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Monthly Archives: February 2009
New Samsung OmniaHD
- Date: February 23, 2009
- Author: rparente
- Categories: Cell Phones
- Comments: 2 Replies
This is the phone I’ll be waiting to come to the U.S. market. Its specifications are fantastic, 3.7″ touch screen, 640×360 resolution, 8mp camera, 3G and Wi-Fi network, GPS, 16GB internal memory, MicroSDHC slot, records high definition video and can play it back on a HD-ready TV.
No price established yet, but be sure it will be expensive.
I just hope its battery last longer than my G1′s.
You may find the whole article here.
Job Opening In Jacksonville, Florida
There is a job opening for ColdFusion, C# and .NET in jacksonville.
If you are interested, please contact:
Beth Graham
Agency a la Carte
bgraham [at] agencyalacarte [dot] com
or register online at agencyalacarte.com
ColdFusion 8.0.1 – LiveCycle Update
- Date: February 10, 2009
- Author: pcsilva
- Categories: ColdFusion, Flex, Tutorials
- Comments: Leave a reply
ColdFusion 8.0.1 has LiveCycle 2.5.1, so in order for us to have it updated too, we need to follow the steps:
- Download and expand Flex3_webtier_for_ColdFusion8.zip to a temp folder
- Download and install Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES
- Stop ColdFusion service
- Move cf_root/web-inf/flex to cf_root/web-inf/flex_old/
- Move cf_root/lib/flex-messaging*.jar to cf_root/lib_backup/
- Move cf_root/web-inf/lib/cf-bootstrap-for-flex.jar to cf_root/lib_backup/
- Copy temp/Flex3_webtier_for_ColdFusion8/flex to cf_root/web-inf/
- Copy temp/Flex3_webtier_for_ColdFusion8/lib/cf-bootstrap-for-flex.jar to cf_root/web-inf/lib
- Copy lcds_install_root/resources/lib/flex-messaging*.jar to cf_root/lib/
- Expand (use winrar) lcds_install_root/lcds.war to temp
- Copy temp/lcds/WEB-INF/lib/cfgatewayadapter.jar to cf_root/web-inf/flex/jars
- Copy lcds_install_rootl/resources/frameworks/libs/fds.swc to cf_root/wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex/libs
- Copy lcds_install_root/resources/frameworks/libs/player/playerfds.swc to cf_root/WEB-INF/flex/libs/player
- Copy lcds_install_root/resources/frameworks/libs/locale/en_US/fds_rb.swc to ColdFusion8/wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex/locale/en_US/fds_rb.swc
- Restart ColdFusion service
My G1 Phone's Battery Died on Me
- Date: February 8, 2009
- Author: rparente
- Categories: Cell Phones
- Comments: 7 Replies
After about 4 months of use, early this week my G1 phone stopped charging. I could not use it off the charger for more than 1 minute. I called T-Mobile’s tech support and did some troubleshooting with them. Finally they decided to send me a new battery. I was lucky to have a spare phone (my old Blackberry), so I placed the SIM card in the Blackberry and I managed to have a working phone for the 4-day waiting period for the battery to arrive. I got the new battery Saturday, charged it and it lasted from Saturday night until now (about 24 hours). So I had to charge it again, although I have not talked on the phone for those 24 hours. It seems that the batteries are not well designed for this phone. That makes me think about why din’t I move to the iPhone ?! I’m a loyal T-Mobile customer for about 4 years, love their service (best customer service I ever experienced), never had any problems with access, drop calls, etc… The G1 phone is not bad, it is a start of a new age, open source but it is still very “probie” in this existing cell-war .
Well I’m sure many people are complaining about the same issue and I hope T-Mobile finds a solution soon. I’ll give it another chance, since I had no costs for this new battery, just the headache of not using the Internet in my Blackberry for 4 days.
Knowing ColdFusion
- Date: February 6, 2009
- Author: pcsilva
- Categories: ColdFusion
- Comments: 2 Replies
This material was created by Vicente Maciel Jr and shows important points and features of ColdFusion. Adobe Cold Fusion 8 “This article has the objective of showing the main reason for the Brazilian companies and from companies around the world to adopt Adobe ColdFusion as a solution for the development of web applications through the CFML language. The main target of this article, truthfully, is the non-ColdFusion user, since it will clear to him/her, through various arguments, the main reasons for the adoption of this technology. All arguments presented here are not simply my only particular opinion and they were collected from independent and trustful sources, and the are part of the ColdFusion Evangelism Kit.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Coldfusion
- Date: February 5, 2009
- Author: rparente
- Categories: SEO
- Comments: 10 Replies
I want to start this blog by saying thanks to Ricardo for inviting me to be part of the CF Developers Network. But at the same time I want to clarify a couple of things:
1. I am by no means a CF Developer though I own a Web Development Company but our platform is PHP using Joomla CMS primarily
2. I started this path as a Marketing Executive and then focused on the Internet. So even though I know html and css, I am primarily an Internet Marketing Professional.
Ricardo and I worked on www.caymanluxuryproperty.com together – him in Florida and me in the Cayman Islands. We worked by sending each other emails and calling once in a while to clarify details of the optimization process.
Before this project, I had never worked on a website using the CF platform so it was experimental on so many levels. Yes the learning curve was indeed there.
Before we started working on the site, it was no where to be found on Google. It had been penalized for backdoors and some other black hat SEO practises.
After a month of on-page SEO – correcting semantic structure and taking out all the backdoors and all the content that didn’t make any sense to the user, lo and behold – the website appeared on the second page of major keywords relating to the Cayman Islands Real Estate Industry.
After another month of off-page SEO – maybe spending less than US$ 1500 on trusted directories – the website itself is now a formidable contender for major and minor keywords for their industry. If I had been given a budget of another 5k I think I would have been able to commit to top 5 of the major keywords. But, it wasn’t necessary for the client – they were happy to be in the first page.
What I am trying to say here, with as little words as possible (as it is way past my bedtime), is that CF like every other platform available can be optimized and can be SE Friendly (except full flash sites but even then there is always a work around). You just have to know what you are doing.
Thanks again for the invite Ricardo and I hope you feel better tomorrow.
Scripting Functions for ColdFusion 7 Users
- Date: February 4, 2009
- Author: rparente
- Categories: ColdFusion, Components, Tutorials
- Comments: 1 Reply
In my work environment we have ColdFusion 7 and I like to write my templates in cfscript, but since CF7 does not support some new scripting functions in CF8, I wrote a component to mimic those functions and allow me to stay focused on the scripting.
Well, it is not my original idea, I saw it from other blogs, but I added some value to it with some additional functions.
You may download the component here