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New Flash and ColdFusion Blog
Posted on Dec 20, 2006
A buddy of mine (and former coworker) is the primary Flash developer at Hasbro focused on their public internet properties which have slowly become very Flash-heavy. Anyway, he started his blog many months ago and he has started to put some good material up there for anyone interested in Flash development and ColdFusion integration into that. If these topics interest you, or you want to get into a discussion about how GoDaddy hosting sucks, you should check it out.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - December 18
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
While this was a relatively quiet week, we did get two new projects as well as an assortment of updates and announcements. As a side-note, since next Monday is Christmas, I will be taking my first week off from these updates since I started them back in April. Hope everyone has a happy holiday, and, if you happen to be in or around Boston tomorrow night, please join me at the "semi-official" Boston CFUG social for some holiday imbibing :)
Flex-based CF Code Generator Updates
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
I have promoted the Flex 2 based version of my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator from a branch to the official release version, and hereby deprecated the old HTML version (which is still available, however, via Subversion under the tags directory). I have also added a download version to the Google code page (this is a new feature) and updated the RIAForge download. Lastly, I started adding to the new Google code wiki - right now what is there is the existing documentation, but I hope to use page to expand on the provided docs. For those of you still using the HTML version and hesitant to move to the new one, here is a rundown of the features that you will only find in the Flex version:
- Ability to change DSN, Table and template on the fly - as in, no page loads, but also the HTML version made the templates tied to the DSN and this is no longer the case
- You can save generated code templates directly to a file - prior versions only allowed a copy/paste method
- CFProperty tags added to bean template - allows easier integration with Flex
- ActionScript Value Object template - again, primarily intended for Flex integration
- Transfer template included - ok, this was in older versions, but it wasn't nearly as easy to use
- Various bug fixes to generated code - thanks to everyone who has helped me to locate these ;)
- Refactored CF code - the behind the scenes ColdFusion code has been havily refactored to be cleaner, easier to understand and, if you choose, easier to modify
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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - December 11
Posted on Dec 11, 2006
No new releases to note this week, but some important updates and announcements, specifically I would like to highlight the updates to Transfer and Fusebox "under new management". On a somewhat related note, my site has officially moved to a VPS account at Vivio which should help with the (seemingly) endless stream of errors I was getting from my shared account at HostMySite. It was a painless move even including the transition from Windows to CentOS. Nonetheless, if you notice any issues, please let me know. In the process, I updated the open source list to use the 1.1.1 release of Mach II and the 0.6 release of Transfer without any apparent issue :) Oh, and I am trying a slightly revised format here that reflects the way I have been organizing projects in the recent posts.
Is this Blog Spamming at a Whole New Level?
Posted on Dec 06, 2006
Ever since I simplified my CAPTCHA I have been getting some comment spam, though not extensive, but frequent enough to cause me even to make some code modifications to try to end it. Nonetheless, some recent comment spam has taken this to a whole new level. I am going to remove them from the post, but I will actually include some excerpts here to show how completely insidous this comment spam is...so much so, it took me looking very closely to distinguish it from a wholly legitimate comment. This being my first experience with this I thought I would document for other bloggers to look out for.