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This year I'll be going to "Into The Box 2014" conference at the Hilton Homewood Suites by Mall of America, Bloomington, MN. USA. "Into The Box 2014" is May 13, one day before and near CFObjective . I try to attend two training events a year. Last year it was Scotch On the Rocks and RailsConf ....

Last day to signup for the discounted Java Programming Training for Experienced Programmers training class by Webucator. It takes place online during Apr 28 - May 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. I was able to get a sweet deal for my friends and followers for only $1000 . This class is normaly...

I am excited about an upcoming Java Programming Training for Experienced Programmers training class by Webucator. It takes place online during Apr 28 - May 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. I was able to get a sweet deal for my friends and followers for only $1000 . This class is normaly $2125. To...

I am happy to announce, Webucator has offered a deal for their online java class for experienced programmers to my friends and followers for only $1000 but we need 3 people to sign up so please pass the word around to your friends and followers. The class starts April 28th 10am-5pm eastern time for...

I am pretty excited to announce an exclusive deal for an online Java training class at the end of April. It is for experienced coders wanting to learn Java. Shoot me an email henke dot mike at gmail dot com if are interested and I can give you more details. I have been wanting to branch out more...

Here is a short screencast showing how to deploy Railo on Heroku. This screencast assumes you have done Steps 1 - 3. Step 1: Sign up Step 2: Install the Heroku Toolbelt Step 3: Login Step 4: Deploy an application

Here is a short screencast showing how to deploy OpenBD on Heroku. This screencast assumes you have done Steps 1 - 3. Step 1: Sign up Step 2: Install the Heroku Toolbelt Step 3: Login Step 4: Deploy an application

I am doing a "Stump the CFChump" series. I recently passed the ColdFusion 9 exam and this is material I learned while studying. I have several CodeSchool gift cards to giveaway so comments who answer correctly I'll email you the discount code. "Stump the Chumps" is from the "Car Talk" so I am...

I am doing a "Stump the CFChump" series. I recently passed the ColdFusion 9 exam and this is material I learned while studying. I have several CodeSchool gift cards to giveaway so comments who answer correctly I'll email you the discount code. "Stump the Chumps" is from the "Car Talk" so I am...

I am doing a "Stump the CFChump" series. I recently passed the ColdFusion 9 exam and this is material I learned while studying. I have several CodeSchool gift cards to giveaway so comments who answer correctly I'll email you the discount code. "Stump the Chumps" is from the "Car Talk" so I am...

I am doing a "Stump the CFChump" series. I recently passed the ColdFusion 9 exam and this is material I learned while studying. I have several CodeSchool gift cards to giveaway so comments who answer correctly I'll email you the discount code. "Stump the Chumps" is from the "Car Talk" so I am...

I am doing a "Stump the CFChump" series. I recently passed the ColdFusion 9 exam and this is material I learned while studying. I have several CodeSchool gift cards to giveaway so comments who answer correctly I'll email you the discount code. "Stump the Chumps" is from the "Car Talk" so I am...

#coldfusion refactor & win @codeschool gift card http://pastebin.com/6z8D4iUa #cfml tweet back your try & i'll dm you the gift card I have some nasty code & will give away some CodeSchool gift cards for entries to fixing it. Leave a comment with a link to your refactored try or tweet me with it...

Coldfusion, Ruby, Php, Python trends Coldfusion jobs | Ruby jobs | Php jobs | Python jobs These can be interpreted in so many ways but thought this was interesting. Coldfusion, Ruby, Php, Python Job Trends This graph displays the percentage of jobs with your search terms anywhere in the job...

Ryan Stille announced last night at the NECFUG the launching of TechOmaha.com . Ryan is an avid attender of local user groups and saw the need for a central calendar of all the events going on in Omaha. He also is trying to record the meeting and have them available on the site. He is looking for...

I wanted to mention a video Joe Rinehart put on youtube called Dear ColdFusion - I'm breaking up with you .

I had this question emailed to me "Is it customary to have SQL in CFWheels Controllers?" No. If it is very complex sql or a stored proc, I would create a cfc representing it in the models folder like this: models/myStoredProc.cfc then in the controller call and pass in the values: Once using...

I'll be presenting at the NECFUG on Web Application Firewall (Waf) and a ColdFusion Waf called FuseGuard . A Waf is a countermeasure for sercurity attacks. It can logs and blocks threats seperate from the application code. I am still working on my slides and demo code .

The title is a little facetious but I do think Github collaberation is not being taken advantage of in the ColdFusion community. Sure some CFML-ers like Mark Mandel , Luis Majano , and Marc Esher are using github. ColdFusion projects like ValidateThis , FW1 , and MuraCMS are on it. ColdFusion Koans...

I posted my notes from the sessions I attended day 1 of CFObjective. I attended the keynote, Making Software Better, TDD List, Practical Performance, and Code Reviews.

My company recently hired another developer. It was the first time I was involved in the hiring process. We hired a recent college graduate with no CFML experience and slight PHP. The grad did seem somewhat strong with HTML, SQL, and CSS. Javascript was slight and jQuery non-existant. I'll be doing...

A cool event Bob Silverburg started at CFObjective is the Lighting Talks (formerly known as Pecha Kucha). I will be giving one over World War II Honor Flights. Here is a link to an updated slide deck . I gave this at CFObjective 2010 and here is the video of that. Mike Henke's Pecha Kucha...

Last night, a co-worker stumbled on an interesting situation with using application-specific data sources and the USE sql command. We had a something like this. He wanted mydatabase2 for the select so he added the USE sql command. I might have specified the datasource but here is where it got...

I found out about this recently and would like to share a no brainer , even a zombie from Walking Dead would know this is a deal . If your company sends you to CFObjective , they should become a Bronze Sponsor . Why? Well, it is a unbelievable deal. Your company is already paying for your...

I got this email from Sandy Clark and wanted to pass it on if you are in or near the DC area. ----------- Sorry for the short notice, but we just now got things finalized. Join us at TImpano's in Rockville, MD tomorrow (3/29) at 7pm to meet with Rakshith Naresh, Adobe ColdFusion Product Manager....

I was looking at my code base today and noticed NEQ 0 all over the place. Then I remembered how ColdFusion handles Boolean values , specifically any number is TRUE except 0 which is FALSE . It I knew the variable was a number, then I could remove the NEQ 0 . This was used often in the context of a...

I blogged about " Git Performance Commands " before. Basically these commands are spring cleaning for your git repository. I run them occasionally at work. I love chaining git commands together so here are the commands chained. git fsck --unreachable && git reflog expire --expire=0 --all && git...

I finally went through the ColdFusion Koans (CFK) a couple weekends ago. It was a great experience. I learned more about CFML along with MXUnit . Ryan Anklam and the ColdFusion Show are extending a contest for an ColdFusion ORM ebook. ColdFusion ORM book (electronic) from ColdFusion Koans take...

Ryan Stille and I released the next ColdFusion Show . We have several contests with the help of awesome people providing awesome prizes like an autographed book , commerical shopping cart , and electronic books. We also mention several contests by others. Please listen to the show, follow us on...

Corey Spitzer tweeted me a question on ColdFusion . It is great to see interest in CFML specially from people like Corey since he is very activity in the developer and entrepreneurial community in Omaha. He specifically asked me to be objective. @coreyspitzer: @mikehenke What's your opinion on CFML...

CFUG Meets Tomorrow Mike Henke Presents Join us tomorrow night at 6:00 when Mike Henke presents Cloudy With a Chance of Tests. I've got Adobe schwag to give away too. The CFUG meets on Tuesday the 24th at 6:00pm @ CF WebTools, located at [11204 Davenport, near I-680 &...

If you haven't heard, Ryan Anklam is having a contest for ColdFusion Koans . It is very easy to contribute via the browser, http, or ssh connection with github. You don't even need to install or learn git. ColdFusion Koans is a cool project for learning unit testing along with CFML.

I installed CrossOver to test it on Ubuntu but the uninstall link from the menu didn't work. I had to go to /opt/cxoffice/bin/ then run: sudo ./cxuninstall _mhenke@mhenke-Studio-1737:/opt/cxoffice/bin$ sudo ./cxuninsta_ll And it is gone!

Here are of Open CF Summit with a special greeting from Jeremy Allaire.

There was a tweet by lolajl about frustrations with installing Mylyn on the CFBuilder2.0.1 beta. My recommendation was to skip trying the standalone then adding Mylyn. I would use Eclipse , then add CFB as a plugin. Below are the steps, I ran through when i installed CFB on Windows. 1) Download...

I post on installing ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 beta and Mylyn . This post will show how to test it is working. create new local task active task & ctrl-shift-r to open resource, and type application, select application.cfc show Application.cfc in navigator and mylyn context toggle off focus on...

I will be presenting Cloudy with a Chance of Tests for the Online ColdFusion Meetup tomorrow, Feb 16, at 6pm EST. I also recorded a short Bolt Talk on the subject . "Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm." - Idries Shah After most unit testing, ant, or Continuous...

I hear the word zealotry used and for me it has a negative connotation. It has been brought up lately usually around something perceived as new but that doesn't mean something old could have zealotry. I would like to see more zealotry in ColdFusion. I thought it would be nice to break-down the...

I will be presenting Cloudy with a Chance of Tests tonight 6pm EST online for the Online ColdFusion Meetup tonight, Feb 2, at 6pm EST. "Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm." - Idries Shah After most unit testing, ant, or Continuous Integration (CI) presentations...

I had the privilage to participate in a Bolt Talk with Tim Cunningham . If you are passionate about a project, topic, or pretty much anything related to programming, do one now. All you need to do is contact Tim . It was a great experience and easy since Tim handles recording and editing. BoltTalk...

I remember when I started programming ColdFusion fresh out of college in 1999. I had a 3 day HTML class which was my first exposure to HTML, then read books. I would "buy" the Dummy series, then exchange the unmarked book for a more advanced book on the same subject covering ColdFusion, SQL, and...

I have been implementing inspection of CFML code into some legacy and new projects. The Cloudy with a Chance of Tests project is designed in baby steps so anyone can use it without any changes to their code. The first step is inspecting the code's syntax locally. The next step would be starting to...

Majority of ColdFusion code is not testable in its current state. There I said it. Now with that out of the way, I would love you to try out my " Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests " project and give this a test drive. It is to help improve the quality of your code which maybe in any state. Please...

Time for another Contribute and Win contest. This will be the third Contribute and Win . Contribute and win has had many simple and more complex contributes from various developers. Same rules as before, I will randomly select a contributor to " CFML in 100 minutes " and award them the prize. You...

I'll be giving two presentations to the Online ColdFusion meetup. "Cloudy with a Chance of Tests" is tenative since it hasn't been announced by the Online ColdFusion meetup. Jan 12, 6pm EST: Improve your workflow within ColdFusion Builder Point to point integration like ticket systems are errors...

I finally had the chance to use the Unofficial Updater 2 (uu2) by David Epler . I must say it is pretty AWEsome. Being a user and not reading , I scanned the readme file in the github repository, then tried using it. Big mistake. Be sure to look at the revamped readme with a "How to Use" section...

Fusion Authority posted " What's Hot? What's Not? Essential Tools ". Please feel free to do your own post over what tools do you use regularly to enhance your productivity (and why)? I was honored to provide my tools for the Fusion Authority post. It is a pleasure working with Judith Dinowitz. I...

Usually I don't repost an email but I received this email from OpenCF Summit and wanted to spread the word. It was a great time last year and I loved the one track. ----------- Greetings OpenCF Summit alumni! We wanted to take a moment to thank you for making the inaugural OpenCF Summit such a...

" Building a bridge for unit testing and ci in cfml " had great comments by Sean Corfield . One was when he asked "why (do) you want a _compile_ step in there (your ci process) at all?" It comes back to an old Hanselminute podcast " Dynamic vs compiled languages ". The show talks about how...

I would like to use unit testing and Jenkins, open-source continuous integration server, for Continuous integration (CI). CI "aims to improve the quality of software, and to reduce the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of applying quality control after completing all...

Last week, " What technologies, other than ColdFusion, should a developer know? " was posted on Fusion Authority . I figured I would answer the question also. Feel free do blog your own "What technologies, other than ColdFusion, should a developer know?". It could be like a what to expect (or would...

Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about HackMyCF giveaway, FarCry, Evolving Skills and John Madden. _See Show Page for Epoisode 4 more information _

HackMyCF giveaway, just tweet: " @pfreitag gives away free #hackmycf subscription on @coldfusionshow http://coldfusionshow.com RT to enter " You can listen to the ColdFusion Show announcing the giveaway, Episode 4: HackMyCF giveaway, FarCry, Evolving Skills and John Madden .

CFObjective ANZ announced a lot of cool news about ColdFusion . I am doing a series over these announcements. The first post was about upcoming improvements with CFFile update and For in loop CFScript support of Queries . The next was CFC improvements with implicit constructors, notation, and...

I attended CFObjective ANZ this past week. Terrence Ryan announced a lot of cool news about ColdFusion . I am going to doing a series over these announcements. The first post was about upcoming improvements with CFFile update and For in loop CFScript support of Queries . This post will show slides...

I attended CFObjective ANZ this past week. Terrence Ryan announced a lot of cool news about ColdFusion . I am going to do a series over these announcements. I think the biggest was "Adobe continues to invest in CF as is illustrated by 4 product releases planned in the next 24 months" and...

It has been awhile since I have seen Terrence Ryan from Adobe speak at a conference and he is as engaging as I remember. He lead off the cf.Objective (ANZ) conference with lots of news. @rebel tweeted "It's good to see just how well @tpryan understands his Australian audience #cfoanz". I think that...

Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about ValidateThis, Mura, jQuery releases, and Conan O'Brien.

I'll be traveling to Melbourne, Australia next week to give an "Introduction Into ColdFusion on Wheels" workshop and attend cfObjective (AUZ) . I would love at least one more person to register for the the CFWheels workshop so please consider it if you are in the Melbourne area. The workspace was...

Ryan Stille and I recorded another ColdFusion Show . ColdFusionShow.com , itunes , and feedburner have been setup. We talk about loops with Query of Queries (QoQ), CFObjective call for speakers and topics, intellij idea, local dev setup, Keith Olbermann, new / upcoming ColdFusion books and more....

I had an email come in and thought this would be useful for others promoting technical change. _I'd love everyone using Eclipse so we could take advantage of Mylyn, you seem to really push its powers, however, we have some here that are very stuck in their development ways, so it might not work. Do...

Couple weeks ago, I announced a contest for a lucky contributor of " CFML in 100 minutes ". The contest was an good success. We had 4 contributors I used a Random Line Picker to shuffle the contributors from alpahbetic order 5 times, then selected "pick random line". If the winner doesn't want the...

Ryan Stille and Mike Henke (me) discuss Sublime, CFBuilder file associations, Github koolaide, Rainn Wilson, and LESS. Episode 1: Sublime, CFBuilder file associations, Github koolaide, Rainn Wilson, and LESS

Recently, I was honored to be on the 2 Devs from Down Under podcast discussing an upcoming session for CFObjective ANZ titled "Task-Oriented Workflow With Adobe Flash & ColdFusion Builder". I edited down my discussion to just over 17 mins here. I was on a panel of 2 other speakers. If you wish to...

Time for another Contribute and Win contest. The last Contribute and Win seemed a great success. I had many awesome contributes. Same rules as before, I will randomly select a contributor to " CFML in 100 minutes ". You can commit once or multiple times but you will only be entered in once. I will...

Lately, I have been working on sql injection prevention measures. Mainly cfqueryparam-ing code. I was told about a cool script by WebApper that finds and fixes any un-cfqueryparam varialbes . The caveat is the script doesn't add the cfsqltype attribute to the cfqueryparam. Not a big deal but I did...

The JGit project from Eclipse has been working on Eclipse and Git integration. Their user guide mentions an ant task but doesn't show where to download the needed jars. If you knew a little java, you could grab the source and compile a couple from jgit's github account . I googled around and found...

In down time, I am working on setting up Jenkins at work. I have Jenkins, Git , and Ant playing nice. The next step was figuring out how to move the files to our ColdFusion server. My first inclination was to point the Jenkin's job workspace to the webroot. I asked on twitter @marcesher about that....

I setup up MXUnit Eclipse plugin with CFWheels this afternoon. The MXUnit documentation is very good. I downloaded MXUnit and dropped the mxunit folder in my Wheels root which happens to be the web root also. Then I installed the MXUnit Eclipse plugin . Once installed, I created custom Remote...

The last couple weeks (off and on) I have been working on editing DataTables with jEditable . If you haven't seen Datatables, you should check it out. The examples are great and implementing is easy. Datatables makes changing any table layout into a dynamic sort and filter a breeze. You'll look...

I did a quick 30 minute presentation over CFML open source options at Barcamp Omaha . I wasn't going to present this BarCamp but Ryan Stille egged me on so I had to run home to get my laptop :-) Thanks to Mathew Woodward for getting me slides from a previous presentation he gave. I was all over the...

Thanks to Ryan Stille for the patiences of checking out 10 or so bikes from craigslist before we found one that met his approval. This morning he saw an ad for 1982 Honda CM450 . Over lunch we kicked the tires and walked around checking things (actually I just watch Ryan.) It met his first...

I enjoy listening to Hal Helms and he recently was on an Engine Yard podcast, Cloud Out Loud . He brings a thought provoking perspective to discussions. He learned a new skillset, Ruby on Rails , after being a long time ColdFusion programmer. The podcast is definately worth listening to and is just...

A one day ColdFusion On Wheels intensive workshop will be held November 16th in Melbourne, Australia. It will consolidate the 2 day training held before CF.Objective this past year. You can find all the training details at the cf.Objective(ANZ) website with registration links . This 1 day workshop...

This week, I have been reviewing new features from the last Adobe ColdFusion release. I covered some I missed in a previous post . I know you are thinking, ACF9? It was released in Oct 2009, but it was packed with so many enhancements and perhaps some unappreciated. You can watch ColdFusion 9 New...

I have been reviewing Adobe ColdFusion last release and the many enhancements (some of which went under my radar). This post will cover how CFDUMP has improve over the years. I will go in order of the enhancements. In MX 6.1 , COM objects are able to be displayed. In MX 7 , the top attribute was...

This weekend, I gained a greater appreciate for the last Adobe ColdFusion release. I am pretty late to this realization since Adobe ColdFusion 9 was released in Oct 2009 . And there is talk of the next release codenamed Zeus . I think I overlooked new features of ACF9 because Hibernate integration...

During my morning Google Reader review, I noticed a couple posts on Google Page Speed Service ( Page Speed Service: Web performance, delivered and Will You Use Google’s New Page Speed Service? ) so I decided to run the comparison test against Henke.ws. It is a simple blog site using MangoBlog and...

I was prep-ing for a Mylyn / Tasktop presentation in Kansas City at D2WC . My mom was visiting and we were in the living room watching a short presentation on Mylyn . My mom, a retired grade school teacher, kind of jumped forward in her seat and exclaimed "That is very useful". The feature she...

Last week, I announced a contest for a lucky contributor of " CFML in 100 minutes ". The contest was an outstanding success. There were great contributions from simple to more complex. I used a Random Line Picker to shuffle the contributors from alpahbetic order 5 times, then selected "pick random...

"Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)", with Josh Timonen - The Online ColdFusion Meetup (Alpharetta, GA) - Meetup Title: Introduction to Sass Date/Time: July 14th 6pm Eastern Bio: Josh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications,...

Why Git? Why Change? - The Online ColdFusion Meetup (Alpharetta, GA) - Meetup Mark your calendar for July 21st 6pm ET , Matthew McCullogh will be presenting at the Online ColdFusion Meetup . He is a Git Rockstar/Trainer with regular 1 day courses and O'Reilly training videos . Title: Why Git? Why...

At work, we use are transitioning to Adobe ColdFusion 9 . Our local development is multiple instances created with an Adobe ColdFusion 8 installer. It was very easy to get an ACF9 instance going. We created a ACF9 war and used that when creating a new instance in the ColdFusion administrator. I...

I will giveaway copy of " Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion " by Matt Gifford to lucky contributor of " CFML in 100 minutes ". All you need is an eagle eye to spot a typo or code example not working. If you are more ambition ambitious, you can revamp a section or example to make it more...

D2WC conference Just a reminder, the D2WC conference is coming up in a few weeks, July 14-16, in Kansas City. It is a conference focusing on workflow for designers and developers. Speakers We have some of the best speakers in the business at D2W. Many were here last year as well, like Paul Trani...

This post in named similiarly to Ray Camden's recent post, Initiative to improve ColdFusion docs . If you haven't read the post, please do. I support the initiative and want to take contributing to everyone not only Adobe with members of the ColdFusion community. With this goal, I have started a...

I recently switched to Xubuntu as mentioned in a couple recent posts. This weekend I was playing around with Turnkey Tomcat-Apache-ColdFusion and used Eclipse to connect to the virtual machine. I found CFEclipse wouldn't save the cfml file using a RSE connection unless I switched the file editor...

This post is a combination of several posts and shows how to setup Turnkey Tomcat Apache's virtual box with different ColdFusion engines. "Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions. Each virtual appliance...

Dmitry Kolesnikov , a co-worker, wrote up a quick Software Review - Crystal Reports / SSRS (SQL Reporting Services) for our company. On twitter Daria Norris asked for it to be released so here it is. Enjoy!

I decided to upgrade my personal laptop from Windows Vista to Xubuntu 11.04 (latest release as of this post). This post will be about the different choices of Linux. I have tried several. I would not recommend installing different flavors of Linux to find what you like (like I did) but use...

Awhile ago I worked on a Getting Started with Wheels (Google Doc version) guide in Google Docs. It is based on " Getting Started with Rails ". I saved from Google Docs as html then used pandoc to converted it to markdown. I am posting the guide on github for anyone to help. Getting Started with...

This last weekend I decided to upgrade my laptop from Vista to Xubuntu . I was tired of Microsoft's ever growing system bloat. I did install Lubuntu but decided to go with Xubuntu due to some panel/toolbar issues. I use this laptop for programming, listening to podcasts, watching Hulu, Amazon...

We started Agile development at my work. We are on the third sprint. Today before our standing meeting, I mentioned to a co-worker, " I needed to figure out what I did yesterday ." If you aren't familiar with a sprint standing meeting, you need to cover three items: 1) what you did yesterday 2)...

With another outstanding CFObjective over, I would like to mention d2w is coming up in July. This conference will have familiar faces from CFObjective and CFUnited along with many others since this conference focuses on Workflow for Developers and Designers . Sessions are geared toward improving...

I have been helping with the SE MN Honor Flights since my grandfather was on one. I think this is my 5th. It is always a privilege to help. I heard there maybe only two more from this hub. The last flight had several veterans passing away before they could see their memorial. We had over 100...

There is only a week left till my first " Introducing ColdFusion on Wheels " class before CF.Objective() on May 10 and May 11th. This class is meant for anyone with some programming exprience. We will spend two days working through a single concept by creating a simple blog system, going from an...

In the first post of "So you want to contribute to CFWheels" , we created a free Github account and forked the CFWheels repo . This gave us our own repo we can change. We added a readme file, then sent a pull request to CFWheels . In this post, we will cover how to help CFWheels by contributing...

Here is a sample of training material for " Introducting ColdFusion on Wheels " on May 10 through May 11 before CF.Objective() in Minneapolis. One of the begining iterations we will cover is " CFML In 100 minutes ". Hopefully getting the class on the same level to learning CFWheels . There are only...

In this blog series I will be walking through how to contribute to an open source project on GitHub . I will assume you: Created a free GitHub account Set up Git (includes connecting to github) First we will fork and setup a local repos of the CFWheels project at...

Here is my cf.objective() 2011 schedule May 12, 2011 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Room 1 - Keynote (TBD) 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM: Room 1 - Making Legacy Code Testable (Emily Christiansen) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Room 2 - Code Deployment Shouldn't Only Be FTP ? Using ANT to Automate Your Build Process (Peter...

A cool feature of ColdFusion Builder 2.0 is the Advance ColdFusion Search with tags. This is pretty sweet for example today I wanted to find all the cffile tags with the action write . Let's open up the search, Search --> ColdFusion Search, to see what I am talking about. This is slightly different...

I have a .bat file with these git commands in it which I run once in awhile to cleanup/improve performance. In my git bash, I drop the bat and the run the batch. git fsck --unreachable git reflog expire --expire=0 --all git repack -a -d -l git prune git gc --aggressive Here is a brief discription...

I am proud to be conducting ColdFusion On Wheels training prior to CF.Objective at the Ramada Plaza Minneapolis . Please sign up , there are only 3 seats left! Here is a breakdown of the schedule. - Tues (May 10) - 8:30 - 9:00 Setup your Environment - 9:00 - 10:45 Intro to ColdFusion - 10:45 -...

I have been a fan of ValidateThis (VT) for years but never had a chance to implement it yet at work. I have a newer developer under me and one of his task is to get VT working on a simple form. The sample demos for VT are numerous and the documentation is outstanding. It is so plentify, it might be...

I have a friend who emailed me last night after downloading a public beta for Adobe's second generation of an IDE based on Eclipse which enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. He had two gripes: Key Assists and Auto-closing tags....

This is a pre- CF.Objective 2 day workshop on May 10-11 in Minneapolis, MN. ColdFusion On Wheels is a powerful web application framework that has become popular in the past few years. It is relatively easy to develop with and can be used for awesome sites like AmtrakGuestRewards.com , or other cool...

I downloaded an Adobe software package based on Eclipse for building web applications and installed it as standalone. The software package didn't contain a couple Eclipse tools I use for collaboration. This post will show how to add the latest Eclipse (Helios) update site and install Eclipse tools....

Adobe announced public beta for their second release of an IDE based on Eclipse which enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. "The new beta release provides professional coding tools, server management, testing tools, and new...

The winner of a free copy of Adobe ColdFusion Anthology for retweeting @markdrew's "Had a play with #CFWheels last night, and I rather like this framework. You should check it out: http://cfwheels.org/" message is: @nathanstrutz We had over 30 entries . Please checkout CFWheels . I used jQuery...

Jamie Krug had a great opening presentation on " Complete FOSS CFML Developer Stack " for the OpenCF Summit . FOSS stands for free and open-source software. Jamie used Ubuntu, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, Tomcat, OpenBD / Railo , CFEclipse , and Git . He mentioned you could use any OS like Windows or...

For the next 24 hours, whomever retweet's Mark Drew's twitter message "rt @markdrew Had a play with #CFWheels last night, and I rather like this framework. You should check it out: http://cfwheels.org/ #coldfusion #cfml" I'll hold a raffle and send the winner a free copy of Adobe ColdFusion...

I have a post " Turbo Charging Eclipse " and this is a follow up to show my current eclipse.ini file. I had someone recently mention my suggestions really improved their Eclipse experience. Warning: Before modifying your eclipse.ini be sure to back it up. The ini file is notoriously easy to mess up...

I was asked to lead an Unconference session on CFWheels at the OpenCF Summit . They are hoping to have a session for each of the major MVC frameworks. It should be a great time to learn and hang out with fellow ColdFusion developers. The conference is in Dallas, TX from February 21-23. If you can...

Here is a list of issues resolved from the CHANGELOG : , allow an array of structs to be passed to options Changed argument on includeContent() to Add argument to Added the type to the H2 adapter Fix so that the full table name is always retuned Pagination with set to for numeric keys Blank should...

I feel strongly you should not roll your own framework unless it is for learning purposes. Any new application, you definately need to use a framework, no matter how small. Please try one of the existing frameworks. You should eventually find one fitting you, your application, and deadline. The...

I am honored to be accepted in the Adobe Community Professional program (ACP) for 2011. The ACP individuals with expertise in ColdFusion are an amazing group.

My co-worker received an error message when trying to do a push to our git repos. Usually a pull will fix the issue in my experience but this was different. Error Message git.exe push --progress "origin" branchName:branchName error: Couldn't set refs/heads/branchName To X:\xxx.git ! Those purple balls are Mylyn focus buttons. You may not have even noticed them in Eclipse before. Think of them as the Staple's Easy button . The purple balls will focus...

I updated my site with a new theme for Mango Blog . Mango Blog is a free and open source ColdFusion blogging software product. The JournalCrunch theme is orignally for Wordpress released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. I placed the JournalCrunch Mango theme port on github. This...

_"_ It isn't a question of whether you'll remember: it's a question of when you'll forget it" - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Here is my article " Mylyn – A Task-Oriented Approach to ColdFusion " released in Fusion Authority Quarterly Update last...

I attended the Omaha BarCamp 2010 this past Sat. The BarCamps I have attended are a great way to meet passionate creative people in your location. BarCamps are an unconference with user generated content. Whomever shows up can present on a topic they are passionate about. Here is a more about the...

Well, if you follow my blog you may remember I moved to Washington, DC nearly 2 years ago. It has been an interesting time. I have seen many embassies , been on lots of walking tours , and many boat cruises on the Potomac along with seeing all the memorials and some Smithsonians. I really enjoyed...

Two more CFWheels Plugins were added to Riaforge this morning. Less For Wheels (Active) from RIAForge LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules for CFWheels DataTables For Wheels (Active) from RIAForge Easily add fancy pagination with sorting, filter using DataTables (...

I generated ColdFusion On Wheels API html documentation for 1.0.5 and 1.1 beta 1. The documentation was generated by ColdDoc . I also have some Wheels wallpaper , downloads , and dictionary links under my Wheels section If I am missing any downloads, wallpaper, or dictionaries please contact me ....

email content from Sandy Clark about upcoming user group meeting. -------- We have a special rockstar guest coming into talk to us this month. Ray Camden the CFJedi himself will be speaking on **Practices of a Modern Developer **Everyone knows what good developers do, but it isn't always obvious...

I submitted four CFWheels plugins to Riaforge this morning. The plugins add to Wheels, some very smart people's work like Mark Mandel , Luis Majano , and the FarCry team. I will be releasing two other plugins dealing with Haml and CSS Less soon to Riaforge. jTidy CFC For Wheels (Active) from...

What is Compass "Compass is a stylesheet authoring framework that makes your stylesheets and markup easier to build and maintain. With compass, you write your stylesheets in Sass instead of CSS." This screencast is very good. It is an hour long so it isn't for the faint of heart but you can watch...

I will be showing how to setup Compass and Sass to create better, more maintainable stylesheets for ColdFusion programmers. This will include installing Ruby and a ruby gem (library package). We won't be coding Ruby, just leveraging one of its many libraries. This idea was inspired by Rob...

Proof of Concept: This is a proof of concept for using haml with ColdFusion Acknowledgements: I altered code from these two posts and would like to thank them. Using Less CSS with ColdFusion main.haml example Required JavaLoader Jhaml jar Jhaml dependency jars Input HAML %html %head %title...

I recently took a Rails two day class and was exposed to haml and sass toward the end of the training. Similar projects about reducing the noise and ugliness of basic html and css markup. haml for cfml might look like this. instead of the norm cfml and html #print_date# #current_user.address#...

Two weeks since the last ColdFusion & Github . I will start with what I missed. A Mango Blog plugin for gists was announced Aug. 16th. You may be wondering what the heck are GISTS? Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are...

I received an email about switching to git and local development. Mallory was gracious enough to give me permission to post the original email and my response. I hope this helps other looking to move to git along with local development. ------------------------------------------------ Your Name:...

Two ColdFusion & Github Weekly updates in a row! Where to start? Well, CFMeetup: GIT for Dummies and the slightly more enlightened by Tim Cunningham is a great place. It was recorded yesterday. I didn't attend but will watch it this weekend. Railo announced they are doing their nightly builds and...

Wheels is mentioned as a full stack framework sometimes. What does "full stack" mean? Full stack frameworks "often gathered multiple libraries useful for web development into a single cohesive software stack for web developers to use." The quote is from...

It has been over a busy month since the last ColdFusion and Github update. A lot has transpired. CFUnited's keynote by Adam Lehman and Terry Ryan , highlighted Github adding ColdFusion as a language for one of the numerous ColdFusion highlights over the last year. Terry demo-ed and announced...

Title sound familiar? Well, I am borrowing it from Raymond Camden's post about his Aug 12, 12PM EST ColdFusion Online Meetup speaking engagement covering AIR, JQuery, and CFML. I will be presenting the same day at 6PM EST my CFUnited presentation over CFWheels . It will be slightly different, since...

I am working on porting Litepost to Wheels . Wheels had a Litepost competition awhile ago but didn’t follow the Litepost comparison idea.Litepost was conceived to compare different frameworks using essentially the same code. Once done, you will be able to compare how the same app is done in ColdBox...

Here is a link to my CFUnited ColdFusion On Wheels code, speaker notes, and slides. CFUnited 2010 - ColdFusion On Wheels on Prezi

CFUnited 2010 = Cache Me If You Can July 28, 2010 2:45pm eastern Dan Wilson, Mike Brunt, and Mike ???

CFUnited 2010 = CF9 Deployment Best Practices July 28, 2010 4L15pm eastern Sankaram Tata

CFUnited 2010 - Enterprise Manager CF9 July 28, 2010 3pm - 11am central Mike Brunt Live notes

CFUnited 2010 = ColdBox Platform 3.0.0: Substainable CF Apps July 28, 2010 1:30pm eastern Luis Majano

Reminder, there will be a ColdFusion On Wheels Birds of Feather (BOF) at CFUnited . The original time was Thursday 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm but this may have changed so check the schedule updates at the conference. ColdFusion on Wheels also has two sessions, ColdFusion On Wheels - Convention Over...

Download the binary from Url Rewrite Filter and read the instructions. It is 4 steps. I'll break from the steps after the first one. Step 1: "extract it into your context's directory ie, so that urlrewrite.xml goes into the WEB-INF directory." I download urlrewritefilter-3.2.0.zip and moved the...

Wednesday Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Start End Topic 9:00AM 10:30AM Adobe Keynote 10:30AM 11:00AM Networking Break 11:00AM 12:00PM Using CF 9 Server Manager to Cluster and Manage CF 12:00PM 1:30PM Lunch 1:30PM 2:30PM ColdBox Platform 3.0.0: Sustainable ColdFusion Applications 2:45PM 3:45PM 3:45PM...

This week in ColdFusion and Github news: Github is asking for input from users using windows . It is a short survey. There is an online upcoming event July 13th, covering egit and Eclipse . This would also pertain to users of CFBuilder and CFEclipse naturally. Mr. Corfield mentions adopting a...

First ColdFusion & Github update in a while, I was fishing last week in Northern Minnesota so missed two Fridays. Github now has the concept of organizations to simplify management of group-owned repositories. Github would like feedback from Windows users . Next week, July 13, 2010, there will be...

This post is so I can easily remember how to toggle white space in Eclipse. Since CFEclipse and ColdFusion Builder are the built on Eclipse, the shortcut should be the same. Ctrl+. is the magic combination.

This Tuesday, I will presenting to the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User Group over Wheels This will be an introduction into Wheels concepts and how to start using the framework. Wheels is using ideas from Ruby On Rails to help bring the joy back into coding CFML. Address 11350 Random Hills Rd....

This tutorial will show how using Adobe ColdFusion server with Multiserver configuration, so you can have multiple ColdFusion engines / version running. I think the approach is useful since most Adobe ColdFusion developers probably have Adobe ColdFusion setup as Multiple Instances. This approach...

This is more for my notes but here is my Git User Config Cheatsheet for setting up a new computer with git.

I have been playing with different CFML engines for the ColdFusion on Wheels codebase so I was looking for a solution where I could work on the code in one location and have it connected to the different cfml engines directly under the webroot. There may be a solution using Apache and Tomcat...

Being the end of the month, I'll also mention monthly updates of ColdFusion on Github besides weekly updates. Some blog posts are about git and coldfusion this past week are: Git Global Ignores, Can Be Overridden Git Training in DC - July FW/1 1.1 is one step away Recently Created Repositories[...

MARC 0.4.5 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) Ubuntu 10.04 Eclipse 3.5 Improved ReadMe.html Blazing Fast Download with Amazon CloudFront Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...

ColdFusion is still stable at 29th most popular language on Github . I would really like this number to climb so keep putting your small and large projects on Github since it is free. Not much new on the Github front. I did notice a nice article about " How to use github and submit a patch ". I...

Chaz Chumley mentioned ColdFusion On Wheels will be having two sessions and a Bird of Feathers at CFUnited 2010 on the Wheels Google Group . I missed the original announcement on the BOF. If you aren't a member of the Google Group, you should check it out. The group is really friendly and will...

This past Sunday, I worked on updating MARC (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ). I haven't quite finished, but it will be using Ubuntu 10.04 and Eclipse 3.5 with the latest Wheels , CFEclipse , and Firefox. Available on my Wheels Download page is MARC 0.3, an older version. Also on...

ColdFusion is hanging steady at the 29th most popular language on Github . Big news on the ColdFusion/Github front is FW/1 . I didn't catch an official announcement but it seems FW/1 is using github for their central code repository/site. Github's ticket system is setup and allowing people to...

Just a quick note to let people know that the Wheels Evangelism Team has been eliminated. I assume I will no longer be blogging on Wheel's blog . This will not affect my continued support of CFWheels (now I can refer to it as CFWheel again.) I will still be writing blog posts, speaking at user...

Here is an "extra" part of the CF.Objective() 2010 conference I attended in Minneapolis. I was asked to present a Pecha Kucha along with 8 other guys . A Pecha Kucha is a presentation with 20 slides, rotating automatically after 20 seconds. I decided to do it over the MN Southeast Honor Flights. I...

I missed last week's ColdFusion & Github update due to attending CF.Objective() 2010 in Minneapolis. Simeon Bateman presented on Git . His sessionwas the last of the conference and was very well attended. He covered basic git ideas and commands. He also showed GitHub and mentioned...

cf.Objective is still a great conference after 5 years. It is amazing how much work the people behind the conference work. This was my first year as a speaker. I have been attending the conference for several years (think I only missed the first year), paying my own way a majority of the time which...

CFObjective 2010 - Adobe Keynote April 22, 2010 9:00am - 10:00am (central time) Will be updated while presentation is going

April 22, 2010 10:15am - 11:15am Will be updated while presentation is going

CFObjective 2010 - Caching April 22, 2010 3pm - 4pm central Rob Brooks-Bilson

CFObjective 2010 - Continuous Integration, with Hudson, MXUnit, and ColdFusion April 22, 2010 1:45pm - 2:45pm central Marc Esher

CFObjective 2010 - April 22, 2010 11:30am - 12:30am central Kurt Wiersma Notes will be real time

CFObjective 2010 - Stack Tracing CFML Requests to Solve Problems April 22, 2010 4:15am - 5:15am Charlie Arehart

ColdFusion dropped several spots to 30 for Github Language popularity. DZone released a very well done Refcardz title " Getting Started with Git ". Github celebrated it's 2nd Birthday . I attended a Github East Cost Tour gathering if one is in your area I recommend swinging by for a few drinks. I...

Aaron West has a good post titled, My Thoughts on Git . Other than that, I didn't see much news for GitHub and ColdFusion . Most Watched This Week Fusegrid / fusegrid-sdk llamapope / cfwheels-bigrigadmin douggiles / cfwheels Most Forked This Week rip747 / cfwheels Recently Created Repositories...

I'll fix up this post but this is a quick run through to install Mylyn onto ColdFusion Builder standalone. Here is a link to the 5 min screencast of the process . Add the update site (help --> install new software) Add http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/ as ganymede filter mylyn and then...

ColdFusion stayed pat with the 29th popular ranking on GitHub . Github announced SVN support (April Fools' joke or is it). Collaboration is made easier in Github with recent tweaks . Most Watched This Week timblair / restfulcf virtix / cfmongodb Fusegrid / fusegrid-sdk tpryan / BuilderStats...

ColdFusion is still the #29 most popular language on GitHub after several weeks of steadily moving up. Big news this week was the release of ColdFusion Builder . I would expect to see more CFBuilder extensions using Github like Terrence Ryan , a Platform Evangelist for Adobe. He has several...

I am disappointed to warn ColdFusion users that Adobe ColdFusion does not support Accessibility with cfdocument /format=pdf. I have submitted a ticket in the ColdFusion Bug Database for people to vote on. I also submitted a ticket via Adobe Support. Adobe Case # : : 181492502 :...

ColdFusion moved up another spot in the Github Language popularity to 29th. I am hoping the momentum keeps up. Github announced it has a commit about every second compared to Google Code which has a commit about every 5 seconds. No forking again for ColdFusion. This maybe the CF Community still...

Slow week for forking ColdFuson projects on Github but ColdFusion moved up one slot making it the #30 most popular language on GitHub. I also decided to keep the update on Friday. Most Watched This Week rip747 / cfwheels andyj / FW-1-Security-Models atuttle / Mango-RelatedEntries atomi /...

I will be switching the Github & ColdFusion Weekly Update to Sunday so I don't miss any activity during the weekend. Some noteworthy events: Terrence Ryan , Platform Evangelist for Adobe, opened a Github account and has been very busy starting four repositories. Bill Shelton created a respotiory...

One feature of Github is "Social Coding". Github tracks users' actions (pushes, closing tickets, creating repositories) and repositories' actions allowing for people to easily see what is going on. You can "follow" people. You can "watch" repositories. This is cool, so you can keep tabs on all the...

This week ColdFusion position on Github is currently 31. To put this in perspective, ASP is 27th and PHP is 6th. Please keep creating and moving your open source projects to Github. Most Watched This Week andyj / isValidRSS-CFC bobsilverberg / ValidateThisColdBoxPlugin crimsonskyfalling /...

I have been touting Github for ColdFusion open source projects. I have a great example of why. Bob Silverberg has been working on ValidateThis for Wheels. This consists of two projects, the ValidateThis framework and a ValidateThis Wheels plugin . He forked my repository of the plugin and made a...

Riaforge recently added an input field for external source control sites and Github now recognizes ColdFusion syntax . With these two announcements, I will demonstrate how to edit your Riaforge project information for Github. I will use jTidy cfc for the example. Filling from top to bottom of the...

This week in ColdFusion and Github news, ColdFusion moved up one position on the most popular language on Github. It is currently 31. To put this in perspective, ASP is 27th and PHP is 6th. Please keep creating and moving your open source projects to Github. Most Watched This Week stillnet /...

The Learning Wheels Litepost Contest is wrapping up on Feb 19th. It is meant for a hopefully, quick and simple intro into Wheels. Prize Grand Prize (one): $100 Amazon Gift card Runner Up Prizes (two): $50 Amazon Gift card Everyone: Free one year Mini Hosting Plan at Alurium Hosting (over $40 value)...

I have been venturing into creating and distributing torrents for ColdFusion related downloads like MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) virtual machine. I decided on using my website and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to host the actual files the torrent will use....

MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) smaller download 588.86 mb url rewriting Virtual Box Guest Additions readme.txt in the zip Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...

I recently was opted into a service I didn't sign up for. Many of you have been also. Google Buzz is Google's attempt at a social networking for "share updates, photos, videos, and more". What I find disturbing is Google opting me into a service, I didn't sign up for. Another irritating feature is...

Github now tracks CFML syntax. Github uses Pygments , a generic syntax highlighter. Pygment recently added support for CFML and Github has implemented it. What does this mean to the ColdFusion community? Github recognizing ColdFusion means more exposure. Currently ColdFusion is the 32nd most...

ColdFusion On Wheels announced a contest to create an example of LitePost using Wheels. LitePost is a simple blogging application used to demonstrate different ColdFusion frameworks implementations like Fusebox , Mach-II , Model-Glue , and ColdBox . Shortly after being posted, two other donations...

Thanks for everyone that attending live and anyone watching the recording later. Surprised someone didn't catch me sooner to clarify "CF is not Java", "CF programing is not the Same as Java programing" :-) Code

I am proud to announce I was accepted into the Adobe Community Professional for 2010!!! I have had an exciting month, due to ColdFusion On Wheels . I am not part of the Wheels core team , just some who found a framework that works like I code and have been trying to get the word out about it. You...

I started a Head First ColdFusion book to submit to Head First . If anyone is interested in contributing, it is using markdown and on GitHub . The idea is based on the Pro Git book using the same technique .

I would like to thank cf.Objective() for accepting my submission for a session over ColdFuson on Wheels . cf.Objective() 2010: April 22-24, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN Registration Title: ColdFusion on Wheels, Inspired by Ruby on Rails Description: Inspired by Ruby on Rails ,...

I read Jason Dean's " The new Fusion Authority Quarterly Update is out " post and found out the latest FAQU was released. The FAQU is a well edited and researched ColdFusion publication. There is alot of free material/knowlegde available on the web but FAQU is worth the nominal subscription fee....

"JTidy is a Java port of HTML Tidy, a HTML syntax checker and pretty printer. Like its non-Java cousin, JTidy can be used as a tool for cleaning up malformed and faulty HTML." More information I was looking for something to clean up some html for pdf generation using cfdocument and found a...

Here is my first entry , 'Wheels Is Hanging with the Big Boys Just Fine', for the CFWheels.org blog. Take a look at the surprising stats (surprising too me at least.)

I gave a presentation over CFWheels on 11/10/2009 at the MDCFUG . Here is the recording and material related to the talk. Recording: Outline: Presentation Slides / Speaker Notes: Code Examples:

CFWheels Presentation Information - Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30pm at the MDCFUG Topic: Inspired by Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion on Wheels provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. We will start by covering key principles of the...

I started getting this error on a ColdFusion JRun instance. It was happenning only with one application. (Note: We have applications seperated by folder) java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class coldfusion.xml.rpc.CFCServlet How do you fix this? I restarted the jrun instance, the...

This is a 4 part series over Git and GitHub with Riaforge . So far we installed some software , registered for a free GitHub account, created a repository, and cloned it . Lets demonstrate the power of GitHub, anyone can make contributes to a project on GitHub. We will be using CWheels on GitHub to...

There is an interesting thread going on with the CFWheels google group over switching to git . Does it really matter to community members what source control the project is using? Subversion is locked down to only committers who have access, so any community changes come via patches. Maybe using...

Chris Peters , member of the CFWheels team, added a page to their site called " Who's Using ColdFusion on Wheels ". It is great to be able to see sites using ColdFusion on Wheels. I am an advocate of CFWheels because it is simple and initiative for any ColdFusion developer to quickly create a...

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I forgot I received an email awhile ago about translating the So you want to learn CFWheels series . I see the first installment has been done. Pretty Cool :-) E cos vuoi installare CFWheels?

CFWheels released 0.9.4 today if you haven't heard. I really enjoy using CFWheels because of the conventions and it was designed for ColdFusion based on Rails ideas. ColdFusion on Wheels provides an easy way for rapid development plus it has a built, simple to use Object-relational mapping ( ORM )....

I was working on my next installment of " So you want to create a CFWheels application? " and was able to easily get URL Rewriting on JRun which I thought was previously not available.I used the Url Rewrite Filter mentioned by Matt Woodward in his " Open BlueDragon + Railo + ColdFusion on Tomcat "...

This is a series over using Riaforge with Git and GitHub . So far we installed some software , next we will register for a free GitHub, create a repository, and clone it. Registering will only take a couple seconds. Go to the signup page . Fill out the information but skip the SSH Public Key field....

Git for Subversion users, Part 1: Getting started Git gets demystified for Subversion version control system users Summary: Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) offer a number of advantages over centralized VCSs, and for Subversion users looking to explore this model, Git is a great place to...

I will show how to switch a Riaforge project using SVN to use Git and Github . Git is more geared for open source projects since it easily allows contributes from anyone. A hierarchy might eventually evolve where the project owner watches four of his trusted friends, then those four might watch a...

I really enjoy ColdFusion but I am frustrated seeing tools in other programming languages like metric testing ( NDepend ), code coverage ( Emma ), and coding standards ( Checkstyle ). None of these tools are new. They are immensely helpful, but not really available in CFML . That being said, I feel...

I caught up on some UGTV recordings this weekend. Most were from CFMeetup but a couple were from other ColdFusion User Groups. ColdFusion & PDF CFMeetup: PDF Creation and Manipulation with ColdFusion 8 by Dave Ferguson Document-driven Applications with ColdFusion & PDF by Josh Adams Different...

This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity and matches to this post . Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some concepts in CFWheels , added our basic flow and navigation , created add and list functionality ,...

Terry Ryan, the Platform Evangelist for Adobe , has announced a DZone Refcard on ColdFusion 9. This is very cool. Nice job Terry. If you aren't familiar with DZone , it is good resource developers. About DZone (taken from their about page ): DZone is a free link-sharing community for developers...

This CFWheels series is heavy borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity and matches to this post Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some concepts in CFWheels, added our basic flow and navigation, created add and list functionality , and...

This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some basic conventions and concepts in CFWheels, added our basic flow and navigation , and most...

This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some basic conventions over configuration and concepts in CFWheels, and added our basic flow...

This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . We have installed CFWheels and talked about the files, Request Handling and URL Rewriting . If you setup URL Rewriting , you will be accessing our Contacts...

Here are the records of my presentation over Eclipse and ColdFusion. 07-23-09 - CFMeetup: Leveraging Eclipse for ColdFusion Development 07-14-09 - Leveraging Eclipse for ColdFusion Development (MDCFUG) We will cover Eclipse terms and using the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment.)...

This series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . We will create an application to manage contacts starting from scratch. If you haven't installed CFWheels , check this post . Our application will reside in the web...

I am doing a series for the CFWheels framework similar to Dan Wilson 's "So you want to" series for Model Glue :Unity. Here is his . I will try to match each post but using CFWheels. My first post will cover installing CFWheels. CFWheels is a framework based on Ruby on Rails . I love the idea of...

I haven't been able to use ColdFusion Builder extensively yet, but here are my favorite 8 key assists so far. First group is First group is not too amazing and still should be mentioned. They are available in CFEclipse but the wrap in pound signs binding is a different combination. ctrl+shift+a -...

ColdFusion Builder Beta users should be aware when using ColdFusion Builder Extensions, the extension files/folders are being installed in a ColdFusion server's web root that the user selects. This may contaminate your web root with files and folders not relevant to your application releases. It...

CFUnited has a survey for Community Achievement Awards! Join me and write In Marc Esher for Community Member of the Year.  Please steal and repost the picture or create a better one for the write in campaign.

I am working on ciFusion , a Bolt Extension, for Continuous Improvement of ColdFusion Code. It seems Java and .Net have many tools for metrics and code analysis but ColdFusion is several years behind. I am hoping to leverage already existing Java tools since ColdFusion works so well with it....

I was working on a MXUnit and Selenium Remote Control example, a year ago, and finally fixed the documentation. It shows how do functional testing with Selenium through MXUnit. It is a simple demo. Here is the zip . Read the Selenium-RC - Using the CFML Client Driver.doc before using for how to...

This list is features I feel are very important for a ColdFusion IDE. 1. Mylyn Bridge I use Mylyn daily for work because it helps me multitask and track my time. Currently for ColdFusion files in CFEclipse , Mylyn is defaulted to a file view which is nice, but Bolt needs to have a bridge to get...

CF.Objective 2009 - Approach to Automated Security Testing Bill Shelton 11:030 am - 12:30 pm central Saturday, May 16, 2009 notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Code Reviews and Mentoring Adam Haskell 3 pm- 4 pm central Saturday, May 16, 2009 notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Extending Adobe Bolt with CFML Adam Lehman 10:15 am - 11:15 am central Saturday, May 16, 2009 notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Open Source Enterprise Java and ColdFusion Brian Kotek 9 am - 10 am central Saturday, May 16, 2009 notes

CF.Objective 2009 - ColdFusion as a Service (CFAAS) Terrence Ryan 9 - 10 am central notes

CF.Objective 2009 - ColdSpring, better living through configuration Mark Drew 3 pm - 4 pm central notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Object Relational Mappings with ColdFusion Jason Delmore 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm central notes

CF.Objective 2009 - The Best of Both Worlds: Java backends with CFML Frontends Matt Woodward 11:30 am - 12:30 pm central notes

CF.Objective 2009 - What to do when oo fails you in ColdFusion Brian Meloche 10:15 am - 11:15 am central notes

CF.Objective 2009 opening notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Rad OO in Code Peter Bell 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm central notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Taking Code Reuse to a higher level Jeff Chastian 11:30 am - 12:30 pm central link to blog posting with slides attachment notes

CF.Objective 2009 - Writing Testable Code: Realworld TDD Marc Esher 3 pm - 4 pm central notes presentation code and slides

CF.Objective Setting Up Solid CF Development Enviorment Kurt Wiersma 10:15 am - 11:15 am notes previous recording of this presentation via UGTV

CFHour() released a new podcast, IDE Talk. They talk about ColdFusion IDEs (integrating development editor) covering Homesite, Dreamweaver, and Eclipse with Aptana and CFEclipse. Audio level was tremendously better than last time. Two points, I would like to clarify about Eclipse they mention. 1)...

I stumbled apon CFHour() podcast through iTunes. They pushed a new show out yesterday. It is about integrating ColdFusion with other Adobe products along with another topic, database design. I am listening to it now. It is great to have another current ColdFusion podcast series. Keep up the great...

My blogging has been non-existant over the last month since I have been busy traveling, interviewing, and moving. I can say from experience there are alot of interesting ColdFusion jobs, people, and opportunities. Contact me (henke dot mike @ gmail dot com ) if you are in the DC area and looking, I...

Adobe MAX 2008 Top Ten List - Announcements 10. In the dramatic opening session, the key speaker announces Adobe will save 15% by switching their insurance to GEICO. 9. Ben Forta, Adobe Systems Inc's Senior Technical Evangelist, says he'll be on next season's "Dancing With The Stars" -- this guy...

I am presenting HeadFirst Debugging with FusionDebug to the Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group . Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 10:00 AM (CENTRAL) "This meeting and presentation will be done through Adobe Connect. Anyone can join the meeting by going to this URL...

I finally finsihed up my final notes from the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) and also noticed the Opening remarks video was released. Below our my notes on Google Docs. Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference Seattle, WA October 23rd - October 24th, 2008 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE...

I gave my first try at a new presentation called Head First ColdFusion Debugging with FusionDebug . From the link, you can either sign in and see some speaker notes or follow the link below the slide image to view the sides. The preso seemed to go well but I would love to give it again if any...

Here is a review of Day 1 and Day 2 from another attendee of the Google Test Automation Conference. I'll follow with my thoughts related to ColdFusion after I finish tranferring two sessions into Google Docs and a Debugging presentation, I am giving @ the NECFUG this Tues. My notes of the GTAC 2008...

Check out Dan Wilson's Refactoring article on Dzone. It is great to get the ColdFusion community active on other fronts. Comments are disabled for this post, please make comments on the article's comments.

I arrived in Seattle this morning from Omaha. Got to the conference hotel easy and then did some quick sight-seeing before GTAC gets into gear. Below is a run down of sessions. I'll be writing google docs for most session and linking from this page. Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference...

Having problems with a corrupted Eclipse instance like line number not showing up or some other funky issue and you swear you have done all the correct steps to get it to work. Maybe starting with a fresh version of Eclipse is the best route. Most people think of restarting with a pristine version...

I heard today the "undo weirdness" in CFEclipse is due to the "Trim trailing spaces before saving" being turned on. This option checkbox is under Windows - Preferences - CFEclipse - Editor There have been several thread in the CFEclipse Google Group over this. If you haven't noticed this behavior,...

I will be doing a series for ColdFusion developers to setup, use the Selnium Trifecta, and incorporate Selenium tests into MXUnit. The first entry will show how to setup Selenium Core , Selenium Remote Control , and Selenium Grid . These tools will enable you to do extensive acceptance testing...

I installed Xubuntu 8.04 for better performance but some reason Firefox and Flash won't work properly for Adobe Connect recordings. My laptop is an Acer AMD Turion 64 so the normal Flash installation woudn't work. Here is what I did (I tried many things but think this is what worked). I ran the...

I was accepted to attend the Google Test Automation Conference - 2008 . I submitted a paragraph a while ago stating I would like to attend and bring my point of view from ColdFusion programming and unit testing with MXUnit along with some other points. Then today, I received an email with the...

I was laid off last Friday. I wasn't prepared since I liked the ColdFusion team and rest of the company's employees. I enjoyed going to work and what I was working on. The layoff was major for the company's size, 15 people out of about 45. After a lot of online applications, call backs, and several...

Here is a screencast of reverting a line or block or code with two-clicks I had some code I wrote, then had to undo the changes. As some of you may know CFEclipse sometimes throws an error and goofs up the undo making a mess of pound signs and coldfusion tags. I created this screencast from...

I attended my first ever BarCamp in Omaha. I met a lot of smart individuals using a variety of programming languages. Attendents were from Omaha, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and IA. If you haven't heard of a BarCamp, I hadn't either till last week. I attended sessions over Seaside , Prototype , Geeks...

Here is the link to the Eclipse/Mylyn Slides .

Ryan Stille , CFWebTools' uber geek of the year , mention to me about two Programming events occuring in Omaha this week. I have been looking forward to the git presentation but forgot about it since it was cancelled last time. And the BarCamp I heard some rumblings but nothing concrete. If you are...

Where Art Thou SVN 1.5.1 windows installer, I have searched and scoured google to no success. I see the svn-1.4.6-setup.exe on the Subversions Windows section but no 1.5.x. Subversion’s FAQ say simply update your client . It is that simple but if SVN doesn't provide an installer, how shall we....

Summary: Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get started. For seasoned users, the demos provide some quick overviews of new features and best practices. http://live.eclipse.org/node/573 The...

I did a quick search for good examples of the Show Annotations feature in Eclipse but didn't find any so I figured I would post some. I also checked Eclipse's documentation and found none. The closest I came was a post by Jim Crumb Priest. Starting in the the Navigator View, I right-click on the...

Next NECFUG meeting: July 22nd - Axel Jensen will be talking about the development process. More details to come. ---- Should be interesting. Axel is very passionate about Flex and ColdFusion. I heard the initial outline concept and it was covering how to use Subversion, Mylyn, ANT, and Trac. Very...

"Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn , you never want to return to the old ways .... " Watch Presentation

My title is long and pretty much says it all. " Orbwave System Manager - tool every CF multiple instance local developer must have." I have 5 local developer instances of ColdFusion on my laptop. I don't use them everyday so why bog down my system down on startup or throughout the day. Instead of...

If you haven't heard of the vaScoper tool created and maintained by Mike Schierberl , it is definately worth checking out. It has the stamp of approval of Raymond Camden and Sean Corfield . Here is a varScoper ant target recently added to the MXUnit build ant. Download both tools and give them a...

Similar to Nic Tunney's Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it was during a CFObjective presentation by Dan Wilson , I witnessed the copy down shortcut (ctrl-alt-down) and was impressed. I feel many CFEclipse...

I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium . I picked up a fundamental concept , Conditional Execution, and a cool trick . The concept was the if and unless attribute of an ant target. I have read about them but it was great to see...

CFUnited was kind enough to release 35+ conference presentations . Hopefully it will demonstrate the quality and networking for people unable to attend, like me this year. I added the presentations to Charlie Arehart's UGTV . Sean Corfield blogged about the availabilty Monday but I figured I would...

After listening to a quality podcast from Hansel Minutes I have a better understanding of Open Source and how Eclipse's organization functions. With the recent chatter on OpenBD , Railo , and Adobe's CFML Language Advisory Committee , I would recommend listening to it. 91 Eclipse with Bjorn...

My group @ work was tasked with upgrading our servers to ColdFusion 8. My manager asked for each of us to plan like we were the only one planning the release, then he'll gather the notes and create a best possible transition list. I did some googling found these resources. I found the performance...

CFEclipse users should be using Mylyn even if you don't have a ticket or code repository. You can use it by creating local tasks. It'll make your life easier. Why does Mylyn use the term "task"? This presentation mentions Bugzilla but it is not the focus. Very quick intro into Mylyn. Using Mylyn to...

I have been working on a build.xml file for work that updates the local working copy, runs MXunit tests, create JUnit reports based on MXunit results, minifies js/css , grabs only modified files between revisions , crunches ColdFusion files, checks compile errors, and also will check for unscoped...

Next meeting for NECFUG: June 24th Jake Churchill will be talking about CSS. After a quick primer to explain the basics, he'll dive into why you want to be using CSS on your site, and the neat things it allows you to do. Bring your CSS questions! http://www.necfug.com/

I posted about a cfcompile ant target this morning. Now the post is number two one on Google via DZONE . My measly blog. Come on :-) Thanks ColdFusion DZone Related Links: Don't have a blog? Have something to say? Read This! How to grow the ColdFusion community. What YOU can do to help. Add a new...

I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. The current jar was yuicompressor-2.3.5.jar . It took a lot of playing around but I finally stumbled on how to get it to work. Here is the snippet for the yuicompressor. I had to jump through a...

Here is my attempt to be able to pull a revision range from an svn repository. The ant script runs an svn log command, sets up the directory structure, then pulls the files down from the svn repository using an ant get command. It works but isn't pretty. Any deleted files will be tried to be pulled...

Here are the slides as promised. After the presentation, I added a couple more. Hopefully, I am able to do this one again. http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc2sb454_49cn6bdvcz

Picking the right Eclipse distribution for you Products based on Eclipse provide different features for varying needs Which Eclipse distribution is right for you? Commercial distributions (distros)based on Eclipse Europa offer different features and conveniences. Many commercial ones also offer...

next NECFUG - Selenium with Coldfusion and MXUnit Next meeting: May 27th, 6pm Tagline: Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code. - Dan Salomon If you ever felt like the tag line, this meeting might help. I will be covering...

I put a question in Mxunit's google group about testing location? I remember someone @ CF.Objective mentioned tests should be in a seperate location like trunk, branches, tags, and tests . If you have any advice please chime in. I have disabled comments on this post so the discussion will occur in...

Very interestng two tools every ColdFusion Developer should already be using are highlighted in developersWorks - IBM's resource for Developers.... Debug and tune applications on the fly with Firebug Save time when you monitor, analyze, and edit live Web pages Integrate external tools and builders...

I stumbed on EclipseCon 2008 presenations last night. The conference was March 17-20. Several are ColdFusion related if you are using Eclipse with Subversion, Mylyn, Debugging, Automation, or Agile. Here is a list of the presentations . If you want to download them all and sort later.

Leveraging Basic Design Patterns in ColdFusion - CFObjective 2008 Phill Nacelli My Notes

After John Bland's presentation on CF8 .Net integration, which was really cool, I thought it was kinda a pain how he had to switch between two editors, one for cfm and another for vistual studio. I did a quick search and found a recent article from IBM on using an Eclipse .Net plugin . One reason...

CF8 .Net Integration - CFObject 2008 John Bland Very cool! My Notes

flex: no frameworks required Mzim Porges - CFObjective 2008 My notes

Refactoring in ColdFusion: from Procedural to OO Dan Wilson - CFObjective 2008 My notes

Best Testing with cfcUnit - CF.Objective 2008 John Mason Very good and interesting. My notes

Intro into ColdSpring - CF.Objective 2008 Mark Drew My notes

MVC for You and Me - CFObjective 2008 Joe Rinehart My notes

My notes from Selling Professional Development (Processes) at a Hostile Shop - CF.Objective 2008 Terrence Ryan It was by far the best presentation so far I attended. Slides flew by faster then I could type, but here are my rough notes . Another review by Remove Synthesis Update: Ryan's presentation...

Step Debugging in ColdFusion 6/7/8 - CF.Objective 2008 Charlie Arehart My notes

Introduction to Building Aplications with Transfer ORM - CF.Objective 2008 Mark Mandel My notes

Using ANT: Making your development life more productive - CF.Objective 2008 Peter Farrell Great information and well presented. My notes Update: Peter's presentation pdf

I changed my eclipse.ini file around after researching some jvm option settings. I primarily use CFEclipse, Mylyn, and Subclipse. I am not a jvm options expert, but I referenced several articles . Before modifying the eclipse.ini file please back it up. The ini file can be error prone with returns...

I will show how to setup FusionDebug on Windows for Multiple ColdFusion instances . And ColdFusion 8 Debugger on Ubuntu . A hint for both is turn off "timeout request after (seconds)" in the CF Administrator so your debugging info doesn't timeout. Within Eclipse, I use the Breakpoints, Debug,...

After writing Selenium is NOT a framework , I rediscovered a presentation from Google Automating Testing Conference. It was pretty good (I think I watched it before but it didn't click). Google has developed a Selenium Framework called Ringo. Their Selenium Framework goal is simplicity and...

With the talk of the "ColdFusion community", I found this post interesting, what would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist? I would change it around and ask "What would you do if you were an Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist?" *What would your goals be? *How many of these can you accomplish now? I...

I was reading a thread on CFEclipse Users and had an idea. I am going to give Mark Drew some of my tax rebate. I guess the NPR fund raising this week has affected me. I'll try to catch him @ CF.Objective . Mark has done a great job with CFEclipse and I take it for granted. CF.Objective falls pretty...

Yet again another semi-annually, ColdFusion is dead. I suggest vote negative on the dzone landing page, but don't click through to the article and read the article . The link below goes to the dzone.com landing page for the article. Summary: The entry is a carbon copy of other infamous ColdFusion...

Dead Language (ColdFusion) breaks top 20 with big jump in TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2008 "The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month."

I watched Mark Esher's presention " ANT On The Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS " a couple weeks ago and liked the idea of scheduling an ant to do my SVN updates before I get into the office. He was kind enough to provide a zip of his files from the presention. Please watch the presentation to...

I have noticed tsvncache.exe is a cpu hog on my computer. Tsvncache.exe collects data needed to display the icon overlays for TortoiseSVN. Fix: Right-click desktop, TortoiseSVN --> settings --> Icon Overlay: System cache - Set either to Shell or None (mouse over options to see what they do and...

Selenium is not a framework but needs one desperately. I have noticed some references to Selenium as a framework thus this blog posting. (Selenium is an "Open source test automation tool for executing scenarios against web applications to validate browser compatibility and system functionality.") I...

I feel like I am in Battlestar Galactica when using Mylyn to work inside Eclipse. Task focused user interface is the future and the future is now. If you are using CFEclipse , you need to use Mylyn by creating local tasks. I have hooked in Trac and Subversion @ work but the neat thing with Mylyn is...

Anyone have an example of using Selenium and having a skeleton main file the loads a variables file for setting variables. Example, variables file would have address, town, city, and state variables with approriate values. Then you could interchange the variables file for different address in the...

Next meeting: March 25th Mark Kruger will be giving a presentation on Advanced SQL Server Tecniques. Items covered include indexes, queries, tuning, etc. MORE INFO Started going a couple months ago. It is a good place to meet fellow CF-ers and have some free pizza :-)

I had this issue, Malformed uxxxx encoding, when moving an ant variable into a properties file. I found this solution after a little hunting. http://tinyurl.com/27ddb9 Solution: Make sure you use '/' in all directory vars

Eclipse Working Sets - Part I Abstract: In this installment, Peter Friese looks into how working sets can help you to unclutter your workspace. I haven't watched yet but will definately. I did a quick entry on Eclipse Working Sets recently.

You can now vote for ColdFusion support in DLTK . More info on Eclipse DLTK

I think the presentation went pretty well. I think there were 10 or so people present. Most had laptops since this was hands-on. I had some mouse issues with the presentation laptop but overcame that. This is a Eclipse/CFEclipse primer or 101 presentation.

Don't let PHP get a jump on us :-) Vote for structure bridges for CFEclipse and Mylyn Ticket I entered for requesting a connector bridge for CFEclipse and Mylyn. For more on Mylyn watch this . Seems very cool. I am currently work on introducing Trac @ work and Mylyn is a reason why. Besides (major...

I created a wiki page called Trac Case Studies in SCM & Project Management Process on trac.edgewall.org for a centralized place of how different people/companies structure their Trac setup. I am working on setting up Trac and haven't found any good references for laying out Trac like multiple Trac...

I am looking for case studies to review to see how to structure trac in regards to projects, components, milestones, and versions. Any suggest how you have your Trac instance setup?

With the help of Ryan Stille's, we'll be presenting Eclipse and CFEclipse for the Nebraska Coldfusion User Group on Febuary 26, 2008. More details on the NECFUG website. It is my first presentation in a long time, so it should be fun. I have been working on the presentation using Google Docs. I...

I came across an ACTIVELY developed ColdFusion Unit Testing Framework a couple weeks ago. MXUnit seems really well thought out and the guys behind it are really working hard on it. If you aren't fully invested in CFUnit or CFCUnit, it is worth checking out. MXUnit even has a working and easy to...

After a lot of trial and error tonight, I am able to start and stop my ColdFusion server from Eclipse. I am working with Ubuntu, CF8, and JRun along with Eclipse 3.3.1.1, your environment may need tweaking. Before I basically ran "sudo /opt/jrun4/bin/jrun start cfusion" in a terminal to start CF...

This entry is a quick review of Working Sets in Eclipse. I will show how to create a new working set and selecting/deselecting. Working sets help reduce the clutter. A working set groups resources for display in the Navigator view. I finally learned about working sets today while attending a 4 day...

I started to watch the first lesson of Using the Eclipse Workbench last night but got distracted with the CNN debate. I was about finished and the training seemed pretty good. I noticed the downloads include a swf for the tutorial which is nice if you are offline.

Make your site and rss feed mobile friendly in a second with help from google. You will have to have your url encoded . Then add the encoded url to http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u= I used tinyurl.com to make the link manageable. I created a mobile directory and added an index.cfm file...

Nebraska ColdFusion Users ( NECFUG ) meeting was last night. This was my second time attending and I hope to keep attending. The main presentation was by Jake Churchill, works @ CF WebTools , about FarCry . FarCry is an open-source content management system build on ColdFusion. It was a pretty...

Did you know when committing in Subclipse, you can double click a resource listed and it shows a compare of your working copy and the repository's head version base revision? See snapshot below.

Screengrab! , a Firefox extention, works on Ubuntu to save a web page as png file. Basically I had some Coldfusion output and wanted to send the whole page not a portion. I have seen several tools for windows but nothing for Ubuntu. I googled "export as png", "save as png", and "print to file as...

Myth: ColdFusion is Case Insensitive Rated OTHER I gave "ColdFusion is Case Insensitive" an Other rating because some attributes' values are case-sensitive like file names. Example: CreateObject function's port attribute. The ColdFusion server is case-insensitive, so you can mix case but for...

I was working on a new skin for machblog and accidently pushed it live last night. I need to clean up the search button and the forms. I have a couple skins I hope to finish up and send to the guys. This one is called frozenage . I hadn't planned to actually use this. I have another skin I was...

CFDump and the standard Coldfusion Debugging Error Information didn't work. Charlie Arehart has mentioned several reasons why use a debugger when you can just use CFDump . I ran across a specific CFDUMP instance today when I found this very true. I was passing an xml string into a SQL Stored...

Doug Hughes announced Enterprise ColdFusion with Model-Glue training registration was extended till Jan 25th. I am excited enough people registered so the Model-Glue training program wasn't cancelled. I am looking for a roommate to split a hotel room @ the class's site, Hilton Garden Inn Arlington...

I stumbed across LeechBlock. I installed it @ work to help me stay more focused and not get distracted on the web. So far it works great for me. Check out the link for more info and pics. "LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out...

Well, I got Lost 3rd Season DVD set for Xmas. I'll be watching it to get reacquainted with what happened last season since the show will return on Jan 31st. Lost - The Complete Third Season

A couple weeks ago when writing the entry, UnEclipsing CFEclipse Line Numbers , I stumbled on a couple interesting settings in preferences to pimp my Eclipse EDI On the net is plenty of info for tweaking eclipse.ini file or adding variables to eclipse executable for performance but I hadn't seen...

I started blogging toward the end of Aug 2007. Here are my top 5 content of 2007 via Google Analytics stats. Happy New Year! Adding JS/CSS compression and JS validation using YUI Compressor, JSLint, and jsmin to ant script Coldfusion with Selenium ant script Show Us Ur CFEclipse perspective layout?...

Quick Eclipse and CFEclipse hint. The entry is mainly about turning on CFEclipse line numbers but useful for other hidden Eclipse preferences. In Eclipse, under Windows --> Preferences are many settings its hard to locate the one you are looking for. Eclipse actually has a built in search/filter....

I signed up for Enterprise ColdFusion with Model-Glue a couple weeks ago. I am looking forward to learning with hands on training about Model-Glue framework, Coldspring, and Reactor/Transfer for four days. I hope enough people sign up by Jan 5th when registration ends. If your interested please...

Due to an oversite, I didn't have my name on my About section or Contact form so I added it and a picture to my About section. The picture was recently taken @ a company Lazer Tag event. It was fairly cold but fun. Thanks to Charlie Arehart for pointing out my full name was missing on the website...

Interestly Amazon has released a limited beta for a web service for running queries on a structured database called Amazon SimpleDB . Amazon must see a need in the marketplace for this but I am kinda sceptical. Here is an good article on the subject " Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB "

This entry is quick review of built in Eclipse functionality not to be confused with CFEclipse or Aptana features, the Navigator view toolbar . I will show the Link With Editor , Go Into, Forward, Back, and Up buttons . I use the Link With Editor Button hundreds of times a day. It jumps the...

Starting this Wed (12/12/07), several co-workers are gathering for lunch to learn Flex 2. We are blocking a hour Mondays and Wednesdays @ noon to watch Total Training For Flex 2 . If you are in the Omaha area and are interested drop me an email or comment. I figure a group will keep me honest and...

I stumbled across Hanselminutes awhile ago. It is usually a well organized and informative podcast. What is Hanselminutes? Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. Scott discusses utilities and tools, gives...

I tried using the ColdFusion 8 Debugger through Eclipse but kept getting an error message saying "Unable to contact the RDS Server 'localhost.'" Not to helpful :-) I am a big fan of Fusion Debug. My problem was two fold. 1. My web.xml file had RDS commented out in a couple spots. The file for me...

Charlie Arehart has been very busy lining up great Online ColdFusion Meetup Group meetings. If you don't know about the group it is an awesome learning resource. Charile has setup a site, UGTV , for finding ANY usergroup recorded presentions. UGTV holds links to the recordings along with a title,...

I went to my first Nebraska ColdFusion Users Group . The group is ran by Ryan Stille and Mark Kruger from CFWebtools. It was a nice size group of about 16 people. The first portion of the meeting consisted of Mark showing some new CF tags in CF8 which were CFWindow, CFTab, and CFPod. The second...

What do ColdFusion geeks listen to? I joined the ColdFusion Music Group last weekend. I have been using Last.fm for awhile and it has helped me discover artists and cool songs by tracking my music listening through different music players.

Lot of the CFEclipse users say use Aptana . Clarification usually not provided with the generally helpful advice is Aptana doesn't open ColdFusion related file extension by default. Editors allow you to edit, save, and revert the editor’s content. Editors have built-in language-specific knowledge....

I changed the skin of my blog. I am using Machblog. The free template is from Luka Cvrk named Internet Corporation. I'll send the skin to Peter and Matt once I workout any bugs.

I have been following an interesting conversation on the CFEclipse user group, " File Explorer issues, again ". It started about the File Explorer view not working in CFEclipse (Mark Drew has released a fix ). Eclipse forces a project approach. Some people find the transition difficult. Dreamweaver...

I read Firefox Bug: Status Bar Zaniness and he briefly mentions Dust Me Selector , a Firefox extention, but didn't mention what it does. I quick googled it. It finds unused CSS selectors. Very cool! Nice complementary extention to use with Firebug .

I see Jim Priest wrote " Code ColdFusion applications fast with the Eclipse CFEclipse plug-in ". The article was released in IBM's developerWorks Open source section. Looks like a must read. I printed it off to take home :-)

It is pretty simple to sync files using (http://Ignore Files on Upload http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/toolkit/configuration.html#ignore). Some folders I synch contain files I don't want to store on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) such as .svn folders for Subversion....

JetS3t can be used across Ubuntu and Windows which I needed. I like to be able to sync files between my two systems. JetS3t has a synchronize command line tool. It is in bat and sh format. JetS3t also has a nice GUI called cockpit. My Amazon S3 (stand for Amazon Simple Storage Service) setup for...

With all the Leopard posts going around in the ColdFusion realm, I ran across this for us Ubuntu people using Avant Window Navigator and Compiz Fusion . Lifehacker: Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like a Mac

Jim Priest found a cool Eclipse plugin to visualize ant targets and properites from yworks called Ant Explorer . I installed it and took a quick look. It seems interesting. Update Site URL: http://www.yworks.com/eclipse/update

I am the guy when watching a presentation, glances @ the presenter's taskbar to see what icons are in the panel. Or notes their IDE setup incase the perspective layout seems useful. I was hoping you will share your CFEclipse perspective layout with the CF community. So to start us out a larger...

Here is the schedule and registration information: Introduction to Website Optimizer (New or inexperienced users) Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 10:00 - 11:00am PDT Register to attend. Website Optimizer: Creating & Launching Experiments (Intermediate and advanced users) Thursday, November 1st, 2007...

I have been wanting to properly add Akismet to machblog but am unfamiliar with some concepts of MachII so I posted a challenge on Mach-II for ColdFusion's google group . I offered to buy the tutor something off their Amazon wishlist. Sure enough the offer was immediately accepted and here is the...

Google introduced code search sitemaps . "Google's Code Search helps users find function definitions and sample code by enabling them to search publicly accessible source code hosted on the Internet." Very cool. I might try to add this to the Google Sitemap XML Generator

I would like to thank Raymond Camden for adding my blog to coldfusionBloggers.org. ColdfusionBloggers.org was created so he could play with ColdFusion 8 technology and see how quickly he could create an aggregator.

I see RemoteSynthesis.com blogged about Using the Eclipse Web Services Explorer earlier but I stumbled on the Web Services Explorer this morning working with WSDL files. You will need to have Web Tools Platform (WTP) installed. It was a little confusing but once I figured it out it was pretty nice....

This expands on my first entry of using sql results from ant to do other ant process with sql results. This Ant script will store SQL results as an XML file and extracting the values using two different techniques, xmlproperty and xmltask . I use a for loop which comes from Ant-Contrib ....

I finally am upgraded to Eclipse 3.3. Everything went smooth with FusionDebug, CFEclipse, Aptana, and Subclipse. I did stumble a little with finding the current ColdFusion Extentions so here is the direct link. My old archived site pointed to CF_FB_Extensions.zip and the new one is called...

Come Work With Me in addition to what the generic posting says, we are a small group. I started in January and love it. My manager is out of Portland and another coder is from Souix City, IA so there is a chance for telecommuting. The office is based out of Omaha, NE. I come and work with the DBAs...

Great article from codinghorror.com titled Software Branching and Parallel Universes . I'll do an orginal post when I have time :-)

I have been pretty busy with a quick trip to San Fransisco for a couple baseball games and siteseeing last week but today, I came across an interesting article about Browser Tests, Services and Compatibility Test Suites . Smashing Magazine seem to always have quailty posts. What stood out was the...

Selenium only cares the output is in its simple table structure. Please refer to Sebastien Lachance's post about Structure of an html test and James Netherton's post about Selenium suites . I use the Firefox IDE to initially create scripts and save as a cfm file. Then add the ColdFusion sweetness....

I would like to thank ColdFusion Weekly and Jim Priest @ thecrumb.com for being kind enough to mention me and link to a couple of my entries. Selenium Wiki - starting to build resources geared toward ColdFusion but not a requirement. The "Selenium" Edition (Testing ColdFusion Applications Part Two)...

I have been wanting to do a Selenium ant script since John Paul Ashenfelter's presentation on Testing CF applications @ CFUnited 2007. Selenium is a test tool for web applications. It has a very simple html table structure for creating suites and tests. I use Selenenium IDE for Firefox to create...

Installing ColdFusion 8 on Ubuntu was not complex actually it was very straight-forward. Here are the three helpful links I used. Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies Installing ColdFusion 8 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn ColdFusion 8 Install On Ubuntu I stopped on Step 28 on the second link and ran the 2...

updated script - Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor ------- I have been expanding Alistair Davidson's wonderful General ANT build and release scripts . I added js and css minifying shown in Building Web Applications With Apache Ant along with javascript validation through jslint ....

Google Sitemap XML Generator v1.33 CHANGE LIST for 1.33 - 2007/09/13 Added Escaping Entities Added Technorati.com pinging

Google Sitemap XML Generator v1.32 CHANGE LIST for 1.32 - 2007/09/11 Added blogsearch.google.com pinging Corrected an external link check issue

I have heard Akismet mentioned several times so I figured I would look into it. Akismet "is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again ." Integrating Akismet with Coldfusion was easy using...

I was looking for a sitemap.xml generator and stubbled across this Google Sitemap Generator Code . I emailed the gentleman asking if I could put his code on riaforge.com and update it. He graciously said "Of Course". I added a pinging function for Yahoo, Google, and Ask. It submits the sitemap.xml...

Yesterday, a new eBay San Dimas Beta Version was announced. You may wonder what it is San Dimas . It has nothing to do with William "Bill" S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan, San Dimas's most famous fictional citizens. San Dimas actually is a desktop application from eBay using Adobe Air ,...

I instant message a lot at work to fellow developers and other employees. I needed a tool for spell checking my messages and found what looks to be a decent and reasonably priced software. It is called IMSpellchecker XP . Installation was easy (didn't even need to restart instant message client)...

Well, I was fed up with Vista on a new laptop I purchased in March 2007. Vista performance was horrible and it was buggy. I would get the blue screen of death when starting Windows Media Player along with the cpu pegging out when doing anything. The laptop is an Acer Aspire (details later) for...

I made a quick hack to Machblog to support Google SMTP servers. I will go back and add the property to the xml file later. The hack was very easy since I am running Coldfusion 8. I added the attribute useTLS = "yes" to any cfmail tags I found in the code. Here are some links about this topic: Peter...

My first attempt to create an ant using sql results within the ant script. I am using MSSQL as my db server. The example expects ant and sql are setup. Several good blogs covering how to ant and sql setup . My next attempt will try to store the SQL result as XML, and extracting the values. This...

I had trouble connecting locally to SQL Server Express 2005. I found a great post from Charlie Arehart's blog called Solving error connecting to SQL Server 2005 from CFMX 6.1/7 on Localhost but still got "Connection refused" or "Error establishing socket". Here is specific solution for SQL Server...

Hi, Just testing adding blog entries while in a session @ CFUnited, www.cfunited.com . I am using google docs for notes and may publish as I clean them up. I am using MachBlog, Mach-II, and Coldfusion for the blog.