Australian IT is Dead
Talk about a slow news day... the most exciting piece of journalism out of the Australian IT press this week appears to be an expired trial edition of ColdFusion on a Government web site. I mean seriously...

Nectarine: Real World Animation
The boys and girls at Nectarine have finally released their marvellous Real World animation. Folks may have seen a sneak peak of this during their presentation at MXDU. A fantastic mixture of 2D Flash animation, and more visceral 3D modelling to put together a professional music video.

Upgrading mySQL from 4.0 to 4.1
What should have been a simple exercise turned into a bit of a nightmare. Upgrading mySQL 4.0 to 4.1 bit a chunk out of my virtual leg. Here are a couple of tricks for new players.

Meet Flash, Flex, Sparkles and the rest of the Team
The keynotes at MXDU 2005 were treated to another pair of fabulous animated intro sequences from Nectarine. Minty's team worked up some magic in the spirit of the Incredibles. The intros have been modified for the web and doctored to protect the innocent.

Documentation tools and other cosmic forces
Every project we seem to find ourselves documenting with a new fangled approach. We've been searching for that Dharmic principle on documentation that will make the pain go away. So far it has eluded us.

TOP and LIMIT in different databases
Rather than specialising in one particular database platform we seem to be moving to support more and more in recent years. With the release of FarCry CMS to open source we now support MS SQL, Oracle, Postgresql and mySQL database servers. Funny that for a language that is seemingly standardised how many little idiosyncracies SQL has across different databases.

Verity Idiosyncrasies: Commas and Spaces
Sometimes folks have trouble with Verity search results not behaving quite as they expect. For example, searching for multiple keywords might be bringing back unexpected results.

When CFDUMP has no style
When you use CFDUMP you can sometimes get outputs that have no style attached. For example, if you use CFDUMP within a CFMAIL tag and also dump debugging data onto the screen.