Paul Hastings on Globalizing CFMX
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let's see if i remember how this blogging thing works ;-)
even in this age of twitter, SMS is still a popular form of mobile communication and one which ColdFusion handles quite nicely via it's SMS gateway. While it's shockingly easy to send and receive SMS via ColdFusion, one thing that i did …
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the icu4j project has just released version 4.01. its a regular maintenance release with the following changes (common across all flavors): Unicode 5.1
locale data: Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.6
charset converter file size improvement
date interval formatting (note only gregorian …
one of the challenges of trying to use timezones (tz) in an application is that there are so darned many of them--most of which aren't relevant to a given user. for example, have a look at the timezone CFC testbed. the list of tz just goes on and on (and on). you can narrow down the list somewhat …
bruno's released a new version of iText, 2.1.4. You can grab the binaries from:
core iText: iText-2.1.4.jar
RTF bits: iText-rtf-2.1.4.jar
RUPS: iText-rups-2.1.4.jar
the source (in several different formats) from here.
and of course you really want to
the unicode consortium just released a recommended reading list. there's even a couple in french & german.
i see one i don't have yet....off to amazon. you can never have enough books on unicode (or coldfusion for that matter) ;-)
i really feel for our turkish cf brethren, they always seem to be getting the short end of the stick. a couple of weeks ago there was an issue in the support forums with someone using turkish locale (tr_TR) that was having problems getting case right usin
if you have servers/workstations in Thailand you probably should know that as of aug-23rd every business computer in the kingdom has to set it's time to the new TST (Thai Standard Time) or get fined a wheelbarrow full of money (from 100,000 to 500,000 bah
my hair and fingernails starting following out. their's a gray pall over the whole landscape. the summer sun feels weak, like mid-winter. birds are dropping out of the sky. even the bugs stopped buzzing.
brett favre's a new york jet?
oh my.
got to hand it to the whedons. they had a problem with international viewers not being able to connect to the video. they publicly acknowledged the problem on the blog's blog and then i'll-be-darned they went and fixed the problem.
geez, they've left not
got up at the crack of dawn today to get on my bike and get my intervals out of the way early (nothing like starting the day with some physical agony, the rest of the day can only get better ;-) so i could watch the first episode of Doctor Horrible’s Si
