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CFConversations - episode 11
Sean Corfield | 8/7/08 1:01 PM CST
In case you haven't already heard, after the retirement of Matt and Peter's "cfweekly" podcast, Brian Meloche launched a new podcast called CFConversations. It alternates between roundtable discussions and interview format episodes and has already hi...
CFConversations 11, Roundtable 5 is out!
CF_Heavy | 8/7/08 11:21 AM CST
With CFUnited quite a few weeks in the past and 10 episodes under our belt, it was time for another roundtable! We brought it back in style we've gathered 8 stellar participants including:
Sean Corfield
Adam Haskell
Rick Mason
Mark Mandel
Bob Flynn
Jeff Coughlin
Richard Goodrow
Brian Meloche (me)
We had a lively podcast this time, with some great content that covers a wide range of topics.
Bob Flynn announced bFusion and bFlex, where you can get two days of free hands-on training in Flex and ColdFusion at Indiana University. We also discussed the educational licensing and whether or not Bob and Richard (from Gallaudet University) thought it would make a difference at their schools.
From education, we moved onto the hiring space. As y...
My Wife Kicks Butt...
Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog | 8/7/08 11:06 AM CST
And I'm not just saying that because she reads my blog. ;) Since Todd bragged on his wife a few days ago, I thought I'd do the same. While this isn't tech related, it means a heck of a lot to me and I'm incredibly proud of her.
This month she wil...
Reminder: OCFlex UG Meeting Tonight
O?uz Demirkap? | 8/7/08 10:41 AM CST
OCFlex UG meeting is tonight at 7 PM in Irvine, CA.
Topic: The value of play and experimentation for designers and developers. Speaker: Sean Voisen
More information:
http://www.ocflex.org/post/sean-voisen-speaking-at-ocflex
See you ...
Reminder: Special Event in NYC on THIS Saturday
Application Generation | 8/7/08 10:41 AM CST
I know it's a Saturday in the middle of the summer in NYC, but Gert Franz from Railo is coming into town. Learn more about Railo and hang out with Gert, Ben and Clark. You KNOW it's gonna be more fun than yet another all night party in the Hamptons or Fire Island :-)
See you there . . .
Time Keeps On Slippin - Into The Future
thecrumb | 8/7/08 8:01 AM CST
I was reading this great series of blog posts over at 43 Folders by Merlin Mann….
Making Time to Make: Bad Correspondence
Making Time to Make: The Job You Think You Have
Making Time to Make: One Clear Line
It deals with balancing your time and making the decision to disconnect from the web a bit - not replying [...]
Busier than...
Gary Gilbert's Technology Blog | 8/7/08 8:01 AM CST
a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
There is nothing more annoying than being bored, I hate being bored really I would rather go home than sit at work and not have anything to do but twiddle my thumbs. Just when I was afraid just that would happen something entirely unexpected happened. I got four new projects to manage almost simultaneously. From almost famine to a definite feast, or when it rains it pours choose your saying.
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Numbers are a useless emotion: A year of traffic in one single impression
ArgumentCollection - Broadchoice Engineering | 8/7/08 6:33 AM CST
They say a picture is worth more than thousand words and yet in almost any web analytics package all we get are numbers. Ok, they have pie charts, bar charts and the obligatory map overlay, but if you have over a 100 reports you need to be able to fill up the screen, right?
For the past year I've been using a lot of different web analytics packages and I've become more and more convinced that numbers tell you very little, especially if they can not be compared with other numbers.
I'm all about shiny stuff and pretty pictures so last night I tried to compile a full year of traffic in one single picture and this is the result:
Every bubble represents a single day of traffic. Bigger bubbles equal more traffic, green bubbles represent tra...
Flex Builder for Linux
Matt Woodward's Blog | 8/7/08 6:01 AM CST
Since I'm very nearly on Linux full time now, and I'm having to make some changes to a Flex app I built a while back, I decided to give Flex Builder 3 for Linux a shot. It's still at Alpha 3, and it's missing design view and some other things, but si...
Apprently asking or or talking about features leads to M$ Word
johnwilker.com | 8/7/08 6:01 AM CST
I've been a loyal Yojimbo user for a while, and no am not. I posted the why's of it before. I am on a support list thread though, because of the question I asked. There's a thread going on about "best note taking app" Ironically it started as a "hey you guys, Yojimbo isn't listed, but look at the other options..." and quickly turned into a Flame war. Here's the thread for those interested
I chimed in expressing my sadness at leaving the Yojimbo family, agreeing that baseless complaining serves no purpose, but open dialog with the software creator should be a good thing. I really wanto post again, but as is always the case in flame wars, no one cares what anyone has to say.
A few choice points are made (wrongly IMHO), tha...
Final 5.9.1 Released to SVN
BlogCFC | 8/7/08 6:01 AM CST
The title says it all. The final build of BlogCFC 5.9.1 is now checked in. This includes:
Brian Meloche's Podcasting support
Ability to manually set the enclosure
A few bug fixes
Note - this "final" build really isn't final per se. I need...
5.9.1 Done. Really.
BlogCFC | 8/7/08 6:01 AM CST
That's it. 5.9.1 is done and in SVN. This is really the final release. No more mods. I'll do a more formal blog post tonight, but if you want the bits, get the latest.
Changes:
Brian Kotek added the ability to moderate (approve) comments via ...
New rendering support in V6
BlogCFC | 8/7/08 6:01 AM CST
I've just checked into the V6 SVN repo the new render support for BlogCFC. This is a major new way to do plugins for BlogCFC. I've long had a way to dynamically add support for <foo> type tags. This was done via CFCs, yet no one actually ever u...
WhosOnCFC SQL Attack View
Shane's ramblings | 8/7/08 5:46 AM CST
I suppose I will go ahead and post the complete code for my SQL Attack page. I posted the first bit yesterday afternoon, but I have added in some other details.
For a sample of the output you can see my SQL Attacks page
I suppose I could have went with a QoQ to filter out the injection signature, but I decided just to loop through the query returned by WhosOnline() for simplicities sake.
SQL Injection attacks in the last #application.whoson.getCurrentControlSet().trackTime# hours: #attacks#
Host Name
Country
City
Page Attacked
Time
#myQuery.HostName#
#myQuery.Country#
#myQuery.City#
#ListGet...
Gliffy--A UML tool
Occasional Thoughts | 8/7/08 5:42 AM CST
Over the years, I've tried out a lot of UML editors. (UML, or The Unified Modeling Language, is a diagramming standard for classes, objects, and interactions used in object-oriented designs.) UML can be a huge beast, but I primarily use the class diagram portion of the standard.
What I want in a UML tool is a tool that will let me create classes with methods and properties quickly. I haven't been really happy with any of the existing offerings. Either they are too expensive or too clunky (I don't want a popup dialog box to enter a new method!)
Recently, I've been working with Gliffy (gliffy.com), an online, Flash-based diagramming tool with modules for floor plans, flow charts, entity-relationship diagrams, networks, user interfaces, and ...
Trading Places
Occasional Thoughts | 8/7/08 5:42 AM CST
I wrote a blogpost recently in which I said, "We're no more in the business of delivering code than Lamborghini is of delivering metal." So, what business are we in, exactly?
If you're at all responsible for the success of your company, this is an important question. Yes, in the hands of silly marketing types, it can turn into something ponderous like a "mission statement" so abstract ("We deliver value to the organization...") as to be worthless, but don't let that stop you.
I've recently been working on two large ecommerce projects and some comments made by both clients made me think about this. One client told me, "We had no idea we could use the web like this." The other said, "You've completely changed what we thought was possible."
...
Why You Should Not Use ColdFusion
Dan Vega | 8/7/08 5:41 AM CST
I saw this over at http://www.coldfusioncommunity.org and just had to re post it. If you ever needed a reason Ben Forta provides a real reason why you would not want to use it.
OOPhoto - Almost An Object Oriented ColdFusion Application
Kinky Solutions | 8/7/08 5:01 AM CST
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . It's been over a month since I have started OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming in ColdFusion. It's been a difficult ... Read More »
How to upgrade WordPress using Subversion
ColdFusion/Flex Developer | 8/7/08 5:01 AM CST
I just spotted this interesting article on How to Upgrade your Wordpress installation using Subversion . The article talks about how first timers can start using Subversion to download the latest version of Wordpress, how you can switch your existing blog to start using Subversion for updates, how you can download the bleeding edge versions, [...]
Prevent a SWF from Caching in Browser
Nutrix Interactive Web Development | 8/7/08 1:21 AM CST
To tackle preventing a swf from caching in a browser window without using cf, php, etc, I have the script below using javascript to generate the random number to append to the swf url. It would be good to hear if anyone has any other methods to handle this one or if there are [...]
Installing Oracle XE on Ubuntu
Compound Theory | 8/7/08 12:01 AM CST
This is more a note to myself, as I seem to forget this step whenever I am installing Oracle XE on an Ubuntu server.As well as all the usual suspects (build-essential, linux-header-server, etc), also remember to install: libaio1 libaio-dev bcEither that, or if you feel like downloading a random 200MB, you can install it from the Oracle repositories.Now excuse me, while I go beat myself over the he...
the end is nigh
Globalizing ColdFusionMX | 8/7/08 11:01 PM CST
my hair and fingernails starting following out. their's a gray pall over the whole landscape. the summer sun feels weak, like mid-winter. birds are dropping out of the sky. even the bugs stopped buzzing.
CFConversations 11, Roundtable 5 - 08/07/08
CFConversations | 8/7/08 10:32 PM CST
Hey! Adam here... Brian got a bit of a break from editing and I took this conversation on to edit and produce, with Brian adding some finishing touches in the end. This was my first hack at producing an episode so please be patient as I learn more about editing levels. Editing it was a challenge but I had a great time, I hope everyone enjoys the episode half as much as I enjoy producing it!
With CFUnited quite a few weeks in the past and 10 episodes under our belt it's time to bring back the round table platform. We're bringing it back in style we've gathered 8 stellar participants including:
"The God of ColdFusion" Sean Corfield.
Myself (Adam Haskell)
Brian Meloche (it rhymes with wash already!)
Rick Mason
"Mr Transfer&qu...
SpatialKey: reinventing map visualizations
AsFusion | 8/7/08 10:01 PM CST
We've had the pleasure to work with an amazing team in what I think is the next generation of map visualizations.
We are not talking about a few hundred of points on a map, you can see millions of those points. And not only that, but also you can view them as heatmaps, squares, aggregated points and more.
Another key point is the filtering the data. Having too many points is great but without a tool to drill down to filter the data, you may encounter that is difficult to find what you are looking for.
In addition to that, you can compare data and visualize the differences between them, for example data from different periods (year, months, days, etc). Talking about time, there is a great timeline component that allows you to "play back" th...
Early cf.Objective() News
Nictunney.com | 8/7/08 9:21 PM CST
The site has been updated with new dates and a solid location:
May 14-16, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN
Last years event was awesome, as usual, and I am looking forward to hearing more details about the 2009 conference. It seems like the conference is lining up to be another great one! Hope to see you all there!
cf.Objective()
Protect your CF application
ColdFusion Developer in Australia | 8/7/08 8:21 PM CST
Starting yesterday most of my CF websites are under constant attacks by bots, which are trying to implement SQL injection attack using additional URL parameters.Since not all applications were developed using CFQUERYPARAM tag and update of all CFQUERY calls will take a long time, simple solution has been developed to block hackers. ( read more on Protect your CF application )
My Intro to Application Security Presentation
Jason Dean - 12Robots.com | 8/7/08 7:01 PM CST
I just got home from my second presentation to the Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group. I had a great time, I thought the presentation went well. I got a lot of great questions and comments from the floor, and we even went out afterward.
Thanks again Troy from having me. I look forward to doing it again soon.
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EeeMac - In Flight Ramble
Rob Rohan - Random Technology | 8/6/08 5:21 PM CST
Ok, so I am flying on an airplane right now typing on my Eeepc, and I have to say, this is the best traveling laptop I have ever used. The guy in front of me, like on pretty much every flight I’ve ever been on, has his seat all the way back. Usually, [...]
Trusted Source? DNS Cache Poisoning
Coder's Revolution | 8/6/08 5:01 PM CST
So, I assume you've heard the latest buzz about DNS Cache Poisoning and the subsequently released patches. It's rather interesting, and a bit unnerving that the "patch" for now simply makes the exploit harder to pull off-- not impossible. I guess that's basically because the patch simply makes name server requests more randomized. Anything more would require an overhaul to the DNS protocol itself.
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ColdFusion Social Network Platform (Open Source)
mycfblog | 8/6/08 4:41 PM CST
As some of you may have remembered... I started a social network platform that I planned to release as open source.
This project is not dorment, infact - it's being created under LongarmChat.com which I just announced. I'm using this LongarmChat project as the funding to get the code written.
The data structure could be better but it's going to blow the socks off of all of the other ColdFusion Social Platorms... considering none exist that I have found...
If you feel the urge to watch the progress of the system and it's modules feel free to visit http://dev.longarmchat.com/ to get a peak at some of the basics.
You cannot register or login on this yet but all of our local copies work. I'll keep you posted when the registration and logi...
New Project - LongarmChat.com
mycfblog | 8/6/08 4:21 PM CST
Feel free to check it out or send your mom / g'ma that way if they are into this sort of thing. I'm doing the graphics, UI, and programming. I've chosen to use Fusebox 5.5 (shock) and OOP principles.
The existing service is at http://www.longarmchat.com/.
The new Alpha copy I'm doing is running at http://dev.longarmchat.com/.
I just started this 3 days ago so don't hound me about errors :p
Hope all is well!
-j
Chrrch - Church Management System Update
mycfblog | 8/6/08 4:21 PM CST
Well, things are moving along.
Slowly!
We just picked up another developer but him and I are trying to knock out another project first and then we'll be all about Chrrch.
Hopefully once we get this project done you should see Chrrch moving to a public beta.
Hope all is well!
-j
Learn Flex In A Week Via Video Training
Ben Forta | 8/6/08 1:41 PM CST
Flex In A Week is an online Flex training course. To date there are three days of content posted, made up of over 20 videos and 10 exercises, and more content to follow. And it's all free for the browsing.
Holistic User Experience
Instant Badger | 8/6/08 1:01 PM CST
SONAR v1.0 is just around the corner, and we've been thinking a lot about the user experience we offer. One of the key differences this time round is the recognition that User Experience is not just about the interface. Users in this sense are not just end users - they're *anyone* who interacts in any way with your software or your company. They include the sysadmins who have to install your stuff and keep it up and running, the managers who have to make a purchasing decision about whose software to spend their hard-won budget on. So we believe that User Experience is about looking at the whole experience the user has in interacting with your software and you. It's about making the whole thing as easy as possible for them, right from the wa...
My Entertainment for the Day
Shane's ramblings | 8/6/08 10:52 AM CST
If you have WhosOnCFC up and running and a good sense of humor, I threw this little script together real fast so I could see how many SQL injection attacks I have received.
SQL Injection attacks in the last #application.whoson.getCurrentControlSet().trackTime# hours: #attacks#
I had really slowed down there for a little while, alas, it looks like business is picking up. 28 attacks and growing so far today.
Too bad the page everyone is attacking is fed through RSS.... ;)
Adobe Connect Plugin for OS X Leopard Fix
Jeff Coughlin | 8/6/08 9:41 AM CST
If you were like me and upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 when it was released and used Adobe Acrobat Connect (either Pro or basic version) to give presentations then you were likely not too happy with the random crashes while screen sharing.
I had called Adobe tech support multiple times and was told that they were working on it. Finally in May tech support told me they had a fix for it. Essentially you just need to manually remove the old plugin and it will automatically be upgraded to the new version the next time you attempt to connect to Connect (read the article for full details). This worries me a little... Should I randomly delete these going forward in order to check for a new plugin version?
From that point on it has worked great for...
Flex user defined runtime settings Part 2
Dan Vega | 8/6/08 9:01 AM CST
In the 1st part of this series we looked at the thought process of using dynamic settings in Flex. In part 2 I want to focus on the implementation of reading in an XML file. While you can find many articles out there about reading XML files this arti...
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Mercury New Media is hiring another ColdFusion developer
fekke.com | 8/6/08 8:01 AM CST
Mercury New Media is hiring another ColdFusion developer in the Tampa Bay Area. Mercury New Media also hosts this website. Check out the Ad below.
Mercury New Media is a Tampa-based web development shop and we are currently hiring for a ColdFusion Developer position. A mid- to high-level ColdFusion developer would fit well with the team and experience with Fusebox is a must. In addition to working with the ColdFusion 8 platform and Flex applications we are also actively integrating ColdFusion with .NET applications. This would be an excellent position for any ColdFusion developer looking to also expand into .NET
development.
If you are interested or know anyone that would fit this position, please email Donald Bickel at dbickel@mercuryne...
New on ArgumentCollection: Groovy, Eclipse, and TDD
Firemoss (Joe Rinehart) | 8/6/08 7:41 AM CST
This morning I published a post on the ArgumentCollection that contains a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a Groovy development within Eclipse that has TestNG (think JUnit) for testing. As I mentioned on Twittr, I'm really excited to have a job that encourages me to blog some of my paid-time output, not just blog my side work that we happen to use in the office!
That SQL injection attack...
Sean Corfield | 8/6/08 7:01 AM CST
You know the one I mean. It's been doing the rounds lately. This morning I checked my webmaster mailbox and found hundreds of error messages from my blog. Normally, I only get one or two a day due to URL hackery attempts so something was clearly up. ...