//www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/rss/ n-smith Latest News and Blog Posts en-gb Sat, 02 May 2026 19:28:18 GMT Copyright: (c) n-smith 15 How can you utilise Twitter Bootstraps in built error classes with jQuery Validate to produce a good UI on error //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2014-03-07-twiiter-bootstrap-3-with-jquery-validate/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2014-03-07-twiiter-bootstrap-3-with-jquery-validate/ Fri, 07 March 2014 00:00:00 GMT If you are looking to return random rows or records using Microsoft SQL Server (TSQL), then this handy function will help you with just that. NEWID() //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2013-03-15-microsoft-sql-server-random-rows-records/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2013-03-15-microsoft-sql-server-random-rows-records/ Fri, 15 March 2013 00:00:00 GMT When using cfdocumentitem inside a cfdocument tag, I had problems accessing variables set outside in other scopes including session, application, local and specifically in FW/1 the rc scope. Well attributes scope to the rescue //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-11-30-cfdocumentitem-footer-and-variables-scoping/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-11-30-cfdocumentitem-footer-and-variables-scoping/ Fri, 30 November 2012 00:00:00 GMT A small problem when using LOCAL scoped variables in ColdFusion, that you then need to use in a Query of Query (QofQ). Query of Queries Syntax error encountered "LOCAL" //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-07-02-local-scope-conflict-on-query-of-query/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-07-02-local-scope-conflict-on-query-of-query/ Mon, 02 July 2012 00:00:00 GMT Sometimes scripting your database data can be a real headache for promotion to a live environment. This handy SQL stored procedure (proc) called sp_generate_inserts can help you generate your SQL insert statements. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-05-30-generate-sql-sp-generate-inserts/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-05-30-generate-sql-sp-generate-inserts/ Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT When managing or developing software, there will become a time that the product goes live online. After that time how do you manage your product and software release management for SQL and ColdFusion? //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-05-29-release-management-microsoft-sql-and-coldfusion/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-05-29-release-management-microsoft-sql-and-coldfusion/ Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT I just recently required a snippet of code to capitalize (uppercase) the first letter of each word in a string, using ColdFusion, before returning back to the screen for output. Regex (Regular Expresssion) to the rescue. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-04-17-capitalize-start-of-each-word-using-coldfusion/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-04-17-capitalize-start-of-each-word-using-coldfusion/ Tue, 17 April 2012 00:00:00 GMT I am currently running an Open BlueDragon (OpenBD) install on my local development mnachine, that is bundled with Tomcat 6.0. This little tip should help anyone looking to run SES URLs (e.g. /index.cfm/*). //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-04-05-tomcat-open-bluedragon-ses-urls/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-04-05-tomcat-open-bluedragon-ses-urls/ Thu, 05 April 2012 00:00:00 GMT I've been meaning to get round to having the ability to issue Trackbacks and Pings using my custom built CMS, but also provide my site with the ability to receive Trackbacks and display them for genuine comments and credits. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-04-03-issue-trackbacks-using-coldfusion/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-04-03-issue-trackbacks-using-coldfusion/ Tue, 03 April 2012 00:00:00 GMT I love Wordpress. It's a great tool for quickly building websites, blogs and some great looking sites .... BUT it seems to make website design and development TOO EASY and leads to the birth of "overnight" web designers and web developers. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-03-30-wordpress-websites/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2012-03-30-wordpress-websites/ Fri, 30 March 2012 00:00:00 GMT ColdFusion 10 is the new application development server due for release this year by Adobe. What's new in the server offering and is it worth a upgrading? //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-10-01-adobe-coldfusion-10/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-10-01-adobe-coldfusion-10/ Sat, 01 October 2011 00:00:00 GMT If you are running a Microsoft SQL 2005 Express edition database and want to automate a daily backup of your database data, then this handy script can help you automate this task and protect your data files. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-06-21-automating-database-backup-for-microsoft-sql-2005-express/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-06-21-automating-database-backup-for-microsoft-sql-2005-express/ Tue, 21 June 2011 00:00:00 GMT The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web page. Benefits of the Google Font API include: A choice of high quality open source fonts. Works in most browsers. Extremely easy to use. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-03-16-google-web-fonts-api/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-03-16-google-web-fonts-api/ Wed, 16 March 2011 00:00:00 GMT I have battled with a problem today using jQuery uploadify on a project I am currently working on. For some reason my string parameter was being stripped of the '+' characters. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-02-28-problem-passing-parameters-to-uploadify/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2011-02-28-problem-passing-parameters-to-uploadify/ Mon, 28 February 2011 00:00:00 GMT A nice little gotcha that I came across today whilst defining a new application.cfc. Within my onRequestStart method. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2010-12-01-onrequeststart-variables-scope/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2010-12-01-onrequeststart-variables-scope/ Wed, 01 December 2010 00:00:00 GMT Just a quick reminder that I can offer Adobe ColdFusion consultancy and development to UK and EU businesses. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2010-02-27-coldfusion-development-and-consultancy-in-the-uk/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2010-02-27-coldfusion-development-and-consultancy-in-the-uk/ Sat, 27 February 2010 00:00:00 GMT Adobe have released version 2 of the AIR cross platform runtime, that builds on the success of AIR 1 giving developers new capabilities. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-11-27-adobe-air-2-0-released-on-beta/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-11-27-adobe-air-2-0-released-on-beta/ Fri, 27 November 2009 00:00:00 GMT Yes you have read this right ….. Adobe Flash CS5 will allow developers to create applications built using Actionscript 3, available for the iPhone and iPod touch. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-10-05-flash-and-air-on-the-iphone/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-10-05-flash-and-air-on-the-iphone/ Mon, 05 October 2009 00:00:00 GMT I recently ran into a problem of trying to align the height of 2 columns (col-left and col-right) and ended up using a JQuery plugin for the solution. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-09-28-setting-equal-heights-using-jquery/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-09-28-setting-equal-heights-using-jquery/ Mon, 28 September 2009 00:00:00 GMT Adobe have made available the BETA release of the Flex 4 SDK (previously codenamed Gumbo) //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-06-01-adobe-flex-4-sdk/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-06-01-adobe-flex-4-sdk/ Mon, 01 June 2009 00:00:00 GMT A little problem I had recently was to import a CSV file with about 16mb of data, into a Microsoft SQL 2005 database, using Microsoft SQL Studio Express. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-05-15-import-csv-data-into-microsoft-sql-2005-using-bulk-insert/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-05-15-import-csv-data-into-microsoft-sql-2005-using-bulk-insert/ Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT I had a problem when trying to bulk load a CSV file into my Microsoft SQL 2005 database. The error was "You do not have permission to use the bulk load statement". //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-05-09-you-do-not-have-permission-to-use-the-bulk-load-statement/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-05-09-you-do-not-have-permission-to-use-the-bulk-load-statement/ Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT I haven’t posted on my blog for a while now as it’s been a little hectic on the work front. I did however feel it necessary to post something about this superb javascript framework called JQuery. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-04-17-jquery-a-web-developers-best-friend/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2009-04-17-jquery-a-web-developers-best-friend/ Fri, 17 April 2009 00:00:00 GMT I have been looking into developing some sample applications for Apple’s iPhone. I discovered a very nice example application that was written by a colleague of mine from TAG Worldwide. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-10-21-building-iphone-applications/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-10-21-building-iphone-applications/ Tue, 21 October 2008 00:00:00 GMT I am currently building a mileage and distance calculator for one of my clients and needed a solution to calculate the distnace between 2 geocoded longitude and latitude points. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-08-15-sql-get-distance-from-longitude-and-latitude/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-08-15-sql-get-distance-from-longitude-and-latitude/ Fri, 15 August 2008 00:00:00 GMT Just a quick helper for anybody looking to create a table on Microsoft SQL Server, using TSQL. When setting up a table with an IDENTITY column. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-07-28-set-identity-insert-microsoft-sql-server/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-07-28-set-identity-insert-microsoft-sql-server/ Mon, 28 July 2008 00:00:00 GMT Having recently implemented Microsoft SQL 2005 replication for a client, we had a few issues with developers trying to alter schema on the database if the table is under replication. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-06-17-alter-a-table-that-is-published-under-sql-2005-replication/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-06-17-alter-a-table-that-is-published-under-sql-2005-replication/ Tue, 17 June 2008 00:00:00 GMT I recently setup replication for Microsoft SQL 2005 server for a client and needed to provide a list of tables to the client without primary keys, as these are not transferred in the replication. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-06-04-microsoft-sql-2005-find-tables-missing-primary-keys/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-06-04-microsoft-sql-2005-find-tables-missing-primary-keys/ Wed, 04 June 2008 00:00:00 GMT I am currently working on a sample Flex application that requires the ability to upload files to a destination server. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-05-22-file-upload-with-flex-and-coldfusion/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-05-22-file-upload-with-flex-and-coldfusion/ Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT If you are currently restructuring your website to become more "search engine friendly" here is a nice piece of code using ColdFusion. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-05-16-coldfusion-301-redirect/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-05-16-coldfusion-301-redirect/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT It’s probably quite a well documented subject already, but just thought I would shed some light on producing dynamic CSS using ColdFusion. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-05-06-dynamic-css-using-coldfusion/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-05-06-dynamic-css-using-coldfusion/ Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT This is a really nice demonstration / working application from Adobe. The application is built using Adobe Flex 2 and runs in Adobe AIR. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-10-adobe-air-jamjar-application/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-10-adobe-air-jamjar-application/ Thu, 10 April 2008 00:00:00 GMT The Adobe AIR cross platform runtime is now available for Linux and is available for download from Adobe Labs. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-10-adobe-air-for-linux/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-10-adobe-air-for-linux/ Thu, 10 April 2008 00:00:00 GMT Anybody who is seriously looking at developing Adobe AIR applications should attend this. The Adobe OnAir tour comes to London on 9th April 2008. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-07-adobe-onair-european-tour/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-07-adobe-onair-european-tour/ Mon, 07 April 2008 00:00:00 GMT I ran into an annoying problem today, that was eventually solved by forcing the current ColdFusion processing thread to sleep. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-02-force-coldfusion-to-sleep-controlling-the-thread/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-04-02-force-coldfusion-to-sleep-controlling-the-thread/ Wed, 02 April 2008 00:00:00 GMT Inkscape is a nice little open source tool for creating SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-03-06-inkscape-open-source-scalable-vector-graphics-editor/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-03-06-inkscape-open-source-scalable-vector-graphics-editor/ Thu, 06 March 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-03-05-adobe-air-rss-reader/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-03-05-adobe-air-rss-reader/ Wed, 05 March 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-27-coldfusion-dsnless-connection-to-a-database/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-27-coldfusion-dsnless-connection-to-a-database/ Wed, 27 February 2008 00:00:00 GMT I have been looking for a way to back up my Microsoft SQL 2005 database that is hosted remotely, so that in the event of switching hosts or needing to restore I have a complete backup of my database. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-21-ms-sql-database-publishing-wizard-for-backup-and-restore/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-21-ms-sql-database-publishing-wizard-for-backup-and-restore/ Thu, 21 February 2008 00:00:00 GMT I have found a great ColdFusion example of how to notify the major 4 search engines when your sitemap changes. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-20-using-coldfusion-to-ping-sitemap-services/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-20-using-coldfusion-to-ping-sitemap-services/ Wed, 20 February 2008 00:00:00 GMT I had recently been reviewing some documentation on a web based API that was available as an XML RPC. At first I was wondering how to achieve this, but then adapted an ASP example provided into a nice neat ColdFusion implementation. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-19-xml-rpc-using-coldfusion-and-microsoft-xmlhttp-com-object/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-19-xml-rpc-using-coldfusion-and-microsoft-xmlhttp-com-object/ Tue, 19 February 2008 00:00:00 GMT Wireless Mesh networks are a fairly new concept that is emerging, but can sometimes be misunderstood. I have found a great article that explains the basics of Mesh networks and what is required in order to build a Mesh network. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-07-how-does-wireless-mesh-networking-work/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-02-07-how-does-wireless-mesh-networking-work/ Thu, 07 February 2008 00:00:00 GMT A nice little CSS trick (well ok a hack!) for IE specific rules. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-01-18-ie-specific-css-hacks/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-01-18-ie-specific-css-hacks/ Fri, 18 January 2008 00:00:00 GMT I thought I would post this to help anybody else who might be struggling with loading large XML files and datasets into Microsoft SQL using ColdFusion. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-01-16-sql-bulk-load-with-coldfusion-sqlxmlbulkload/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2008-01-16-sql-bulk-load-with-coldfusion-sqlxmlbulkload/ Wed, 16 January 2008 00:00:00 GMT I am currently considering web hosting here in the UK instead of the US, due to the nightmare I’ve been having with my current host with downtime. Does anybody know a good UK based ColdFusion host? //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-12-09-coldfusion-web-hosting-in-the-uk/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-12-09-coldfusion-web-hosting-in-the-uk/ Sun, 09 December 2007 00:00:00 GMT I finally got a Wordpress blog to have Search Engine friendly URL’s on a Windows 2003 server! I done a lot of searching and digging, but finally found this technique on Einar Egilsson’s Blog. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-12-04-wordpress-iis-permalinks-using-404-redirect/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-12-04-wordpress-iis-permalinks-using-404-redirect/ Tue, 04 December 2007 00:00:00 GMT There is a new look and feel for Adobe AIR as discovered over at Mike Chambers blog. Adobe have introduced a new logo for the AIR runtime. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-18-adobe-air-gets-a-new-logo/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-18-adobe-air-gets-a-new-logo/ Sun, 18 November 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Apple iPhone has finally made it to the UK on O2 and I have to say it looks and feels really nice. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-15-the-apple-iphone-comes-to-the-uk-on-o2/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-15-the-apple-iphone-comes-to-the-uk-on-o2/ Thu, 15 November 2007 00:00:00 GMT I have been using this tiny AJAX library for a while now and have used it in various projects. It is extremely simple to use and is easily extendable and customisable. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-13-ajax-library-lalabird-jsmx-api/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-13-ajax-library-lalabird-jsmx-api/ Tue, 13 November 2007 00:00:00 GMT I am currently working on implementing social bookmarking for a client. Whilst I sort of like the idea of my favourites roaming around with me and the superb SEO benefits to your site, is there any other use to these tools? //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-12-social-bookmarking-what-do-you-think/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-11-12-social-bookmarking-what-do-you-think/ Mon, 12 November 2007 00:00:00 GMT Google Analytics for the desktop built using Adobe AIR. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-10-18-google-analytics-adobe-air-version-gas/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-10-18-google-analytics-adobe-air-version-gas/ Thu, 18 October 2007 00:00:00 GMT Currently working on restructuring some google sitemaps for my client. Instead of the usual query, loop, output process for a ColdFusion XML manipulation based task, I decided to get SQL server to do the work for me //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-10-17-sql-xml-for-xml-auto/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-10-17-sql-xml-for-xml-auto/ Wed, 17 October 2007 00:00:00 GMT A few months back I was confronted with the problem of writing a fairly large CSV file using ColdFusion. The file size was around 10mb so I got to work with cffile. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-10-12-cffile-crashes-out-try-using-java.io.bufferedwriter/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-10-12-cffile-crashes-out-try-using-java.io.bufferedwriter/ Fri, 12 October 2007 00:00:00 GMT ColdFusion CFCs in our out of the web root. The answer to the question above is very much a question of security. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-09-27-cfcs-in-or-out-of-the-web-root/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-09-27-cfcs-in-or-out-of-the-web-root/ Thu, 27 September 2007 00:00:00 GMT I recently stumbled across this excellent video tutorial by Bruce Eckel and James Ward on Adobe, that shows an example of a Flex application working with Hibernate and XFire. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-09-25-adobe-flex-with-hibernate-and-xfire-for-java-developers/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-09-25-adobe-flex-with-hibernate-and-xfire-for-java-developers/ Tue, 25 September 2007 00:00:00 GMT I have a new machine at home running Windows Vista and have been racking my brains trying to get my files transferred and my desktop set with all my DEV environment for Eclipse combined with Flex Builder 2, but have run into problems. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-09-17-flex-builder-2-with-eclipse-europa-3-3/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-09-17-flex-builder-2-with-eclipse-europa-3-3/ Mon, 17 September 2007 00:00:00 GMT I discovered a very handy colour themes tool online called Adobe Kuler. It allows you to submit colour themes via RSS and for you to explore and share colour themes online. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-08-23-adobe-kuler-online-colour-themes-via-rss/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-08-23-adobe-kuler-online-colour-themes-via-rss/ Thu, 23 August 2007 00:00:00 GMT I have been recently learning and using Flex 2. Coming from a ColdFusion background (and being self taught!!), I first found it very hard to get used to the strict typing and syntax that is used to make up a Flex App. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-08-21-learning-flex-and-actionscript-3/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-08-21-learning-flex-and-actionscript-3/ Tue, 21 August 2007 00:00:00 GMT This is a very handy site to visit for more information on a very popular Adobe Flex framework called “Cairngorm”. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-08-10-cairngorm-for-adobe-flex/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-08-10-cairngorm-for-adobe-flex/ Fri, 10 August 2007 00:00:00 GMT Adobe have opened up registration for their European MAX 2007 event. You can register for the event online at the Adobe MAX 2007 site. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-07-17-adobe-max-2007-registration-is-open/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-07-17-adobe-max-2007-registration-is-open/ Tue, 17 July 2007 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Max 2007 will also be in Europe for the first time this year. There will be independent industry experts and Adobe community members, attending the first European event in Barcelona, Spain. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-22-adobe-max-europe-2007-barcelona-spain/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-22-adobe-max-europe-2007-barcelona-spain/ Fri, 22 June 2007 00:00:00 GMT yes you are reading this correctly!! Remember the grief us ColdFusion guys always get from the PHP world about PHP being all things great and marvellous. Well here we go ... ColdFusion 8 with Ruby and PHP. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-21-coldfusion-8-with-php-and-ruby/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-21-coldfusion-8-with-php-and-ruby/ Thu, 21 June 2007 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering the next generation of .NET based media and desktop application experiences. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-20-microsoft-silverlight-whats-it-all-about/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-20-microsoft-silverlight-whats-it-all-about/ Wed, 20 June 2007 00:00:00 GMT Adobe AIR, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills. //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-19-adobe-air-formerly-adobe-apollo/ //www.n-smith.com/index.cfm/my-blog/2007-06-19-adobe-air-formerly-adobe-apollo/ Tue, 19 June 2007 00:00:00 GMT