http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm Web Technologies, Adobe ColdFusion in particular with a smattering of civil disobedience en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:48:00-0400 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:39:00-0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss c_wigginton@intersuite.com c_wigginton@intersuite.com http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/1/30/MSSQL-CFUUID-Function Michael Sharman over at the Chapter 31 blog has a nice post on working with ColdFusion UUID's and MSSQL.  One of his functions to create a uuid uses the newid() function twice to generate a ColdFusion compatible UUID.  While it may work, ea... ColdFusion Microsoft Adobe Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:39:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/1/30/MSSQL-CFUUID-Function http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/11/11/2007-Norton-Confidential-Browser-Helper-A-really-bad-implementation I just upgraded my Symantec Internet Security Suite to 2007 and while I've usually been happy with Norton products, their anti-phising "Norton Confidential Browser Helper" is just awful UI design.  Their in-your-face approach to t... Microsoft Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:34:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/11/11/2007-Norton-Confidential-Browser-Helper-A-really-bad-implementation http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/11/3/Microsoft-Teams-up-with-Novell-on-SUSE Microsoft's attack of open source really shines through on their recent agreement with Novell on SUSE Linux.  As the article puts it , "it's Microsoft's indication to Linux customers that the IP axe still hangs over customers who choose a b... Microsoft Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:07:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/11/3/Microsoft-Teams-up-with-Novell-on-SUSE http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/10/20/Vista-The-Road-Not-Taken Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" pretty much sums up how I feel about the upcoming release of Microsoft Vista.  While the choice made in the poem isn't certain if it was a good or bad choice, Vista is the fork in the road where... Microsoft Adobe Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:28:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/10/20/Vista-The-Road-Not-Taken http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/9/26/Microsoft-Releases-Wallop---Opportunity-for-Flash-Developers Microsoft is trying to tap into the social networking scene with the spin-off of Wallop, formerly one of Microsoft's research sandboxes.  The difference between MySpace and Wallop is that there will be no advertising on Wallop.  Wallop's bu... Microsoft Flash Adobe Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:14:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/9/26/Microsoft-Releases-Wallop---Opportunity-for-Flash-Developers http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/9/22/Tougher-DRM-in-Windows-Media-Player-11 The release notes for the beta  release of Windows Media Player 11 indicate that the DRM policy will be considerable tighter, most notably is the inability of moving your DRM'd media "Licenses" from computer to computer.  &nb... Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) Microsoft DRM Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:45:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/9/22/Tougher-DRM-in-Windows-Media-Player-11 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/9/7/Concern-of-high-DNS-traffic-load-with-Vista-and-IPv6 CNet reported that Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS believes that Windows Vista will cause some DNS servers to overload because Vista will perform an IPv6 lookup first, followed by an IPv4 lookup.  CNet also reported that Vista will be the ... Microsoft Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:11:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/9/7/Concern-of-high-DNS-traffic-load-with-Vista-and-IPv6 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/8/31/The-best-trackball-ever-and-its-discontinued Belatedly, I just discovered that Microsoft discontinued their Trackball Explorer sometime back in April of this year.  My work purchased one for me several years ago and it has been the best input device I've ever used.    I... Microsoft Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:44:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2006/8/31/The-best-trackball-ever-and-its-discontinued