I ran into an annoying one today. I have code that has been working for years, and recently moved lots of the core processing into a CFC. And everything kept working properly. I then started tinkering with Flash Remoting, and everything kept working properly. And then I tried invoking CFC methods...
It's been a while since I spoke to a CFUG in Chicago, and so I am pleased to announce that I'll be in the windy city next week (October 8th) at the Loyola University Chicago's Water Tower Campus (in beautiful downtown). Details are on the CFUG web site at http://www.cccfug.org/. See you there!
I just received a package in the mail from my publisher. It contained the seventh translation of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes", this time into Bahasa Indonesia (published by Gramedia Toko Buku http://commerce.i2.co.id/gramedia/product.asp?sku=14054). I don't speak or read the language,...
As requested, I have posted a FlashPaper version of the "Undocumented ColdFusion MX 6.1" presentation that I have used in user group presentations. The URL is http://www.forta.com/cf/resources/flash/CFMX_61_Undocumented.swf. This presentation keeps evolving, each time I discover or am informed of...
Over the past few months I have met with over twenty user groups, briefed about a dozen members of press, visited dozens of customer sites in numerous countries, and addressed more conferences than I can recall. In all, I have had the opportunity to chat about ColdFusion with hundreds (or...
Flash now supports SOAP and Flash Remoting as ways to connect to back-end systems. From a ColdFusion perspective there is little difference, a CFC method can be invoked either way, but internally much is different. FlashORB has done a great job of comparing the two and benchmarking the results. See...
It's been a while since I was last in Brazil, and so I'm excited to announce that I'll be visiting South America's largest country again in October (I have been craving a genuine caipirinha, but that is not the primary objective for the trip, I promise). The trip will be during the week of October...
As mentioned previously, I have been actively soliciting user input as to future ColdFusion directions and features. I have received several requests for additional internet protocol tags, including (to access newsgroups), (read and perform DNS lookups), (as its name suggests, and could also return...
Windows users are familiar with .ini files, those plain text files that are really useful for storing configuration data and things like that. Java has a similar type of file, a properties file (usually with a .properties extension), and a set of APIs (rather ugly APIs, actually, in...
I just arrived back in the U.S. after two weeks in Japan and Europe. Spending less than 18 hours in each of England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands this week meant that I barely got online to check e-mail, never mind to post blog entries. My trip had two objectives: 1) brief partners and...