Adventures in Web Application Develompent by Phil Duba - ColdFusion

FAQU - Just In Time

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:51:00 -0400

Yesterday I got the latest issue of the Fusion Authority Quarterly Updated. This update couldn't have come at a better time for me as we are revamping both our deployment and development environments/processes/tools at my work. Skimming through the articles last night and the train this morning, I, for the most part, have a business need addressed by every single article in this update as well as a reference to point to when others may disagree with what I tell them, ;). Thanks to Fusion Authority and all the authors for putting together a great issue and one that addresses areas of the community not many (or centralized) resources exist.

Countdown to CFUnited

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:50:00 -0400

Here are my responses to Liz's post over at the CFUnited's blog:

What are you looking forward to most? I am mostly looking forward to returning to a CFUnited conference. It's been two years since I last attended a conference so I am looking forward to seeing folks across the CF Community. I have always loved the camaraderie that's shown at CFUnited and the networking opportunities it has to offer. I'm also looking forward to the discussions that will be surrounding all the open-source announcements recently in the CFML world.

Which speaker will most likely end up on your camera? I don't have a digital camera (wife is in charge of pictures) but if I did, it would probably be Michael Smith since he'll most likely be opening the conference (although mini-max is the night before).

What do you plan to do outside conference time? Probably just be at the hotel bar commiserating with fellow CF(ML)ers, although, I do have a birthday to celebrate during the conference.

Fill in the blank: I will mainly be around the booth with the most free stuff (doesn't matter what).

Do you have a new project you are working on and will reveal it at CFUnited? No, no new software projects but if anyone wants to talk bathroom remodel or landscaping, I'm up for it.

Philly CFUG Notes - Adam Lehman on CF8, Flex and BlazeDS

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:59:00 -0400

Last Thursday, Adam Lehman, Product Evangelist for Adobe, came to speak to the Philly CFUG about Flex, ColdFusion, and BlazeDS. I'll be honest, I still don't get the BlazeDS product and/or it's uses. This confusion could be from the fact I don't use Flex everyday and don't have a real paradigm I can relate the uses of the various LiveCycle products to. Anyways, Adam did show a few slides that show the differences between the products. What follows are my notes on the presentation itself.

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Good User Interface Idea

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:25:00 -0400

Today, I booked my registration for CFUnited, the hotel, and tickets for traveling to DC for CFUnited. The one thing I saw in each was something that I hadn't seen before, the ability to send a confirmation email to more than one address. I was able to send one to my personal and one to my work. Maybe I'm late to the party on this concept, but seriously, whoever decided that was a good paradigm in a user interface, kudos to you.

Restarting the User Group Manager Project

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:51:00 -0400

I updated the User Group Manager project over at RIAForge. Things got so crazy with me last year as well as a few of the guys that were going to help me on it that it kinda fell by the wayside. I am going to essentially start from scratch and the only requirements to run it will be ColdFusion 8 and a database, initially to be MySQL, but others will follow. I'll figure out how much time I can put forth over the next few months (in other words, check with the wife on what house projects she has me lined up for) and come up with a rough time line for completing certain areas, which I'll publish here and on the project's blog. As always, thoughts and ideas are welcome!

Flex Builder 3 Requirements

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:46:00 -0400

Our illustrious Philly CFUG leader, Steve Rittler posted a response to a member's question on the requirements for installing and using Flex Builder from a CF developer's perspective. It's a good overview of the minimal requirements. Check it out.

A Good Night!

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:12:00 -0400

Last night, the 3 local Philly user groups threw a release party for Flex 3 and AIR 1.0. A big thanks to the guys at Independence Hall for hosting the event. IndyHall is a coworking organization that rents space in a building in Old City to those work work from home, telecommute or just want to get out of the stuff office.

The event itself was a good networking event with pizza, soda, and Red Bull for all. A short video of the AIR team was shown, narrated by Kevin Lynch. After that, a demo was down connecting the Wii remote with Flash, pretty cool stuff. After that, two copies of Flex Builder were given away, one version 2 with charting and the other version 3 Professional, many t-shirts (apparently Steve will be giving these away forever), and bunch of the eBoy AIR Launch Posters, of which I won one. Now the question is where to put it in the house

Anyways, thanks to all who made last night possible and I look forward to future meetings of the Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion user groups in Philly and some more cross group networking events!

Philly CFUG Dec. 18 Meeting Review

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:09:00 -0400

I meant to do this last week but last-minute Christmas shopping, decorations, and feeling a little bit under the weather contributed to its delay. Anyways, here is a review of the December 18th meeting of the Philly CFUG meeting.

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Philly CFUG Tomorrow

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:26:00 -0400

The Philly CFUG meets tomorrow. Details can be found here.

Philly CFUG Meetings

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:46:00 -0400

It looks like Steve has lined up some meetings for the Philly CFUG for the rest of the year. The presentations and organization are spearheaded by Terrence Ryan. Terry, I'm guessing you emailed Steve (or got caught online) and asked when our next meeting, and thus, volunteered yourself. Anyways, I hope to see all the CF developers in the Philly area at these meetings.

Second Blog CFC Survey

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:14:00 -0400

Ray Camden has released a second in a series of surveys that he is using to help shape and mold the next major version(rewrite?) of BlogCFC which powers many of the ColdFusion blogs (and others). You can see the details of the survey and take it by clicking here.

New Host - HostMySite

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:52:00 -0400

For those that may have come to my site yesterday, you would have noticed either an "Under Construction" default page or an error. I decided to switch hosting companies yesterday, taking advantage of HostMySite's savings as the result of signing up for their CF8 hosting plan that many in the community did. I am very impressed so far with the level of support. I had a few issues with ordering and getting the discounts, but they settled them right away. Their support team was very quick in responding to my two requests that I needed worked out to get the site back up and running.

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onAIR Philly Bus Stop Today!!

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:25:00 -0400

Today the onAIR Bus Tour stops in Philly. I hope to see everyone there from the Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion user groups to represent the Adobe community in Philly.

ColdFusion 8 WACK is Coming!

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:02:00 -0400

So I open my inbox this morning and I have an email from Amazon that says the ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit Volume 1: Getting Started is to be released on August 31st. Further investigation shows that Volume 2: Application Development is to be released on October 4th and Volume 3: Advanced Application Development on October 29th.

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CAR Files can save time

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:16:00 -0400

Before using the public beta of ColdFusion 8, I had never used the ColdFusion Archive (CAR) files. Since the public beta did not have any migration scripts with it, I created a CAR file of most of DSN, email, and custom tag path settings from my ColdFusion 7 installation. When I migrated to the full developer edition of 8, I used the CAR file again for all my settings (CFMX7 was replaced by the public-beta on my computer). Boy did using this save time on configuring. I had always seen the bullet about ColdFusion's ability to create CAR files, but, being a one-server environment, I had never needed to use them. I would suggest that anyone building a new server in any environment, create a CAR file from an existing server within that environment and deploy it on the new one, it will save you time and headaches.