This neat little tool called SQL Prompt will plug a hole in many of the tools I use on a semi-daily basis; intellisense functionality in most editors you'd care to use for SQL authoring. And the price is right :) (yeah, that means free)

It looks like there's some great stuff there, gonna check it out as soon as I find the time. Especially the Coldfusion + Flex stuff! http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/06/adobe-developer-week-sessions.php

At work I'm currently using Macromedia Adobe Captivate to create software demos & instructions, and it's a great tool with loads of timesaving features. But it's also a reasonably expensive tool for its narrow purpose. But I just discovered Wink, a freeware application that seems to work in a similar way. I've installed it and plan to give it some proper testing over the next few days.

Finally came across some easy and resource friendlier (than I've been using so far) tips on handling information from digital camera files in Coldfusion. Seth Duffey has some tips on reading exif information and making a histogram from jpegs. He's also the developer of the rather cool CFCPhotoblog.

I'm not much of a summer person. I don't handle heat too well, and I don't particularly enjoy some of the stuff commonly associated with summer. But there are a few things I really love about summer as well; such as BBQs... bright nights... and... pakistani mangos! So, what's so special about this then? After all it's only available for a short time during summer, costs more, and are smaller than its better known brazilian cousin that's grown all over the place (South Africa, Israel, Australia, etc) and which is available all year. Well, first of all it's the taste and consistency, it's much sweeter and juicier, and it has far less tough fibers than its brazilian cousin. The taste is also distinctively different. It's excellent for serving together with fresh strawberries grown in sunlight. Which is great considering the two harvests coincide perfectly here in Norway :) One of the reasons for this excellent quality fruit is that while normal mango that reach Europe is picked before it's ripe, pakistani mangos are left on the trees until they're ripe, then shipped express to europe (often by plane). This makes a world of a difference, but also means the risk is greater for the distributors and retailers. I guess that's part of the reason why you never find these in normal grocery chains in Oslo, but only in the smaller shops that specialize in fruit and vegetables, commonly run by shopkeepers of asian origins. Some links: Mango The King of all Fruits Mangofeber (Norwegian)