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Form Processing. Living on del.icio.us this morning. Some more finds: Phorm: PHP form processing Can include form data in an acknowledgement page, email it to one or more addresses, validate it, includ it in an autoresponder message, lot it to a text file or mySQL database. Also available is a “jr.” version: Phorm Jr is… Continue reading Form Processing

Investigating Flex. I don't want to count my chickens, but it's looking promising that I may be able to get into Macromedia Flex development pretty soon. I'm really excited about the opportunities Flex offers for buildling not only extremely slick UIs, but also for building true enterprise applications that just happen to have a nice… Continue reading Investigating Flex

Installing CFMX on Mac OS X. This has come up often lately in the macromedia.com forums, so I went through this process step-by-step tonight, and here's what worked for me. Hope it helps some of the rest of you! In addition to these instructions, please refer to the following URLs: http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/j2ee/cfmxj2ee_mac_onjrunandtom.html http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/j2ee/cfmxj2ee_jrun4_deploy.html [Matt Woodward's Blog]

Tinker With Your Computer, and Reap the Rewards. While Microsoft and Google dominate Internet browsing and search, smaller companies offer worthy alternatives. By JAMES FALLOWS. [The New York Times > Technology]

The McDonalds of open source software. SourceLabs is a brand new company headed up by Byron Sebastian with Brad Silverberg on the board. They want to bring the advantages of commercial support, mostly dependable integration and accountability, to open source software. I've been reading their website to find out how they intend to make money… Continue reading The McDonalds of open source software

More on the Debate. OK, I do have more to say on Bush, Kerry and the debate. Thursday night, we got to see the real George W. Bush: a small man who requires excessive handling, out of touch with the American people and out of touch with reality. Most of the time he stayed within… Continue reading More on the Debate

InfoWorld: IP telephony: Why wait? Jon Udell. Ironically, 1994 was the year in which Byte Magazine's computer telephony cover story — which I wrote — proclaimed that integrated voice/data applications were right around the corner. Here we are in 2004, and they're still right around the corner. What went wrong? [Tomalak's Realm]

My year with the PowerBook. In this week's InfoWorld column, I look back on my first year of using a PowerBook as my primary work machine: About a year ago, I enthusiastically switched to OS X running on a PowerBook laptop. Since then IÂ’ve experienced the ups and downs of managing enterprise IT from a… Continue reading My year with the PowerBook

'Will in the World': Reinventing Shakespeare. Stephen Greenblatt, a leading Renaissance scholar, weaves a life from threadbare facts. By COLM TOIBIN. [The New York Times > Books]

Radio 8.1 and the Future. Radio 8.1 and the Future New updates to Radio are out–I hope that you all have had a chance to grab them. By the way the server is responding, I think we have a lot of folks doing just that. Background: Many of the items in the release came from… Continue reading Radio 8.1 and the Future