Three ColdFusion positions this week, including one in Iraq: Vykin Corporation (company based in Florida, but position is in Iraq) is looking for a ColdFusion and Flex developer with secret security clearances for the US Department of Defense in Iraq. Requirements include ColdFusion and/or Flex...
I am on my way to Toronto for tonight's usergroup presentation on ColdFusion and Flex. Details posted online .
Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist (and recent ColdFusion devotee) Greg Wilson has created tBlurb.com , an app that lets you enter code and get a short URL to it for sharing (you can choose your own or let it pick it for you). The app features a rich text editor, and supports ActionScript, C++, C#,...
I am in San Francisco for a few days of meetings, video shoots, and more (almost all MAX 2009 related). But tonight I'll get to do what I really enjoy doing, presenting to our usergroups. I'll be presenting ColdFusion and Flash Builder futures to the BACFUG group this evening at 6:30pm in the Adobe...
Last week I posted an entry on the spreadsheet support planned for ColdFusion Centaur . That post (unsurprisingly) generated lots of questions and comments, and so I thought it worthwhile to post a bigger and more sophisticated example, this time building a new spreadsheet from scratch. We'll start...
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes has proven to be a very popular book, and tens of thousands of developers have used it to get started with Regular Expressions. The book teaches RegEx incrementally, and for each example a block of text is used, and matching text is shaded to...
ColdFusion can execute code when an application starts and ends, when a session starts and ends, when a request starts and ends, and more. But what if you need to execute code when a server starts up? Granted, this is not a common use case, but when needed, we've had to use onApplicationStart for...
ColdFusion developers have long known to ensure that local variables remain local by using the "var" keyword to define them. Here's an example: In the above snippet, two variables are created. The first variable uses the var keyword to ensure that the variable is local to the function, and if the...
Look at this code snippet. Notice anything odd about it? SELECT * FROM art ORDER BY ArtName Yep, the tag in the above snippet is missing the DATASOURCE attribute. And yet, this code works. Why? Take a look at this Application.cfc file: In ColdFusion Centaur you can now specify an application wide...
Belgian software company Proxyclick positions itself as a "life improvement platform". Their primary application is ColdFusion powered Click'n Lunch and is used by employees at lots of local companies (including Microsoft Belgium) to order lunch and more. And the app just won the B2B BeCommerce...