Month: November 2002

MySQL Cookbook is Out. Paul has written yet another MySQL book, which I'm sure is excellent. Here's the O'Reilly page and his page about the book. Congrats, Paul…. [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

We have published a very good article explaining the Flash Communication Server component Framework. Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX : Understanding the Component Framework This was written by two of the developers who put the framework together, and is an excellent resource. This will come in handy as we move the FCF project to work… Continue reading

We have published a very good article explaining the Flash Communication Server component Framework.

• Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX : Understanding the Component Framework
  

Keeping Up with New Information Technologies. – “One of the most difficult jobs for any information professional is trying to keep up with changes in technology. Just as soon as you think you know how to apply something new in your organization, it's been replaced by something else. Change is constant and the amount of… Continue reading Keeping Up with New Information Technologies

Software makes historic books real page turners. – “We stopped into the Boston Athenaeum last week, sat down with the ''Sherborne Missal,'' and began to leaf through the pages. You know that book, right? It's an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript, with 690 21-by-14-inch vellum pages of gorgeously painted biblical and medieval English scenes. Recently acquired… Continue reading Software makes historic books real page turners

Abibliophobia. – “Abibliophobia: The morbid fear of running out of reading material.” “Words on –phobia originally referred to psychotic conditions but now we have extracted a word, “phobia,” from the suffix and add it wherever we please: “Wylie is such an abibliophobe that he never leaves the house without several magazines under his arm.” In… Continue reading Abibliophobia

Conference store: One of the big surprises for us on staff has been the crowds around the store which sells various Macromedia-related goods. Business has been much higher than expected, and it has been hard to walk around the throngs surrounding it. I asked Tom Hale about this at the lunch for Team Macromedia and… Continue reading Conference store:

Fusebox MX. Fusebox MX (more detail) – Hal talked about the general shift in the programming world from procedural to OO and noted that ColdFusion had shifted in that direction too with CFMX. He made a comment about persistence and someone (Michael Dinowitz I think) asked Hal to define 'persistence': he said it's when “objects… Continue reading Fusebox MX

Adam “finally took some time to properly install ZOÉ. Once configured you can forget about it, until you need to find a piece of mail, then it acts like google. Check out the screenshots” [Zoë is sure looking like a must have. If you do wrap it around your mailer, how good is it at… Continue reading Adam

In Poll, Americans Say Both Parties Lack Clear Vision. The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll found an emerging divide between Democrats and Republicans in their perception of the state of the nation. By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder. [New York Times]

Jon Udell:  “A linked web of XML documents is a potent architecture that Web services can and should exploit. Happily, GWS does.”  As usual, a tremendously articulate and thoughtful analysis.  Thanks, Jon. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]