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2008 Codie Awards: Adobe ColdFusion 8, Captivate, & Connect
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Moving my Blog
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Atlanta talk on static v dynamic typing
On February 1, 2006 I'll be speaking at the Atlanta CFUG (www. acfug.org) on static v. dynamic typing and why I think so
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Railo adds a cluster scope
Railo introduced yesterday the cluster scope. In a nutshell, you can register all servers in a cluster and Railo will automatically sync the scope across all nodes. The caveat at the moment is that it only supports simple types (simple values, arrays
ColdBox Training Partnership with Rachel Queen Services Group, LLC and Ortus Solutions, Corp
As previously announced, ColdBox is in the midst of a transition from an Open Source Software project to a Professional Open Source Software project. It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce yet another step in this transition: a new st
cflocation vs getPageContext().forward() = java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
How can help me with this? My home page was throwing some "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError : Java heap space" errors and I traced it down to a getPageContext().forward("/blog")... It turns out that after I switched it per a <cflocat
Speaking at the NYCFUG
I will be speaking at the New York ColdFusion User Group this Wednesday, April 16, with the topic of "AJAXify Your ColdFusion Applications". I promise it will be fun, a good learning experience, and perhaps we may even go out afterwards and
ColdExt: Another ColdFusion wrapper for EXT
After blogging about Dan's great EXT cf wrapper, I ran across another one today: ColdExt. It looks great as well, so how about Dan and Justin join efforts instead of doubling work...?
ColdFusion Wins Jolt For Best Web Development
ColdFusion 8 won the Product Excellence in the Web Development category at the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards, as announced yoday.
cfext: ColdFusion wrapper for EXT
Dan Vega has been working on ColdFusion custom tag wrappers for EXT, and let me tell you, it looks pretty amazing.Ext is an EXTremely powerful JavaScript library which I mostly use to develop RIA and heavy desktop-like applications. However, CF8 ship
New Faces at CFUnited 2008
This year's CFUnited is going to be great again... they added more tracks and consolidated the frameworks conference into it.I want to publicly congratulate two of my very talented friends, which I have seen grow the last couple of years and I'm prou
New York ColdFusion User Group (NYCFUG) revamped
Amazing news for the residents of New York: two of my good friends and phenomenal talented friends are taking over the NYCFUG. Ben Nadel and Clark Valberg are replacing Judith and Michael Dinowitz who after ten years fairly deserve a break.Congratula
ColdBox Nightly Builds, courtesy of ANT
ColdBox nightly builds are now available at http://www.coldboxframework.com/downloads/nightlybuild/coldboxNB.zipIt was easily accomplished using ANT, not sure why we didn't do this before.Enjoy.
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Food Dial, a Facebook RIA Application Written in Flex
M@ wrote: I really like the UI, although choosing from the outer wheel is a little complicated - you need to be precise. I was going to complain there wasn't much data in there - until I realized that's the point! So I uploaded a recipe and had to add most of the ingredients to...
'Jazz' up Your Applications with Open Source Java
Stephen Boston wrote: The Jazzy source code link in the article works and I could download it just fine. But having never used Eclipse before I was a bit thrown off by where to place the Jazzy com folder. It goes in src I discovered after a bit of hair pulling. :) Before I d...
Viewpoint: Not Every ColdFusion Developer Should Be A Flex Developer
Adobe Staffer wrote: Maybe you should change the title to Things to Consider When Developing Flex Applications. It's not necessary to belittle other CF developers who may have had challenges adapting to Flex.
VirtenSys Demonstrates PCI Express Based I/O Virtualization
Virtualization news for the channel community and you ! wrote: Trackback Added: VirtenSys Demonstrates PCI Express Based I/O Virtualization; VirtenSys has developed a PCI Express based I/O technology that virtualizes and shares off-the-shelf I/O adapters among multiple ...
Extending CFFORM with Customized JavaScript Validation
Joel wrote: Your CFFORM validation doesn't seem to work with CF8 -- when I try it.. the ONSUBMIT is rewritten by CF to be: onsubmit="return _CF_chec kregistration(this)
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