Category Archives: Programming
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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 Corfield
December 17, 2009
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How To Improve Open Source Software
One of the common complaints I hear about ColdFusion’s popularity (or perceived lack thereof) is that we don’t have any of the ‘killer’ open source applications that make PHP (or insert language of choice) so popular. If you look around at great open source applications (MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress, Apache, OpenOffice, …
By Sean Corfield
December 17, 2009
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Why You Might Use StructCopy() Instead of Duplicate()
Over on Will Tomlinson’s blog there’s a piece about using structCopy() to create a copy of a struct and a note from Charlie Griefer cautioning that for Will’s example, he probably needed to use duplicate() instead. After discussing this will Will on IM, I figured it might be instructive to …
By Sean Corfield
December 17, 2009
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Scotch on the Rocks: Wrap Up
Working backwards… I already blogged the Adobe keynote at Scotch on the Rocks but wanted to cover some of the sessions and the overall feel of the conference. As I said before, it had a nice, relaxed feel to it and Andy Allan, Big Mad Kev and Stephen Moretti did …
By Sean Corfield
December 17, 2009
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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 Oinam
December 17, 2009
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Scotch on the Rocks: Keynote
Scotch has a nice, relaxed feel to it (some people might call it disorganized but I rather like it). The keynote was Ben Forta and Adam Lehman tag-teaming the state of the ColdFusion world (CF8 doing very well, working hard on Centaur). Big news for European CFers – there is …
By Sean Corfield
December 17, 2009
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How To Debug Flex Builder 3 Remote Calling
Imagine the times when Flash Builder (Gumbo) was still in beta, times when the Network Monitor was still only a twinkle in the corner of a Flex engineer’s eye. Imagine… your current day job, and a Flex 3 project with a bit of ColdFusion powered Remoting (other Remoting gateways are …
By Stefan Richter
December 17, 2009
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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 Camden
December 17, 2009
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ColdFusion Receives Positive Coverage
ColdFusion is receiving more positive news coverage from mainstream tech sites. Over at Fusion Authority they point to an article by Joe Rinehart on Dr. Dobb’s Portal. Rinehart says ColdFusion has become his application server of choice. He says he prefers it because it combines straightforward development with features such …
By Mike Sachoff
December 17, 2009
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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 Corfield
December 17, 2009
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