Category Archives: Java
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Hal Helms Officially Leaves Coldfusion
About two weeks ago, Hal Helms blogged that he is leaving ColdFusion for Ruby on Rails. Naturally it stirred a lot of the traditional “is ColdFusion dead?” worrying from the community, so much so that Hal posted a follow-up on ColdFusion’s death which suggests we focus on the value of …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Fusion Authority Quarterly Update Magazine
The Fusion Authority Quarterly Update (FAQ-U) is a print publication dedicated to collecting the best and most useful technical articles of high interest to ColdFusion developers. Each issue is based on a theme. The journal is designed to be clear, easy to read and highly informative. Every quarter, Fusion Authority provide …
By Brajeshwar OinamRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Mixing CFLAYOUT And PDF/Flash
Michael Brennan-White asks: I am attempting to create a new RIA app using the new Ajax tools in CF8. Is there a special trick needed to display a FlashPaper or PDF in a cflayoutarea? I am calling the report with this link: <a href=”javaScript:ColdFusion.navigate(‘DebtMFReport.pdf’,'center’)”> Agency Scheduled Payments Report</a> All that …
By Raymond CamdenRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Too Many Choices Can Hinder ColdFusion Productivity
The last week has seen some big announcements in the CF world! On March 31st, Gert announced the open source release of Railo, the next day Mark Drew announced he has joined Railo as CEO of the new Railo UK and then this week Peter Bell announced that he has …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Updating ColdFusionBloggers.org – Using CFDIV For Paging
So once again I’m messing with ColdFusionBloggers to show off some ColdFusion 8 AJAX goodness. This time the idea came from Todd Sharp. He suggested making the paging AJAX based. That way when you move from page to page, only the content is loaded. Turns out the change was rather …
By Raymond CamdenRead More
December 17, 2009 -
What You Shouldn’t Be Doing In ColdFusion
A few weeks ago I saw an interesting post on Dzone about what you shouldn’t do in Python. (See the article here.) This got me thinking about what features/types of code/practices should be avoided in ColdFusion. Some are obvious – for example, not using deprecated code. Did you know that …
By Raymond CamdenRead More
December 17, 2009 -
CFEasyMock on RIAForge
As a fan of unit testing, I was interested to hear about a new mock object generator project appearing in the CF world. I’ve been using Brian Kotek’s ColdMock for a while and I really like how easy it makes it to test CFCs that depend on several other CFCs …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Open BlueDragon Project
Vince Bonfanti hosted a Birds of a Feather session at cf.Objective(), he officially unveiled the Open BlueDragon project. He walked the (fairly large) audience through downloading and running the binary distribution of OpenBD on both Tomcat and JBoss and noted that “ready-to-run” distributions will also be available (Jetty-based initially, with …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Railo Free-Oh!
Gert Franz just announced the release of Railo 3.0 and one of the important changes for many CFers is that this release combines the previous Community and Professional editions into a single free edition with no restrictions for use (it’s a single “web” with no clustering support but there’s always …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
December 17, 2009 -
Debate Still Rages Over Object-Oriented Programming
Marc Funaro kicked off quite a heated debate on his blog lately by raging against people pushing object-oriented programing/design and how his attempt to follow their advice nearly led to the collapse of his business. Marc was expressing a common frustration that many of us have heard from people who …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
December 17, 2009
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