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First Bangalore ColdFusion Usergroup

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:16:00 -0400

The inaugural meeting of the newly formed Bangalore ColdFusion Usergroup will take place July 09, 2009, at the Adobe Bangalore office. ColdFusion engineering team members will present ColdFusion Centaur and Bolt. Details posted online.

ColdFusion Positions In Iraq, KS, and MA

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:30:00 -0400

Three ColdFusion positions this week, including one in Iraq: Vykin Corporation (company based in Florida, but position is in Iraq) is looking for a ColdFusion and Flex developer with secret security clearances for the US Department of Defense in I...

Toronto Wraps My Usergroup Presentations

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:22:00 -0400

Last night I presented ColdFusion, Flex, and more to a joint meeting of the local Flex and ColdFusion groups. The group took a little while to warm up, but then really got going. The session ran over 2 hours and was highly interactive. Big winners...

Presenting At Usergroup In Toronto Tonight

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:42:00 -0400

I am on my way to Toronto for tonight's usergroup presentation on ColdFusion and Flex. Details posted online.

Check Out tBlurb.com

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:02:00 -0400

Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist (and recent ColdFusion devotee) Greg Wilson has created tBlurb.com, an app that lets you enter code and get a short URL to it for sharing (you can choose your own or let it pick it for you). The app features a rich te...

Presenting Tonight At Usergroup In San Francisco

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:19:00 -0400

I am in San Francisco for a few days of meetings, video shoots, and more (almost all MAX 2009 related). But tonight I'll get to do what I really enjoy doing, presenting to our usergroups. I'll be presenting ColdFusion and Flash Builder futures to the...

More On ColdFusion And Spreadsheets

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:09:00 -0400

Last week I posted an entry on the spreadsheet support planned for ColdFusion Centaur. That post (unsurprisingly) generated lots of questions and comments, and so I thought it worthwhile to post a bigger and more sophisticated example, this time buil...

For Now, Avoid Kindle Version of My RegEx Book

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:12:00 -0400

My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes has proven to be a very popular book, and tens of thousands of developers have used it to get started with Regular Expressions. The book teaches RegEx incrementally, and for each example a bloc...

Executing Code On Server Startup

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:31:00 -0400

ColdFusion can execute code when an application starts and ends, when a session starts and ends, when a request starts and ends, and more. But what if you need to execute code when a server starts up? Granted, this is not a common use case, but when ...

The New ColdFusion LOCAL Scope

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:44:00 -0400

ColdFusion developers have long known to ensure that local variables remain local by using the "var" keyword to define them. Here's an example: In the above snippet, two variables are created. The first variable uses the var ke...

Look, No Datasource

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:47:00 -0400

Look at this code snippet. Notice anything odd about it? SELECT * FROM art ORDER BY ArtName Yep, the <CFQUERY> tag in the above snippet is missing the DATASOURCE attribute. And yet, this code works. Why? Take a look at this Applicatio...

ColdFusion Powered Proxyclick Feeds Locals (Including Microsoft Employees) And Wins Awards

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:23:00 -0400

Belgian software company Proxyclick positions itself as a "life improvement platform". Their primary application is ColdFusion powered Click'n Lunch and is used by employees at lots of local companies (including Microsoft Belgium) to order ...

ColdFusion Functionality Exposed As Services

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:58:00 -0400

Have you ever stopped to think about just how much functionality is baked into ColdFusion? We use <CFQUERY> to work with databases, allowing for highly flexible and dynamic SQL as well as query caching and more, and this is powered by a sophist...

Rethinking MAX BOFs

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:30:00 -0400

I just posted some thoughts on MAX BOFs over on the Adobe MAX blog.

LiveCycle Data Services3 Now On Labs

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:33:00 -0400

LiveCycle Data Services 3 is now in beta and available for download on Labs. Product Manager Anil Channappa has posted details on what's new in LCDS 3.