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Guinness Soft Drink

Rob Rohan - Random Technology — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:01:25 GMT

Random tid bit. A friend of mine went to Africa a while ago and brought me back an odd, but cool souvenir. It’s a soft drink made by Guinness called Malta. Here is what it looks like: While this may sound like something you may want to try, he said it is a “very acquired taste” [...]

Most Retro Coffee Table Ever... NES Controller Coffee Table

dans.blog — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:01:08 GMT

Oh snap. Someone built a giant work NES controller that doubles as a coffee table. Pretty sweet:

Here's video of the coffee table in action while they play Super Mario Bros.

Adobe ColdFusion team - New Topics

CFUNITED blog — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:41:05 GMT

Adobe just announced to me that they are bringing two more individuals from India to present on CF8. We are so excited to give our attendees a first hand experience directly from the core team behind creating this great technology. "Working with PDF Documents and Forms in ColdFusion 8" by Chandan Kumar
http://cfunited.com/go/topics/2008#topic-1751

Chandan is part of the core development team of ColdFusion for last two years and has been instrumental in building PDF manipulation features with cfpdf tag, server monitoring, cffeed and looks after several others including cfprint. Currently he is working on adding some very exciting features to ColdFusion language for Centaur. He is a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology.

"Taking advantage of 64-bit support in ColdFusion 8" by Manju Kiran P Pacchhipulusu
http://cfunited.com/go/topics/2008#topic-1750
With more than 6 years of experience in the Software Industry, I now work as a Lead Software Engineer in the ColdFusion Product team and am the senior-most member of the ColdFusion QE team. I am involved with ColdFusion from its 7.0 release. I have worked on various features of ColdFusion like CFThread, .Net Integration, Exchange Integration, ColdFusion Interfaces, ColdFusion Performance, etc. Before joining Adobe, I worked as Software Design Engineer for Test (SDET) at Microsoft. In Microsoft, I have worked on various teams such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Pocket Word and WISP. I blog on ColdFusion at www.manjukiran.net. In my free-time, I get involved in various social activities that promote the betterment of the community.

Sorting IP Addresses with Coldfusion

hockeypFeF.net — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:21:12 GMT

I am creating an application to store IP Address information in it. However, sorting the IP Addresses has brought up a challenge. I have 5 columns with Status, IP, Node Name, Comments, and Date. Sorting the columns is a piece of cake, but when I sort the IP column by IPs do something like this:


12.34.56.1
12.34.56.100
12.34.56.101
12.34.56.2
12.34.57.1
12.34.57.100
12.34.57.101
12.34.57.3
....

What I want is this:


12.34.56.1
12.34.56.2
12.34.56.100
12.34.56.101
12.34.57.1
12.34.57.3
12.34.57.100
12.34.57.101
....

Any ideas?

Botnet Map

Webmilhouse — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:41:31 GMT

Thought this was a pretty nice graphic from CSO Magazine (of all places) showing different botnets and how they map to the IPs and domains that serve as command and control: http://www.csoonline.com/article/348317/What_a_Botnet_Looks_Like�

Save Your Job: wud u pls lern 2 rite so ppl can reed ezr?

My Secret Life as a Spaghetti Coder — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:21:16 GMT

When people talk about keeping communication concise and to the point, they aren't insisting you write as if you were code-golfing. After all, Vg'f abg sha gelvat gb haeniry fbzrguvat gung ybbxf yvxr frperg pbqr . Using acronyms and abbreviations that come from the online subculture is acceptable in certain situations: IM with friends, twitter (where space is limited), and texting are three of them. An email to your boss, coworker, or a client is generally not. Most people (but if my experience is worth anything, not even close to everyone ) are fine in the ...

Proposals for ColdFusion 9 - From the Enemy's Camp

Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:01:44 GMT

Yesterday I was reading an interesting article (from Dzone): The future of PHP So why is an admitted ColdFusion fan-boy reading about PHP? As much as I love CF and think nothing compares to it (cue Sinead), I don't for one minute think that it... [More]

Using Constants in ColdFusion Components

Stannard — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:01:24 GMT

In code we often need to make use of constant values. It is good practice to use named constants rather than literal values, but what is a good technique for managing constants in an object oriented ColdFusion application? [More]

The Differences Between This and Variables

DougHughes.net — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:03 GMT

This morning I received an email from Jason, whom I met at CF.United(): We are working to adopt/increase OO in our environment. We were debating over what may be best practice for object properties as far as ColdFusion components are concerned. For example: <cffuntion name=”init” …> <cfset this.foo = “bar”> Vs. <cffuntion name=”init” …> <cfset Variables.instance.foo = “bar”> From the conference, conventions seemed mixed. We understand from blogs the benefits of the later example from a practice standpoint in mirroring OOP. However, are you aware of any performance advantage or future directions of either? One of use remembered hearing something particular about using “this”.

Fridays Joke: A Stiff Coffee

Andy Jarrett — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:57:57 GMT

An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his advice in reviving her husband's libido.

'What about trying Viagra?' asked the doctor.

'Not a chance', she said. 'He won't even take an aspirin.'

'Not a problem,' replied the doctor. 'Give him an 'Irish Viagra'. It's when you drop the Viagra tablet into his coffee. He won't even taste it. Give it a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went.'

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