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I was emailing back and forth with a very smart group of people this morning and had a thought that seemed worth repeating. ColdFusion is the most elegant language to express business solutions. Need charts for your dashboard ? No problem. Want to export a report to PDF ? No problem. …
Now Hear This! This is a public service announcement. If you hard code scopes inside your CFCs (request, application, session), stop today. I know it might be 'easier' or 'cleaner' or less lines of code, but you are really painting yourself into a corner when you do this. An object …
The ColdFusion community is full of bright people who have built really neat libraries and widgets to make better features and functions for applications. One of my favorites, CFUniform (a rich forms library) lets you build consistent, feature rich forms with very minimal code. I use …
Ha, made you look! Seriously, Jim Priest and I have been kicking around the idea of hosting a 1 day ColdFusion conference in the Triangle area. We've had good support from the Universities in the area about lending us some space as well as good response from other sponsors. What we …
Scotch On The Road is bringing the conference to you! The European tour makes Scotch the most affordable way to get your annual intake of all things CFML, Flex and AIR.
Adam Lehman, Terrance Ryan, Andy Allan, Sean Corfield & Serge Jespers are some of the fantastic speakers lined …
I'm super stoked to announce I've been nominated as an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion. I really appreciate the recognition from the mother ship (Adobe) and will continue to contribute for the development of the community. As you know, the Adobe Community Experts Program is a …
I started a blog so I could share interesting stuff I learned with others. This altruistic motive (and the thousands of adoring fans, of course) drive me to write, rewrite, edit, learn and otherwise put in work for more blogging. If there is a downside to blogging, it is comment spam.
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Mark Mandel turned me on to this flash game. I don't usually play games at all, but this one has my interest. The way it works is you can create a character and pit your character against other characters in fights. The fights are completely automated so there is no skill involved. It …
I'm blogging this before I forget what I did. Sorry if this is jumbled. I was trying updating Flex Builder (Eclipse) and got an error message:
Fix For Eclipse RCP Patch 2 for 3.3.1 (3.3.1.v20071204_331) requires feature "org.eclipse.rcp (3.3.1)
Clicking around, I also got this …
If you have not yet heard of FreeCycle , you might be missing out. FreeCycle is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. This worked out perfectly …
