JSON and CF 7

This one is more a personal bookmark for myself, but it might be interesting for others as well. Chris just asked about JSON support in CF on the CFUGNewZealand list and I’ve recommended using CFJSON, which I’m pretty happy with.
While looking for the link I found Ben Nadel’s posts about his own, modified version of [...]

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Air NZ “How far can I go”: Innovative RIA!

After bitching about the poor online booking facilities of House of Travel, Flightcentre and STA Travel NZ yesterday, I’m happy to show you a cool, innovative and rich sales support tool by Air New Zealand: “How far can I go?”

It’s easy to use and motivates potential customers to book a flight for a vacation or [...]

Some interesting facts about…

…porn! Michael from e-commerce-blog.de posted this one the other day (he’s surfing on the “I blog about ‘your porn’” wave to get traffic . Awesome video – would you believe me that you’re actually learning a few things?

Yes, I know, I’m using the fact that this is actually a hot chick – before you [...]

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Travel sites in New Zealand

The other day Ashley McKee was writing about hotwire.com, a travel site that – well… – didn’t get the concept of multi-city flight bookings quite right. Bascially they’re offering the option and then forward their customers to expedia.com – why would you do that?
To show you that hotwire.com is not even at the lower end [...]

IIS shutdown on Windows

One of my clients’ production CF servers went down during the weekend. When investigating the issue this morning, we actually found that it was not ColdFusion itself that crashed, but IIS – symptoms: “Service unavailable” pages when you were requesting any type of page from the server.
The event logs listed the following:
A process serving application [...]

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flashplayermobile.com?

Has anyone seen flashplayermobile.com yet? It seems to be a stand-alone .swf player for Pocket PC – but based on the official ActiveX control from Macromedia/Adobe?

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I like grunty machines!

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