FusionScript is a proprietary language that fuses JavaScript, DHTML and ColdFusion to create sophisticated client-side experiences. In version 2.0 (not yet released) the creators of FusionScript claim they will be more cross browser compatible than Flash MX.

Look’’s like I”ve been neglecting the blog. Just spent the past few days on a new project but I”ll get active again. Sorry for the lag.

A critical part of successfully architecting and design a good web application is the effort to discover what the users will actually want to do with/on/in the resulting application. We often mention FLiP “Fusebox Lifecycle Process” as a great overall mechanism, Persona’’s and Goals are ideally used to help determine what the user needs [...]

Ben Forta the leading CF luminary puts forward some compelling thoughts here on using Flash MX to enable an effective way of building forms for web applications.

DW-EXPORTER is a very useful looking utility that allows back up and save of all Dreamweaver settings. So if every that very rainy day comes all is not totally lost.

This was recently posted on CF-Talk. It is the cgi variable that contains the actual IP Address of a client request that was passed in from a proxy server/agent. cgi.http_x_forwarded_for Note Mike Tangorre pointed out that this var only exists if the request did come via a proxy. So attempting to call it should be [...]

CGI variables are an invaluable tool in the arsenal of professional web application development tools. This is a fairly comprehensive list of CGI variables.

RAID is a great cost-effective tool for use in ensuring high levels of reliability and availability of server systems. There are various levels of RAID from 0 to 10 and combinations of certain levels. This is a very good resource explaining the different types of RAID and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

One of the drawbacks when using the Session scope to maintain state occurs in a multi-server/multi-instance environment where users can be moved from server to server in either a load-balanced or failed-over situation. This sort of multi-server sharing of the same environment is commonly called “clustering”. With J2EE environments using “buddies” there is [...]

Killer sounds specialize in supplying “off-the-shelf” high quality music and sounds for use in development. They also offer customized services for the creation of sounds. They can be found here.