Marcos Placona on October 3rd, 2010

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt | Author: John Farrar The book starts with a very brief introduction to ColdFusion, and what the basic language capabilities are. On chapter 1 – Web Pages – Static to Dynamic The author begins by explaining what variables are for, and then [...]

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Marcos Placona on June 30th, 2010

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Photo by: cote It came to my attention today that one of the most famous ColdFusion conferences, CFUnited,  will cease to exist from 2011 onwards. While the fact that one of the most important and longest running ColdFusion conferences in the world will not be around next year deeply [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 30th, 2010

Reading time: < 1 minute Photo by: JonathanCohen …the eggshell and has now been released for trial downloads. So go get your’s while it’s hot.

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Marcos Placona on December 8th, 2009

Formatting dates with flex
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I’ve been working with some Adobe Flex recently, and was having some trouble formatting dates. For those who don’t know, here (in th UK) we use the format “dd/mm/yyyy” (Day/Month/Year) as opposed to people over in the States using “mm/dd/yyyy” (Month/Day/Year).

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Marcos Placona on July 3rd, 2009

Not trying to be contradictive here (maybe a little bit) or rain on anyones parade, but I’ve been hearing and seeing loads of fuss from people who are “just waiting” for ColdFusion 9 ORM to be released, or some people who have projects where ColdFusion 9 ORM “would suit just perfectly”.

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