Users frequently ask me for platforms and operating system recommendations, wanting to know which is best for ColdFusion. And having just answered this one yet again, I am posting it here so as to be able to refer people to it in the future ... There is no recommended operating system for...
cf.Objective() is the only ColdFusion conference that focuses solely on Enterprise-level development. The cf.Objective() 2007 site has been updated with new schedule information, a managers guide (in case you need help convincing your boss to let you attend), a chance to win an iPod, and more.
has been around for a long time. It started life as a Java applet, then in CFMX7 we added a Flash grid and XML generation, and in Scorpio we plan on adding an Ajax powered DHTML grid. You'll be able to pass a query to the grid as you did previously, like this: SELECT * FROM myTable ... But where...
We've confirmed two European venues for the upcoming Scorpio usergroup tour: May 29th: London, England May 30th: Munich, Germany And later that week you'll get to see even more of Scorpio at Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh, Scotland. A meeting in Italy is planned for later in the year, but no date...
Last week Tim and I showed off some of the Ajax functionality that we are working on for the upcoming ColdFusion Scorpio . One of the controls we demonstrated was an auto-suggest control implemented as an extension to the existing Of course, the list need not be static, it could be programmatically...
I presented the opening keynote at Spring this morning. The first half of the presentation covered Flex Data Services, I demonstrated practical benefits of using Flex Data Services (now known as LiveCycle Data Services) as opposed to just client initiated AMF calls via Flash Remoting. Less than...
I was working on a report today, and needed horizontal dotted lines between columns in each row, essentially joining the columns to make it easier to read across. There is no automated way to do this in the ColdFusion Report Builder, but Mr. CF Reports (aka Dean Harmon) sent me this brilliant hack...
Spring is next week, and it's not too late to sign up. Once again they've lined up top-notch speakers including fellow Adobians John Cummings and Kevin Hoyt, as well as Phillip Kerman, Rob Gonda, Joseph Lowery, Steve Drucker, Dan Switzer, and many other well known names. It's been a few years since...
The Toronto CFUG is hosting a meeting tonight on server virtualization and consolidation. If you are not in the Toronto area you can still take part via Connect. Details posted by Ryan Favro (who will be presenting).
Firefox users love FireBug, a plug-in used to debug Web pages. Using ColdFusion custom debugging templates (first introduced in CFMX, but largely ignored by most), Ray Camden and Adam Podolnick have created ColdFire a ColdFusion extension to FireBug so that it can display ColdFusion debug output....