Monthly Archives: November 2007
- November 14, 2007
- Flex not working on Ubuntu using the Gnash player
Gnash is a free Flash movie player for Ubuntu which works as a standalone player or as a plugin for Firefox and Konqueror.
This is the default (I believe) player installed on Ubuntu 7.10 (the Adobe player isn’t there by default).
I recently tried to load a Flex app in this player and failed, the reason is [...]
- November 13, 2007
- Using Google Mail as your local SMTP server
As a server-side developer you are often sending emails from your web application, whether those emails be for debugging/exception handling or actual application functionality (such as a contact form etc).
Although some developers decide to turn off mail debugging locally (and instead view the errors inline), you pretty much always have the need to send emails [...]
- November 2, 2007
- Making your web applications platform independant
I was looking for some information the other day about line separators across Windows/MAC/Linux etc when I stumbled upon 3 great articles from Christian Cantrell.
Although the articles are quite old they were very informative for me so I thought I’d share them in case others didn’t know this already.
Making Your ColdFusion Applications More Platform Independent [...]
- November 1, 2007
- CFML reference docs for the iPod
That’s right, the ColdFusion 8 quick docs for Apple’s iPod!
I found this one a while ago and quickly tried it out and it’s really cool
I get public transport to and from work everyday so I find it easy and convenient to read up on the new functions and tags for CF8. Beats just [...]