Robert Diamond

From time to time we receive e-mails from CFDJ readers, sent by beginners and advanced developers alike, asking us what we think about a particular hosting company or seeking our opinion as to what a "first-time" developer should be looking for in terms of offered features and p... (more)

It was a bright, sunny day when, after years of construction, Disneyland opened in California in 1955, proclaiming itself the theme park of the future. Unfortunately, as good as it all looked, the park wasn't quite as ready for the hordes of visitors as it thought it was. On open... (more)

0kay, that title might be considered about two months late by some, but please read on. For some people the most wonderful time of the year falls in the holiday season when friends, family and - best of all - presents surround them. For ColdFusion developers, though, this time of... (more)

Telematics - the marriage of cellular wireless technology and Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite location - gave birth to a plethora of new services that provide automobile drivers with added safety, security, and convenience. Mercedes-Benz was an early proponent, and as i... (more)

It could help improve the safety of vessels at sea. It could help with fighting terrorism. Doug Cline is a man with a mission: to introduce wireless vessel tracking to the maritime world. Here WBT talks to Cline and his associates on the Foresight Project and learns that, while i... (more)

Our wonderful world of wireless is always a popular topic in the news these days. It is the latest "big thing" in the technology world, and unwired devices are one of the most quickly adopted technologies in history. Lately, though, cropping up alongside the product announcements... (more)

At a recent developer conference, I listened as the keynoter, Bruce Scott of PointBase (Scott cofounded Oracle in 1977, where he was coauthor and coarchitect of Oracle 1, 2, and 3), spoke about the problem of wireless bandwidth. He shared his thoughts on the subject, saying that ... (more)

On a recent business trip to Istanbul, I arrived to wall-to-wall coverage of the Telsim controversy. Motorola and Nokia have filed a $3-billion lawsuit against Telsim, the second leading wireless provider in Turkey, alleging that Turkey's Uzan family borrowed all of that money wi... (more)

On a recent business trip to Istanbul, I arrived to wall-to-wall coverage of the Telsim controversy. Motorola and Nokia have filed a $3-billion lawsuit against Telsim, the second leading wireless provider in Turkey, alleging that Turkey's Uzan family borrowed all of that money wi... (more)

Beep, beep, beep goes my alarm clock on an average weekday morning. I roll out of bed and pick it up, but I don't just absentmindedly search for the snooze button as I usually do - instead I pick it up and, flipping open the lid, point it at my TV. Through its infrared transmitte... (more)

A cool, mobile gadget for network admins I worked for an ISP. We were on one of the top floors. The servers were several floors below. This meant that when you got the call that there was a server problem, you often had to get up and ride the elevator down to check the machine. ... (more)

Somewhere in my life, apart from being editor-in-chief of CFDJ and running the Web Services Department at SYS-CON Publications, I have a bit of spare time during which I work on a few other Web sites. One of them is the official site for entertainer Michael Crawford (the original... (more)

When I first began my outline for this month's editorial, I realized I couldn't possibly fit everything in. With topics ranging from the excitement of the Allaire Conference, whose phenomenal success and fast sellout is a testament to the growing success of ColdFusion, to the ama... (more)

I was first introduced to ColdFusion almost three years ago when one of the programmers in SYS-CON's Web Services Department suggested we implement it in a few different places on one of our Web sites. As the department manager I said, "Sure, sounds good...By the way, what the he... (more)