Ever wonder if your website is blocked by a certain government?

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't afford cfunited? Win a free cfunited ticket from railo!

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.

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4 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 11:36 AM - Categories: Railo

Adobe releases public beta of CF 9 and CF Builder

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

Unemployed? Why not learn Flex?

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11 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 3:00 PM - Categories: Flex

Adobe releases HitFix for CF8 FCKeditor vulnerability

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.

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2 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 3:09 PM - Categories: ColdFusion

Google Chrome Operating System Announced

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.

Link to Google Blog

3 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 7:10 AM - Categories: Tech News

Drag and drop labels in added to gmail

I just logged into my gmail and found that they added the ability to drag and drop labels onto message threads.  It seems like a positive, useful evolution of the interface.

Itching for more info about it?  CNET has an article about it.

2 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 12:13 AM - Categories: Tech News