June 24, 2009
Presenting At Usergroup In Toronto Tonight
I am on my way to Toronto for tonight's usergroup presentation on ColdFusion and Flex. Details posted online .
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June 22, 2009
Check Out tBlurb.com
Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist (and recent ColdFusion devotee) Greg Wilson has created tBlurb.com , an app that lets you enter code and get a short URL to it for sharing (you can choose your own or let it pick it for you). The app features a rich text editor, and supports ActionScript, C++, C#,...
June 22, 2009
Presenting Tonight At Usergroup In San Francisco
I am in San Francisco for a few days of meetings, video shoots, and more (almost all MAX 2009 related). But tonight I'll get to do what I really enjoy doing, presenting to our usergroups. I'll be presenting ColdFusion and Flash Builder futures to the BACFUG group this evening at 6:30pm in the Adobe...
June 21, 2009
More On ColdFusion And Spreadsheets
Last week I posted an entry on the spreadsheet support planned for ColdFusion Centaur . That post (unsurprisingly) generated lots of questions and comments, and so I thought it worthwhile to post a bigger and more sophisticated example, this time building a new spreadsheet from scratch. We'll start...
June 21, 2009
For Now, Avoid Kindle Version of My RegEx Book
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes has proven to be a very popular book, and tens of thousands of developers have used it to get started with Regular Expressions. The book teaches RegEx incrementally, and for each example a block of text is used, and matching text is shaded to...
June 21, 2009
Executing Code On Server Startup
ColdFusion can execute code when an application starts and ends, when a session starts and ends, when a request starts and ends, and more. But what if you need to execute code when a server starts up? Granted, this is not a common use case, but when needed, we've had to use onApplicationStart for...
June 20, 2009
The New ColdFusion LOCAL Scope
ColdFusion developers have long known to ensure that local variables remain local by using the "var" keyword to define them. Here's an example: In the above snippet, two variables are created. The first variable uses the var keyword to ensure that the variable is local to the function, and if the...
June 19, 2009
Look, No Datasource
Look at this code snippet. Notice anything odd about it? SELECT * FROM art ORDER BY ArtName Yep, the tag in the above snippet is missing the DATASOURCE attribute. And yet, this code works. Why? Take a look at this Application.cfc file: In ColdFusion Centaur you can now specify an application wide...
June 18, 2009
ColdFusion Powered Proxyclick Feeds Locals (Including Microsoft Employees) And Wins Awards
Belgian software company Proxyclick positions itself as a "life improvement platform". Their primary application is ColdFusion powered Click'n Lunch and is used by employees at lots of local companies (including Microsoft Belgium) to order lunch and more. And the app just won the B2B BeCommerce...
June 18, 2009
ColdFusion Functionality Exposed As Services
Have you ever stopped to think about just how much functionality is baked into ColdFusion? We use to work with databases, allowing for highly flexible and dynamic SQL as well as query caching and more, and this is powered by a sophisticated internal engine. We use tags like and expect charts to be...
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