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In march 2009 a new application server that runs CFML was introduced to the community as an open source free application server in its both versions (personal, server). Coldfusion communities are becoming larger than ever before and the community needed such step forward to encourage the competition in the open source world. Railo promised that all coldfusion applications can run easily without any change on Railo application server. It is also goo to know that railo war file can be installed on any JEE based application server to run CFML on existing application server including JBOSS and Apache in addition to Resin. For more information and downloads please visit Railo .

Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system. Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost netbooks, but will eventually be used on PCs as well. Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010. "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," the firm said in its official blog. For full article press here

I'm one of Obama's fans since the day I heard him making a speech. He has the character of a great leader. It is not fare to compare him to his predecessor G.W. Bush. I listened to his victory speech more than 10 times, and I really feel jealous of the American people for having such a great leader. One of the best speeches I ever heard from a western leader was his speech addressing the future of the US relationship with the Islamic word. His speech was courageous speech for posterity. I embedded his speech in Cairo below, enjoy: Obama full speech text: I am honoured to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud ...

Google introduced lately a new communication, collaboration, email and message system called wave. Google wave will be released late this year 2009. Below is a video by Google wave development team, enjoy.

I just found recently a new search engine called bing actually bing is not a normal search engine it is more into decision assistance engine where it assist you in making you decision for instance when booking a summer holiday or planning to go our for dinner. Please find below a video overview of this new era of search engines: You may access the search engine on this link

To develop a success Facebook application and make your application popular you need to enable a story publishing on the wall of the members who uses your application. To do so in coldfusion what you have to do is to follow the tutorials by Gavin Vincent ( Using json and the Feed Preview Console ) In the tutorial by Gavin, to publish the story on your wall you have the member must publish the story by pressing on the publish story button, but how can you enforce members to publish the story to make your application more popular? It is so simple to do so, but how? First of all make your application, the form and the action, in the action page don't publish your application result, ask the user to press on a continue button, this button is the feedstory form, then when the user gets the JSON publish story popup window and press on publish he will be able to see the result, see the following code: <cfset json = '{"content": {"feed": {"template_id":...

In business management, micromanagement is a management style where a manager closely observes or controls the work of their employees, generally used as a pejorative term. In contrast to giving general instructions on smaller tasks while supervising larger concerns, the micromanager monitors and assesses every step. Micromanagement is generally used as a negative term Micromanagement may arise from internal sources, such as concern for details, increased performance pressure, or insecurity. It can also be seen as a tactic used by managers to eliminate unwanted employees, either by creating standards employees cannot meet leading to termination, or by creating a stressful workplace causing the employee to leave. The worker who is micromanaged will reason, "Why can't my boss just let me do my job and leave me alone? What mistakes are they looking for now?" Too much micromanagement can cost a company its best and brightest. Organization will lose mature, smart and highly sk...