The last book you will ever read

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 11, 2008 on 6:38 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments So I've been thinking about this for quite some time now, and I figured today was as good as any other day to blog it. This may be a rather morbid blog post, but I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one here who has thought about what I'm about to ... [More]

 


Model-Glue 3 - Example of Custom Event Types

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 9, 2008 on 1:37 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Now that Model-Glue 3 has been announced and available for folks to play with, it's time to start working up some demos so folks can see stuff in action. Joe has included a few demos in the zip, but if I don't play with it myself, I don't learn. ... [More]

 


There is only one Spry…

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 9, 2008 on 12:08 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Today's picture of the day comes from Ben Nadel: Awesome. Now I just need to dig up a picture of the KIA Spectra. ;) And while I'm linking in pictures, for those who couldn't make it to cfObjective, or the Geek swarm (*) at Iron Man, here ...

 


Proposals for ColdFusion 9 - From the Enemy’s Camp

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 9, 2008 on 6:52 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Yesterday I was reading an interesting article (from Dzone): The future of PHP So why is an admitted ColdFusion fan-boy reading about PHP? As much as I love CF and think nothing compares to it (cue Sinead), I don't for one minute think that it... [More]

 


CFLOG and Permissions

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 8, 2008 on 3:01 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Here is an issue I've run into a few times in the recent months and I've never figured it out till thanks. Thanks go to cfconcepts@twitter for pointing me in the right direction. From time to time I've noticed that cflog would suddenly stop workin...

 


Ask a Jedi: Getting the current directory

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 8, 2008 on 8:05 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I sometimes like to start the morning off with an easy question. Makes me feel all smarty-pants and stuff. Here is a quickie from Patrick that may actually be news to some folks, so hopefully it will be easy for me - helpful for others. Hi Ray... [More]

 


Quick CFBL update and a minor LighthousePro update

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 7, 2008 on 12:11 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Two quickies for the lunch time crowd. As folks remember, I ran a "We are too dang fat" contest back in January. I was proud to say I went from 230 to 211 during the 10 week process. Today I went to the doctor (not for anything important) so I took t...

 


Running Model-Glue 3 on a box with Model-Glue 2

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 7, 2008 on 8:33 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Just a quick tip. If your box is setup to run Model-Glue2 already, you probably have a ColdFusion mapping set up for ModelGlue that points to the V2 framework. If you want to play with V3 but not mess up your V2 sites (not to imply Joe is anything le...

 


Ask a Jedi: Multiple templates and Model-Glue

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 7, 2008 on 7:54 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Shimju asks: In a model-glue app, suppose I have 3 templates files - templateA, templateB and templateC. All are set as private events in model-glue.xml. Now my requirement is I want to select a particular template dynamically based on Argu... [More]

 


Adobe Developer Week recordings

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 6, 2008 on 9:15 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments If you couldn't make any of the Adobe Developer Week meetings, the recordings have been released here: http://www.adobe.com/communities/developerweek/

 


I’m not a programmer

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 5, 2008 on 9:58 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Well at least according to Tiobe. I guess this makes me a unicorn herder or some such. I'mnot going to bother linking to the drivel that these guys used for logic as I'm on my iPhone, but please Forta's blog and many others for linkage and better res...

 


cfObjective Slides/Code

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 4, 2008 on 3:20 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I've attached a zip with the slide and code from my Spry presentation, as well as the slides from my Model-Glue presentation. My MG presentation did have a bit of code, but as it was just me playing with the application skeleton, I figure folks don't...

 


2 quick links (one tech, one music)

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 3, 2008 on 1:10 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments First off, Todd Sharp has just released slidesix, which he describes in more detail here. It is a presentation hosting service built in ColdFusion (with Model-Glue FTW!). One of the coolest features is that you can record audio for a slideshow direct...

 


(Short) Review: Iron Man

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 3, 2008 on 1:04 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments As it's 2AM and I've gotten back from seeing Iron Man, I'll keep this short and sweet. The movie was absolutely wonderful. I don't profess to be an Iron Man comic book expert, but from what I do know of the history, Robert Downey Jr. nailed him perfe...

 


Model-Glue 3 - The New Frakin’ Awesomeness

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 2, 2008 on 3:47 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Before I get started - you can download the Alpha now available. My notes from Joe's Model-Glue 3 presentation at cfObjective. Please pardon the bad writing here and some text are direct quotes without me using quotes (so basically, all copyright ... [More]

 


Another hint on ColdFusion 9?

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 2, 2008 on 12:54 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments During the keynote at cfObjective, Jason Delmore had a slide up for maybe 30 seconds or so. He hinted that something special was up there, although it was disguised to most as pseudo-code for fun. Looking at the code, and taking Jason's hints - it le...

 


Adobe announces public bug/enhancement database for ColdFusion

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 2, 2008 on 9:17 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments My last blog entry on the keynote at cfObjective had to be cut short, but I wanted to make sure folks got the news. Jason Delmore didn't get a chance to talk on it, but the slide was very clear. The "ColdFusion Open Process Initiative" will include b...

 


cfObjective Keynote: News on Centaur (CF9)

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 2, 2008 on 8:25 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I'm sitting the keynote for cfObjective. Jason Delmore of Adobe is presenting and talking about how well ColdFusion is doing and about the latest 8.0.1 release. The topic now is Centaur, the new version of ColdFusion. I'll be updating this blog entry...

 


Ask a Jedi: Why would I use cfhtmlhead?

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 2, 2008 on 5:58 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Jen asks:

i read your recent post on the cfhtmlhead tag and wondered if you might review why we would use the cfhtmlhead tag instead of a cfinclude? what are the pros and cons for each method?

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New month, new job. I’ve joined Broadchoice

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 1, 2008 on 9:17 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I hinted around at it the last few days, but this morning I made it official. I've joined Broadchoice as the VP of Software Development. I've been working with them for a while now, and frankly, I've developed quite the geek crush on the company, bot...

 


Ask a Jedi - Why isn’t my session expired when I logout?

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - May 1, 2008 on 8:00 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Mark asks a question which I think touches on a basic misunderstanding many people have with ColdFusion and sessions: I am developing an AJAX RSS feed reader for a portal. I've read several proposed methods of handling sessions, but I don't a...

 


Project updates

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 30, 2008 on 3:47 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments A few pre-cfObjective project updates. Nothing critical. LighthousePro was updated with some fixes by Ron Stewart. I had forgot to change a few Loci strings to Area. He also added the public ID to the Excel exports which is nice. (The public ID is...

 


Recording URL and Slides from CF/OS Presentation

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 30, 2008 on 9:37 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments For those who missed my presentation last night on open source and ColdFusion, you can watch it here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p87866843/ I've also attached the slide deck to the blog entry. This was my first new presentation in some...

 


Ask a Jedi: Does ColdFusion have a htmlfoot tag?

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 30, 2008 on 7:15 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Rob asks: Is there a <cfhtmlfoot> tag? One that would write at the end of html file, before </body> tag... In case folks don't get why he is asking, ColdFusion comes with a cfhtmlhead tag that lets you dynamically add stuff ...

 


Ask a Jedi: Copy session values from one application to another

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 29, 2008 on 10:00 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Chong asks:

I am trying to copy a session variable from one application scope to another. Could you please enlighten me if this is possible and what is the best practise method for doing so?

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Presentation tonight on ColdFusion and Open Source

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 29, 2008 on 7:29 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Tonight I'll be presenting to KCDevCore on ColdFusion and Open Source. The meeting starts at 6:30 CST (Cool Standard Time), but I'm going on around 7:15ish. The online URL is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/kcdevcore. If you can drag yourself awa...

 


LighthousePro Updated

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 28, 2008 on 11:33 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Just a quick note to let folks I released a small update to LighthousePro, my ColdFusion-based issue tracker. The updates include: I finally got off my lazy rear and changed Loci/Locus to Areas/Area. I don't know why I took so long since no one ...

 


Reader looking for UK-based (or related) Reseller

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 28, 2008 on 7:37 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I'm just passing this on. I don't like to get into the 'find me a host' type conversations as it isn't an area I'm experienced in (and like religion, it has no final answer), but I figured this request was specific enough where maybe some of my Europ...

 


Transfer 1.0 RC is Out

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 28, 2008 on 5:07 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Just a quick note to spread the news that the 1.0 Release Candidate of Transfer is now released. You can find out more about this release and the future of Transfer at the blog entry I just linked to.

 


Small Canvas update

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 25, 2008 on 3:50 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments A very, very small Canvas update was just released. It's mainly a 'cleanup' update, but it does fix an install error with both the Oracle and SQL Server scripts.

 


ColdFusion/SlideShare integration tip

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 25, 2008 on 9:49 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I'm doing some work integrating SlideShare with ColdFusion. SlideShare has a rather simple API, but no matter what I did, I kept getting an API failed validation. Turns out the error was rather simple. Part of the API requires you to hash a secre...

 


Ask a Jedi: Caching Stored Procedures

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 25, 2008 on 7:31 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Seth asks: Just a quick question regarding Stored Procedures. So recently I have been dealing with some SP's that take up to 4 seconds to run , it can be annoying. So I wanted to know is there an effective way to cache SP's in CF 8, or do I ...

 


Galleon 2.013 Released

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 24, 2008 on 2:18 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I just released Galleon version 2.013. This release has the following updates: I fixed an important bug involving user profiles. If encryption was turned on and a user saved their profile w/o changing their password, their old password was lost....

 


Real men write their own forms (or do they?)

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 24, 2008 on 10:36 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments I have to admit that I'm kind of a - dare I say - diva - when it comes to forms. I prefer to type them out and do all the validation by hand. In the past I've written form 'helpers' to handle generating and validating forms (*), but I haven't done th...

 


Ask a Jedi: Using JSON in older versions of ColdFusion

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 24, 2008 on 7:53 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments A user just wrote in asking how to handle working with JSON in a pre-ColdFusion 8 server. What I recommend is the code I use for LighthousePro - CFJSON. This will work in any MX and higher server. There are other options out there I'm sure, but I've ...

 


cfObjective Blog Posts (City Related)

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 23, 2008 on 10:46 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments If you are going to cfObjective (and if not, shame on you), you might want to check out Fred's blog: http://www.dashcapper.com/ Fred wrote me today to say he was going to be blogging suggestions for food, sights, etc, that might be of interest ...

 


Ask a Jedi: Handling RSS feeds with custom data

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 23, 2008 on 7:44 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Neal asks: I'm trying to use cffeed to read RSS feeds provided by National Public Radio (I manage a few websites for community radio stations that purchase NPR programming). Everything works great, except that NPR uses a custom namespace for... [More]

 


What makes a code diva?

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 22, 2008 on 1:34 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Are you a code diva? Do you demand spaces over tabs? Do you insist on Hungarian notation for variables? Do you get into a hissy fit when the order of attributes for the cffunction tag don't follow name/access/output/returnType/hint format? Do yo...

 


Ask a Jedi: Query naming inside a CFC - best practice?

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 22, 2008 on 7:38 am | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments Gary asks: I have a CFC that has several query functions. Each function returns a query: <cfquery name="getData" dbtype="query"> SELECT * FROM arguments.adResults WHERE cn='#arguments.netName#' </cfquery&g... [More]

 


Ask a Jedi: Extending ColdFusion’s auto-complete feature

Posted by Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog - April 21, 2008 on 3:18 pm | In Coldfusion - Jedi | No Comments David asks what I think is a pretty interesting question concerning ColdFusion, Ajax, and auto-complete style functionality. I know you have covered the CF8 autocomplete tag, but I am looking to take it one step further, but haven't been able ... [More]

 


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