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August 16, 2007

Kode2Go: ColdFusion 8 CFC's...Coming Soon!

We’re working on Kode2Go’s CF8 implementation. For those of you who don’t know, K2G is a code generator which saves us a ton of time for ColdFusion, Flex, and a little Flash code. It is 100% for database related apps but it does a great job.

Anyways, K2G is being updated right now to work with the upgrades of ColdFusion8. We will provide a list of the changes from ColdFusion 7 CFC’s and ColdFusion 8 CFC’s, based on K2G’s implementation.

MORE TO COME!!! :-D

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July 30, 2007

Adobe Ships ColdFusion 8

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200707/073007ColdFusion.html

YUMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYY! :-D

This is an incredible release by the CF8 team. I was curious as to what they would add to this version to improve a pretty solid CF7 but they definitely have impressed me. Great work CF Team!

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October 20, 2006

CF_GoogleMap

Blayter has created a Google Map custom tag and has finally released it to the masses. The documentation seems full and extensive but he says he still has more work to do on it.

Check it out and hit him on on his blog with some comments.

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September 29, 2006

Migrating from CF to ASP.NET

There is an interesting discussion on CF-Talk right now and during the convo I fell upon this article about Migrating from CF to ASP.NET. You can read about migrating from other languages as well.

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May 30, 2006

ColdFusion MX Un-Documentation

Sarge showed me this a few weeks ago. It is pretty coo. It seems the CF team left a lot of documentation that could be very useful for people to pick up on CF by seeing familiar tags.

Check it out here.

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May 20, 2006

Intro to CF 7 Preso

Here is the video url to my preso from Desert Code Camp on May 5th. There are a couple audio problems but for the most part it is a good recording. If you do get an audio lag, etc just go back a couple seconds and it should fix itself.

Sorry for the rushed speaking. I was running short on time due to video problems.

Source code is here.

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ColdFusion Flex Application Wizard

Ok. This is super sweet and decreases the amount of time it would take to build an app. I just heard about this from DBake earlier this morning and the video is pretty mind blowing, for the nerd in me at least. :-)

I won’t go into great detail here because Damon Cooper already took care of that. He has a great deal of information (including the video) on his blog which you can see here.

To jump right into the video go here.

BRAVO Adobe! :-)

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March 14, 2006

JSMX Testimony

Todd Kingham from AZCFUG created an Ajax wrapper called JSMX. As you know I recently posted about using Sajax and gave it MUCH praise. Well, I went last night to create an Ajax interface for another KM product and had serious trouble getting the ColdFusion version of Sajax working. I fought with that thing for about 5 hours and couldn’t get it to work to save my life.

The problem was I couldn’t return anything but simple values. If I returned a struct, array, or query (complex values) I wouldn’t get a result. It was terribly annoying. I even used 3 different versions of Sajax+CF and none of them would work. It was quite puzzling why this was working. I decided to move on.

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March 13, 2006

AuthorizeNet.cfc & Card charging process

I built this for our Klients product launch and figured I’d share it. It only handles one transaction type but can easily be updated to handle multiple types and even used to authorize then later save. I’ve used the latter in a case where there might be a databsae issue you don’t want to just charge the credit card without making sure the order saves properly. You won’t want to, well I don’t, save the order then go back and update the transaction value either. I’ll explain a bit more as to what I mean here in a second.

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March 8, 2006

cfcontent reset="yes"

I posted about a month or so ago about CF and whitespace. Well, Dave (@ jamwerx) has answered my prayers. Apparently cfcontent will do the trick.

cfcontent reset="yes"

Put that in your page (with brackets though; it wouldn’t show up for me so I had to take them out) on the same line as the doctype and you’re good. It is NOT a mistake by having both on the same line. In Dave’s post he stated they need to go on the same line. Fine with me. :-)

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March 6, 2006

Tabs 1.1

On CF-Talk Massimo Foti announced new a ColdFusion tag for tabs. It seems to be pretty slick and very usable. You can use Images or just plain box outlines for the tabs.

It is a very simple concept to show/hide a new tab based on the current/previous selection but it is nice to have it wrapped into a package for CF folks. As long as you aren’t against Javascript I’m sure you can find this tab tag useful.

Check it out here.

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February 21, 2006

Whitespace Management

This is nothing but a venting post. I believe CF 8 should include much greater whitespace management. Maybe I’m the only developer out here who doesn’t know how to completely get rid of whitespace but I doubt it. I know there are custom tags, etc you could use to fix the issue but I’d rather not deal anything other than changing a setting or something.

Anyways, I hope the next version of CF does a better job of managing said whitespace. :-) The reason I’m venting is I just ran a file with 12,000 blank lines. I added cfsilent around my code and the whitespace reduced to the normal whitespace caused by Application.cfc.

Had to get it off my chest. ;-)

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Ajax App: cfQuickDocs

cfQuckDocs is PHAT. It is built on ajaxCFC that integrates LiveDoc content for ColdFusion. For my daily use it is invalueable and way better than LiveDocs in terms of speed. LiveDocs still has a place but I am definitely a believer in cfQuickDocs.

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February 20, 2006

Nathan Strutz Speaks on CFEclipse

Nathan Strutz sent an email to AZCFUG regarding his preso this week. Below are his comments:

“I’m presenting CFEclipse to the AZ CFUG this Wednesday, Feb 22! Please come, show up, attend, and be present for my first CFUG presentation ever!”

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February 13, 2006

Buntel Bounces

After a long stint with ColdFusion (10 years or so), Tim Buntel will be leaving Adobe for personal reasons, nothing related to the Adobe merger. He has found a way to combine his passion for technology and teaching children. He didn’t give much information as to this new gig but he is definitely moving on to better things. I wish Tim well in his new venture.

Tim’s blog post

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January 23, 2006

Using .ini Settings

On the AZCFUG list we were talking about loading settings from a .ini file or a database, pros vs cons. Without going in-depth I chose to go with the .ini file for security reasons. Below is the email I sent to the CFUG.

(look @ the code first)
I obviously could make the method receive the ini file dynamically but for my purposes this is fine. There is added functionality here that checks to see if the setting is private or not. I wanted to keep all settings in the ini so there wasn’t a mixture of straight app scope settings ( application.settings.blah = eek) and ini settings.

So, I did a lil’ something extra in my ini file.

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