Scotch on the Rocks 2011 – Day 2 – Easy Validation with ValidateThis – John...
The first session of the day and the first that had direct business relevance (as in “we’re going to be using this in about 2 weeks” relevant). After missing the Railo Keynote due to the pressures of...
View ArticleScotch on the Rocks 2011 – Day 2 – AJAX Longpolling with ColdFusion 9 and...
Cor blimey day 2 was technical! And Steve’s session was easily the most in depth of any I saw over the two days. Long polling is pretty well established as a technique and the use of BlazeDS to handle...
View ArticleColdFusion Builder 2 – still no Linux Support
A comment on my post from August of last year regarding Linux support for ColdFusion Builder reminded me to check the state of the Linux Support Bug report for CFBuilder 2 … and it wasn’t good news....
View ArticlePlease don’t default to GPL
This post may seem odd to anyone who knows me. I’m a massive advocate of open source software and free (as in speech or beer – hey it’s free) technologies. I’m no FSF zealot but I do believe that...
View ArticleHow I got started in ColdFusion…
I’m a day late to the party but, at Steve Bryant’s suggestion here you have, less a quick overview of my CF origins and more a comprehensive history of my time online and in code. Getting Online The...
View ArticleEarly reveal CF Zeus Features (via Max)
Thanks to Christopher Vigliotti for pointing me at Nathan Strutz… there are some great CF Zeus (Adobe ColdFusion 10) previews coming out on Twitter: Reverse ORM to create business objects from your...
View ArticleAdobe’s killing of mobile Flash – a CF developers take
Firstly I’d like to make clear that I am in no way affiliated with Adobe either in the Flash or CF sense – I am a user of both products and, like so many others, work for a company who has based its...
View ArticleOnwards and Upwards
For the past 4 years (near enough) I’ve had the privilege to work with a boutique web design and development firm here in Jersey. And after 4 years it’s time to move on. Friday the 9th March is my last...
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CFML is dead, PHP is ugly, Rails is not performant and Other pointless arguments
Another day, another debate about the long-term viability of CFML rages across the Twittersphere.A few months before it was attacks on PHP as a two clawed hammer or Rails as being too cool to perform...
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What’s wrong with ColdFusion?
The ever awesome Steve Blades posed a simple question “What’s wrong with ColdFusion?“. I haven’t coded much beyond 10 lines of CFML in either ColdFusion or Railo for 18 months now and figured I could...
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