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Evony Review a Free Flash / Flex Game

For all those that don't know, Evony is an online real time strategy game. It is written in Flex & Flash and thus runs in your browser and takes download / software installation or updates. I first stumbled across it after seeing the advertisement so many times, I decided to have a look.From the first time I signed up and started playing, I was hooked. There are a large number of buildings, technologies and troops that can be built over time and the levels of units are deep and well balanced.A lot of these types of games, I have trouble (translate)

What will the ColdFusion IDE Bolt be named?

Flex Builder will change names at version 4 to Flash Builder 4. This is a move that I support, there is confusion between what Flash / Flex really is, and I think this naming change both removes the confusion and strengthens the Flash brand.This got me thinking about what Bolt should be named. Firstly I really hope that Bolt is just a code name, because if you search for Bolt you mainly get references to the Dog Movie. Secondly, like strengthening the brand, it needs to strengthen the brand of either ColdFusion or CFML.I would propose eitherColdFusion BuilderCFML BuilderI prefer (translate)

Windows 7 RC Build 7100

Been working with Windows RC Build 7100 now for a couple weeks, found it to be even better then previous releases. Ie8 is now final and doesn't seem to crash which was my biggest issue with earlier releases.It also seems faster again, although that might be due to the reinstall.I also noticed they changed the default window sounds, it's amazing how they stand out, compared to the old sounds that you were so used to you hardly noticed. (translate)

Windows 7 Is Ready For Release

Ive been running on Windows 7 now for a couple weeks on my work computer, and it is awsome. I have two identical laptops, both Dell XPS 1530's one at home, one at work.The home one I still have running Vista Home Premium. I can honestly say I have more issues at home than at work, Outlook always wants to repair on Vista, works fine on Windows 7.Every single device on my Dell worked with Windows 7, I didn't have to install a single driver from Dell. Im running Windows 7 64 bit, and so I get to take advantage (translate)

My thoughts on Bolt

I have been thinking about Bolt and what it will offer. And while I'm keen on the idea of an official ColdFusion IDE, I was wondering why Adobe are doing this and why now.I will almost certainly adopt Bolt, not just me but our team here where I work. But it will come down to one thing, price!If they charge for Bolt, which I think they will, it had better be worth it, after all I currently use CFEclipse on Flex Builder, and that works fine, so what are the benefits for the dollars.One line of thinking is that ColdFusion (translate)

iPhone Missing Features - Email

This is the first in a series of posts I'm going to make about the iPhone. After months of use, its just amazing that they iPhone is missing core features that I need and want, I was holding off thinking they will be included with the next update, but they don't seem to be coming.This post I will talk about the features missing in Email.You can only view 200 messages, that's like a day's worth for me, useless, cant get to messages I received or sent last week. The blackberry had a last 30 days option, with the iPhone memory (translate)

How Close is ColdFusion 9?

Am looking at setting up some new servers which will require some additional ColdFusion licencing. But was wondering how far ColdFusion 9 is.I don't want to be one of those people who buys a licence and then a week later sees the post of anyone who buys now gets a free upgrade to ColdFusion 9 and I've wasted my money.Reading between the lines of a lost of posts etc, it seems pretty close to me, but I'm not sure if that means 3 months or 6. While I might be able to hold off 3, 6 will be a stretch.So (translate)

ColdFusion 9 Needs ActionScript Support

I've talked about this in part in other posts and on other blogs. It seems everyone I talk to about it thinks its a good idea, but that doesn't mean it will happen.What am I taking about, well it is now common knowledge that ColdFusion 9 will support full script syntax, that means that if you wish you can write all your cfc's without a single tag.Great, cant wait, there is no place for tags in clases IMHO, and yes they are classes as far as I am concerned not components.Adobe are on a big push about how ColdFusion 9 (translate)

Windows 7 Beta Rocks

Ok,I'm not sure I ever installed a beta of Windows before, not sure what it was that drove me to want to install this one, perhaps the fact that Vista is slow or to use 64 bit and take advantage of all my Ram.But I don't regret it, I'm not one for half jumping in, install in a VM or a separate Partition, I just reformatted my entire work Laptop and installed from the 64 bit ISO.The install was a breeze, the speed of the whole thing is much quicker than Vista, I swear Vista must have a for (i=0; (translate)

Please test your site in IE.

This is really annoying, I use IE almost exclusivly. But more and more, I am finding problems with major sites not working with IE.I then proceed to try them in FireFox and they work, now you might say well just use FireFox, but that is not the point, there is nothing wrong with IE, this is a problem of lazy developers failing to test their code properly in multiple browsers.Our company uses one site in particular, which I wont name, and I contacted them to tell them that half their site doesn't work in IE. Their answer, was it works (translate)

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