I have always know about Twitter but never really tried it. In the past few days I have been reading up about all the performance issues that Twitter has been having. This brought the social messaging service back into the front of my mind so I figured I would give it a try.
Low and behold, I have already seen the whale screen a few times already today.
Anyway, if you want to follow me, look me up under Brian Szoszorek on Twitter.com.
JetBlue has a funny site that pokes fun at CEO's and their private jets. In the current state of the economy, I think this was a great idea by the JetBlue marketing folks. I get an error sometimes when I run this. If you do simply click dismiss all and it will run fine.
Goodbye Buffalo NY! Hello Denver Colorado!
New Point Media is relocating its business to the Denver Colorado area. A move out of Buffalo has been in the making for some time now.
The move will be taking place in 1st quarter 2009. Along with the new move will finally be our official website launch.
We look forward to living and doing business in our new home!
I came out here around the first week of March this year to work on a high level project at the Adobe HQ. It has been a great time and tremendous experience not only working at the Adobe HQ (“The Mothership”) but also getting to experience California.
October 24th I will fly one-way back to Buffalo NY. During my stay I only flew back 3 times for a total of about 8 days, so needless to say I didn’t get much time back at home, not cool. While Buffalo may not be sunny Cali, its home and I miss my friends and family in that area. It actually gets a little boring when everyday is 78 degrees and sunny, it has only rained 3 times that I can remember out here. It was cool to actually see something different happen outside.
The best part is I am rolling into another Adobe project but I will get to work off-site back home. I am very excited about this project as it is a 100% ColdFusion 8 and Flex 2 project!
A colleague of mine called me today and he is in need of a few resources for jobs in the Buffalo NY area.
If interested please email your contact info to me so I can pass along: Brian AT newpointmedia DOT com.
As the Adobe MAX conference has now kicked off, Adobe has released a whole bunch of new beta's on labs.
What are you waiting for! Go to labs and check out the new Adobe technology releases!
It is so sad but I will not be attending MAX this year. It was a tough decision not to go at the last minute. Due to the timelines of the projects I am working on at Adobe, I really had to be 100% focused on the projects. Yes I said projects; I am rolling into another important ColdFusion/Flex project at Adobe so I am pretty busy. At this time I cannot go into detail about either project but hope in the future I will get to talk about them as they are really cool and I would love to share!
I look forward to reading all the blogs to hear about all the great things that are going to come about from MAX this year!
As you may have noticed I have not posted much. I have been slammed with many projects going on. Also I was running an older version of Blog CFC and it really needed an update so here it is!
ColdFusion 8 has another feature that allows a ColdFusion developer to leverage .NET inside their CF applications.
It allows you to call .NET classes in your ColdFusion code. ColdFusion 8 allows you to access and use these classes as CFML objects in the following ways.
- Direct access and control of the Microsoft products like Word, Excel PowerPoint and so on.
- Use existing .NET components
- You can use .NET assemblies to leverage features that may not be available in ColdFusion or Java. Note that because ColdFusion is a J2EE application, its more efficient to create what you need in Java then .NET
Also, your .NET classes you want to use do not have to be local. Your ColdFusion application can access .NET components that are on remote systems.
You may be asking, but we run Linux or OSX and do not have the .NET runtime installed. Not to worry, you don’t have to have the .NET runtime installed on the same machine as ColdFusion, you can still access .NET assemblies on remote systems even though your local system does not have the .NET runtime installed.
Here is a simple example from the docs of how to use .NET classes.
Also note that if you make a change in the .NET assembly, ColdFusion will recognize the change and use the new version. You can also secure communication to .NET from ColdFusion using SSL.
I am on the lookout for a ColdFusion developer for a position here in San Jose CA. Please email me your contact information with resume ASAP!
