audience is going to see. Certain governments (or ISPs) may block your site or change how your site is displayed to the user. There isn't much that you can do to stop a nation like China or Iran from blocking your website but it would be nice to know that your website is blocked. One way to know someone in every totalitarian nation but if you don't, there is a good option. Just Ping has 37 servers around the world that you can use to ping a server of your choice. It's not as inclusive as it could be but it seems to do a good job.
12 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 9:50 PM - Categories: Development
Can afford to go to cfunited? Railo, the maker of a great (open source) CFML server, is giving away a ticket to cfunited. The competition runs from July 15th through July 21st and in order to enter, you need to tweet something cool and/or funny and use the tag #cfunited-railo.
4 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 11:36 AM - Categories: Railo
Yay! A day after the 14th birthday of ColdFusion, Adobe's released the public beta of ColdFusion 9 (previously called Centaur) and ColdFusion Builder (their new ColdFusion IDE). I'll try to elaborate on things in a later post but for now, here's the links you're looking for:
Download ColdFusion 9 beta
Download ColdFusion Builder beta
ColdFusion 9 CFML Reference
Forta's Introducing Adobe ColdFusion 9 Article
7 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 12:12 AM - Categories: ColdFusion
These days, it's harder and harder to find a job and some people are starting to look towards additional degrees to increase their marketability. An additional degree can be a good thing but if you don't want to take such a large step, you always have the option of learning new skills on your own.
11 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 3:00 PM - Categories: Flex
It looks like Adobe has a HotFix ready for the FCKeditor issue that emerged a couple of days ago. I'd recommend that anyone out there, that's running a CF8 server, take a look at it right away.
2 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 3:09 PM - Categories: ColdFusion
Well, despite the fact that last August, Google insisted that they "don't have any plans to build an operating system", google announced last night that they are coming out with a operating system "designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems." I'm not sure how useful it would really be since it sounds like everything will run through the browser. I'm also a little confused about google's plan to essentially have Google Chrome OS compete directly with Google Android in the netbook market but I guess, sometimes only google understands google's plans.
3 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 7:10 AM - Categories: Tech News