TeraTech won the CFDJ (ColdFusion Developers Journal) Readers Choice award for best ColdFusion consulting company world wide for the fifth year in a row. TeraTech was runner up for best training company, best product CFXGraphicsserver and best community website (CFConf).
Mindmapping for better programs
I will be speaking about Mindmapping for better programs at the CFUNITED/Express event in New York on 3/8/07. http://www.cfunitedexpress.com/ Mindmapping is a way to visually work with ideas that was invented in 1970 by Tony Buzan. Now used by millions of people worldwide, mindmapping uses both the left (logical) and right (visual) sides of the […]
Multi Version of Internet Explorer on Same PC
When you need to test a web page with multiple browsers in order to get the page rendering the same, there are some limitations. Normally, there can be only one installed version of Internet Explorer on one PC. But there are some different ways of having multiple Internet Explorer versions on one PC. The easy […]
Flex 2.0.1 Is Here!
Hi All, The new year brought in new hope (a hope for some snow), new resolutions, and a new version of Flex! So what can you look forward to in this new release? Here are just a few of the feaures and improvements I find exciting. Flex Builder is now officially available for the Mac […]
Programming Language Inventor test
Sometimes when spending hours fixing a bug it seems that programming language inventors have fedishly clever minds designed to torture us programmers. Can you tell the difference between programming language inventors and serial killers? http://www.mattround.freeserve.co.uk/files/killerquiz.swf While programming languages can sometimes be frustrating, it’s important to remember that they were designed to make our lives easier. […]
ColdFusion captcha
Someone recently asked me “what tools are available to CFers to make one of those dynamic graphic images with embedded text used for requiring a human to read and enter what they see in an input box?” In this case knowing the name of what you want to do will let you google for it […]
PowerPoint-to-go!
TeraTech recently got the chance to turn around a challenging project for a large governmental organization. A contractor had tried unsuccessfully for a year to automate a series of PowerPoint-generation routines based on extremely large, unwieldy sets of survey data. The survey data changes frequently, and it needs to be aggregated in various ways including […]
Where’s That Bus?
As a result of our past work on WMATA’s successful Trip Planner application (www.wmata.com/), TeraTech is currently working on another major transit project. The client is a major transit authority, and the ultimate result will be real-time bus data for its customers, available via web browser, cell phone or PDA. Two separate sources of internal […]