Archive for February, 2008

phpBB3 user authentication with ColdFusion

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Shan

I needed to quickly authenticate some phpBB3 users in a Flex application, and figured that it’d be no problem. Boy, was I wrong. phpBB does some neat dynamic password hashing trick that, to someone with no php experience like myself, looked to be too complex to emulate in CF.
After some searching, I found this post [...]

Flash on the iPhone?

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Shan

First time I’ve heard rumors that Flash was actually on it’s way to the iPhone.
http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q108-flash-on-iphone-is-just-around-the-corner/
I have faith that this will happen, even if it has to wait till Adobe gets access to the SDK along with the rest of the world. Let’s hope it’s already done, and they’re just testing it.

CFUnited Hotel available

Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Shan

So they just announced the hotel for CFUnited this year. Remembering being stuck in hotels miles away the past couple years, I immediately went and registered. Already, they’re out of rooms available for a Sunday checkout. So for those of us flying in, we’re kind of stuck with whatever our last flight out is on [...]