Viewing by month: July 2007
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 16
Posted on Jul 16, 2007
A busy week with four new projects and five updates. I hereby dub this the week of the tutorial with ten tutorial(ish) posts this week. In case you are wondering, I do in fact have the authority to dub weeks - its a provision my lobbyist had written into the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Ok...'nuff foolin'...
Some Tips on Using ColdSpring Remoting
Posted on Jul 16, 2007
As part of developing a training exercise (and in my continuing series on objects and composition), I was trying to work with ColdSpring's auto-magic remoting feature (check the documentation for more information on this feature). I ran into some issues that had me pulling my hair out, so to save you the headache, I will post the details here. The first has to do with the name of your ColdSpring factory variable and the second with the ColdFusion 8 beta and remoting.
5 Steps to Moving from BlogCFC to MachBlog
Posted on Jul 15, 2007
As part of a planned revamp of my web site (still in progress and only running locally at the moment), I planned to move from BlogCFC to MachBlog (for the why, read below). Of course, if you have been running a blog for some time, changing blog software can present a number of challenges. As blog software matures, it tends to build in a lot of resources for switching from other popular blogging software, but as MachBlog is a relative newcomer on the ColdFusion blogging scene, it offered a limited number of tools in this regard (though some WordPress, BlogFusion and an MSSQL BlogCFC script were provided). Thus, I wanted to share my process as well as code that can help in this transition (and hopefully some of this can be incorporated into the MachBlog project itself).
Cringely and the Future of Adobe
Posted on Jul 11, 2007
A friend sent me a link to another insightful article by Robert Cringely that I had missed about the future of Adobe and Flash. It represents a very interesting perspective not unlike ones I have seen before but with some differentiating insights into the how and why Flash's ubiquity can play a key role in Adobe's efforts to reinvent itself (as he puts it). The article is worth a read for sure, and I just wanted to jot down some thoughts and summarize a few points for my own (and hopefully your) benefit, in the end relating this back to our position as ColdFusion developers a bit.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 9
Posted on Jul 09, 2007
Three new projects and four updates to discuss this week. This week's edition is dedicated to the brilliant person/program managing the firewall that blocked Ray's site at my office. It is understandable given all the objectionable material Ray discusses on his blog like recent posts on a var scope "screw up" (yikes! he said screw!) and Boeing (OMG, is he talking about flashing?!?). Anyway, this delayed my post a bit, but here it is in all its glory! The man will not keep me down!