http://blog.monochrome.co.uk Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:54:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Disclamer In first words - no, of course it is not broken, it is working fine. But there is a specific issue with these two methods that when the socket server is implemented incorrectly and people may look for the solution using what's in the title. I just finished writing an ActionScript ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/06/xmlsocketsend-socketwriteutfbytes-doesnt-work/ I'd like to kick off this first blog in my new editorial content role at Monochrome Limited with a reference to the way we approach editorial content as part of the web design and development process. Clear and concise communication can seem like a hard thing to achieve in this age ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/05/communication-nation/ On Tuesday night the UKCFUG had the pleasure of Ben Forta, Mr Evangelism at Adobe, coming over to give us all a run-down on the latest news in the ColdFusion world, and what's up and coming in the long awaited next version of ColdFusion, Centaur (or 9 as it will ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/04/the-bentaur-hits-london/ Want to know more about ColdFusion's future? Want to learn more about Flex, LCDS and AIR? And how ColdFusion integrates with them? Then come to the UKCFUG meeting on Tuesday 21 April at the Adobe's Regent Park offices in London at 7pm for a special meeting with Ben Forta. So ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/04/ukcfug-21-april-ben-forta-on-the-future-of-coldfusion/ Adobe announced today that ColdFusion has been announced one of the top four application servers available just behind Websphere, Geronimo and Windows Server. Those are some pretty well respected and prolific servers right there, so it's good to see ColdFusion kicking with the big boys.This report is the latest in ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/03/coldfusion-ranked-in-top-four-application-servers-by-developers/ Recently I found myself in the deep dark world of buying the various multi-colored accessories required to support a new born baby. Amongst the various things I needed to buy was a new baby monitor, as for some reason, our old one had decided to pack up completely in the ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/03/feature-upselling/ One of the things that I have been looking at a lot recently is the definition of what we, as a team, are building - a commonly missed task by many teams which can often lead to cowboy coding.Now, there are many viewpoints on how this can be done, the ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/03/agile-requirements-how-do-you-eat-yours/ This month both Google and Yahoo have introduced a new way to prevent duplicate content appearing on search results. It is achieved by simply adding a <link> tag in your header (on the page that is like another page) and set it to point to the permalink for a ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/02/alleviating-duplicate-content-on-google/ Dear Mr. Architect:Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/02/if-architects-had-to-work-like-software-developers/ Something we have been looking at a lot recently is testing in the Ruby on Rails framework and how we can use it to make our lives easier day to day - one of the core underpinnings of the Rails ethos. One of the biggest boons for us is the ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/01/continuous-integration-with-atlassians-bamboo-and-rails/