Archive for April, 2009

Any Good Open Source Code Snippet Libraries?

Apr

30

by Mike Fleming at 6:43 am (3) General

I’ve been looking around the last few days for an open source code snippet library to put in place at my workplace. Most of the ones I came across by… (read the rest)

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Facebook Finally Gets the Big Picture, Opens up API and Releases AIR App

Apr

27

by Mike Fleming at 6:24 pm AIR, Facebook | , , , , , ,

It appears as though Facebook is finally getting the hint about it’s API. The company announced today they have released the Open Stream API. This new API will allow developers… (read the rest)

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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Officially Released

Apr

24

by Mike Fleming at 7:32 am General | , , ,

Canonical officially announced the release of Ubuntu 9.04, previously code named Jaunty Jackalope. As with all Ubuntu releases you can download a desktop edition or a server edition. You can… (read the rest)

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UberTwitter, A New Twitter App for the Blackberry

Apr

23

by Mike Fleming at 7:14 am Blackberry, General, Twitter | , , ,

For the past week or so I have been trying out a beta version of a new Twitter application on my Blackberry, called UberTwitter. So far I have liked what… (read the rest)

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Stunning Images From the Cassini Spacecraft

Apr

21

by Mike Fleming at 12:06 pm General | , ,

When you have a few spare minutes, check out this Boston.com photo gallery of some images taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. These are some amazing photos!

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ColdFusion: Grab Yourself a TinyURL

Apr

20

by Mike Fleming at 7:03 am (4) ColdFusion | , , ,

I have been working on a new application the last few days and one of the requirements was to generate a short URL. There are many different URL shortening services… (read the rest)

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Adobe Flash Coming to a TV Near You

Apr

20

by Mike Fleming at 6:51 am Flash | , , , , , ,

According to this article from CNET, Adobe will announce today that the next version of the Flash platform will allow it to be used on internet connected TV’s and other… (read the rest)

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Using jQuery and ASP.NET

Apr

15

by Mike Fleming at 6:48 am .NET, jQuery | , , , , , ,

I’ve been using jQuery quite a lot lately in my ColdFusion apps. I’ve been working on a .NET site and yesterday I needed to throw a little jQuery into that… (read the rest)

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Mythbusters Rocket Car Pancake

Apr

14

by Mike Fleming at 7:21 am (3) General | ,

Wow, this looks way too cool….

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Preventing XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Attacks in ColdFusion

Apr

13

by Mike Fleming at 6:19 pm (4) ColdFusion | , , , , , , , ,

With the recent issues Twitter has faced in recent days, I thought it would be important to show how you can prevent XSS attacks in ColdFusion. For a detailed explanation… (read the rest)

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