I wanted to mention a video Joe Rinehart put on youtube called Dear ColdFusion - I'm breaking up with you . I watched half of Joe's video, then watched the second half the next day. In between I worked on a response video called Hitler reacts to Dear ColdFusion - I'm breaking up w/ you .
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...
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. Download...
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...
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...
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...
Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about HackMyCF giveaway, FarCry, Evolving Skills and John Madden. See Show Page for Epoisode 4 more information Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the podcast
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...