Viewing by month: February 2008
300 CF Open-Source Projects and Counting!
Posted on Feb 05, 2008
I am very good about posting my weekly ColdFusion open-source updates but not so great at keeping up with the list that inspires them. Well, today I finally got around to updating the ColdFusion Open-Source List and it has hit a new milestone at 300 projects/resources. I am not sure how many authors there are, but I seem to be adding several every time I update, which means that not only is the list of projects growing rapidly but so is the list of authors. This is great news for the future of ColdFusion! (I remember when it was like 15 projects from Ray Camden and a handful of others ;) Thanks to all the contributors to open-source in ColdFusion. Keep up the good work.
CFUnited Interview - Ray Camden
Posted on Feb 05, 2008
Ray Camden is next in my series of interviews of speakers at this year's CFUnited conference. As ColdFusion's resident "Jedi Master", Ray probably needs no introduction, but he's getting one anyway. Ray has been among ColdFusion's most recognized and widely read, via his blog and books, people in ColdFusion. He is also ColdFusion's most prolific open-source developer, with an ever-growing array of projects and his work maintaining RIAForge. Raymond runs his own consulting company, Camden Media.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 4, 2008
Posted on Feb 04, 2008
Two new releases and five updates this week. For the record, this is the first version of this post written entirely by my new AIR application which worked awesome. Instead of a couple hours of copy/pasting, I got this post written in less than thirty minutes. It's like the Domino's Pizza of round-up posts only less greasy and more informative.
AIR Basics - Building My First AIR Application
Posted on Feb 01, 2008
I have been intending on diving into Adobe AIR since it was released, but up until now I mainly developed the sample applications that come with the O'Reilly pocket guides. Well, as I hinted in this week's open source update, I finally got around to building a legitimate (even if simple) AIR application. While this application is specifically designed for me, as it helps me build the open-source update lists for each week (saving me potentially hours of time formatting the content), building it required some use of features in AIR like accessing the file system and calling remote REST API's (in this case for Google Notebook). Therefore, I figure I will share how I built it to help some of you who may be in the same situation (i.e. wanting to get started with AIR but not sure where to begin). As a brief caveat, I won't pretend that everything I do here is best practice, it was a "quickie" app that has an intended audience of one. However, if those of you who know Flex and AIR better than I do have some suggestions for improvement, please do share.