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By now, many of you will have seen Adam Lehman's blog post about changes in ColdFusion's product management . A few people have said this spells doom for ColdFusion. Already Adobe's Community Professionals and Community Champions have piled in on this and voiced their support for Adam - and …
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cf.Objective() has just posted the draft schedule for 2011 and, as always, it's packed full of great sessions. I'm very pleased to announce that I am speaking again this year and I'll be bringing two brand new presentations to the conference:
Multi-Tenant, Multi-Lingual Web Platforms - Software …
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The folks behind the first (and hopefully annual) OpenCF Summit have taken another look at their budget and, after working with a number of partners, have been able to reduce the price of the conference to just $30 ! Now the premier event about free open source CFML is almost free! What are you …
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Happy Holidays! Whether you've been naughty or nice, you can read all about the new Railo 3.2 release with many community contributions and new core features!
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Michael Long posted a comment on my " Are Objects Bad? " post which I wasn't really sure how to answer effectively. Michael feels that if you're just working with functions, and grouping them so each file deals with specific concepts, you're starting down the road to OOP anyway so why not "bite …
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Both cf.Objective() and OpenCF Summit have their call for speakers/proposals open at the moment.
Bob Silverberg talks about the cf.Objective() CfP on his blog and you can read about the OpenCF Summit CfP on their blog . The important thing to note in both cases is that there are calls open: …
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Unlike Ben Nadel , I don't intend to post my homework from each day of this exploration but I said in a comment on Ben's blog that I'd post some of my solutions. Today, I'm posting part of my Io Day 2 homework. fibhelper := method( a, b, c, if( c <= 1, a, fibhelper( b, a+b, c-1 …
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Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion by Matt Gifford Packt Publishing 167pp $39.99 This book is a much-needed gentle introduction to ColdFusion Components and Object-Oriented Programming. The book assumes no background in CFCs or OOP so it starts by introducing the tag and script syntax …
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I've had a number of people criticize me for 'pushing' OOP as the One True Way(tm). Some people have even raised the somewhat infamous "tablizer" OOP-is-bad page (sorry, I'm not going to link to it!). Whilst I am a big fan of OO as a good way to model the real world in software, I try to be …
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It's now official: I'm speaking at the OpenCF Summit in Garland, TX in February! This will be a unique event in the CF world, with its focus on open source, and it has a lot of interesting types of sessions on the schedule: Pecha Kucha, Open Spaces, Hackfests - as well as regular sessions - and …
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