Version 3.07 – April 18, 2008

Flex Frameworks Roundtable

This week we talk Flex Frameworks with ...

• Laura Arguello of ASFusion
• Thomas Burleson, Principal Architect at Universal Mind
• Jeffry Houser, producer of The Flex Show Podcast and owner of DotComIt
• Max Porges, Flex Team Lead at Highwinds Software
• Chris Scott, Senior Software Architect at Managing Editor
• Kurt Wiersma, Manager, Web Application Development at the American Academy of Neurology

This weeks links ...

• Mate Framework
• Cairngorm
• Universal Mind - Cairngorm Extensions
• PureMVC
• The Flex Show Episode 33 - Pure MVC Framework
• Joe Berkovitz - MVCS Resources
• PaperVision 3D
• The Flex Show Episode 39 - OpenFlux
• Ben Stucki's Blog Post on OpenFlux
• Open Flux Google Code Repository
• DeGrafa

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Version 3.06 – March 31, 2008

Vince Bonfanti - Open Source BlueDragon

This week's links ...

• New Atlanta
• BlueDragon
• Vince Bonfanti's Blog
• Open Source BlueDragon Press Release
• Open Source BlueDragon Overview
• Open Source BlueDragon FAQs
• Open Source BlueDragon Forums
• Open Source BlueDragon Being Released at cf.Objective() 2008
• dzone's Interview with Vince Bonfanti
• Vince's original blog post asking for feedback on open sourcing BlueDragon (May 31, 2006)
• Alan Williamson's Blog
• BlueDragon Customers on J2EE or JX Version
  • CarFax.com
  • Irish Times
  • CruiseMates.com
  • American Airlines
  • Credit Suisse
  • City of Los Angeles
  • Hillsborough County Florida
  • Georgia Department of Transportation (J2EE on WebLogic)
  • Many U.S. District Courts
• BlueDragon Customers on .NET Version
  • MySpace.com
  • eBags.com
  • devx.com
  • National Express (being converted from ColdFusion to BlueDragon .NET)
  • HealthGrades.com
• GNU General Public License, Version 2

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Charlie Arehart cf.Objective() Sneak Peek

This show's links ...

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

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

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Version 3.00 – January 14, 2008

CF_HotSeat With Jared Rypka-Hauer, Chief Instigator of cf.objective() 2008

• Alagad
• Using CF 8, AJAX, and Flex on volunteer.unitedway.org
• Savvy CMS
• Pre-Conference Mach-II Training
• GreatBizTools

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

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

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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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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 â 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 â 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)â at 48:35

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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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Version 2.25 â September 10, 2007

The "Welcome Back" Edition

What we've been up to ...

• Peter:
  • Had a geek night with Kurt Wiersma and talked about everything under the sun but planned out Mach-II 1.6 and 2.0.
  • Have been learning ANT (using it with Eclipse). Using tasks such as SVN, JSMin and CFCUnit through ANT to ease website roll outs and to continuous builds.
  • Got summoned for Federal jury duty in October and November.
  • Bought a set of Bosch's Axxis line of washers and dryers, but waiting for them to come.
  • Did a presentation to the TCCFUG on the YSlow add-on for FireBug
• Matt:
  • Moved to a new place, still in Alexandria
  • New A/V toys
  • Extremely busy with work, specifically with Flex projects
  • Starting to work on MachBlog 2
  • Big thanks to Gareth Edwards for all his hard work on the CHUG application lately
  • Way behind on helping Peter with the Mach-II 1.5 release, and we're already talking about 1.6 and 2.0
  • Going on vacation this week to Portland, OR
  • Having fun messing around with Verisign's security key for their OpenID system, and it also works with PayPal

CFReport â 18:17

• Check out del.icio.us for all of this week's news
• 10 CF jobs! Specificaly in NC, CA, and KY
• Work with Mark Drew in London
• Asynchronous file uploads using CF 8
• Mach-II is all grown up
• Model-Glue style broadcast listener for Mach-II
• Hibernate session management plugin for Mach-II
• "Next Gen" MVC apps in CF
• ColdMock - unit testing in CF with mock objects
• Charlie Griefer's Going OO
• Jason Delmore is blogging
• CF WACK Details and Table of Contents
• Pre-order WACK on amazon.com--9/12 release date for volume 1 according to amazon Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
• Google Docs List Data API
• Great intro to OO series by Adrian Moreno
• ColdFusion 8 extensions for Eclipse 3.3
• Active Record Pattern has no consequences?
• Follow up on Active Record by Joe Rinehart
• Scotch on the Rocks 2008 Announced
• Mark Drew presents CFEclipse to the Cleveland CFUG

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

Version 2.20 â June 18, 2007

The "We're Psychic" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Hunkered down at work/li>
  • Great intro from John Allen listening to the podcast gets you a new job and makes you're girlfriend like you more too
• Matt:
  • Just got back from San Jose and the Adobe Community Summit
  • Apple launches Safari ... for Windows

CFReport â 7:30

• Check out del.icio.us for all of this week's news
• What Sean learned at the Adobe Community Summit
• Open Source at Adobe--great presentation at the Community Summit, notes via Sean Corfield
• Two new CF team bloggers
• We're psychic: Flex 3 beta released
• What's new in Flex 3
• Why Flex 3 is a big deal
• We're psychic again: Apollo renamed "AIR" and released as public beta
• onAIR bus tour
• The AIR bus's twitter account
• Christian Cantrell on how web apps will get to the desktop
• Want to see what AIR can do? Check out Project San Dimas
• CF regains its rightful place, featured at the top of the Labs page
• New system requirements matrix for CF 8
• More CF 8 download stats
• Ray Camden digs into the Server Monitor API in CF8
• Charlie talks about impact on production systems with the Server Monitor
• Also, there's a free lunch when it comes to the server monitor
• Generate CFCs from XMI
• Dave Shuck shares his code from an intro to OO presentation he gave to the DFW CFUG
• var scope checker revised and has a new home
• CFEclipse costs how much?
• Secret revealed via twitter--Mark's working on CFEclipse 2.0
• Jobs in Salt Lake City and Dallas
• Scott Stroz, aka Boyzoid, leaves About Web and joins Alagad
• Adobe reports record revenue
• MAX registration is open!
• Ted Patrick is in charge of MAX, and he wants the community to take it back. Power to the people!
• CFUnited bling for your blog
• BlueDragon releases the June 2007 hotfix for 7

CFQuery â 40:27

• Elena Aminova asks "How do I create a ColdFusion User group in my company, which has over 3000 employees and not sure how many CF developers. I know some of them but not all and a User group with monthly meetings would definitely help all of us. How do I go about getting the speakers for the meetings and what is involved in the usergroup organization if I take that upon myself."
• Ryan Hartwich remind us to spell out uncommon tag names like WDDX for the cfwddx tag (Web Distributed Data eXchange)
• Ryan Hartwich calls to let us know that we sound the same which is great because since Matt is the smart guy around here, either I'm getting smarter or Matt is getting...
• A follow up on the service layer question we answered last week from John Allen -- Are service layers "front controllers" for the objects behind them? A new framework?
• For a bit more background on common OO stuff in CF, listen to the 1.10 version of the weekly for the Design Pattern Safari

CF_Quiz â 58:56

• Nobody voted for the best new thing is Scorpio...sad I might say! Brian wins!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up â 1:00:34

• No show June 25th because we're coming to CFUnited!
• CFExit - Beer by The Ultronz

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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 â 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 â 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 â 55:20

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

CF_Quiz â 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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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 â 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 â 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 â 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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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 â 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 ... â 17:10
  • Ben Forta
  • Brian Rinaldi
  • ComputerWorld's rebuttal
• Since CF isn't dead, how about some Scorpio news â 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 â 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 â 49:20

CF_Quiz â 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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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 â-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 â 56:24

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Version 2.15 is a GREAT interview with Mark Mandel that Peter and I did at cf.objective(), so download it now!

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 Ãïï 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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Version 2.14 – May 4, 2007

The "Live From cf.objective()" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • Traveling to cf.objective()
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Picking up Matt at the airport

CFReport

• Check out del.icio.us for this week's news
• Check out our new flickr account--photos of floor pizza at the Sofitel

Konference Korner

• There's still time to get to cf.objective()--come join us!
• CFUnited is June 27 - 30 in Bethesda, MD
  • The winner of the April pass is ... Aaron Gillespe!
  • This week's entry code is ... listen to the podcast for this week's code!
• ApolloRanch - a free mini-conference on Apollo in Boulder, CO on Saturday, May 5th from 5-11:30pm

CF_Quiz

• 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!
  • ANSWER: queryName.currentRow
  • WINNER: Mike Harman!
• Version 2.13 – Deadline: Saturday, May 12, 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.

CFExit Music

The Man From St. Petersburg by Empty Promise

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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 Ãïï 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 Ãïï 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 Ãïï at 38:30

• Version 2.10 Ãïï 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 Ãïï 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 Ãïï 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.

CFExit Music

A Window Seat by The Exchange

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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 â 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 â at 5:17

• 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>
    

• 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!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

CF_HotSeat with Brian Rinaldi â at 7:33

Bonus CF_HotSeat with Ed Slack â at 50:14

CFExit Music

Three Squares by Ed Slack and the Slackestra

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Version 2.11 – April 2, 2007

The "Peter's Old, But Matt's Older" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • MachBlog final coming out either this weekend or very early next week. Yes, there's more to do, but we'll get 1.0 out and start adding stuff immediately thereafter. Next on the list are my CFUG app and BoardFusion
  • Lots and lots of work-related stuff
  • Just got back from the kite festival here in DC--very cool to see hundreds of kites flying around the monuments. And yes, I forgot my camera.
  3. Won't have a show next week since it's Easter weekend, however we'll do a short 5 minute show announcing the winner of the 2nd (and last) pass to cf.Objective()
• What Peter's been up to:
  • Celebrating my birthday - I'm a fools baby
  • Talked with Kurt about Mach-II 1.5 (at my party at that) and the things the last things that need to be finished before cf.Objective()

CFReport – at 7:39

• SECURITY ALERT! CF 7.0.2 cumulative hot fix number 2
• Creating an MVC OOP app in CF--series
• Mike Chambers answers the question "Why Apollo?"
• Simon Horwith on what Apollo means to CF developers
• CF jobs in Brentwood, TN
• CF job with Mark Drew's company
• Sean Corfield is leaving Adobe
• Charlie Arehart running the online CF Meetup group; Ray Camden co-managing
• When a coder no longer codes for a living, is he still a coder?
• Adobe CS 3 Announced
• Dale Fraser proclaims that Scorpio Rocks!
• Scorpio has cool AJAX stuff built-in--check out autosuggest
• Are we CFers a bunch of dynamic language weenies?
• Fusion Authority interviews Mark Mandel about cf.objective()
• New web site from Charlie Griefer--cfquestions.com
• Nice Mach-II series by Adrian Moreno
• Podcasts in the CF universe
• Subversion development models--local vs. remote development
• BlueDragon 7 final is out!

Konference Korner – at 32:43

• cf.Objective()
  • Sessions and schedule are posted
  • Manager's Guide - get your manager to send you!
  • Also, a small bug in cf.Objective()'s registration
  • Register and get a chance to win an iPod Nano!
  • Last chance to enter for our final conference pass giveaway! This week's code is... listen to the podcast for this week's code!
• 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
  • Sessions and schedule are posted
  • The winner of the CFUnited Pass for March is ... JOHN SMYTHE!
• MAX 2007 blog online

CF_Quiz – at 39:31

• Version 2.09 Winner - Michael Wright of Leeds, U.K.!
  • 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)?
  • ANSWER: Allaire ColdFusion 4.0
• 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?
    
• Version 2.11 – Deadline: Saturday, April 21, 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.

Wrap Up – at 45:11

CFExit Music

In Summary The Exchange

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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

CFExit Music

I'm Thrilled by The Ultronz

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Version 2.09 – March 12, 2007

The "How We Do What We Do" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt's been up to:
  • New Black MacBook! (Got 5% off at CompUSA, which is more than you usually get off on Apple Hardware)
  • Hooked Mac Mini up to my LCD TV, got Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for couch potato surfing
  • Set up a del.icio.us account for The Weekly--thanks to Clark Valberg for the suggestion
    add version number at the end to see links for a particular show, e.g. http://del.icio.us/cfweekly/2.09
  • Sci-Fi Channel has "open source" Battlestar Galactica video materials so you can make your own fan movies
• What Peter's been up to:
  • I hate del.icio.us...
  • Had an emergency computer purchase for the company -- one of our workstations died on Friday and got replaced with another HP laptop almost like mine (looks the same, but has slightly different things)
  • Read a cool article called CSI: TCP/IP in WIRED

CFReport – at 9:31

• CFEclipse 1.3.1.1, 1.3.1.2, and 1.3.1.3, and an all-in-one beta download all released this week--Mark Drew never sleeps! And according to Trond Ulseth, Mark is "Man of the Month"
• CFEclipse mailing list has moved
• Andrew Powell asks, "How do you CFEclipse?" And if the answer is "I don't," what's wrong with you?
• Shlomy Gantz: Free intro to CF seminar in NYC. Maybe more people should do these in their towns?
• CF Jobs in OH, IL, and CA
• CF Job in CA--MVC and OO experience preferred
• Alagad, which is no longer for sale, is hiring a full-time CF developer
• Ant in Anger--great Ant tips
• Adobe CSS Advisor Beta--online tools for troubleshooting CSS issues
• PC World India: Apollo Beta goes public on March 16
• eBay ActionScript 3 library to access their XML API
• Yahoo! ActionScript 3 libraries to access their various APIs
• Scorpio death march cartoon by one of the members of the CF engineering team
• Tapping into Java for performance improvements in CF--for the stuff CF ain't so good at (file I/O, etc.)
• John Paul Ashenfelter on testing CF applications--his presentation from CFUnited in podcast form
• Ray Camden releases ColdFire--debug your CF code with a Firefox extension!
• Firefox plugin for CFSearchEngine.com
• Sean Corfield started a ColdFusion Twitter channel
• Simeon comes clean--he wrote an application in ... RUBY?
• CF_Geico: ColdFusion makes web development so easy, a caveman could do it!
• Poor, misunderstood Squidhead--we misrepresented it a bit in our description on a previous show