The aim of a CAPTCHA is to create and grade tests that a human can easily pass but a computer program cannot. One aim being to help deter the ongoing scourge of Spam. There any many sites out on the Internet that use a CAPTCHA facility to create an image with a random string [...]

We had a client who was recently having problems using local databases in development running on SQL Server. These had worked fine in ColdFusion 5.0 but after upgrade to CFMX 6.1 they started getting a Not Associated with a Trusted SQL Server Connection when trying to verify the connection in CFMX Administrator. Steven Erat has [...]

I can”t believe it’’s 4 days since we blogged anything, there’’s plenty of good stuff around but time is sometimes hard to find. Steve Nelson and other stalwarts are doing some great work on a Fusebox 4 extension for Dreamweaver called Fusebox Explorer for Dreamweaver. This along with other projects is currently out on the [...]

We have often used the analogy of multiple simultaneous accesses to database tables and the unpredictable results that will bring in order to explain using the cflock tag in CF code to clients. The article we are mentioning here is an excellent Macromedia Devnet article from Simon Horwith. It covers controlling transactions on Databases and in [...]

The Fusebox Conference for 2004 will be held in Rockville Maryland USA on September 19 ,2004. From what we are finding in the field Fusebox continues to grow in usage particularly with large enterprise use of ColdFusion. These sorts of organizations almost always gravitate to frameworks or methodologies in software development. From our [...]

Internetnews.com have a nice article about Oracle choosing MM Breeze as part of it’’s Content Resource Center. Here is a verbatim: - The deal is part of Oracle’’s new Content Resource Center, which lets companies develop, share and publish content. Customers of both companies will now get access to the Macromedia products and Oracle iLearning [...]

I stole this from Sean Corfields blog, so apologies there Sean. For the past 4-5 years we have been very active in helping some of Macromedia’’s largest clients either fix or get ready new Web Applications for the World Wild Web. If an application is constructed well (and you cannot go wrong for [...]

I was just thinking the other day that we do not hear much about Central any more and what do you know PC Magazine go and publish a nice article all about Central. Here are a few tasters: - Selling software today is not easy, especially if you”re a small developer with limited resources. But [...]

I was looking at an article today on PC World’’s web site about a new release of Groove. Groove calls itself a Virtual Office application and was conceived by Ray Ozzie of Lotus Notes fame. Ray is seen as a great luminary in August software circles, as a personal comment I never saw Lotus Notes [...]

As an ex patriot Brit I have been a avid watcher, reader and listener to what the BBC outputs for some time. During the unfolding reporting of the Iraq war here for instance, I was often struck by the very different news and emphasis that the BBC placed on it’’s coverage. It’’s easy to forget that the BBC [...]