ColdFusion Weekly

Yes, the time has come for ColdFusion Weekly to bid everyone a fond farewell. We've had a fantastic time working on the podcast for the past two years but we simply can't give it the attention it deserves, so rather than keep everyone in limbo we have decided to officially stop. Not to worry, the web site will stay up so you can always grab old episodes.

In regards to timeline, we made this decision a couple months ago. Long before any of the growing pains occurred in the CFML community. In all fairness, please do not read our in the podcast arena as an indication that we're leaving the CFML community as that is far from the truth.

Matt is going to be spending more time in the Java world, doing more mobile device development, working on Mach-II documentation (and code for a change!), perfecting the Mach-II training, and contributing to the Open BlueDragon project.

Peter is going to be working on the next version(s) of Mach-II (and prodding Matt on the documentation), refining the Mach-II workshops and contributing to other (currently unknown) open-source projects. He is also becoming more involved in the world of food cooperatives and the impact they make on his local community.

Brian Meloche will be starting up a new podcast called CFConversations very soon, so there will not be much downtime in the CF podcast space. We encourage you all to subscribe to his feed when it's up and running! And who knows, maybe you'll even hear your old podcast friends Matt and Peter on there from time to time.

So, dear listeners, thanks so much for allowing us to take up space on your iPods and in your heads for the last two years. The CF community has a very bright future ahead, and we'll still be a part of it, so don't be a stranger!

Thanks,
Matt and Peter

Just a repost of the latest episode in an attempt to get our Odeo feed to refresh (which it hasn't for some reason in 180 days). My Odeo Channel (odeo/1769dd2db15213e1)

Version 3.05 – March 20, 2008

Charlie Arehart cf.Objective() Sneak Peek

This show's links ...

• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring – Part 1: Using the Server Monitor in development
• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring – Part 2: Using the Server Monitor in production
• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring – Part 3: Automated monitoring and request management with Alerts and Snapshots
• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring – Part 4: Multiserver Monitor, Admin API monitoring, and more
• SeeFusion
• Fusion Reactor
• ColdFusion Meetup
• cfconf.org

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Just two quick notes:

• We'll be interviewing Vince Bonfanti from New Atlanta about the open source edition of BlueDragon next Wednesday, March 25, so please call in your questions for Vince! Use Skype user cfweekly or call 469-293-3820. You can also email your questions to podcast@coldfusionweekly.com
• The Skype line was down briefly. They apparently don't auto-renew, so my bad. It's back up and running now.

Version 3.04 – March 17, 2008

BlueDragon Goes Open Source

This week on the CF_Roundtable we discuss New Atlanta's announcement that they will be open-sourcing BlueDragon with ...

• Sam Farmer
• Brian Meloche
• Terrence Ryan
• Brian Swartzfager
• Kurt Wiersma
• Dan Wilson

This week's links ...

• New Atlanta to Open Source Java Version of BlueDragon
• Open Source BlueDragon FAQ
• Vince Bonfanti's Blog Post
• Open Source Blue Dragon, what does it mean for you? by Alan Williamson
• BlueDragon + Amazon = Huge Earning Potential by Alan Wililamson
• SitePoint: New Atlanta Does the Unthinkable!
• Damon Cooper's Response
• "Things ColdFusion is not ... and ... why ColdFusion isn't free" by Jason Delmore
• Yawn, BlueDragon Goes Open Source by Terrence Ryan
• BlueDragon is Dead! Long Live BlueDragon! by Geoff Bowers
• Open Source BlueDragon by Sean Corfield
• BlueDragon Goes Open Source by Mark Drew
• BlueDragon Goes Open Source by Jim Priest
• Open Source CFML, the Door is Open by Simeon Bateman
• Coffee Talk: New Atlanta Announcement by Ray Camden
• Open Source BlueDragon Overview and Wrap-Up by Brian Rinaldi
• Here There Be Dragons! by Charlie Griefer
• BlueDragon: Kudos to New Atlanta by Christopher Wigginton
• BlueDragon Goes Open Source: A Good Thing, But How Good? by Brian Swartzfager
• ColdFusion to be Open Source by Mike Benner
• ColdFusion 8 Wins Jolt Award
• What New Feature in CF 8 Did You Think You Would Really Use, But Have Lost Interest In? by Andrew Powell
• Good Software Takes 10 Years. Get Used To It. by Joel Spolsky
• GNU General Public License v2
• GPLv2 on wikipedia.org

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Version 3.03 – March 11, 2008

The Premiere CF_Roundtable Edition!

This week on the CF_Roundtable we discuss Adobe's Flex 3 and AIR launch with ...

• Sean Corfield
• Brian Meloche
• Terrence Ryan
• Brian Swartzfager
• Dan Wilson

This week's links ...

• Flex 3 and Air 1 Released
• Flex Product Page
• AIR Product Page
• AIR Application Gallery
• New Adobe Open Source web site
• Kevin Lynch discusses open source at Adobe
• Blaze DS
• Blaze DS presentation recording by Tom Jordahl
• Blaze DS in plain English by Andrew Powell
• AIR: Revolutionary, or an answer to a question no one asked? How important is "living in the cloud?"
  • David Heinemeir Hansson's opinion
  • Ryan Stewart's opinion
  • Robert Scoble's opinion

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Version 3.03 – March 11, 2008

The Premiere CF_Roundtable Edition!

This week on the CF_Roundtable we discuss Adobe's Flex 3 and AIR launch with ...

• Sean Corfield
• Brian Meloche
• Terrence Ryan
• Brian Swartzfager
• Dan Wilson

This week's links ...

• Flex 3 and Air 1 Released
• Flex Product Page
• AIR Product Page
• AIR Application Gallery
• New Adobe Open Source web site
• Kevin Lynch discusses open source at Adobe
• Blaze DS
• Blaze DS presentation recording by Tom Jordahl
• Blaze DS in plain English by Andrew Powell
• AIR: Revolutionary, or an answer to a question no one asked? How important is "living in the cloud?"
  • David Heinemeir Hansson's opinion
  • Ryan Stewart's opinion
  • Robert Scoble's opinion

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Version 3.02 – February 27, 2008

CF_HotSeat With Dave Shuck and Aaron Lynch of InstantSpot.com

Other news ...

• Job available with AvMet Applications
• ColdFusion Weekly is now on Blue Stone Radio!

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Version 3.01 – February 20, 2008

CF_HotSeat With Ryan Mannion, Managing Editor - Web Technology for Politico

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Version 2.30 – December 21, 2007

CF_HotSeat With Kristen Schofield, Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe

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Version 2.30 – December 21, 2007

CF_HotSeat With Tim Buntel, Senior Product Manager for Flex Builder at Adobe

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Version 2.29 – December 14, 2007

The "Scotch On The Rocks" Edition

CF_HotSeat With Andy Allan

• This week we talk with Andy Allan about Scotch On The Rocks 2008!

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Version 2.27 – September 24, 2007

The "Selenium" Edition (Testing ColdFusion Applications Part Two)

What we've been up to ...

• Peter:
  • Admiring the new Bosch washer and dryer. It finally came.
  • Thinking a lot about streamlining processes and organization
• Matt:
  • Had a great time in Oregon!
  • Finally got my cable cards working so the TiVo Series 3 is fully operational
  • More A/V stuff--amazon.com Unbox rocks with free downloads of some of the new Fall TV shows right to your TiVo
  • Thanks to Peter and Kurt for the YSlow show
  • Doing lots of reading/research on productivity

No CFReport this week

CFQuery – at 8:40

• Cutter calls to tell us that he was the 1000th site on gotcfm.com, and reminisces about old code
• AJ Mercer called to ask us about organizing your code in Subversion

CF_Focus – at 25:53

• Part 2 in a series on testing
• Selenium is an open source test tool for web applications available
• Used to do system functional testing and browser compatibility testing
• Selenium IDE
  • Firefox extension
  • used to record, edit, and debug tests
  • Can either have Selenium generate scripts for you based on simple actions (open a URL, click a button, etc.) or edit scripts manually
  • Can set breakpoints
  • Can save scripts out as HTML or several other formats
• Selenium Core
• Installing Selenium
  • Download Selenium Core
  • drop into your web root
  • There is no step 3
  • You'll probably also want to install the Selenium IDE (Firefox extension)
• Using Selenium Core by browsing to http://server/selenium/ to see the main menu
• Using the Selenium IDE to create your own test suites
• Creating a test case
• Automating your test cases
  • Using Selenium Remote Control with ANT
  • Mike Henke recently posted a nice post on using Selenium Remote Control with ANT
  • 
    

CFExit Music (Progress by The Exchange)– at 48:35

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Version 2.26 – September 17, 2007

The "Using YSlow" Edition with Guest Host Kurt Wiersma

What we've been up to ...

• Peter:
  • Had fun doing some server stuff this week with YUM, rpms and CPAN.
  • New Bosch Axxis washer/dryer coming on Tuesday!
  • More experimenting with ANT and becoming more and more interested in Java.
• Kurt:
  • Just bought a new Trek bike just in time for winter. :-)
  • Taking Peter's YSlow advice at work.
  • Built an ajax powered Fantasy Football Draft System. Then built another version of the same app in Flex.

CFReport – 12:06

• Security Alert -- Get cumulative hotfix 1 for CF8 and cumulative hotfix 3 for CF7.02
• CFDJ is dead!
  • Sean Corfield
  • Brian Rinaldi
  • Matt Woodward
• Fusion Authority Quarterly Update
• cf.Objective is coming -- looks for stuff soon

CF_Focus &ndash at 21:24

• YSlow - an extension for the FireBug plugin for Firefox (both for free)
• The 13 Rules

Wrap-Up – at 1:17:30

Sorry, AJ Mercer - we didn't get to your CFQuery this week!

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ColdFusion 8 is Here with Ben Forta

Listen to the interview for a chance to win a copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition in our giveaway!

Our CFUnited wrap up of day 3 with our CFUnited roundup team -- Kurt Wiersma and Bob Flynn.

Our wrap up of day 1 and day 2 of CFUnited with guests Kurt Wiersma and Bob Flynn.

Version 2.19 – June 11, 2007

The "Nothing Special" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Played horn quartets twice this week
  • No show June 25th due to CFUnited
• Matt:
  • Developer Retreat at work is over--got a lot accomplished!
  • Going to San Jose for the Adobe Community Summit

CFReport – 12:06

• Check out del.icio.us for all of this week's news
• CF 8 downloads from labs "blowing away expectations"
• More press coverage of CF 8
• CF 8 syntax dictionary for CFEclipse
• SnipEx - pull snippets into Eclipse from a remote server
• Three more reasons to use CFEclipse: SnipEx, CF 8 support, and Mark Drew's tutorials
• Ben Nadel has a great multi-part JSON tutorial
  Part 1
  Part 2
• Ben Nadel goes nuts on getPageContext() and all you can do with it
• Ben Nadel discusses the new attributeCollection feature of all tags in CF 8
• Steve Bryant on the Derby database that's included with CF
• cfFrameworks workshop on Illudium PU-36 code generator
• New URL for Ray Camden's blog
• Trac/SVN development JumpBox
• Changing the layout of BlogCFC using the Yahoo! UI tools
• Tapping into the power of Yahoo! UI components in CF 8
• Brian Rinaldi has a two-part discussion of objects and composition
  Part 1
  Part 2
• Next Jacksonville, FL CFUG meeting will cover CF and .NET integration
• TeraTech on why IT projects fail
• Sam Farmer demos the cfdiv tag via video
• Sam Farmer discusses application-specific mappings in CF 8
• Run PHP, Ruby, and code written in other languages in CF
  The Project on RIAForge CF 8 Running PHP CF 8 Running Ruby
• Flex 3 release imminent?
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  Jobs in CF, FL, and MN
  Job with Cynergy
• The top-down open source CFML solution
• duplicate() is bad for your object's health

CFQuery – 38:18

• John Allen from D.C. asks about service layers and building with composition.
• John Allen from D.C. brings up Apollo especially the future of us ColdFusion developers in the context of desktop applications

Brian's Bi-Weekly Weekly Open Source Update – 55:20

• SnipEx
• Scripting for ColdFusion 8
• COOP Presentation Recording
• CF ShopKart
• BoomSocket

CF_Quiz – 57:50

• Go to the quiz page to vote for your favorite quiz entry!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up

• CFExit - Control by J.R. Byrd

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Version 2.18 – June 4, 2007

The "Viva La Scorpio" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Doing some polishing up on the core for Mach-II 1.5 Beta
  • Converting a logical section of a website into a module for easier maintenance - WOW!
  • Enjoyed a nice Memorial Day grillin' party with a few friends
  • Used WDDX for the first time in a real application...
• Matt:
  • Wondering why Vista sucks so badly (I'll keep the rant short)
  • Putting the final touches (seriously this time) on MachBlog
  • Working on the new Mach-II web site
  • Trying to find time to start exploiting Scorpio

CFReport – 8:38

• Check out del.icio.us for this week's news
• Let's see, did anything big happen in the CF world this week? Probably not--as we learned last week, CF is dead. Oh wait--SCORPIO PUBLIC BETA!
• And lots of reaction ...
  • CF 8 makes it easier
  • Press roundup #1
  • Press roundup #2
• Lots of CF 8 examples and tutorials
  • Server-side printing
  • Lots of AJAX goodness
    • Tutorial 1
    • Tutorial 2
    • Tutorial 3
  • Implicit array and structure creation
  • ArgumentCollection for tags
  • cfgrid, AJAX binding, and cfwindow
  • It's the little things that count--duplicate() now works on CFCs, and they're serializable (maybe too much rope with the concept of singletons -- read the comments)
  • Free CF 8 preview on lynda.com
  • Run CF 7 and CF 8 on the same server with Apache
  • AJAX RSS feed reader in less than 60 lines of code
  • CF log viewer in the new Eclipse plugins
  • And how to install those nice new Eclipse plugins
  • GetDriveInfo() UDF powered by ... .NET?
• Free CF 8 hosting at HostMySite
• CFPDF blog now online
• Apollo will include an embedded SQLite database
• UML modeling application built on Apollo
• Google Gears announced--more offline internet application possibilities
• The Google Gears API will be included in Apollo
• Model-Glue 2.0 will be released at CFUnited
• Moving an existing app to Model-Glue
• Some Fusebox 6 features announced
• CF 8 + Hibernate--way easier than it used to be. Time to revive CFHibernate?
• CF 8 + Gmail SMTP servers--it works now!
• Michael Smith running a "selling CF to clients" survey
• And how much do you charge your clients? Dave Shuck wants to know!
• FarCry 4.01 officially released
• What's the secret sauce in Ruby on Rails?
• Digg Scorpio

Konference Korner – 41:57

• Proud to giveaway the last of our passes to CFUnited (June 27th - 30th). And the winner is...
• CFTribe ColdFusion Celebration at the National Zoo
• User Group Manager meeting--fun stuff, even though Matt won't be speaking ;-)
• We had 16 entry codes and over 675 entries
• Flex 360 conference--just an interesting idea. $360, limited to 360 attendees.
• The KK will be on vacation in Bora Bora sipping sidecars on the beach

CF_Quiz – 49:58

• Call in with your favorite new feature in Scorpio and explain why you think it's the best thing EVER.
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up

• CFExit - A ceiling fan by The Exchange Band

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Version 2.17 – May 29, 2007

The "ColdFusion's Dead" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Completed my travel plans for CFUnited
  • Fixed a few bugs in the Mach-II 1.5 BER
  • Throwing a little grilling party today
  • Released a new version of Lyla Captcha over a week ago and really didn't say much about it except on my blog
• Matt:
  • Running a developer retreat at work covering general development practices, version control, OO, and Mach-II
  • Listening to new podcast-- Software Engineering Radio
    • Great interview with Eric Evans in episode 8--Eric wrote one of my favorite books: "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software"
• General:
  • Brian Rinaldi is going to do a bi-weekly open source update for us. This is his first week for "Brian's Bi-Weekly Weekly Open Source Update"" segment.
  • A little summer planning for the Weekly. We'll do a post CFUnited wrap up for our July 9th show. After that, we'll take a nice month off for our summer vacation and we'll be back on August 9th.

CFReport – 6:14

• Check out del.icio.us for this week's news
• Floor Pizza Update!
• Do Matt and Peter hate Flex and Apollo?
  This podcast reflects Matt's opinions pretty well ...
• Extra Extra Extra: ColdFusion is Dead... at least according to ComputerWorld
  (Can't believe we got put in the same boat as OS/2)
  A ton of follow-up posts ... – 17:10
  • Ben Forta
  • Brian Rinaldi
  • ComputerWorld's rebuttal
• Since CF isn't dead, how about some Scorpio news – 25:48
  • Ben Forta wrapped up his Scorpio tour
  • Ben Nadel has a nice "Priceless" picture
  • New Scorpio tag...<cfzip> and its child tag <cfzipparam>
  • Ben Forta on using <cfthread>
• Sean Corfield's first look at Railo
• Sean's first look at Smith
• Aaron Lynch introduces SLAM - the first fully open source CF server platform - thank goodness he decided against CLAMS
• Comparing Java against Python (and just imagine it in Scorpio). I love the post name "Amazingly bad APIs". This does bring up the thought about how easy CF's API really is! This also reminds me what I had to work with Lyla Captcha
• .NET's Dynamic Language Runtime and CFML
• at 38:10
• Nice Application.cfc overview by Ben Nadel
• Tips for moving CF apps from Windows to Linux (note, these tips also apply to Mac and any other non-Windows OS!)
• CF 7.0.2 Hotfix for Illegal State exceptions in cfmodule
• Undocumented Tags in CF
  Kola Oyedeji on <cfant>
  Andy Jarrett has the whole list
• There WAS a job working with Mark Drew, but it got filled very quickly
• CF jobs in Florida, via Rob Gonda's blog
• cfFrameworks Workshop with Brian Rinaldi on his Illudium PU-36 Code Generator--recording available online
• Build 6 of Illudium PU-36 available
• Nice series on building services in CF with ColdSpring
• Spry 1.5 released

Konference Korner – 44:00

• CFUnited is just around the korner (heh, heh). June 27th - 30th.
  • Over flow hotel is Marriott in Pooks Hill. The conference hotel is booked full
  • User group manager topics announced with Michael Smith on How to Get Members Involved and Oguz Demirkapi on Tools to Manager a Group Effectively
  • Live count down thingy - 30 days from the time we recorded:
  • LAST CHANCE TO ENTER FOR A FREE PASS TO CFUNITED! The entry code is ... listen to the podcast for the entry code!
  • HUGE thanks to Michael Smith and Liz Frederick at TeraTech for allowing us to give away five passes to CFUnited!
• Next week is the last KK until we ramp up for Max... Bye Bye, KK, have a great vacation.

NEW! Brian's Bi-Weekly Weekly Open Source Update – 49:20

CF_Quiz – 54:24

• Version 2.13 -- you voted and the winner is ... Ed Donohue!
• Version 2.16 -- Call in with your favorite new feature in Scorpio and explain why you think it's the best thing EVER. Deadline is Thursday, May 31.
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up

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Version 2.16 - May 21, 2007

The "Drinking The Scorpio Kool-Aid" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Getting back into the swing of work after the conference
  • Working on and organizing Mach-II 1.5 stuff
  • Getting ready for summer and the possibility of faux vacation time
  • Doing fun stuff with the new recording equipment including getting it to Skype!
• Matt:
  • Inaugural CHUG meeting today
  • Attended "Future of ColdFusion" half-day presentation at the Reagan Building in DC
  • trying to stop my head from reeling about Scorpio, er, CF 8, er "the highly anticipated upcoming eighth release of Adobe ColdFusion"
  • recovering from cf.objective() and WES conferences + My notes from cf.objective() are on my blog
  • working on Mach-II web site and Mach-II docs
  • still finalizing MachBlog and doing web site updates (I'm being too picky at this point)--good things come to those who wait though; just got two very nice new skins and a German-language resource bundle
  • thinking about using MachBlog on coldfusionweekly.com via the new modules in Mach-II 1.5
  • car shopping--2007 Metallic Gray Prius with option package #5 here I come!

CFReport –-11:10

• Check out del.icio.us for this week's news
• yes, we need to add the feed to our website
• Couple of quick announcements ...
  • Clark Valberg has announced that DeveloperCircuit.com released new job widgets
  • Job available at smartmoney.com
  • Job available at SourceOne
  • Check del.icio.us for other jobs--there were several over the last three weeks!

Konference Korner - 13:49

• cf.Objective() 2007 was a success and we'll talk about it more in the focus coming up.
• CFUnited is just around the corner - June 27th - 30th
  • new wiki is up
  • Saturday sessions announced
  • BOF Sessions announced
  • CFUnited Menu
  • One last ticket to give away and then we'll have our posse at the conference. This week's entry code is...
• After CFUnited, the KK will take an extended vacation -- probably until Max shows up.

CF_focus: cf.Objective() 2007 - 17:35

CF_Quiz - 50:18

• Version 2.13 -- you vote for the winner! Go to coldfusionweekly.com and click on quiz, check the code, and you can vote for which solution you think is best
• Version 2.16 -- Call in with your favorite new feature in Scorpio and explain why you think it's the best thing EVER.
• Yes, we're way, way, way behind on sending out prizes--we'll get that resolved this week
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up – 56:24

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Version 2.15 � May 14, 2007

Mark Mandel on Transfer &ndashl Live From cf.objective()

CFReport

• Check out del.icio.us for this week's news

Konference Korner

• Same as 2.14

CF_Quiz

• Version 2.13 â�� Deadline: Saturday, May 19, 2007
  • Another programming exercise! Matt ran into this at work and thought it would be interesting to see how other people would solve this problem.
    
    Assume you have an array with n number of elements, and you want to retrieve a random number of elements from this array. The random number you want to retrieve is less than n, but greater than 1, and you cannot retrieve the same element twice. So for example, let's say your array has 10 elements in it and you want to retrieve 5 random elements, but none of these 5 can duplicate one another. How would you do that?
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

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No show this week folks--too much going on with both Matt and Peter in the week before cf.objective(). We'll be back soon with some great stuff from cf.objective()!

Version 2.13 � April 23, 2007

The "The Rough Week for ColdFusion" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • Got the Capitol Hill User Group (CHUG) site up
  • Installed ColdFusion 7 on my VPS at viviotech.net--was previously running BD 6.2.1
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Attended a funeral
  • Had a Mach-II coding party with Kurt

CFReport � at 11:30

• Check out our del.icio.us links to see everything we were tracking this week
• Fat Controllers, put them on a diet
• Answering evaluate()'s cry for help. David Harris show us up - I didn't know you can assign a function to a variable dynamically like he did...
• ColdFusion is missing from this article which talks about RAD and dynamic languages
• Has BlueDragon surpassed CFMX? Vince Bonfanti asks the question...and gives his answer
• Ben Forta responds Is That What Desperation Looks Like
• Vince has a rebuttal to Ben's post (these things start blowars!)
• Is ColdFusion cooling off?
• It's a week of negativity in the CF world, this guy (who I can't find a name...) says "ColdFusion Community Remains Antiquated"
• After a bunch of comments, he posts this...
• On a brighter note, Joel from Joel on Software gives us his seven tips to great customer service
• Brian Rinaldi has further thoughts on Apollo after our hotseat interview with him
• A bunch of Adobe stuff, Philo is branded Adobe Media Player and CS3 ships
• Jobs in MA, VA, and TX and more in FL, NC, CA, NY and AZ
• Mid/Senior level CF/Flex job in Sydney
• Ray announces another Newbie ColdFusion contest - the Monster Maker

Konference Korner � at 33:22

• CFUnited is June 27 - 30 in Bethesda, MD
  This week's entry code is ... listen to the podcast for this week's code!
• MAX 2007--pricing announced
• ApolloRanch - a free mini-conference on Apollo in Boulder, CO on Saturday, May 5th from 5-11:30pm

CF_Quiz � at 38:30

• Version 2.10 â�� Deadline: Saturday, April 21, 2007
  • Be a human CF compiler. This is a brain teaser so resist the urge to fire up a scribble page to test. Can you spot the five errors?
    

    <cffunction name="funkyMethod" access="public"
    	returntype="struct" output="false">
    	<cfargument name="someStruct" type="struct" required="true"/>
    	
        <cfset var coolThings = "" />
    	
        <cfloop collection="arguments.someStruct" index="i">
           <cfif arguments.someStruct[i] EQ "cool" />
              <cfset ListAppend(coolThings, i) />
           </cfif>
        </cfloop>
    	
        <cfreturn coolThings />
    </cffunction>
    

  • Winner: Matt Osbun!
  • Answer:
    1. the stucture to be looped over in the collection attribute needs #'s around it
    2. looping over a struct with cfloop uses item NOT index
    3. the var i for the loop has NOT been var'ed
    4. the returntype for the method has been defined as struct when you are really returning a string
    5. ListAppend doesn't modify the list, it returns the original list of the value you wanted append. You must assign it to a variable.
    6. Bonus (Accidental error) - The <cfif> tag was closed "/"
• Version 2.11 â�� Deadline: Saturday, April 28, 2007
  • You're looping over a query with cfloop and you want to highlight ever over row of data so you need to know which row number is getting outputted (using the MOD trick). What variable tells you this when using cfloop with a query? Hint, Livedocs is missing this!
• Version 2.13 â�� Deadline: Saturday, May 5, 2007
  • Another programming exercise! Matt ran into this at work and thought it would be interesting to see how other people would solve this problem.
    
    Assume you have an array with n number of elements, and you want to retrieve a random number of elements from this array. The random number you want to retrieve is less than n, but greater than 1, and you cannot retrieve the same element twice. So for example, let's say your array has 10 elements in it and you want to retrieve 5 random elements, but none of these 5 can duplicate one another. How would you do that?
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

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Version 2.12 – April 16, 2007

The "Matt Flies Solo" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • My blog's finally running on MachBlog

CFReport

• Check out our del.icio.us links to see what we were tracking this week

Konference Korner – at 2:46

• cf.Objective()
  • Conference is May 3 - 6 in Minneapolis, MN
  • Attend in luxury!
• CFunited this week's giveaway code is... listen to the podcast for this week's code! You have 2 more chances to win!
  • Conference is June 27th - 30th in Bethesda MD
  • The (new) winner of the (regifted) CFUnited Pass for March is ... Justin Kay!

CF_Quiz – at 5:17

• Version 2.10 – Deadline: Saturday, April 21, 2007
  • Be a human CF compiler. This is a brain teaser so resist the urge to fire up a scribble page to test. Can you spot the five errors?

    <cffunction name="funkyMethod" access="public"
    	returntype="struct" output="false">
    	<cfargument name="someStruct" type="struct" required="true"/>
    	
        <cfset var coolThings = "" />
    	
        <cfloop collection="arguments.someStruct" index="i">
           <cfif arguments.someStruct[i] EQ "cool" />
              <cfset ListAppend(coolThings, i) />
           </cfif>
        </cfloop>
    	
        <cfreturn coolThings />
    </cffunction>
    

• Version 2.11 – Deadline: Saturday, April 28, 2007
  • You're looping over a query with cfloop and you want to highlight ever over row of data so you need to know which row number is getting outputted (using the MOD trick). What variable tells you this when using cfloop with a query? Hint, Livedocs is missing this!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

CF_HotSeat with Brian Rinaldi – at 7:33

Bonus CF_HotSeat with Ed Slack – at 50:14

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Version 2.10 - March 26, 2007

The "Back from the Break" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • Vacation in Linden, VA--got a cabin, BlackBerry tethering rocks
  • Adam on Life discusses our use of del.icio.us and some other community resources for CF developers--we have another big idea in the works!
  • Scott Pinkston built a podcast player--listen without downloading
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Entered the podcast age and got a Sansa e260 4GB MP3 player with a DLO FM dock for my car
  • Launched...count'em... two websites this past week
    • greatbiztools.com--Specializing in developing human resource management systems, we offer practical, cost-effective business solutions through our web-based and paper-based products and consulting services.
    • durodesign.com--A bamboo, cork, engineered oak, and eucalyptus flooring company.
  • Started using CFCUnit and Selenium -- CFCUnit was a bit harder to get started on especially with my Mach-II applications, but I got that figured out. Selenium is so simple everybody should be using it! FUTURE PODCAST TOPIC!

CFReport - at 16:22

• Apollo alpha is available, new mailing list for developers, free video tutorials, the SDK will be free, free eBook for developers, tons of other news
• Top ten things ten years of software development has taught me
• Ben Nadel asks "How do you use cfparam?"
• A concrete explanation of why LiveDocs sucks
• A couple of good pattern discussions (factory and singleton) by Doug Boude
• Adobe says no free lunch as far as Vista versions of software is concerned
• Run Parallels VM from your iPod
• Discussion/review of Brian Rinaldi's code generator, Illudium PU-36, which also has a Google Group
• Mozilla is looking for a CF developer!
• CF job in Baltimore with Systems Alliance
• CF jobs in Rochester, NY
• CF jobs in central Europe
• Charlie Arehart lists over a dozen resources for finding and listing CF jobs
• Interview with Hal Helms on using CFCs in OO development
• Andrew Powell's presentation from CFUnited Express--an intro to CFCs as objects
• Scott Strosz on using FTP from within Eclipse and synchronizing from within Eclipse
• Bruce Phillips has a 6-part series on building a login system for a Flex app using a CF backend
• First steps with FusionDebug in the context of a Fusebox 5 app
• Brian Kotek's article on builder.com covering the state pattern with CFCs--why isn't there more of this kind of stuff in CFDJ?
• Ben Nadel on using GreaseMonkey to make the CFDJ web site not suck
• Nando on learning OO with CF
• The spaghetti coder has some concrete examples of how thinking in OO is a good thing
• Quick example of using JSON vs. XML
• Aaron West has a great overview of configuring a development environment with Apache and SVN

Konference Korner - at 47:33

• CFunited this week's code is... listen to the podcast for this week's code!
  • Conference is June 27th - 30th in Bethesda MD
  • Preconference class list available
  • Nice review of CFUnited Express NYC by Ben Nadel
  • Photos/review of CFUnited Express Atlanta
• cf.Objective()
  • this week's code is... listen to the podcast for this week's code!
  • Updated conference news on Jared's blog
• MAX 2007--call for topics
• Scotch on the Rocks--partial top secret agenda leaked

CFQuery - we'll get to your calls next week

CF_Quiz - at 55:21

• Version 2.08 Winner - Dan Vega!
  • Progamming exercise! In CF (obviously) write a script that loops from 1 to 100 and outputs the numbers. When a number is a multiple of 3, output "ColdFusion" and a line break. When a number is a multiple of 5, output "Rocks" and a line break. When a number is a multiple of 3 and 5, output "ColdFusion Rocks" and a line break. Slickest solution wins!
  • Answer:
• Version 2.09 - Deadline: Saturday, March 31, 2007
  • Another historical question. ColdFusion used to be spelled with a "space" between cold and fusion as in Cold [space] Fusion.. What version of Allaire ColdFusion did this they remove the space and change to the current camel-case spelling of ColdFusion (all one word)?
• Version 2.10 - Deadline: Saturday, April 14, 2007
  • Be a human CF compiler. This is a brain teaser so resist the urge to fire up a scribble page to test. Can you spot the five errors?
    
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

<cffunction name="funkyMethod" access="public"
returntype="struct" output="false">
<cfargument name="someStruct" type="struct" required="true"/>
<cfset var coolThings = "" />
<cfloop collection="arguments.someStruct" index="i">
<cfif arguments.someStruct[i] EQ "cool" />
<cfset ListAppend(coolThings, i) />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn coolThings />
</cffunction>

Wrap Up - at 55:21

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The "No Seriously, We Don't Just Talk About Frameworks" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • MachBlog Beta 2 available!
  • Very, very happy that Gmail now supports accessing up to 5 POP accounts and you can even send *as* these other users
  • Installed new version of Parallels--Coherence is VERY cool stuff
  • Running over to CompUSA ASAP--the local one right near me is closing so maybe I can get a MacBook cheap!
  • Took a tour of the US Capitol dome--great view from on top of the Capitol, even if I had to climb 353 steps to get to the top!
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Getting an application ready for production -- literally the last steps for iteration one.
  • Did a bit of performance enhancements on (re)loading Mach-II up. About 10-12% speed increase on large-ish apps.
  • Will have another giveaway for a copy of SiteDirector 4 by Quill Design. Thanks to Clark Valberg and Paul Giesenhagen at Qill
  • New Mach-II 1.5 Features
    • Bind a Property Value to a Parameter Value
    • Struct/Array Support in Configure-Time Parameters

CFReport - at 10:41

• Difference between the frameworks
• Choosing a framework
• Choosing a framework IS a big deal according to Nathan Strutz
• Fusebox 5.1 - The Major Enhancements
• fusebox.org web site redesign contest updated--the deadline is 3/7!
• Selecting a Version Number -- A Slippery Slope?
• Should you release your own framework?
  • This started it
  • This was next
  • Then came this
  • Which turned into this
• What should go in the next version of CFCUnit?
• Nic Tunney and Scott Stroz presenting to the Central PA CFUG on OO and Model-Glue--available on Connect
• Lots of Ant posts
  • Why you should learn Ant
  • Geting started with Ant
  • General build and release scripts
  • Using FTP with Ant
  • Using SVN with Ant
  • Using SQL Server with Ant
  • Easy Ant Deploy Scripts
  • More from Jard on Ant
  • ColdFusion and Ant Resources
• BlueDragon 7 RC available
• Article on java.net discussing why CF should be of interest to Java developers
• Rey Bango has launched GotCFM.com--evangelism site for CFML
• Two jobs in Chicago: One .net Developer and One general developer (CF, php, .net - must know one of these languages and ready to learn the other two)

Konference Korner - at 29:55

• MAX 2007 Announced - Save the Date!
• cf.objective() is likely to sell out
• Big CFEclipse Announcement at cf.objective()
• Some sessions are up for cf.Objective()
• Hurry up and enter the cf.objective() pass giveaway--we give our first pass away on next week's podcast (March 12)
• The winner of the CFUnited Pass for February is ... Todd Sharp!
  • Thanks again to Michael and Liz at TeraTech for their generosity in allowing us to give away give passes!

CFQuery - at 35:50

• Brian Swartzfager (has a comment to our know some OO before looking at frameworks): How much OO do you feel somebody should know before you should look at a framework?
• Tom Woestman: Moving to SVN from VSS and shared dev servers to local development. What do you think the ideal development environment is a single developer, a small team (2-3 people) and a large team (4+ people)?
• John Allen: How do you setup your files up for security? Changing framework code willy-nilly -- talk to the framework developers first instead of rolling your own version!

CF_Quiz - at 59:20

• Version 2.06 Winner - Brian Swartzfager had the right version, Brian Kotek had the right reason--we'll see if they can both win something!
  • In what version of (Allaire) ColdFusion was the request scope added? Extra points if you know who requested it and the reason why it was added?
  • In version 4.01. Added at the request (hehe) of Team Spectra because Spectra was build on hundreds of custom tags and many were nested deep. There wasn't a scope for the duration of the request which made certain things really hard.
• Version 2.07 â�� Deadline: Saturday, March 10, 2007
  • CFLocation performs a 302 - temporarily moved statuscode redirect. What if you need to do a 301 moved permanently redirect? Give us the code to do it!
• Version 2.08 â�� Deadline: Saturday, March 17, 2007
  • Progamming exercise! In CF (obviously) write a script that loops from 1 to 100 and outputs the numbers. When a number is a multiple of 3, output "ColdFusion" and a line break. When a number is a multiple of 5, output "Rocks" and a line break. When a number is a multiple of 3 and 5, output "ColdFusion Rocks" and a line break. Slickest solution wins!
• Winner of a year of free ColdFusion hosting from Sozo Hosting is ... Adam Ness!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up - at 1:07:48"

We haven't talked about our Frappr map for a while. We've picked up a few more people, so be sure to check it out at our website -- click on "Where People Listen" in the right hand column.

CFExit Music

Dressed Right for Dreaming by The Jupes

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The "Last Vista Rant" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • Finishing up a CFUG app that will be made open source (Mach-II and ColdSpring)
  • Tweaks on MachBlog--Beta 2 available now! (or will be by the time you hear this)
  • Brief Vista rant followup--got lots of e-mails
    • Windows Vista install in 2 minutes
    • Moving from Windows to Linux, courtesy of IBM
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Mach-II 1.5.0 documentation / specs
  • Work and more work. Got to setup an VoIP PBX system.
  • Getting snowed in -- supposedly we're to have up to 20 inches by Sunday

CFReport - at 10:39

• New HOWTO: Multiple CF Instances on Intel Macs
• CFUnit Version 2.0 Beta available
• Webapper on cfdocument performance
• Mach-II 1.5 - support for includes
• Mach-II 1.5 - redirect persist feature
• Doug Boude--great explanation of the concept of a service layer
• Microsoft XML Notepad 2007--free!
• Microsoft Virtual PC 2007--free!
• CFEclipse cheat sheet
• Todd Sharp--next step in learning a framework
• Scorpio tour announced!
• Four More Years! Ray Camden hits the four year mark with blogging
• Spry and server-side paging
• Brian Rinaldi on building your first Yahoo! Pipe
• Brian Schwartzfager's CF/Flex/Apollo/Adobe Yahoo! Pipe
• Two CF jobs for Nexus in Arlington, VA (courtesy of Kris Jones)
• Step-by-step on updating your CF JVM for the daylight savings time change, which is coming up on March 11!

Konference Korner - at 29:47

• cf.Objective() partial session list posted (May 3-6, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN)
• CFUnited -- last chance to enter for February giveaway pass.

CF_Hotseat - 32:40

Tom Schreck and Byron Bignell tell us all about cfcPowerTools

• cfcpowertools.com
• cfcpowertools.riaforge.org/

CF_Quiz - at 56:48

• Version 2.05 Winner - Andrew Mercer (who was a runner up last week)
  • Give us two different ways you can limit the file size of a file being uploaded to ColdFusion?
  • ANSWER 1: Use cgi.content_length
  • ANSWER 2: Check the file size after the file is uploaded using CFFILE.FileSize
  • ANSWER 3: Limit the size of uploaded files in the ColdFusion administrator ("maximum size of post data" setting)
• Version 2.06 – Deadline: Saturday, March 3, 2007
  • In what version of (Allaire) ColdFusion was the request scope added? Extra points if you know who requested it and the reason why it was added?
• Version 2.07 – Deadline: Saturday, March 10, 2007
  • CFLocation performs a 302 - temporarily moved statuscode redirect. What if you need to do a 301 moved permanently redirect? Give us the code to do it!
• So skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up - 1:02:34

We've gotten more great calls for the cfquery and we'll do them on our next podcast, so be sure to get your questions in!

CFExit Music - 1:04:32

Aperture by The Exchange

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Version 2.04 - February 5, 2007

The "Frameworks Conference Roundup" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • Google Search Appliance training
  • Frameworks Conference
  • Updating my ThinkPad with all the new Vista drivers
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Frameworks Conference
  • Mach-II

CFReport - at 3:47

• Abode to send PDF document format to ISO for standardization
• CF Job Posting in MA (Two positions - one web developer and one dba)
• ColdFusion/Flex job in Portland, OR at Simeon Bateman's Company
• Terapad built on CF
• CFFormProtect 1.0 Released
• Open Source Progress Update on i3SiteTools (CF-based open source CMS)
• Vertabase - CF-based Project Management Tool
• RIAForge now running Scorpio
• cfcPowerTools, Tom Shreck's open source CFC-generation tool, is now OPEN SOURCE!
• Turn physical machines (Windows only) into virtual machines that will run on VMWare ... for FREE!
• Ask Mark (Drew) - CFEclipse Questions Answered
  • Why you can't edit files in CFEclipse straight from Windows Explorer
  • CFEclipse's Lost Help
• CFEclipse Stability? (Russell Brown -- running MachBlog!)
• CFUnit not in CFEclipse ... yet
• CFEclipse 1.4 targeted for CFUnited timeframe
• CFEclipse, XMLBuddy, and the Mach-II XML DTD
• Spry + CF Presentation Recording: Andrew Powell at the Nashville CFUG
• CFFrameworks Interview With Brian Rinaldi - dicsusses Mach-II, ColdSpring, and Transfer
• Michael Dinowitz Doesn't Hate Mach-II
  • Why he doesn't hate Mach-II
  • What he did to Mach-II
• Smith 1.25 Released - major addition (from what we can tell) is CFC support, sadly no cfrethrow tag yet...(because I tried the Mach-II Contact Manager sample app)
• MSSQL -> CF UUID function for SQL Server - Christopher Wigginton
• IBM'S Chief Architect proclaims software is at a dead end
• Ducks in a row: Managing the web development process - Stephen Collins

Konference Korner - at 30:20

• We forgot to talk about Scotch on the Rocks
  • May 31st - June 1st in Edinburgh
  • Cost: 85 pounds (just over $165 USD) which is quite a deal for two days!
  • http://scotch.scottishcfug.com/
• Winner of the January ticket to CFUnited 2007 is...

CF_Focus - at 34:11

• Frameworks Conference Roundup

CF_Quiz - at 58:45

• Version 2.03 - Deadline: Saturday, February 10, 2007, Noon EST
  • How do you dynamically get the names of all the form fields from the form when you post it?
• Version 2.04 - Deadline: Saturday, February 17, 2007, Noon EST
  • How do you get the domain name from an email address in one cfset statement? And calling a UDF isn't the answer ;-)

CFExit Music - at 1:03:28

"Sleeping City" by The Exchange

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Version 2.03 - January 29, 2007

The "Return of the CF_Quiz" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • MachBlog Beta 2 in about another week or so--haven't had any major bug reports yet!
  • Working on Frameworks Conference presentations
  • New 500GB MiniStack for Mac Mini
• What Peter's been up to:
  • No Adobe ACE for me
  • Mach-II hoodies came. They look great.
  • Wisdom teeth out on February 9th, so Kurt will be co-hosting it with Matt.

CFReport - at 5:54

• Pay up suckers - Get 802.11N Wi-Fi already built into MacBook and MacBook Pros
• Parsing And Keeping A CSS Model Using ColdFusion
• Working on some POI stuff for CF
• Scorpio Beta Program!
• Threads Considered Harmful
• Weigh in on the future of Flex
• JS Member Set / Tool
• Correction - eContentPark
• Got a Nice review from Adam Howitt
• Ben Forta needs your input on the next series of CF books
• CFEclipse 1.3 released
• Vista and CFEclipse 1.3
• Top 10 Crazy Eclipse Plugins
• Konference Korner

CFQuery - at 28:12

• Ryan Everhart - Recommendations on where to stay and eat for CFUnited?
• Bob Flynn - Suggestion for a show about good best practices such as error handling, unit testing, separation of code, etc.
• John Allen - Closures

CF_Quiz - at 38:40

• How do you dynamically get the names of all the form fields from the form when you post it?
• Deadline is Saturday February 10th, 2007 - Noon EST

CFExit Music - at 42:09

"Progress" by The Exchange

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Version 2.01 - January 15, 2007

The "Rise of the Virtual Machines" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • New 80GB black iPod and Toast Titanium 8 for OS X so I can do TiVo to Go transfers and watch TV shows on my commute
  • MachBlog 1.0 Beta 1 is out!
• What Peter has been up to
  • Hating all the iPhone crap such as the "I will buy because..." or "I won't buy because..." blog posts
  • Being sick and receiving notice of possible jury duty all in one day!

CFReport – at 8:42

• Hasta La Vista ColdFusion Podcast
• The Flex Show - First flex podcast with Ryan Stewart & Jeff Houser
• Top 5 resources for learning Flex
• AJAX being squeezed by Flex
• 90% of businesses plan on building RIAs
• Windows Flex Builder license can be traded in for a Mac license
• Bye Bye Services
• How to access a CFC on a remote server from Flex
• ERRATA: The InstantSpot Design Exchange (http://www.isdx.net) was actually put together by Todd Sharp, not Dave Shuck and Aaron Lynch who created InstantSpot
• Top 10 Underrated Functions in ColdFusion
• SECURITY ALERT
• Never miss another ColdFusion hot fix
• IE was unsafe for 284 days in 2006
• Extend CF Native objects harnessing
• Calling stuff on strings
• What makes software so hard?
• Charlie Arehart's UGTV now hosting 88 presentations by 66 presenters
• Subclipse 1.1.9 available
• Assigning key commands in Subclipse
• CFUnit features (view and wizard) now built into the bleeding edge release of CFEclipse
• Three ways to become a better programmer
  1. Love what you do
  2. Do a lot of it
  3. Do the hard stuff
• Three questions to ask yourself, courtesy of Peter Bell from a 1986 talk by Richard Hamming
  1. What are you working on?
  2. What's the most important open problem in your area?
  3. Why aren't they the same?
• To delete or not to to delete
• Brian Rinaldi's first article for Fusion Authority available -- "Build a Code Generator in 5 Easy Steps"
• Brandon Harper's "Why Interfaces in ColdFusion Are Irrelevant" article published in CFDJ

CF_Focus – at 39:14

Virtual Machines for Developers

• VM technology has matured to the point of being extremely viable
• Why do I need a VM?
• Modern machines are heinously overpowered, and hardware is being developed specifically to support virtualization at the hardware level
• How does this all work?
• Things to be aware of
• Try it, you'll like it!
• Resources
  • Parallels (OS X, Windows, Linux)
  • VMWare (Windows, Linux, new version for OS X)
  • Virtual PC (Windows)

Konference Korner – at 57:50

• Frameworks Conference winner is...Elena Aminova!
• First of five CFUnited passes will be annouced on February 5th podcast!

Our Big Giveaways!

• See the contest page for all the details!

CFExit Music – at 1:02:35

"Woman, You've Got a Jive Inheritance Tree" by Ed Slack and the Slackestra

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Version 2.00 - Jaunary 8, 2007

Season Two Premier

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Lots of new toys (Wii, Xbox 360, MP3 player, receiver and speakers)
  • MachBlog beta this week!
• What Peter has been up to
  • Defending sickness, flying to Charlotte, driving to Duluth and getting back into the swing of life post holidays

CFReport - at 6:10

• We won a CFeMmy in the 2006 ColdFusion Podcast of the Year (Todd Sharp runs the CFeMmys)
• Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL Video
  • A presentation to Google from Jay Pipes who is from MySQL
  • I know this is a bit old, but I haven't heard about it until now
  • Log slow query log is something new
  • MyTop utility (like top in Linux/Unix)
• Tips for using MySQL's InnoDB table engine
• Google engEDU
  • Google has a bunch of video on a variety of topics
• Flex Cookbook Launched
• Flex 2 wins InfoWorld "technology of the year"
• Flex 2.0.1 out, Apollo support rolled in, other improvements, Flex Builder for OS X available
  • Ryan Stewart's Summary
  • Ted Patrick's Summary
• How to select RIA technologies (Ryan Stewart's summary of a Forrester report)
• Lots of new InstantSpot features (enhanced friend features, AdSense color matching, improved stats tracking, more)
• InstantSpot design exchange launched--can preview on your spot live!
• iPod Nano Giveaway on InstantSpot -- refer people and win!
• Daylight Savings Time changes affect ColdFusion
• Nice article on Web Pro News covering consuming RSS feeds in CF
• CF docs IM bots back online
• ColdFusion Muse: intro to differences between cfinclude and cfmodule
• Wired has New Year's Resolutions for coders
• Hot fix for mail attachment issues in CF (relates to file attachments with long file names, and usually only comes up with high volume emails)
• Software for Starving Students -- hundreds of shareware programs on a single CD ISO

Konference Korner - at 24:33

• Frameworks Conference: Feburary 1 - 2, 2007, Bethesda, MD
• cf.Objective(): May 3 - 6, 2007, Minneapolis, MN
• CFUnited: June 27 - 30, 2007, Bethesda, MD

Our Big Giveaways!

• See the contest page for all the details!

CFExit Music

"Pay" by Far Cry Fly

Thanks for sounds

• Ding dong and laughs
• Chant
• Konference Korner music
• Jazz combo background music

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The "New Year's Resolutions" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Got RSS added to the Mach-II version of LitePost
  • Small amount of progress on MachBlog
  • Worked on spec for new custom Property feature in Mach-II--we'll want your feedback soon!
  • WAY behind on Christmas shopping
• What Peter has been up to
  • Worked on the Subroutines spec which would be a new feature in Mach-II - we need your feedback soon on that as well!
  • Really, really behind on work - the "holiday" push.
  • Going to Charlotte after x-mas for a visit with Allyson's sister and family
  • Figured out my new Notebook will get a free Vista upgrade

CFReport - at 11:25

• Should the Query "scope" be evaluated first? (Andy Allen)
• ColdFusion and Mars Project - PDF does XML (Andrew Powell)
• What can Brown do for me? How about a provide an easy to use service? (Ray Camden)
• First draft of UPS Package Released
• Resources for Getting Started with CFEclipse (Charlie Arehart)
• at 19:19
• CFeMMya Vote Now (Todd Sharp)
• Google Web Toolkit 1.3 open source released
• MySpace Passwords Aren't So Dumb
• ColdFusion's Compiler
• at 29:48
• Smith Project - free ColdFusion engine
• Railo Performance Test
• Comparing CFML Engine Performance
• Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1 is out
• Would Google use Firefox as their RIA platform?
• Java 6 SE released--includes scripting engine!
  http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/java_se_6.html
  http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/scripting/
• Resources for getting started with CFEclipse courtesy of Charlie Arehart
• Rob Gonda - 2 hour 17 minute AJAX presentation marathon!
• Simple Chat in Spry
• Spry version 1.4 prerelease avaialable
• at 39:18
• List of airports with free Wi-Fi
• How to build a binary clock on ColdFusion
• ColdFusion jobs in Ottawa and Minnesota
• Video of Christian Cantrell discussing Apollo
• Interview with Kevin Lynch about Apollo on TechCrunch podcast
• JSEclipse on Adobe Labs
• SQL Server not compatible with Vista
• 2006 Web Tech Year in Review
• Last one out of the building turn off the computers!
• 2006 Year End Review from Jib Jab - Nuckin' Futs

CF_Focus - at 48:00

• Matt's Resolutions
  • Learn more Ant
  • Learn more SQL
  • Learn a new programming language (leaning towards Ruby)
  • Finish MachBlog
  • Revitalize BoardFusion project
  • Release Mach-II 1.5 and new web site
  • Learn more AJAX
  • Learn more Flex
  • Get into Apollo
• Peter's Resolutions
  • Learn more AJAX / Spry
  • Learn more Unit Testing
  • Keep cranking on Mach-II 1.5.0
  • Learn a new programming language (started on Java)
  • Do ANT deployment
  • Learn more Linux stuff (vivio)
  • Release a new version of LylaCaptcha
  • Learn to do Flex
  • Learn about CFReport and CFDocument
• Listener Resolutions
  • Joseph Lamoree - CFLucene--update to use new Java Lucene library, listening to version 2.0 of CF Weekly!
  • Dan Vega - open source projects, learn Mach-II, get certified
  • Kurt Wiersma - Unit testing, Flex, open source projects (donating code and documentation)

CF_Query & Wrap Up - at 1:03:22

• David Putty
• Teaser about new stuff in 2007, the quiz will be back in 2007

CFExit - at 1:07:00

Thanks to:

• Party
• Ferris Tag

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Version 1.31 - December 10, 2006

The "Bowling" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Proud owner of a new Xbox 360 with HD-DVD add-on courtesy of my brother--game recommendations welcome
  • Busy, busy, busy at work getting geared up for the new Congress in January
• What Peter has been up to
  • Proud buyer of a new HP dv9000t notebook
  • Busy with contract work and going to Charlotte after x-mas
  • Excited about the Frameworks Conference in February!

CFReport - at 6:53

• Vince Bonfanti's response to Hal Helms' "New Vision for ColdFusion" article
• Scott Stroz and Phil Nacelli's presentation on OO to the Central Pennsylvania CFUG - recording available
• Sarge discusses CF licensing on multi-core machines
• CFCUnit Runner - Flex app by Laura Arguello of ASFusion
• Rob Brooks-Bilson discusses how to convert HomeSite+ snippets to CFEclipse snippets
• How to run VMWare appliances in Parallels
• More GREAT new features in Parallels
• at 14:44
• FlexBuilder and Parallels: A Great Combination
• Ben Forta - ColdFusion is not a DBMS!
• Dan Vega - buy two O'Reilly books, get one free!
• New "Head First" book: Head First Object-Oriented Design and Analysis
• last.fm ColdFusion group - see what other CFers are listening to and recommend music to each other
• Easily embed Google Video in your "spot" on instantspot.com
• Dan Vega - Using CFCs != OO development
• Is OO programming in decline?
• Transfer 0.6 released
• Recording of Josh Adams' presentation on AJAX to the NCFUG available
• at 23:50
• Pittsburgh Flash User Group podcast, on TiVo no less
• Adobe Reader 8 now available
• Break the Dreamweaver build, get your hand chopped off
• CF easter egg cracked
• John Beynon on the future of Fusebox - Teratech to take over development of Fusebox
• at 30:34
• Scorpio now on labs! NO, you can't download it yet, but at least it's up there!
• It's official: you can now divide by zero.
• 360Flex Conference in San Jose, March 5 - 7, 2007, and only $100!
• Todd Sharp of CFSilence calls for "CFeMmy" nominations
• Andrew Powell - Leverage Vonage Click-to-Call with CF and Spry
• Getting RecordCount for insert, update, and delete operations
• ImageCFC 2.0 released

CF_Focus – 38:34

Give us your ColdFusion New Year's resolution. Call or skype us!

CFQuery - at 40:26

• Sean Corfield calls to tell us that Matt prounounced Barney Boisvert's name correctly

CF_Quiz - 41:50

The quiz is coming and there is cool things coming for 2007.

Wrap Up - at 43:08

CFExit - 44:34

Stars of Chrome by J.R. Byrd

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Version 1.30 - December 4, 2006

The "Happy December" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Lots of stuff!
• What Peter has been up to
  • On a new side project, doing a lot of HTML and CSS design
  • Will be using spry and some AJAX, my first use on a real project
  • Built some pretty cool backend exception logging, metering/triage (i.e. I don't get 500 emails about the db going down) and history (the application stores the last 10 exceptions for viewing on system admin views -- which allows us to do "real-time" monitoring)

CFReport - at 6:57

• Running ColdFusion on IIS and have Apache run on port 80 also (Nitai Aventaggiato's Blog)
• Biggest. Typography. Ever.
• Is the "Open Source" term being abused?
• at 15:24
• CFCGenerator nows uses Flex
  • Original Announcement
  • Announcement of Updates
• Andy Jarret on ColdSpring and Dependency Injection
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Dan Vega on Passing Properties to ColdSpring
• at 18:27
• Mach-II 1.1.1 Stable Released (as well as a new Skeleton)
• Mach-II 1.5.0 Call for Features
• Mach-II Public Subversion Access
• at 31:15
• ColdFusion is Proven! A partial list of companies that use ColdFusion from Adobe themselves!
• FAQU 2 Shipping
• ColdFusion MX/JRun and Sun's JVM: U.S. Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007 (Adobe TechNote)
• ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1

CFQuery - at 36:28

• Jeff Gladnick asks about a server side validation framework
• Phillip Senn asks about FTP in Eclipse

CF_HotSeat - at 44:48

Dave Shuck and Aaron Lynch tell us all about InstantSpot

• One of the lessons learned ...

Wrap Up – at 1:06:53

CFExit

Dressed Right for Dreaming by The Jupes

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Version 1.29 - November 20, 2006

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Life, MachBlog Skins, etc.
• What Peter has been up to
  • Life, Mach-II, etc.

CFReport - at 4:53

• Whither CF? More thoughts on the future of CF
• Should CF become open source?
• Configuring CF Multiple Instances with Apache Virtual Hosts
• at 10:22
• Customizable CSS on InstantSpot
• Brian Kotek wrote an article on ColdSpring for Tech Republic
• Barney Boisvert presented on ColdSpring at the Portland CFUG
• Brian Meloche's big Mach-II project is live!
• Mach-II request timeout filter
• Updated Mach-II FAQs
• RSS feeds for the Mach-II Google group
• at 19:57
• CFC-only version of Fusebox by Steve Nelson
• Dave Shuck asks, "Does your framework control you?"
• Andy Powell on Spry
• JSDocs for Spry API
• Ray Camden's Spry presentation recording
• Intel Macs will be supported in Scorpio
• Ted Patrick created a new Flex Search, powered by CF
• at 29:27
• CFUnited 2007 registration now open - $849 price through 12/31
• New web site for cf.objective() 2007 - May 3-6, 2007
• Scotch on the Rocks 2007 Announced - Thursday May 31st, and Friday June 1st
• Adobe Kuler launched - backend is CF + Model-Glue

CF_Focus - at 37:20

Source Code Management Revisited

• Lots of emails and IMs about this lately--this is great news!
• People still struggling with the specifics of the setup, some confusion on process
• Most common question is "how do I get this working on a shared development server?"
• Using source control does necessitate a change in development process, but it's a change for the better
• LOCAL development is by far the best development setup
• BUT what about my ultra-complex application that has tons of dependencies that I don't want to run locally?
• If the application can only run in one environment, such as a shared dev server, that's a fragile development process
• Couple of approaches for code integration and testing
  • Simple: a project in eclipse can be set up to point to the repo on one end and a shared dev server on the other--calling an update drops all the code onto the dev server
  • Better: build process pulls code from svn and deploys to target server(s)
• Benefits
  • Local, isolated development--more freedom for each developer
  • Freedom to refactor with impunity
  • Encourages the creation of a daily build/integration process, repeatable build process in general
  • Safer, better way to develop

Wrap Up - at 1:00:57

CFExit - at 1:03:00

"Mary Machine" by J.R. Byrd

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Version 1.28 – November 13, 2006

The "All News and Teasers" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • MachBlog--updates and skins
  • Frameworks Conference Presentations
    • Sustainable Software Development with Frameworks
    • Anatomy of a Blog: Mach-II In Action
  • Cracked open (and I mean CRACKED open) Mac Mini to put 2GB of RAM in it
• What Peter has been up to
  • Marwage... id's whads brings usth togetha ... taday
  • Walt Disney World Honeymoon
  • Frameworks Conference Presentations
    • Head First Mach-II
    • Design Pattern Safari
    • Creating Reusable Mach-II Plugins and Filters

CFReport - at 9:00

• cfcFlexplorer released
• Optimizing Page Load Times from a guy from Google (Aaron Hopkins)
• Load Time Analyzer Plugin for Firefox by Google - Awesome Graphing Capabilities
• Ryan Everhart and Robert Froehling release CodeShare
• More Information on Adobe's $100 Million in Venture Capital
  • More information from Christian Cantrell
  • More information from Adobe
• ajaxCFC updated for Model-Glue and Mach-II
• Flex Scheduling Framework available on Labs
• The Flexifier is Live! play with MXML and AS3 online (Ted Patrick - Flex Evangelist)
• Transfer 0.6 RC1 is out--Oracle support, lazy loading, nullable properties, lots of other new features
  • Mark Mandel's blog post
  • Mark Mandel's Acrobat Connect recording
• Aaron West is looking for speakers--in person or via Breeze--for the Nashville CFUG
• Joe Rinehart ("the Model-Glue guy") has started his own company, Firemoss Consulting
• Mike Rankin has a list of "Fight Club" style rules for CFCs
• Adobe released the source code for the Flash Player's VM to the Mozilla Foundation (Code name Tamarin)
  • Adobe did not open source the Flash Player.
  • Adobe did not incorporate the Flash Player into Mozilla.
  • Adobe did not license Mozilla's HTML rendering engine.
  • Adobe did not purchase Mozilla, or vice versa.
• Adam Howitt: Use Eclipse, Ant, and cfcompile.bat to pre-compile your CF code
• Hotfix (re-)allowing the use of named parameters in cfprocparam is now available
• Mark Drew has a top secret job for cfeclipse, also describes how to get started with the cfeclipse code
• BlogFusion -> BlogCFC migration tool
• Ashwin's (Adobe CF Team) MAX presentation on "unlocking the server black box in CF" available online
• Adam Churvis speculates that Adobe will "wash its hands of ColdFusion" based on the recent Flash VM code donation to Mozilla; Scorpio Man slaps him around in response
• Frameworks Conference topics online--register via Matt's blog for a $50 discount!
• Mach-II FAQs updated
• JavaScript equivalent of CFDUMP
• Adobe MAX store now has Scorpio Man t-shirts available; Halloween costumes forthcoming ;-)
• Java Open Sourced
  • Now GPL license, although not all of Sun's Java stuff is GPL which will be released some time in 2007
  • Sun also Open Sourced Solaris last year as well

CF_Focus - at 47:55

Ideas for future shows--call us with your ideas!

• Unit Testing
• Source Control revisited (lots of emails, calls about this lately which is great)
• internationalization
• debugging
• exception handling

CFExit - at 58:34

"Success Story" by The Ultronz

Special thanks for the samples

• Radetzky March
• Pealing wedding bells
• Cheering

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Version 1.27 – October 30, 2006

The "Beyond Boundaries" Edition with Guest Host Kurt Wiersma!

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Just got back from MAX
  • Working on a whitepaper comparing and contrasting Mach-II and Model-Glue
• What Kurt has been up to
  • Just got back from MAX
  • Digging into Flex

CFReport – at 12:09

• What Makes a Good Programming Language?
• MachBug: Mach-II Bug Tracker
• Firefox 2.0 Is No Dud
• The IE Team Sends the Firefox Team a Cake
• Sitepoint Article: The State of ColdFusion
• CF 8 and .NET integration--notes from MAX courtesy of Ray Camden
• Unlocking the CF Server Black Box--notes from MAX courtesy of Rob Brooks-Bilson
• FlexBuilder 2 Beta for the Mac is available on Labs
• ColdFusion string manipulation--remember that strings in CF are java objects!
• FarCry 4 beta released

CF_Focus – at 24:37

• Matt and Kurt's MAX 2006 Roundup

CFQuery – at 46:05

• Jason Daiger weighs in on the future of ColdFusion

CF_Quiz – at 54:08

Still on vacation, but call in and beg for a free year of hosting from Sozo Hosting!

CFExit – at 55:30

"Pushed Away" by J.R. Byrd

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Version 1.26 - October 23, 2006

The Future of ColdFusion Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Getting ready for MAX, which has broken attendance records--3000 people!
  • New Mac Mini--Linux is great for development and pretty much everything else, not so great for recording podcasts
  • Big discussions on Mach-II
• What Peter has been up to
  • Resource pooling proof of concept in Mach-II
  • "Dork"-typing proof of concept - is it really worth it?

CFReport - at 6:30

• RIAForge Launches!
• Adobe Addresses the Macromedia Development Community
• Clark Valberg recently launced DeveloperCircuit.com, which is a job board for ColdFusion and Flex developers
• Flash Player 9 Beta on Linux
  • Creating a YouTube player in Flex on Linux
  • Flash 9 on Linux: It's not about Linux!
• IE 7 is out, like it or not!
• Firefox 2.0 coming out on Tuesday
• Frameworks Conference voting open
• cf.objective() 2007 - preliminary info
• Visual Studio vs. Dreamweaver: Microsoft on the attack!
• CFEclipse 1.3 on FlexBuilder
• Interested in a Fusebox plugin for Eclipse? Let Mark Drew know what you want.
• Google launches docs and spreadsheets
• Tags in Subversion

CF_Focus - at 22:05

• Why interfaces in ColdFusion are irrelevant
• More on the evolution of CF into Java Lite
  • Bonfanti: Is CFML already "Java Lite"?
  • Corfield: Java Lite - are we there already?
  • Houser: CFCs aren't Objects; they're Abstract Data Types (But what's the difference anyway?)
• Dynamic vs. Static
• Joel Spolsky on Bruce Tate's book "Beyond Java"
• Ryan Guill on CF 8

CFQuery - at 50:58

Apaparently we were wrong a lot recently ...

• Nic Tunney actually DOES like the facade pattern, just not in the specific use in a controller to access the Application and Session scopes (which is actually one of the places where I do think it's hand)
• John Beynon has had great luck with Windows NLB for clustering and wanted to let people know that my experience with it may not be the final word
• Sean Corfield called to tell us about an article that illustrates the use of NLB with CF
• Rick Osborne called about Trac in CF

CF_Quiz - at 56:45

Beg for the free year of hosting that Jason Daiger is re-gifting back to the community!

CFExit - at 1:00:40

"See Other People" by The Jupes

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Version 1.25.5 – October 16, 2006

The "Call for Calls" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • I'm now happily running Ubuntu on my ThinkPad
• What Peter has been up to
  • Hanging out in Duluth

We want to hear from YOU!

We think something's been building in the ColdFusion community for quite some time, so we'd like to talk about it and get your opinions as well. Specifically, ColdFusion as a product and ColdFusion developers both seem to be at a crossroads. Some people see this as simple growing pains, while others seem to think we're about to go over a cliff. Which is it? We have our opinions, but tell us what you think! For context, check out these links if you haven't already, then give us a call. Next week we'll dig deep into this topic and let you know what others think.

• The ColdFusion Knowledge Gap
• Is ColdFusion Harming Itself?
• Why Interfaces in ColdFusion are Irrelevant
• Is CFML already "Java Lite?"
• Java Lite - are we there already?
• CFCs: Objects? Abstract Data Types? Is there a difference?
• Dynamic vs. Static
• Joel Spolsky reviews "Beyond Java"

CFExit

"On Top of It" by The Ultronz

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Version 1.25 - October 9, 2006

The Fusebox 5 Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Greetings from Texas, y'all
  • Almost finished with a Mach-II Photo Gallery application--download by next week
• What Peter has been up to
  • New Rooibos bean generator!
  • Yummy FedEx Ship Manager API integration

CFReport - at 4:37

• Charlie Griefer is blogging on cfblog.com
• Mike Nimer blogs about how to use DOJO and JSON with CF
• UGTV is officially "on the air"
• Yahoo! Giving away their email code
• Ben Forta says "Use cfinsert and cfupdate!"
• Dave Shuck describes his brand-spankin' new Subversion setup
• Dave Shuck asks, "Is ColdFusion harming itself?"
• Resources for new CF developers courtesy of Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Dave Shuck shares some lessons learned while using Reactor on InstantSpot
• Adobe hiring ColdFusion developers
• DealerTire hiring 2 CF developers (Mach-II)
• ISITE looking for a ColdFusion rock star
• Point and Pay hiring Fuseboxers
• Adobe XPAAJ now includes ColdFusion examples
• FusionDebug Part 4: Tips and Traps
• Rich Text Editor built in Flex
• Revert CF back to developer edition
• Savvy and CFDynamics offer free hosting and CMS to user groups
• Nic Tunney asks "How do you handle the 'C' in MVC if you aren't using a framework?"
• Pete Freitag has javascript and CSS for multiple file uploads a la gmail
• SitePoint has a list of the four web developer stereotypes
• IE 7 is coming. SOON.
• Contribute 4 available
• Flash Player 9 Update Beta--full screen video!

CF_HotSeat - at 30:21

• Sean Corfield tells us all about Fusebox 5
• The Official Fusebox Web Site
• GrokFusebox
• Proton Arts (Fusebox books)
• Helms and Peters FLiP out! (top right-hand side)
• Discovering Fusebox 4 by John Quarto-vonTivadar
• Sean Corfield's Fusebox category on his blog

Wrap Up - at 57:36

CFExit - at 1:00:08

"Perfect Day" by Far Cry Fly

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Version 1.24 - October 2, 2006

FusionDebug: Our 25th Show!

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Dead car
• What Peter has been up to
  • Framework stuff

CFReport - at 8:16

• CFUnderground VIII -- Sunday, October 22 in Las Vegas (the night before MAX)
• Ray Camden on using the Yahoo! Search API and Yahoo! Answers API with CF, along with Yahoo! weather
  • Yahoo! Search
  • Yahoo! Weather
  • Yahoo! Answers
• Ray Camden updates his Google Calendar CFC
• "ColdFusion Jedi User Group" -- Acrobat Connect recording (think Breeze) on basic application security
• CFEclipse update from Mark Drew -- CFEclipse is now in SVN and Trac so you can check on the progress
• cfblog.com launches
• Anti-Patterns: the Unmaintainable Code Site
• CFC BOF session (and other BOF sessions) at MAX
• Todd Sharp at cf_silence: open challenge to the cf community to GET INVOLVED!
• Named parameter support in cfprocparam will be put back into CF in an upcoming hotfix
• Ben Nadel on Nesting Custom Tags
• The ColdFusion Knowledge Gap
• ColdFusion SVN Browser
• CFUnited Call for Speakers is available
• Ben Forta on Flex Session State Management
• CFUGS: Take advantage of Breeze Accounts!
• Charlie Arehart's UGTV

CF_HotSeat - at 25:35

• Charlie Arehart tells us all about FusionDebug

Wrap Up - at 1:04:25

CFExit - at 1:07:00

"Unlike You" by J.R. Byrd

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Version 1.23 – September 25, 2006

The Clustering Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Moved CF Weekly site to viviotech.net
  • Working on BoardFusion again
  • Finishing up MachBlog
  • Finishing up a Mach-II article for Fusion Authority Quarterly Update
• What Peter has been up to
  • Mach-II stuff
  • Article on design patterns for Fusion Authority Quarterly Update

CFReport - at 8:35

• CFUnit 2 Beta released
• CFCDocs for frameworks back online--thanks Jared!
• Brian Rinaldi has a great post on the service layer
• More updates to Ray Camden applications, including Lighthouse Pro, toXML, and Canvas Wiki
• Ray's article about how he created a Flex 2 frontend for BlogCFC is on the Adobe Developer Center
• Acrobat SDK is now free!
• Breeze rebranded as Acrobat Connect, new pricing model ($39/mo is one option!)
• MAX store online featuring the MAX Monkey!
• Nic Tunney ponders the usefulness (or lack thereof) of the facade pattern
• BlueDragon 7 beta 1 available!
  • Download the beta (FTP link)
  • Download the "What's New" PDF (FTP link)
• CF 10th birthday video from 2005 available on Google video
• Why is CFEclipse so slow?
• MySQL Command Line Help

CF_Focus: Clustering - at 21:38

• Adobe Dev Center clustering articles
• Adobe support articles on clustering and server monitoring
• Brandon Purcell's step-by-step instructions for clustering CF (a bit dated--this is for CF 6.1)
• "Scaling with ColdFusion MX" by Ben Forta (sample chapter from Advanced CF book)
• Livedocs: Enabling ColdFusion clustering for load balancing and failover
• Technote: if you cluster CF, you have to have multi-casting enabled on your network
• Steven Erat has a podcast that is a reading of the devnet article on clustering by Geoffrey Greene and Erik Tierney
• Webapper: other configuration issues to check in a clustered environment
• How to get machine and instance names in a CF cluster

CF_Quiz – at 1:00:37

Wrap Up – at 1:04:41

CFExit – at 1:06:37

"The Deepest Cut" by The Jupes

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Version 1.22 - September 18, 2006

The "Peter Was Sick So We're Late" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Survived the first week at the new job
  • No longer an ACE
  • New LCD TV and HD cable box
• What Peter has been up to
  • Mach-II stuff

CFReport - at 4:24

• Three security vulnerabilities for CF fixed--download the patches! Only one affects 7.0.2
• Issue with CFCs and sandbox security in CF 7.0.1--hotfix released, or UPGRADE TO 7.0.2!!
• Amkor Technologies (Rob Brooks-Bilson's company) hiring CF developer
• Dealer Tire (Brian Meloche from the Cleveland CFUG) - two developers ASAP
• Flex Builder 2 on OS X screenshots
• Aaron Lynch and Dave Shuck (DFW CFUG--REPRESENT!!!) have launched InstantSpot, a social networking app built with a cool collection of ColdFusion technologies including Mach-II, Reactor, AjaxCFC, BlogCFC, and Galleon
• Subversion 1.4 released
• According to Peter Bell, FRAMEWORKS SUCK!
  • Peter Bell's post
  • Peter Farrell's reaction
• Damon Cooper: Updated CFTHREAD proof of concept
• Recording of Rob Gonda's AjaxCFC presentation available
• cf.Objective() 2007 is a go according to Sean Corfield's blog
• Mike Rankins releases CFCBlaster
• Lighthouse Pro 2.1 released
• Peter Bell deconstructs ORM
• Upcoming CF Meetup Group Meetings
  • Charlie Arehart on FusionDebug - October 12
  • Adam Wayne Lehman on CF Security - October 19

CFQUERY - at 21:40

• Bob Flynn asks about the derth (look it up!) of documentation for the MySQL GUI Tools
• Phillip Senn asks about building applications for friends and relatives

CF_Quiz – at 32:37

Wrap Up - at 35:47

CFExit - at 38:45

"Washed Up" by Ultronz

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Version 1.21 - September 11, 2006

We're back with the news

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Moving to DC
• What Peter has been up to
  • Life and work

CFReport - at 10:21

• Oliver Merk: An Introduction to Flex 2 for ColdFusion Developers
• C. Hatton Humphrey has released part two of his podcast entitled "I'm My Own SQL" on Fusion Authority
• ColdSpring plugin for Mach-II doesn't work with BlueDragon
• Caching and Mach-II – bypass business logic in CFCs, Mach-II listeners, or a Mach-II event and render the final "view" output that has been cached
• Many queries or one uber-query: Which is faster? Scott Stroz answers the question once and for all
• at 21:48
• Ask a Jedi: How portable are applications that use frameworks?
• Frameworks: The Emperor's New Clothes
• Creating a Great Dev Environment … for free!
• JRun 4.5 beta ends on a bit of an ominous note …
• at 31:40
• Ray Camden puts a Flex 2 frontend on BlogCFC
• Two important bugs in CF 7.0.2
• Dream.In.Code's ColdFusion quick reference sheet
• at 39:01
• Ray Camden's Application.cfc presentation
• Captivate 2 Released
• Call for speakers for the Frameworks Conference is open
• Adobe buys Interakt
• Ben Forta: Do CF Developers Need Flex Data Services?
• Collected list of CF team blogs
• Rob Gonda on AJAX at the next online CFUG meeting
• at 47:53
• CFOpenChat released
• Jeremy Rottman has a new "ColdFusion Powered Flex" tutorial on easycfm.com
• Charlie Arehart on FusionDebug
• Apple releases new iMacs, up to TWO FEET on the monitor size!
• New online CF seminars from Adobe: "Amazing Features in ColdFusion MX 7" and "Designing and Building Structure Business Reports with ColdFusion MX 7"
• Development roadmap for FarCry
• at 56:01
• Peter has a busy CFUG presentation schedule
• Scorpio sessions at MAX - of note: image manipulation and .NET integration!
• Design a Scorpio logo!
• Mach-II Request Feature: asynchronous events

CF_Quiz - at 1:01:30

Wrap Up - at 1:07:27

CFExit - at 1:08:45

"My Saving Grace" by Far Cry Fly

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Version 1.20 - August 28, 2006

The Early Labor Day Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Adding i18n date handling to MachBlog--this was the last big thing to get added before a public beta, which will happen very soon
  • Last day of my old job! I take off for DC this coming week, going up through Nebraska to see my parents and Cleveland to see a friend on the way. Driving 26 hours straight seemed a bit nuts.
  • New VPS at Viviotech--will be transferring all my "stuff" shortly, and this is where I'll launch my blog running on MachBlog
• What Peter has been up to
  • Mach-II 1.1.1 public beta!
  • What's New in Mach-II Breezo in Brian Rinaldi's Breeze Room (thanks, Adobe!)

CFReport - at 7:14

• Beginner's Guide to CFCs
• Doug Boude has created "OO Terms in a ColdFusion Context"
• easycfm.com has a tutorial on creating OO Data Factories
• Rey Bango on degbugging AjaxCFC using the Live Headers Firefox plugin
• Ray Camden on Using AJAX with Model-Glue
• New versions of Ray Camden's Lighthouse Pro Bug Tracker and Canvas Wiki available
• New articles on cfoop.org
• FlexTV launches
• cfskill.com launches--a work in progress!
• Via the H1DD3N.R350URC3 blog--ZDNet's "How To Pick an Open Source License" article
• WinInfo for CF: Get Windows information via a C# app called from CF
• Jeff Coughlin released parts 4 and 5 of his FarCry 3 overview video
• From the weekly exploding laptop battery report ... Apple recalls 1.8 million batteries
• Rahul Narula of the CF engineering team in Bangalore is blogging
• More CF jobs in MI, KS, MN, and CA

CFQuery - at 19:38

• Hal Helms takes us to task about interfaces in CF
• Another caller tells us to "just say no" to putting more strongly typed features in CF

CF_Quiz - at 31:06

Wrap Up - at 39:11

CFExit - at 40:57

"Soul Dancing" by The Jupes

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Version 1.19 - August 21, 2006

"Damn It Feels Good to be a ColdFusion Developer": Our TWENTIETH Show!

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Quick trip up to DC to attend a meeting with the CF team. Scorpio will NOT disappoint!
  • Joined the editorial board of the ColdFusion Developer's Journal
• What Peter has been up to
  • LylaCaptcha web site update
  • Mach-II gets a new home! (Thanks again to the generous folks over at Vivio Technologies for the VPS hosting)
  • Mach-II 1.1.1 beta will be out any day now!

CFReport - at 6:37

• Apache logs and maintenance tips
• Ray Camden doing a trial run of the newly bestowed Breeze Accounts for ACEs
• Ray Camden launches coldfusionportal.org
• Adam Wayne Lehman is joining Adobe as the ColdFusion Specialist on the North America Technical Sales Team
• Dell recalling 4 million laptop batteries
• Tim Buntel's "Top Five Reasons to Use ColdFusion
• Peter Bell's "Why ColdFusion"
• Adobe ColdFusion Engineering Team is Hiring
• Several New Projects on Brian Rinaldi's CF Open Source List
  • On a side note, congrats to Brian and his wife Claudia who welcomed their second child Samuel on August 17 at 12:00am on the dot. Brian's birthday was the 16th and Claudia's was the 18th. So Samuel was lucky to get his own birthday by a matter of seconds...
• Google Analytics open to all!
• ColdFusion on a Stick
• Nic Tunney Launches cfoop.org
• Mac Flex Builder will support PPC and Intel
• MAX Scheduler Online--and it's Flex 2!
• Online CF Book coming at cfskill.com
• Charlie Arehart on simplifying LylaCaptcha to make it easier to read
• Charlie Arehart on "The Angst Against CAPTCHAs"
• Courtesy of Cameron Childress, a CF Time Capsule: scans of the program from the first DevCon
• ColdFusion is #1 in customer satisfaction in NIKKEI Computer Magazine's 11th Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey

CF_Focus on Apache - at 20:00

• What is Apache?
  • Apache HTTP Server is a robust, commerical-grade, featureful and free-available source code of a web server. Sometimes refered to as httpd because of the unix process name (and origins from NCSA).
  • Run by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
  • Available on a variety of platforms including Windows, Unix and Linux. Mac OS X integrates Apacge as it's built-in web server. Novell Netware 6.5, Apache is the default web server.
  • Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Ironically the FSF considers the Apache licnse imcompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to "certain" patent termination cases.
  • Currently in the 2.0 days. Version 2 of Apache was a substantial re-write of the a lot of code with a focus on modularization. Other things include IPv6 and better non-Unix platforms (such as Windows).
  • Uses a configuration file to set everything up.
• Why use Apache?
  • It's free, duh!
  • IIS doesn't allow for multiple web root without the use of third-party utilities.
  • You're not on Windows.
  • It's currently used on over 70% of web servers around the world.
  • You want use url rewriting (mod_rewrite), but don't want to pay for ISAPI Rewrite for IIS.
  • You want to use something like Subversion, but not the SVN daemon.
  • 2.2 now works with ColdFusion
• Installing / Configuring
  • Download from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
  • Use the the Win32 MSI Installer if on Windows or use YUM /similar program on *nix
  • For virtual hosts, you have to add entries in your HOSTS file (for Windows do a search for it)
  • For a good tutorial, hit up ONLamp for setting up vhosts
  • Configuring with ColdFusion you need to download and install a Hotfix for 7.01/02
  • Be sure to follow Adobe's tech notes

CFQuery - at 38:21

• Jörg Zimmer asks about bug tracking tools
• Adam Haskell plays Devil's Advocate on "feature creep" in CF 8

CF_Quiz - at 51:39

Wrap Up - at 55:55

CFExit - at 58:32

"Shoot It Up" by Ultronz

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Version 1.18 - August 14, 2006

Mr. Woodward Goes to Washington (a.k.a. The CF 8 Scorpio Wishlist)

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to - A new JOB!
  • Dave Shuck has agreed to take over the DFW CFUG
  • Tried Ubuntu Live CD on my ThinkPad
• What Peter has been up to - A busy boy he is!
  • Presentation to Cleveland CFUG on Design Pattern Safari
  • Article for FAQU
• Not to worry, podcast fans the ColdFusion Weekly WILL GO ON!

CFReport in RAPID-FIRE MODE - at 6:11

• Flash Player 9 Universal Binary released for Intel Macs
• Nic Tunney has started a new CF blog aggregator called BlogRoundup.org (dig the cows!)
• Ted Patrick (Adobe Flex Evangelist) has created Flex Templating (FXT): Can Flex replace HTML?
• VMWare offers hundreds of free "VM Appliances"
• Brian Rinaldi on "The Right Framework"
• AboutWeb is hiring FIFTEEN, count 'em, FIFTEEN ColdFusion developers for a big government contract
• Mark Drew asks what people would like to see in CFEclipse with respect to generic framework support
• Simon Horwith has released his Sensible Assembly Methodology (SAM) docs
• Subversion in an Instant courtesy of Joe Danziger
• JARED'S GETTING MARRIED! Congratulations Jared!
• Charlie Arehart on the new JDBC drivers for CF (DataDirect 3.5) and spy tool
• Free Flex 2 and CF 7 Seminars given by Ben Forta in Chicago, Boston, NYC or San Francisco
• FusionDebug available (Use "CFCOMMUNITY" for a 10% discount)
• Chalire Areheaer and what they mean to CF developers

CF_Focus on ColdFusion 8 ("Scorpio") - at 15:40

• Bloggers have been going nuts the past couple of weeks with CF 8 wishlists; caused a lot of discussion, and Out Loud and the ColdFusion Podcast covered things in their most recent episodes
• Results of Tariq Ahmed's Scorpio Wishlist Survey
• Rob Brooks-Bilson provides more detailed statistical analysis (Rob wins for most detailed, thought-out, and practical list)

1. Better server monitoring
   • Help with debugging and troubleshooting
   • Session/application management and insight
   • Full reporting on scheduled task execution
2. Increased OO functionality
   • Static methods
   • Interfaces
   • Constructors
   • Destructors
   • Method overloading
3. More front-end/UI functionality
   • Image creation/manipulation
   • Spry integration
   • "Atlas"-like functionality (Flex or DHTML front-ends generated by the server)
4. Improved packaging/deployment
   • Ability to clone a server—would be great for setting up clusters
   • Ability to drop in a jar file for library-type code like frameworks
5. IDE Enhancements
   • CFC introspection
   • Interactive debugging
6. Miscellaneous enhancements
   • cfthread/cfjoin tags
   • Better, more flexible caching
   • Ability to programmatically expire cached queries
   • Application-specific mappings
   • Allow for var scoping anywhere within a method, not just at the beginning
   • Enhance cfscript
   • Get rid of cfscript
   • Dump current cfform javascript validation and use qForms instead>
   • Add IMAP, NNTP, and SNMP tags
   • Have scheduled tasks use their own thread pool
   • Make scheduled tasks cluster aware so they can exist on multiple servers but would only fire on one server in the cluster
   • PDF Form support
   • Native support for MS Office formats
   • Native support for RSS
   • SAX-type XML parsing as opposed to DOM only
   • Serializable CFCs

Putting a Stake in the Ground: Our Lists, limiting ourselves to 5, IN ORDER no less! - at 41:25

• Matt:
  1. cfthread/cfjoin tags
  2. Application-specific mappings
  3. Serializable CFCs
  4. Improvements to scheduled tasks
  5. Atlas-like functionality to generate Flex or DHTML/Ajax front-ends—Adobe could absolutely KILL in this space
• Peter:
  1. Application specific mappings
  2. cfimage
  3. Improvements to scheduled tasks
  4. cfthread/cfjoin tags
  5. General bug fixes like nested cftransactions (which is a PITA to engineer right in current CF OO applications), fixes to cfchart so it doesn't override styles in an external xml style sheet and fix the DateConvert() function (it incorrectly coverts Standard time when local time observes DST)

CF_Quiz - at 49:27

• Sozo Hosting is a new sponsor! They've generously offered to give away one year of ColdFusion hosting (a $240 value!) to one lucky winner per month. Sozo Hosting winners will be chosen at random from the winners of the CF_Quiz each month.
• As an added bonus, Sozo Hosting is also giving all ColdFusion Weekly listeners 10% off if you click on their banner on coldfusionweekly.com!

Wrap Up - at 51:55

CFExit - at 53:43

"Why" by Cherry Suede

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Version 1.14 - July 17, 2006

Sizzling Hot Summer Edition

Introduction & Comments

Thanks to Dobroide for sounds of summer nights

• What Matt has been up to – database migration with C# and .NET 2.0, going to Adobe for Community Summit and Flex, Mach-II at MAX, Ubuntu and Vista, Eclipse tip
• What Peter has been up to – breeze presentations to Boston and Salt Lake CFUGs and Online ColdFusion Meetup Group (slides and recording)
• 11,000 Downloads!
• Status of sending out FAQU to people

CFReport - at 11:25

• MAX registration open
• BlogCFC 5.1 Released - mini CMS, gravatar support
• JamJar - Flex 2 sample app on Adobe Labs
• Brian Rinaldi - Getting Started with Objects and Frameworks - NO EXCUSES!
• Spry 1.2 released
• Java? It's So Nineties
• my.com
• cfhibernate - proof of concept code available
• Blogger trades red paperclip for a house in Canada
• BlogFusion being taken over by Dave Livingston
• Rise of the Virtual Machines - Virtual PC and VMWare Server both free!
• "Flex 2 and ColdFusion" Breezo - Kai Koenig and David Keutgens - GREAT intro
• "What I learned at CFUnited 2006" - Judith Dinowitz
• MySpace is #1 most trafficked site on the internet--beat out Yahoo
• Dave Shuck presented on CFCUnit and Selenium at the DFW CFUG
• ColdFusion Jobs in Nebraska? You bet your Cornhuskers
• Hadron - package management system for CF modeled on Ruby Gems
• ColdFusion Turned 11 years old on July 10!
• Matt Williams - Beans, DAOs, Gateways, and Services at the Denver CFUG

CFQuery - at 30:28

• Kyle from Southern California asks about MVC and AJAX

CF_Quiz - at 41:25

Wrap Up - at 45:05

CFExit - at 46:18

"Fred & Ginger" by The Jupes

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It's ColdFusion Weekly After Dark Edition.  Our daily brain-dump with Kurt Wiersma and  Paul Kenney. We hit up our final thoughts on unofficial last day of the conference - unit testing, flex, CMS's and more.

The informal round-up of day 2 of CFUNITED, including Jeff Houser, Judith and Michael Dinowitz, Kris Knowlton, Bob Flynn, Brian Rinaldi, Jeff Lucido, and Chris Rockett, and an unidentified female ColdFusion fan.

CFUNITED Day 1 - Roundtable with Judith and Michael Dinowitz, Chris Scott, Clark Valberg, and Kurt Wiersma

Version 1.13 - June 26, 2006

The Pre-CFUNITED Teaser Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to â�� lots of long nights of coding!
• What Peter has been up to â�� becoming an LLC

CFReport - at 7:05

• CFEclipse 1.3 Beta available
• eCivis Hiring Again - Sami Hoda
• Jeff Bouley: Count Your Lines of ColdFusion
• Official Google Analytics Blog
• Helms vs. Horwith - the text version
• WWBD - What would Ben do?
• Real World Flex Seminar - One-day event - 8/14/2006 - Roosevelt Hotel in NYC
• Don't use Flex to build your web site!
• New Atlanta to announce BlueDragon 7 features at CFUNITED
• CFUNITED IS THIS WEEK!
• CFUNITED pass winner - Jonathan Adams!

CFQuery - at 25:47

• Matt Williams asks about "psuedo-OO" and GroupThink

CF_HotSeat - at 34:04

Michael Dinowitz, Judith Dinowitz, and Dee Sadler of Fusion Authority tell us about the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update

CF_Quiz - at 52:59

Wrap Up - at 59:23

CFExit - at 1:01:40

"Not a Day Goes By" by Cherry Suede

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Version 1.10 - May 29, 2006

Safari Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to - move to high-availability environment, MachBlog, and getting water in his iRiver H10 20GB
• What Peter has been up to - discussion with Chris Scott about the factory bean functionality in ColdSpring

CFReport - at 9:14

• Making progress on Mach-II 1.1.1, big plans for brand-new web site and documentation
• Reactor - SVN respository moved, now has access via HTTP; also Trac site up
• One Click Installer for Subversion
• Dave Shuck has Eclipse snippets he created based on a blog post by Aaron Lynch that will restart the CF service right from within Eclipse (type restart[ctrl][shift][period])
• Massimo Foti - Spry + CF demo photo gallery
• Rob Rohan - AFAE (Another Freebooter's All-purpose Editor) - collection of plugins for Eclipse; includes a while-you-edit XML compiler with Mach-II support!
• Ray Camden - "Creating a mailing list in CF" series
• Breeze presentation on FarCry by Geoff Bowers - even has timings so you can skip to the stuff you're most interested in!
• Cooqy: OpenLaszlo-powered eBay front-end
• ajaxCFC update for BlueDragon compatibility; also news of Mach-II integration being done by Dan Wilson
• Sean Corfield's Mach-II (well, general OO) advice - use a service layer

Design Pattern Safari - at 21:50

• Beginning Our Journey -- What we want to accomplish...
• Code examples avaiable on our website so you can see what we're talking about
• Our Journey Down the Objectazon River: What's a design pattern?
  • A design pattern is a general and repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem
  • A design pattern is not code, but a structure or blueprint to implement your code by
  • A design pattern is not an alogrithm since alogrithms solve computational problems
• Why Patterns Are Important...
  • Patterns provide a "standardized" vocabulary for developers to communicate using well-known, well understood names for software interactions
  • Design patterns can easily be improved over time, making them more robust than ad-hoc designs
  • Patterns are about extensibility and reusability
• Comon Indentifications In the Jungle: Design Patterns You''ll Use Daily in ColdFusion
  • Beans (Also known as Business Objects or Value Objects)
  • DAOs (Stands for Data Access Objects)
  • Gateways (Stands for Data Gateway Objects)
  • Services (Also known as Manager Objects)
• Our first animal: The Bean
• Typically represents a specific entity in your model
• Carries "encapsulated" data between the different layers of your application
  • Sorta like a glorified structure, however instead of directly accessing data with a key you call a method
  • Helps you organize your data structures instead passing structures around ad-hoc
• Has a consistent and simple interface (Controllable API)
• Has methods called getters/setters (aka accessors) to access data [getFirstName() / setFirstName()]
• Might be composed of other beans
• Easily created with a code generator
• Next Stop: DAO (data access object)
  • DAOs only interact with one row of data via the primary key
  • Used to save/load objects from data storage
  • A DAO could interface with: Database / Legacy persistent data storage (XML / Text File)
  • Peter's' DAOs usually have ScRuD method that take a bean (ScRuD - Save | (create) | Read | (update) | Delete)
• Another beast: Gateways (Your Access to All Things Aggregated)
  • Contains method that sql (select) queries that return one or more rows of data
  • Typically returns a cfquery object
  • Rarely it can return a bean (Querying by User/Pwd)
  • Performs functionality that may affect one or more rows
• Services: Kings of the Jungles
  • Contains your business logic:
    • Bean Validation / Creation
    • Application specific business logic
    • Save / Load / Delete from DAO (via the facade pattern)
    • Gateway Interaction (via the facade pattern)
  • Usually depends on a DAO and Gateway
  • Services can comsume other services
• Diagram of how it all works together - Thank you for Kurt Wiersma
• Others Notable Stops in the Wild
  • Facade: Provides a simplified interface to a larger body of code
  • Controllers: These are very framework specific. Recommend looking at Fusebox, Mach-II or Model-Glue
  • Singletons: An object that only has one instance during the lifetime of the application
• Surviving: Obey Your Suvival Instincts
  • Do...
    • use them as you go and understand more of the problem
    • focus on your needs
    • learn that when they have a particular kind of problem or smell - go to your pattern toolbox to find a solution
    • understand that some patterns have tradeoffs
    • understand that you can only appreciate a pattern once it has solved a painful problem for you
  • Do not...
    • start immediately throwing patterns into a design
    • have to use all the patterns we've discussed
• Studying to Become a Safari Guide
  • Code Generation - Rooibos Generator
  • Object Management - ColdSpring
    • Focuses on making configuration and dependencies of your objects (CFCs) easier to manage.
    • ColdSpring uses the "inversion-of-control" pattern to "wire" your CFCs together.
  • Object Technology: A Manager's Guide
    • David A. Taylor
    • Addison-Wesley Professional &dnash; 0201309947
  • Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
    • Alan Shalloway & James Trott
    • Addison-Wesley Professional &dnash; 0321247140
  • Head First Design Patterns
    • Freeman, Freeman, Bates & Sierra
    • O'Reilly Media - 0596007124
  • CFC-Dev mailing list: Join at cfczone.org

  CF_HotSeat

  No Hotseat in lieu of the safari discussion...

  CF_Quiz - at 1:01:57

  Wrap Up - at 1:05:37

  CFExit - at 1:06:18

  "I'll Find Mine" by J.R. Byrd

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Version 1.8 beta - May 15, 2006

Did We Say We Have The News?

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to...
  • MachBlog, MachBlog and more MachBlog
  • Flash Forms article for Fusion Authority
  • Matt is now officially the manager of the Dallas/Fort Worth CFUG
• What Peter has been up to...
  • New version of Rooibos Generator
  • FedEx Ship Manager API

CFReport - at 9:30

• Component insight in CFEclipse?
• Aaron Lynch (DFW CFUG member) - FlashPaper CFC doc generator/li>
• Matt Williams - Sample service/DAO/Bean files
• Nic Tunney of ObjectBreeze fame starting a project codenamed "Callisto" - Hibernate clone
• CFHibernate may be picking up steam again
• Robert Blackburn - integrated Java/CF apps
• Mark Mandel - Java Class Loader CFC
• BlogCFC 5 Released
  • The circle is now complete
• MS Word 2007 will have built-in blogging
• Security update for BlogFusion
• Jobs, jobs, and more jobs
  • Jared Rypka-Hauer's company is hiring a contractor, can be remote
  • Matt's company is hiring a contractor in Dallas for 3-6 months, maybe more
  • Sean Corfield looking for Java/CF developer to work in San Francisco
  • Another job in San Francisco
• Geoff Bowers giving one-hour online presentation on FarCry
• Joe Rinehart gives update on Model-Glue 1.1.1 final and 2.0 "Unity" Alpha 2 progress
• Frameworks save lives?
• Doug Hughes and wife had a new baby girl!
  • Joe Rinehart: reactorFactory.createBaby("AudreyRoseHughes");
• Yahoo! Releases a slew of new UI components and page templates
• Dreamweaver 8.0.2 released
• Adobe "Spry" AJAX framework released
• Flex 2 Beta 3 and Mystic Updater (CF 7.0.2) Beta 3 Available
• Why is Flex important to CF developers?

CFQuery - at 42:45

• More on LylaCaptcha
• Debugging tools

CF_HotSeat

No Hotseat in lieu of the News...

CF_Quiz - at 46:00

• Tell us three cool things that are included in ColdFusion Mystic Updater Beta 3. Funniest or most creative Skype answer wins!

Wrap Up - at 52:38

CFExit - at 53:45

"Piece of Mind" by J.R. Byrd

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We spend the podcast talking about migrating legacy applications.

Introduction and Comments

• A little about this week with LylaCAPTCHA
• See our Frappr Map
• Sean Corfield's blog posts:
  • iWTF? My Podcast Woes
  • ColdFusion Weekly
  • More ColdFusion Weekly

CFReport � at 8:30

Webapper

• Load Testing â�� Frameworks â�� The JVM-JRE

Migrating Legacy Applications � at 9:35

• Seven Stages of Legacy Application Grief â�� at 10:30
  1. Shock
  2. Denial
  3. Bargaining
  4. Fear
  5. Anger
  6. Despair
  7. Acceptance
• Business Needs Vs. Geek Desires â�� at 18:00
• Why migrate?
  • If the application is showing its' age: Difficult / expensive to maintain or doesn't play well with newer technologies
  • Lack of documentation / people who wrote it no longer available
  • "Have To" for regulatory or other legal reasons (HIPAA, FERPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.)
  • The application no longer meets the business needs and can't be changed in its current state so it does
  • Migration is a business decision, not a technology one!
  • Business needs MUST drive the decision to rework a legacy application
  • Don't forget the opportunity cost! If you're migrating a legacy application, you're not doing something else.
• The Case Study â�� at 23:10
  • It's two, two, two applications in one. (Known as a twofer when you're talking about double disc CD sets)
  • Over 1500 CFML files all in a single directory (not directory structure, but all in a single directory)
  • Shared a single database
  • Needed to switch to SQLServer 2005 which required changes to 5000 instances of *=
• Where to begin? â�� at 28:20
  • We began at the beginning: the login process
  • The legacy application re-ran queries on every page to grab user and company information
  • We moved to a session user and company bean to store this information
  • We're moving things on chunk at a time to Mach-II
• Strategies for Migration â�� 30:30
  • How do you eat an elephant? ...one bite at a time
  • Evaluate the whole picture as grim as it may be
  • Make sensible decisions about where to start and a long-term migration strategy
  • Ultimate goal should be well-organized, completely transparent code
  • TEST, TEST, TEST: break your own code
• The Decision to Migrate â�� at 36:25
  • Remember: this is a business decision
  • Do through risk analysis (ROI, quality Vs. quantity benefit)
  • Think about opportunity cost: What's the best way for you to be spending your time?
  • Create a test case: your risk analysis for code
  • Be realistic (meaning pessimistic) as opposed to optimistic about the time involved
• Benefits to the Migration Process â�� at 40:30
  • In most cases, your application will run better, faster and be less resistant to change
  • Sets stage for future additions to the application that will be far less painful
  • Don't shy away from challenges!

CFQuery � at 44:30

• A call from Australian Andrew Mercer who asks about ColdFusion on Wheels

CF_Quiz � at 47:00

• D'oh, we forgot to announce the winner of the version 1.3 beta CF_Quiz. Instead of robbing the lucky person of their glory, we'll have a double header next week.

Wrap Up � at 48:05

• No CF_Hotseat this week...
• ColdFusion Weekly Milestone: It's our fifth show!
• Call in your questions for the next CF_Hotseat with Mark Drew â�� lead developer of CFEclipse

CFExit � at 50:05

"Traffic Cop" by J.R. Byrd

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Open Source Mania!

Thanks To...

• Helms and Peters Out Loud
• PowerGramo: Record your skype calls!

CFReport – at 6:20

• Open source projects we've worked on:
  • Mach-II
  • ColdSpring
  • Reactor
  • BoardFusion
• Free Vs. Open Source – at 12:37
• Richard Stallman and Eric S. Raymond – at 15:00
  • GNU Project
  • Free Software Foundation
  • Open Source Initiative
  • "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond
  • Bill Gates: An Open Letter to Hobbyists
• Why open source – at 20:24
• Stallman's "Four Fundamental Freedoms" – at 25:36
• Eric S. Raymond's Philosophies – at 26:20
• Open Source Licensing – at 28:30
  • Pete Freitag's Open Source License Matrix
• Open Source and ColdFusion – at 38:30
  • cfopen.org
  • cflib.org
  • cfczone.org
  • openxcf.sourceforge.net
• Resources – at 44:14
  • "Revolution OS" (documentary film about open source software)
• Open Source Call to Arms – at 46:13
  • Peter's thoughts on developing open source software
• Open Source Infrastructure – at 49:20
  • CVS Dude
  • HostMySite - free hosting for user groups
  • SourceForge

CFQuery – at 52:03

• Come on folks, you have GOT to have some questions! Call in!

CF_Hotseat with Brian Rinaldi of remotesynthesis.com: 54:07

• Remote Synthesis
• ColdFusion Open Source Project List

Open Source Suprise– 1:16:48

• Lyla Captcha

CF_Quiz – at 1:14:22

• See last week's!

CFExist Music – at 1:17:32

"Give Meat a Chance" by J.R. Byrd

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Matt wants to embed GPS in the podcast while Peter's tired brain whimps out with a simple solution due the week of charts. This week on the Weekly:

• The roundup on the CFReport â�� at 12:40
  • Update from Version 1.1: Jeff Coughlin's video tutorial on FarCry 3.0 â�� An Overview (Part 1)
  • Advanced charting example (dial chart)
  • You can find the WebCharts3D Designer in your charting folder (ex. C:\CFusionMX7\charting\webcharts.bat)
  • WebChart3D API documentation
  • Chris Wigginton's blog post on Using the included webcharts3d engine in CFMX 7
• CFQuery â�� at 25:30
  • Phil in Washington D.C. asks about good Object-Oriented learning materials
• CF_Hotseat: Kurt Wiersma on ColdSpring and Mach-II â�� at 36:45
  • ColdSpring website
  • Mach-II website
  • Latest AppBooster Zip
• The winner of the CF_Quiz and this week's quiz â�� at 55:00

Sorry for the less than stellar audio this week. We have a patch for the bug next week.

This week on the Weekly: * The roundup on the CFReport - at 11:00 * CFQuery - at 25:15 * CF_Hotseat: Jeff Couglin on FarCry 3.0 - at 32:45 * The winner of the CF_Quiz and this week's quiz - at 53:45

This week on the Weekly: * About ColdFusion Weekly * cf.Objective() roundup on the CFReport at 9:00 * CF_Hotseat: Jared Rypka-Hauer on cf.Objective() at 26:30 * The CF_Quiz at 44:30