Coldfusion
ColdFusion Users Group in Orlando, FL?
Brian LeGros posted looking for people interested in joining a newly created Orlando ColdFusion users group yesterday. For as many ColdFusion programmers as there are in Orlando and Central Florida, it’s surprising there hasn’t been an active group in a number of years — since before ColdFusion 7 and then some. If you’re interested head [...]
Yahoo Announces ColdFusion Developer Center
Tonight Yahoo decided to add ColdFusion to the Yahoo Developer Center. The developer page includes some How-To’s for working with Yahoo REST web services as well as a few other code samples and a link to Raymond Camdens Yahoo package on Riaforge. Great work getting this up there!
ColdCourse Updated for Nicer URLs Regardless of Hosting
One of the biggest limiting factors of ColdCourse was that in order to get the full effect you needed to have a host that supported .htaccess files or have access to install an isapi filter on IIS. Not anymore though! Now you can create SES URLs regardless of your OS or host as long as [...]
How Do You Create and Populate Your Database?
Getting a database setup and populated with some sample data is almost inevitably one of the first things to happen once development on a project begins. Even still I don’t know of any good way to set this up in ColdFusion. Basically there needs to be a way of creating your database as code so [...]
ColdFusion is NOT Dying
If you’ve been keeping up with recent ColdFusion news, ComputerWorlds recent article, The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills rated ColdFusion as the #5 dying skill. If you’re wanting a bit more unresearched comments, you can also read the Digg comments for this one.
Rebuttals have been made all around the blogosphere including responses by [...]
Want to See Into ColdFusion’s Future?
Matt Woodward recently attended a talk on The Future of ColdFusion up in the DC area where a number of ColdFusion evangelists spoke about what’s in store for the language. Matt put together a detailed ColdFusion 8 overview which contains references to just about all publically available information all in one place. On another note, [...]
Validation, Business and Functional
The recent discussion of Form Validation - How do you do it?, had me wondering just what might be involved in creating an easy to use validation framework. It’s a task that might seem easy, but when you get down to all the special cases it’s anything but. ColdFusion is a language designed around rapid [...]
Creating Top Level User URLs with Coldcourse
Someone asked me the other day if it would be possible to create URLs where a users username was the first thing in the URL. Something like http://localhost/AdamFortuna for example. This is usually a problem because any rules defined as such would usually conflict with your default controller, making the previous link go to [...]
cf.Objective() Recap?
cf.Objective(), ColdFusions Enterprise Development Conference, was this past weekend in Minnesota. Although I didn’t make it this year, I’ve been impressed by the amazing number of blog posts the ColdFusion community has been making. Here’s a few comprehensive blogs that have posted very detailed accounts of the sessions they attended:
Brian LeGros posted a write [...]
Using hReview with Wordpress
Back in January I mentioned a hReview plugin for Wordpress that I’ve been using primarily for book reviews. But what exactly is hReview? According to Microformats.org:
hReview is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding reviews (of products, services, businesses, events, etc.) in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hReview is one of several microformats [...]
