Cloudy with a Chance of T...
I will be presenting Cloudy with a Chance of Tests tonight 6pm EST online for the Online ColdFusion Meetup tonight, Feb 2, at
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February 02, 2012 
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Bolt Talks – Do One Now
I had the privilage to participate in a Bolt Talk with Tim Cunningham. If you are passionate about a project, topic, or prett
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January 30, 2012
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Is Adobe ColdFusion Web A...
I remember when I started programming ColdFusion fresh out of college in 1999. I had a 3 day HTML class which was my first ex
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January 26, 2012
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Cloudy With A Chance of T...
I have been implementing inspection of CFML code into some legacy and new projects. The Cloudy with a Chance of Tests project
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January 19, 2012
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Your Spaghetti Code Neede...
Majority of ColdFusion code is not testable in its current state. There I said it. Now with that out of the way, I would love
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January 17, 2012
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Contribute to CFML in 100...
Time for another Contribute and Win contest. This will be the third Contribute and Win. Contribute and win has had many simpl
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January 13, 2012
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Two upcoming Online ColdF...
I'll be giving two presentations to the Online ColdFusion meetup. "Cloudy with a Chance of Tests" is tenative since it hasn't
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January 11, 2012
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Unofficial Updater 2 for ...
I finally had the chance to use the Unofficial Updater 2 (uu2) by David Epler. I must say it is pretty AWEsome.
Being a user
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January 04, 2012
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What's Hot? What's Not? E...
Fusion Authority posted "What's Hot? What's Not? Essential Tools". Please feel free to do your own post over what tools do yo
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December 22, 2011
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OpenCF Summit email annou...
Usually I don't repost an email but I received this email from OpenCF Summit and wanted to spread the word. It was a great ti
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December 21, 2011
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Why a compile test on CFM...
"Building a bridge for unit testing and ci in cfml" had great comments by Sean Corfield. One was when he asked "why (do) you
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December 16, 2011
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Building a bridge for Uni...
I would like to use unit testing and Jenkins, open-source continuous integration server, for Continuous integration (CI). CI
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December 15, 2011
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What's Hot & Where do...
Last week, "What technologies, other than ColdFusion, should a developer know?" was posted on Fusion Authority. I figured I w
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December 14, 2011
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HackMyCF giveaway tweet a...
HackMyCF giveaway, just tweet:
"@pfreitag gives away free #hackmycf subscription on @coldfusionshow http://coldfusionshow
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December 05, 2011
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Episode 4: HackMyCF givea...
Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about HackMyCF giveaway, FarCry, Evolving Skills and John Madden. See Show Page for Epoisode
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December 05, 2011
ColdFusion improvements –...
CFObjective ANZ announced a lot of cool news about ColdFusion. I am doing a series over these announcements. The first post w
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November 23, 2011
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ColdFusion language impro...
I attended CFObjective ANZ this past week. Terrence Ryan announced a lot
of cool news about ColdFusion. I am going to doing
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November 22, 2011
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ColdFusion language impro...
I attended CFObjective ANZ this past week. Terrence Ryan announced a lot of cool news about ColdFusion. I am going to do a se
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November 21, 2011
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coldfusion news from cfoa...
It has been awhile since I have seen Terrence Ryan from Adobe speak at a conference and he is as engaging as I remember. He l
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November 16, 2011
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Episode 3: ValidateThis, ...
Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about ValidateThis, Mura, jQuery releases, and Conan O'Brien.
Listen
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November 09, 2011
would like one more perso...
I'll be traveling to Melbourne, Australia next week to give an "Introduction Into ColdFusion on Wheels" workshop and attend c
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November 04, 2011
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second coldfusion show ou...
Ryan Stille and I recorded another ColdFusion Show. ColdFusionShow.com, itunes, and feedburner have been setup. We talk about
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October 31, 2011
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winner announced for cont...
Couple weeks ago, I announced a contest for a lucky contributor of "CFML in 100 minutes". The contest was an good success. We
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October 18, 2011
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Ask Mike – I'd love every...
I had an email come in and thought this would be useful for others promoting technical change.
I'd love everyone using Eclip
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October 18, 2011
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get your red hot first cf...
Ryan Stille and Mike Henke (me) discuss Sublime, CFBuilder file associations, Github koolaide, Rainn Wilson, and LESS.
Episo
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October 16, 2011
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Podcast discussing Mylyn ...
Recently, I was honored to be on the 2 Devs from Down Under podcast discussing an upcoming session for CFObjective ANZ titled
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October 10, 2011
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Contribute to CFML in 100...
Time for another Contribute and Win contest. The last Contribute and Win seemed a great success. I had many awesome contribut
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September 29, 2011
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Query of Queries – compar...
Lately, I have been working on sql injection prevention measures. Mainly cfqueryparam-ing code. I was told about a cool scrip
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September 28, 2011
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Moving assets from Jenkin...
In down time, I am working on setting up Jenkins at work. I have Jenkins, Git, and Ant playing nice. The next step was figuri
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September 27, 2011
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Git Ant Tasks jars
The JGit project from Eclipse has been working on Eclipse and Git integration. Their user guide mentions an ant task but does
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September 27, 2011
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Setting up MXUnit Eclipse...
I setup up MXUnit Eclipse plugin with CFWheels this afternoon. The MXUnit documentation is very good. I downloaded MXUnit and
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September 26, 2011
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DataTables and Jeditable ...
The last couple weeks (off and on) I have been working on editing DataTables with jEditable. If you haven't seen Datatables,
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September 16, 2011
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Bar Camp Omaha 2011 – Ope...
I did a quick 30 minute presentation over CFML open source options at Barcamp Omaha. I wasn't going to present this BarCamp b
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September 10, 2011
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my first motorcycle pics ...
Thanks to Ryan Stille for the patiences of checking out 10 or so bikes from craigslist before we found one that met his appro
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September 07, 2011
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ColdFusion discussed on R...
I enjoy listening to Hal Helms and he recently was on an Engine Yard podcast, Cloud Out Loud. He brings a thought provoking p
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September 06, 2011
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CFWheels 1 day Workshop i...
A one day ColdFusion On Wheels intensive workshop will be held November 16th in Melbourne, Australia. It will consolidate the
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September 05, 2011
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ColdFusion 9 New Features...
This week, I have been reviewing new features from the last Adobe ColdFusion release. I covered some I missed in a previous p
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August 04, 2011
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Oh, cfdump, how you have ...
I have been reviewing Adobe ColdFusion last release and the many enhancements (some of which went under my radar). This post
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August 03, 2011
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ColdFusion 9 New Features...
This weekend, I gained a greater appreciate for the last Adobe ColdFusion release. I am pretty late to this realization sinc
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July 31, 2011
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Google Page Speed Service...
During my morning Google Reader review, I noticed a couple posts on Google Page Speed Service (Page Speed Service: Web perf
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July 29, 2011
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Why use Mylyn Tasktop – m...
I was prep-ing for a Mylyn / Tasktop presentation in Kansas City at D2WC. My mom was visiting and we were in the living room
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July 20, 2011
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Winner Announced – Contri...
Last week, I announced a contest for a lucky contributor of "CFML in 100 minutes". The contest was an outstanding success. Th
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July 14, 2011
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Mark Your Calendar July 2...
Why Git? Why Change? – The Online ColdFusion Meetup (Alpharetta, GA) – Meetup
Mark your calendar for July 21st
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July 07, 2011
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Mark Your Calendar July 1...
"Introduction
to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)", with Josh Timonen – The
Online ColdFusion Meetup (Alph
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July 07, 2011
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running Adobe ColdFusion ...
At work, we use are transitioning to Adobe ColdFusion 9. Our local
development is multiple instances created with an Adobe
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July 06, 2011
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Contribute & Win a ch...
I will giveaway copy of "Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion" by Matt Gifford to lucky contributor of "CFML in 100 minu
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July 05, 2011
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Upcoming D2WC conference ...
D2WC conference
Just a reminder, the D2WC conference is coming up in a few weeks, July 14-16, in Kansas City. It is a confer
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July 05, 2011
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CFWheels in a subfolder a...
I setup a Turnkey Tomcat-Apache Virtual Machine with Multiple Engines and dropped CFWheels into the webroots for each engine.
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July 02, 2011
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Initiative to improve Col...
This post in named similiarly to Ray Camden's recent post, Initiative to improve ColdFusion docs. If you haven't read the pos
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June 29, 2011
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Seamless ColdFusion Build...
I recently switched to Xubuntu as mentioned in a couple recent posts. This weekend I was playing around with Turnkey Tomcat-A
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June 28, 2011
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Developers Guide to Turnk...
This post is a combination of several posts and shows how to setup Turnkey Tomcat Apache's virtual box with different ColdFus
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June 23, 2011
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Software Review – Crystal...
Dmitry Kolesnikov, a co-worker, wrote up a quick Software Review – Crystal Reports / SSRS (SQL Reporting Services) for
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June 22, 2011
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Switching from Windows – ...
I decided to upgrade my personal laptop from Windows Vista to Xubuntu 11.04 (latest release as of this post). This post will
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June 21, 2011
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Getting Started with Whee...
Awhile ago I worked on a Getting Started with Wheels (Google Doc version) guide in Google Docs. It is based on "Getting Start
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June 16, 2011
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upgrading Windows – try X...
This last weekend I decided to upgrade my laptop from Vista to Xubuntu. I was tired of Microsoft's ever growing system bloat.
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June 05, 2011
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sprint standing meets – e...
We started Agile development at my work. We are on the third sprint. Today before our standing meeting, I mentioned to a co-w
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June 02, 2011
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CFObjective Over, Want Mo...
With another outstanding CFObjective over, I would like to mention d2w is coming up in July. This conference will have famili
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May 16, 2011
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SE MN WWII Honor Flight t...
I have been helping with the SE MN Honor Flights since my grandfather was on one. I think this is my 5th. It is always a priv
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May 02, 2011
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Tick-Tock only a week lef...
There is only a week left till my first "Introducing ColdFusion on Wheels" class before CF.Objective() on May 10 and May 11th
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May 02, 2011
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So you want to contribute...
In the first post of "So you want to contribute to CFWheels", we created a free Github account and forked the CFWheels repo.
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April 27, 2011
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Nothingness & Null (s...
Here is a sample of training material for "Introducting ColdFusion on Wheels" on May 10 through May 11 before CF.Objective()
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April 25, 2011
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So you want to contribute...
In this blog series I will be walking through how to contribute to an open source project on GitHub. I will assume you:
Cr
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April 24, 2011
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my cf.objective() 2011 sc...
Here is my cf.objective() 2011 schedule
May 12, 2011
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Room 1 – Keynote (TBD)
10:15 AM
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April 21, 2011
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ColdFusion Builder Advanc...
A cool feature of ColdFusion Builder 2.0 is the Advance ColdFusion Search with tags. This is pretty sweet for example today I
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April 20, 2011
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Git Performance commands
I have a .bat file with these git commands in it which I run once in awhile to cleanup/improve performance. In my git bash, I
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April 19, 2011
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ValidateThis – simple bre...
I have been a fan of
ValidateThis
(VT) for years but never had a chance to implement it yet at work. I have a new
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April 18, 2011
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CFWheels Training on May ...
I am proud to be conducting ColdFusion On Wheels training prior to CF.Objective at the Ramada Plaza Minneapolis. Please sign
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April 18, 2011
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I want Eclipse to be like...
I have a friend who emailed me last night after downloading a public beta for Adobe's second generation of an IDE based on Ec
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March 10, 2011
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ColdFusion On Wheels Intr...
This is a pre-CF.Objective 2 day workshop on May 10-11 in Minneapolis, MN.
ColdFusion On Wheels is a powerful web applicatio
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March 09, 2011
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Adding Eclipse Helios Upd...
I downloaded an Adobe software package based on Eclipse for building web applications and installed it as standalone. The sof
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March 06, 2011
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Adobe labs release public...
Adobe announced public beta for their second release of an IDE based on Eclipse which enables developers to rapidly build, de
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March 03, 2011
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Winner – Retweet and Entr...
The winner of a free copy of Adobe ColdFusion Anthology for retweeting @markdrew's "Had a play with #CFWheels last night, and
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February 24, 2011
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Retweet and Entry Raffle ...
For the next 24 hours, whomever retweet's Mark Drew's twitter message "rt @markdrew Had a play with #CFWheels last night,
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February 22, 2011
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Complete FOSS (kinda) CFM...
Jamie Krug had a great opening presentation on "Complete FOSS CFML Developer Stack" for the OpenCF Summit. FOSS stands for fr
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February 22, 2011
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Easy Eclipse performance ...
I have a post "Turbo Charging Eclipse" and this is a follow up to show my current eclipse.ini file. I had someone recently me
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February 17, 2011
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CFWheels and the OpenCF S...
I was asked to lead an Unconference session on CFWheels at the OpenCF Summit. They are hoping to have a session for each of t
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February 16, 2011
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Try, evaluate, and retry ...
I feel strongly you should not roll your own framework unless it is for learning purposes. Any new application, you definatel
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February 01, 2011
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ColdFusion On Wheels 1.1....
Here is a list of issues resolved from the CHANGELOG:
select(), selectTag() allow an array of structs to be passed to opti
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February 01, 2011
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Congratulations ACP 2011
I am honored to be accepted in the Adobe Community Professional program (ACP) for 2011. The ACP individuals with expertise in
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January 30, 2011
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January 26, 2011
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First ever NECFUG Social!
The NECFUG is having it's first ever Social Jan 25, 2011 at Fox & Hound starting around 6:00pm. Free drinks and appetizer
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January 24, 2011
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Eclipse Basic tutorial fo...
My last several posts have been using Eclipse with CFBuilder or CFEclipse. It is very important ColdFusion Builder and CFEcli
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January 10, 2011
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Eclipse Search & Find...
I use the Eclipse search and find capabilities quite a bit during the day. If you are using CFEclipse or CFBuilder the Eclips
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January 06, 2011
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cfparam with unscoped var...
I thought an unscoped parameter when using CFPARAM would be placed into the variables scope if the parameter didn't exist in
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January 04, 2011
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Purple Balls Everywhere (...
Can you find all the purple balls in the screenshot of Eclipse with a ColdFusion plugin? [Insert Brett Farve & Vikings j
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December 30, 2010
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New Year, New Site Design...
I updated my site with a new theme for Mango Blog. Mango Blog is a free and open source ColdFusion blogging software product.
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December 23, 2010
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Mylyn: A Task-Oriented Ap...
"It isn't a question of whether you'll remember: it's a question of when you'll forget it" –
Andrew Hunt and David
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December 15, 2010
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BarCamps, ColdFusion, and...
I attended the Omaha BarCamp 2010 this past Sat. The BarCamps I have attended are a great way to meet passionate creative peo
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November 22, 2010
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Moving back to Omaha / CA...
Well, if you follow my blog you may remember I moved to Washington, DC nearly 2 years ago. It has been an interesting time. I
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November 04, 2010
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Two more CFWheels Plugins...
Two more CFWheels Plugins were added to Riaforge this morning.
Less For Wheels (Active)
from RIAForge
LE
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October 05, 2010
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CFWheels APIs built from ...
I generated ColdFusion On Wheels API html documentation for 1.0.5 and 1.1 beta 1.
The documentation was generated by ColdDoc
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September 30, 2010
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Next Capital Area ColdFus...
email content from Sandy Clark about upcoming user group meeting.
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We have a special rockstar guest co
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September 29, 2010
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4 CFWheels plugins releas...
I submitted four CFWheels plugins to Riaforge this morning. The plugins add to Wheels, some very smart people's work like Mar
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September 24, 2010
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Compass: A Real Styleshee...
What is Compass
"Compass is a stylesheet authoring framework that makes your stylesheets and markup easier to build and main
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September 23, 2010
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Compass, SASS, and ColdFu...
I will be showing how to setup Compass and
Sass to create better, more maintainable stylesheets for ColdFusion
programm
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September 22, 2010
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haml, jhaml, and ColdFusi...
Proof of Concept:
This is a proof of concept for using haml with ColdFusion
Acknowledgements:
I altered code from thes
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September 18, 2010
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haml and sass for ColdFus...
I recently took a Rails two day class and was exposed to haml and sass toward the end of the training. Similar projects about
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September 16, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
Two weeks since the last ColdFusion & Github. I will start with what I missed. A Mango Blog plugin for gists was announce
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September 10, 2010
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Ask Mike: Switching to Gi...
I received an email about switching to git and local development. Mallory was gracious enough to give me permission to post t
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September 09, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
Two ColdFusion & Github Weekly updates in a row! Where to start? Well, CFMeetup: GIT for Dummies and the slightly more en
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August 20, 2010
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CFWheels Full Stack (Why ...
Wheels is mentioned as a full stack framework sometimes. What does "full stack" mean? Full stack frameworks "often gathered m
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August 19, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
It has been over a busy month since the last ColdFusion and Github update. A lot has transpired.
CFUnited's keynote by A
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August 13, 2010
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Missed me at CFUNITED? Ca...
Title sound familiar? Well, I am borrowing it from Raymond Camden's post about his Aug 12, 12PM EST ColdFusion Online Meetup
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August 09, 2010
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CFWheels make the databas...
I am working on porting Litepost to Wheels. Wheels had a Litepost competition awhile ago but didn't follow the Litepost compa
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August 05, 2010
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CFUnited ColdFusion On Wh...
Here is a link to my CFUnited ColdFusion On Wheels code, speaker notes, and slides.
CFUnited 2010 – ColdFusion On Wh
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July 31, 2010
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CFUnited 2010 = CF9 Deplo...
CFUnited 2010 = CF9 Deployment Best Practices
July 28, 2010 4L15pm eastern
Sankaram Tata
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July 28, 2010
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CFUnited 2010 = Cache Me ...
CFUnited 2010 = Cache Me If You Can
July 28, 2010 2:45pm eastern
Dan Wilson, Mike Brunt, and Mike ???
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July 28, 2010
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ColdBox Platform 3.0.0: S...
CFUnited 2010 = ColdBox Platform 3.0.0: Substainable CF Apps
July 28, 2010 1:30pm eastern
Luis Majano
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July 28, 2010
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CFUnited 2010 Enterprise ...
CFUnited 2010 – Enterprise Manager CF9
July 28, 2010 3pm – 11am central
Mike Brunt
Live notes
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July 28, 2010
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Birds of a Feather Sessio...
Reminder, there will be a ColdFusion On Wheels Birds of Feather (BOF) at CFUnited. The original time was Thursday 6:30 pm to
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July 27, 2010
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How to setup url rewritin...
Download the binary from Url Rewrite Filter and read the instructions. It is 4 steps. I'll break from the steps after the fir
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July 24, 2010
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My CFUnited 2010 schedule
Wednesday
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Start
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July 24, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
This week in ColdFusion and Github news: Github is asking for input from users using windows. It is a short survey. There is
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July 09, 2010
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Toggle whitespace in Ecli...
This post is so I can easily remember how to toggle white space in Eclipse. Since CFEclipse and ColdFusion Builder are the b
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July 02, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
First ColdFusion & Github update in a while, I was fishing last week in Northern Minnesota so missed two Fridays. Github
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July 02, 2010
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Multiple ColdFusion Versi...
This tutorial will show how using Adobe ColdFusion server with Multiserver configuration, so you can have multiple ColdFusion
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June 13, 2010
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ColdFusion On Wheels pres...
This Tuesday, I will presenting to the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User Group over Wheels
This will be an introduction into
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June 13, 2010
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My Git User Config Cheat ...
This is more for my notes but here is my Git User Config Cheatsheet for setting up a new computer with git.git config --globa
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June 10, 2010
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Poor Man's One Code Base ...
I have been playing with different CFML engines for the ColdFusion on Wheels codebase so I was looking for a solution where I
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June 03, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
Being the end of the month, I'll also mention monthly updates of
ColdFusion on Github besides weekly updates.
Some blog po
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May 28, 2010
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MARC 0.4 (MySQL, Apache, ...
MARC 0.4.5 (MySQL, Apache, Railo, and ColdFusion On Wheels)
Ubuntu 10.04
Eclipse 3.5
Improved ReadMe.html
Blazing Fast
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May 15, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
ColdFusion is still stable at 29th most popular language on Github. I would really like this number to climb so keep putting
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May 14, 2010
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CFWheels at CFUnited 2010
Chaz Chumley mentioned ColdFusion On Wheels will be having two sessions and a Bird of Feathers at CFUnited 2010 on the Wheels
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May 12, 2010
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Getting started with CFWh...
This past Sunday, I worked on updating MARC (MySQL, Apache, Railo, and ColdFusion On Wheels). I haven't quite finished, but i
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May 10, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
ColdFusion is hanging steady at the 29th most popular language on Github. Big news on the ColdFusion/Github front is FW/1. I
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May 07, 2010
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Elimination of the CFWhee...
Just a quick note to let people know that the Wheels Evangelism Team has been eliminated. I assume I will no longer be bloggi
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May 07, 2010
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Pecha Kucha Presentation ...
Here is an "extra" part of the CF.Objective() 2010 conference I attended in Minneapolis. I was asked to present a Pecha Kucha
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May 06, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
I missed last week's ColdFusion & Github update due to attending CF.Objective() 2010 in Minneapolis. Simeon Bateman prese
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April 30, 2010
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Tales of a first time spe...
cf.Objective is still a great conference after 5 years. It is amazing how much work the people behind the conference work. Th
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April 25, 2010
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CFObjective 2010 Stack Tr...
CFObjective 2010 – Stack Tracing CFML Requests to Solve Problems
April 22, 2010 4:15am – 5:15am
Charlie Arehart
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April 22, 2010
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CFObjective 2010 Caching
CFObjective 2010 – Caching
April 22, 2010 3pm – 4pm central
Rob Brooks-Bilson
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April 22, 2010
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CFObjective 2010 Continuo...
CFObjective 2010 – Continuous Integration, with Hudson, MXUnit, and ColdFusion
April 22, 2010 1:45pm – 2:45pm ce
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April 22, 2010
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CFObjective 2010 Setting ...
CFObjective 2010 – Setting up a solid local development environment
April 22, 2010 11:30am – 12:30am central
Ku
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April 22, 2010
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CFObjective 2010 Better F...
CFObjective 2010 – Better Front-End Optimizations
April 22, 2010 10:15am – 11:15am
Will be updated while presen
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April 22, 2010
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cfObjective 2010 Adobe Ke...
CFObjective 2010 – Adobe Keynote
April 22, 2010 9:00am – 10:00am (central time)
Will be updated while presentat
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April 22, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
ColdFusion dropped several spots to 30 for Github Language popularity. DZone released a very well done Refcardz title "Gettin
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April 16, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
Aaron West has a good post titled, My Thoughts on Git. Other than that, I didn't see much news for GitHub and ColdFusion.
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April 09, 2010
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Installing Mylyn onto Col...
I'll fix up this post but this is a quick run through to install Mylyn onto ColdFusion Builder standalone. Here is a link to
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April 08, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
ColdFusion stayed pat with the 29th popular ranking on GitHub. Github announced SVN support (April Fools' joke or is it). Col
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April 02, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
ColdFusion is still the #29 most popular language on GitHub after several weeks of steadily moving up.
Big news this week wa
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March 26, 2010
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Warning: cfdocument/forma...
I am disappointed to warn ColdFusion users that Adobe ColdFusion does not support Accessibility with cfdocument/format=pdf. I
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March 25, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
ColdFusion moved up another spot in the Github Language popularity to 29th. I am hoping the momentum keeps up. Github announc
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March 19, 2010
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ColdFusion & Github W...
Slow week for forking ColdFuson projects on Github but ColdFusion moved up one slot making it the #30 most popular language o
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March 12, 2010
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Github & ColdFusion W...
I will be switching the Github & ColdFusion Weekly Update to Sunday so I don't miss any activity during the weekend. Some
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March 05, 2010
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Think Of Github as Facebo...
One feature of Github is "Social Coding". Github tracks users' actions (pushes, closing tickets, creating repositories) and r
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March 04, 2010
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ColdFusion and Github new...
This week ColdFusion position on Github is currently 31. To put this in perspective, ASP is 27th and
PHP is 6th. Please keep
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February 26, 2010
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Why Github for your ColdF...
I have been touting Github for ColdFusion open source projects. I have a great example of why.
Bob Silverberg has been worki
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February 22, 2010
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Setting Up a Riaforge Pro...
Riaforge recently added an input field for external source control sites and Github now recognizes ColdFusion syntax. With th
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February 21, 2010
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ColdFusion and Github new...
This week in ColdFusion and Github news, ColdFusion moved up one position on the most popular language on Github. It is curre
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February 19, 2010
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Learning Wheels Litepost ...
The Learning Wheels Litepost Contest is wrapping up on Feb 19th. It is meant for a hopefully, quick and simple intro into Wh
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February 17, 2010
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Creating and distributing...
I have been venturing into creating and distributing torrents for ColdFusion related downloads like MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache,
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February 15, 2010
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MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, ...
MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, Railo, and ColdFusion On Wheels)
smaller download 588.86 mb
url rewriting
Virtual Box Guest Add
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February 14, 2010
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Buzz Kill (how to disable...
I recently was opted into a service I didn't sign up for. Many of you have been also. Google Buzz is Google's attempt at a so
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February 11, 2010
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Github recognizes CFML
Github now tracks CFML syntax. Github uses Pygments, a generic syntax highlighter. Pygment recently added support for CFML a
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February 09, 2010
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Even More $$$ now – simpl...
ColdFusion On Wheels announced a contest to create an example of LitePost
using Wheels. LitePost is a simple blogging appli
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January 27, 2010
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Intro into Wheels ORM &...
Thanks for everyone that attending live and anyone watching the recording later.
Surprised someone didn't catch me sooner to
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January 21, 2010
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Adobe Community Professio...
I am proud to announce I was accepted into the Adobe Community Professional for 2010!!! I have had an exciting month, due to
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January 19, 2010
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Head First ColdFuson Book
I started a Head First ColdFusion book to submit to Head First. If anyone is interested in contributing, it is using markdown
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January 17, 2010
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Speaking at cf.Objective ...
I would like to thank cf.Objective() for accepting my submission for a session over ColdFuson on Wheels.
cf.Objective() 20
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January 09, 2010
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Fusion Authority Quarterl...
I read Jason Dean's "The new Fusion Authority Quarterly Update is out" post and found out the latest FAQU was released. The F
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January 06, 2010
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jTidy cfc (stand alone an...
"JTidy is a Java port of HTML Tidy, a HTML syntax checker and pretty printer. Like its non-Java cousin, JTidy can be used as
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January 02, 2010
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My first entry for CFWhee...
Here is my first entry, 'Wheels Is Hanging with the Big Boys Just Fine', for the CFWheels.org blog. Take a look at the surpri
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December 09, 2009
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CFWheels User Group Recor...
I gave a presentation over CFWheels on 11/10/2009 at the MDCFUG.Â
Here is the recording and material related to the talk.
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November 20, 2009
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CFWheels presentation at ...
CFWheels Presentation Information – Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30pm at the
MDCFUG
Topic:
Inspired by Ruby o
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November 09, 2009
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NoClassDefFoundError: Cou...
I started getting this error on a ColdFusion JRun instance. It was happenning only with one application. (Note: We have appli
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November 03, 2009
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Setting Up a Riaforge Pro...
This
is a 4 part series over Git and GitHub with Riaforge. So far we
installed some software, registered for a free GitHub ac
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October 20, 2009
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Noteworthy thread about G...
There is an interesting thread going on with the CFWheels google group over switching to git.
Does it really matter to commun
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September 25, 2009
test blog for funky chara...
test blog for funky. characters after. period and two spaces. which isn't being. pasted.
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September 25, 2009
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See who's using CFWheels
Chris Peters, member of the CFWheels team, added a page to their site called "Who's Using ColdFusion on Wheels". It is great
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September 25, 2009
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CFWheels so you wanna ser...
I forgot I received an email awhile ago about translating the So you want to learn CFWheels series. I see the first installme
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September 20, 2009
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ColdFusion on Wheels 0.9....
CFWheels released 0.9.4 today if you haven't heard. I really enjoy using CFWheels because of the conventions and it was desig
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September 15, 2009
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JRun URL Rewriting
I was working on my next installment of "So you want to create a CFWheels application?" and was able to easily get URL Rewrit
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September 01, 2009
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Setting Up a Riaforge Pro...
This is a series over using Riaforge with Git and GitHub. So far we installed some software, next we will register for a free
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August 30, 2009
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Setting Up a Riaforge Pro...
I will show how to switch a Riaforge project using SVN to use Git and Github.
Git is more geared for open source projects sin
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August 27, 2009
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Git for Subversion users,...
Git for Subversion users, Part 1: Getting startedGit gets demystified for Subversion version control system usersSummary: Dis
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August 27, 2009
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Coldfusion and Git, again...
I really enjoy ColdFusion but I am frustrated seeing tools in other programming languages like metric testing (NDepend), code
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August 25, 2009
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UGTV weekend
I caught up on some UGTV recordings this weekend. Most were from CFMeetup but a couple were from other ColdFusion User Groups
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August 24, 2009
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So you want to create a C...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity and matches to this
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August 20, 2009
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ColdFusion 9 DZone Refcar...
Terry Ryan, the Platform Evangelist for Adobe, has announced a DZone Refcard on ColdFusion 9. This is very cool. Nice job Ter
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August 18, 2009
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So you want to create a C...
This CFWheels series is heavy borrowed from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity and matches to this p
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August 11, 2009
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So you want to create a C...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity. This entry matches
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August 03, 2009
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So you want to create a C...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity. This entry match
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July 30, 2009
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So you want to create a C...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity. This entry matches
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July 26, 2009
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Leveraging Eclipse for Co...
Here are the records of my presentation over Eclipse and ColdFusion.
07-23-09 – CFMeetup: Leveraging Eclipse for ColdFu
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July 23, 2009
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So you want to create a C...
This series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity. This entry matches to thi
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July 22, 2009
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So you want to install CF...
I am doing a series for
the CFWheels framework similar to Dan Wilson's "So you want to" series for Model Glue:Unity. Here is
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July 21, 2009
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My 8 Favorite ColdFusion ...
I haven't been able to use ColdFusion Builder extensively yet, but here are my favorite 8 key assists so far.
First group is
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July 18, 2009
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ColdFusion Builder Extens...
ColdFusion Builder Beta users should be aware when using ColdFusion
Builder Extensions, the extension files/folders are being
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July 17, 2009
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Write In Marc Esher for C...
CFUnited has a survey for Community Achievement Awards! Join me and write In Marc Esher for Community Member of the Year.
Pl
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July 16, 2009
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ciFusion – Continuous Imp...
I am working on ciFusion, a Bolt Extension, for Continuous Improvement of ColdFusion Code. It seems Java and .Net have many t
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June 21, 2009
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MXUnit and Selenium Remot...
I was working on a MXUnit and Selenium Remote Control example, a year ago, and finally fixed the documentation. It shows how
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May 27, 2009
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9 Features Bolt Must Have
This list is features I feel are very important for a ColdFusion IDE.
1. Mylyn Bridge
I use Mylyn daily for work because
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May 18, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Code ...
CF.Objective 2009 – Code Reviews and Mentoring
Adam Haskell
3 pm- 4 pm central
Saturday, May 16, 2009
notes
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May 16, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Appro...
CF.Objective 2009 – Approach to Automated Security Testing
Bill Shelton
11:030 am – 12:30 pm central
Saturday, Ma
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May 16, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Exten...
CF.Objective 2009 – Extending Adobe Bolt with CFMLAdam Lehman10:15 am – 11:15 am centralSaturday, May 16, 2009
no
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May 16, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Open ...
CF.Objective 2009 – Open Source Enterprise Java and ColdFusion
Brian Kotek
9 am – 10 am central
Saturday, May 16,
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May 16, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – ColdS...
CF.Objective 2009 – ColdSpring, better living through configurationMark Drew3 pm – 4 pm central
notes
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May 15, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Objec...
CF.Objective 2009 – Object Relational Mappings with ColdFusionJason Delmore1:45 pm – 2:45 pm central
notes
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May 15, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – The B...
CF.Objective 2009 – The Best of Both Worlds: Java backends with CFML FrontendsMatt Woodward11:30 am – 12:30 pm ce
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May 15, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – What ...
CF.Objective 2009 – What to do when oo fails you in ColdFusion
Brian Meloche10:15 am – 11:15 am central
notes
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May 15, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – ColdF...
CF.Objective 2009 – ColdFusion as a Service (CFAAS)Terrence Ryan9 – 10 am central
notes
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May 15, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Rad O...
CF.Objective 2009 – Rad OO in CodePeter Bell4:15 pm – 5:15 pm central
notes
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May 14, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Writi...
CF.Objective 2009 – Writing Testable Code: Realworld TDDMarc Esher3 pm – 4 pm centralnotes
presentation code and
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May 14, 2009
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CF.Objective 2009 – Takin...
CF.Objective 2009 – Taking Code Reuse to a higher levelJeff Chastian11:30 am – 12:30 pm central
link to blog post
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May 14, 2009
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Setting Up Solid CF Devel...
CF.Objective
Setting Up Solid CF Development EnviormentKurt Wiersma10:15 am – 11:15 am
notes
previous recording of this
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May 14, 2009
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IDE Talk – CFHour()
CFHour() released a new podcast, IDE Talk. They talk about ColdFusion IDEs (integrating development editor) covering Homesite
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April 01, 2009
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new CFHour() podcast
I stumbled apon CFHour() podcast through iTunes. They pushed a new show out yesterday. It is about integrating ColdFusion wit
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March 18, 2009
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DC or Bust
My blogging has been non-existant over the last month since I have been busy traveling, interviewing, and moving. I can say f
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January 12, 2009
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Adobe MAX 2008 Top Ten Li...
Adobe MAX 2008 Top Ten List – Announcements
10. In the dramatic opening session, the key speaker announces Adobe will s
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November 15, 2008
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Upcoming HeadFirst Fusion...
I am presenting HeadFirst Debugging with FusionDebug to the Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group.
Thursday, November 20,
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November 13, 2008
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GTAC 2008 – opening remar...
I finally finsihed up my final notes from the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) and also noticed the Opening remarks v
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November 03, 2008
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Head First ColdFusion Deb...
I gave my first try at a new presentation called Head First ColdFusion Debugging with FusionDebug. From the link, you can eit
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October 28, 2008
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GTAC 2008 decompressing
Here is a review of Day 1 and Day 2 from another attendee of the Google Test Automation Conference. I'll follow with my thoug
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October 26, 2008
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Practical Refactoring art...
Check out Dan Wilson's Refactoring article on Dzone. It is great to get the ColdFusion community active on other fronts. Comm
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October 24, 2008
pre Google Test Automatio...
I arrived in Seattle this morning from Omaha. Got to the conference hotel easy and then did some quick sight-seeing before GT
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October 22, 2008
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Eclipse: Starting fresh a...
Having problems with a corrupted Eclipse instance like line number not showing up or some other funky issue and you swear you
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October 16, 2008
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CFEclipse Undo Weirdness
I heard today the "undo weirdness" in CFEclipse is due to the "Trim trailing spaces before saving" being
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September 22, 2008
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Setting up Selenium Trife...
I will be doing a series for ColdFusion developers to setup, use the Selnium Trifecta, and incorporate Selenium tests into MX
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September 10, 2008
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AMD64 Flash Firefox 3 ins...
I installed Xubuntu 8.04 for better performance but some reason Firefox and Flash won't work properly for Adobe Connect recor
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September 06, 2008
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Accepted to Google Test A...
I was accepted to attend the Google Test Automation Conference – 2008. I submitted a paragraph a while ago stating I wo
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August 29, 2008
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In Between Opportunities
I was laid off last Friday. I wasn't prepared since I liked the ColdFusion team and rest of the company's employees. I enjoye
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August 28, 2008
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Screencast of revert Bloc...
Here is a screencast of reverting a line or block or code with two-clicks I had some code I wrote, then had to undo the chang
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August 20, 2008
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BarCamps and the ColdFusi...
I attended my first ever BarCamp in Omaha. I met a lot of smart individuals using a variety of programming languages. Attende
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August 17, 2008
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Omaha BarCamp Eclipse/Myl...
Here is the link to the Eclipse/Mylyn Slides.
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August 16, 2008
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Two great Programmer Even...
Ryan Stille, CFWebTools' uber geek of the year , mention to me about two Programming events occuring in Omaha this week. I ha
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August 11, 2008
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Where Art Thou SVN 1.5.1 ...
Where Art Thou SVN 1.5.1 windows installer, I have searched and scoured google to no success. I see the svn-1.4.6-setup.exe o
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August 05, 2008
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Mylyn 3.0: Code at the Sp...
Summary: Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of dem
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July 30, 2008
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CFEclipse / Eclipse – Sho...
I did a quick search for good examples of the Show Annotations feature in Eclipse but didn't find any so I figured I would po
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July 23, 2008
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NECFUG – About developmen...
Next NECFUG meeting: July 22nd – Axel Jensen will be talking about the development process. More details to come.
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July 21, 2008
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How Mylyn Changes the Way...
"Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn, you never want to return to the old ways…"
Watch Prese
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July 17, 2008
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Orbwave System Manager – ...
My title is long and pretty much says it all. "Orbwave System Manager - tool every CF multiple instance local developer
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July 10, 2008
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varScoper Ant Target exam...
If you haven't heard of the vaScoper tool created and maintained by Mike Schierberl, it is definately worth checking out. It
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July 08, 2008
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Top 6 underused Eclipse s...
Similar to Nic Tunney's Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEcli
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July 02, 2008
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Cool Ant file trick and c...
I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a
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June 25, 2008
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Free 35+ CFUnited Connect...
CFUnited was kind enough to release 35+ conference presentations. Hopefully it will demonstrate the quality and networking fo
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June 25, 2008
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Better understanding of O...
After listening to a quality podcast from Hansel Minutes I have a better understanding of Open Source and how Eclipse's organ
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June 24, 2008
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ColdFusion 8 upgrade chec...
My group @ work was tasked with upgrading our servers to ColdFusion 8. My manager asked for each of us to plan like we were t
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June 23, 2008
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Using Mylyn video present...
CFEclipse users should be using Mylyn even if you don't have a ticket or code repository. You can use it by creating local ta
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June 20, 2008
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The power of ColdFusion Z...
I posted about a cfcompile ant target this morning. Now the post is number two one on Google via DZONE. My measly blog. Come
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June 19, 2008
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Next Coldfusion User Grou...
Next meeting for NECFUG: June 24th
Jake Churchill will be talking about CSS. After a quick primer to explain the basics, he
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June 19, 2008
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CFCompile Ant snippet
I have been working on a build.xml file for work that updates the local working copy, runs MXunit tests, create JUnit reports
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June 19, 2008
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Subversion Ant for Files ...
Here is my attempt to be able to pull a revision range from an svn repository. The ant script runs an svn log command, sets u
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June 15, 2008
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Minify CSS/JS ant revisit...
I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. The current jar was yuic
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June 15, 2008
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Selenium Presentaion slid...
Here are the slides as promised. After the presentation, I added a couple more. Hopefully, I am able to do this one again.
ht
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May 27, 2008
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Picking the right Eclipse...
Picking the right Eclipse distribution for you
Products based on Eclipse provide different features for varying needs
Which
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May 22, 2008
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next NECFUG – Selenium wi...
next NECFUG – Selenium with Coldfusion and MXUnit
Next meeting: May 27th, 6pm
Tagline: Sometimes it pays to stay in bed
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May 19, 2008
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unit test location?
I put a question in Mxunit's google group about testing location? I remember someone @ CF.Objective mentioned tests should be
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May 14, 2008
Firebug and ANT make IBM ...
Very interestng two tools every ColdFusion Developer should already be using are highlighted in developersWorks – IBM's
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May 08, 2008
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EclipseCon 2008 presentat...
I stumbed on EclipseCon 2008 presenations last night. The conference was March 17-20. Several are ColdFusion related if you a
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May 06, 2008
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Notes from flex: no frame...
flex: no frameworks required
Mzim Porges – CFObjective 2008
My notes
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May 04, 2008
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Notes from Refactoring in...
Refactoring in ColdFusion: from Procedural to OO
Dan Wilson – CFObjective 2008
My notes
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May 04, 2008
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Eclipse .Net plugin
After John Bland's presentation on CF8 .Net integration, which was really cool, I thought it was kinda a pain how he had to s
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May 04, 2008
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Notes from CF8 .Net Integ...
CF8 .Net Integration – CFObject 2008
John Bland
Very cool!
My Notes
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May 04, 2008
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Notes from Leveraging Bas...
Leveraging Basic Design Patterns in ColdFusion – CFObjective 2008
Phill Nacelli
My Notes
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May 04, 2008
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Notes from MVC for You an...
MVC for You and Me – CFObjective 2008
Joe Rinehart
My notes
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May 03, 2008
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Notes from Step Debugging...
Step Debugging in ColdFusion 6/7/8 – CF.Objective 2008
Charlie Arehart
My notes
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May 03, 2008
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Notes from Intro into Col...
Intro into ColdSpring – CF.Objective 2008
Mark Drew
My notes
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May 03, 2008
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Notes from Introduction t...
Introduction to Building Aplications with Transfer ORM – CF.Objective 2008
Mark Mandel
My notes
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May 03, 2008
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Notes from Best Testing w...
Best Testing with cfcUnit – CF.Objective 2008
John Mason
Very good and interesting.
My notes
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May 03, 2008
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Notes from Using ANT: Mak...
Using ANT: Making your development life more productive - CF.Objective 2008
Peter Farrell
Great information and well presente
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May 03, 2008
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Notes from Selling Profes...
My notes from Selling Professional Development (Processes) at a Hostile Shop – CF.Objective 2008
Terrence Ryan
It was b
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May 03, 2008
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Turbo-charging Eclipse
I changed my eclipse.ini file around after researching some jvm option settings. I primarily use CFEclipse, Mylyn, and Subcli
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April 26, 2008
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My ColdFusion Debugger Se...
I will show how to setup FusionDebug on Windows for Multiple ColdFusion instances. And ColdFusion 8 Debugger on Ubuntu. A hin
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April 22, 2008
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Ringo – Selenium Framewor...
After writing Selenium is NOT a framework, I rediscovered a presentation from Google Automating Testing Conference. It was pr
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April 20, 2008
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What would you do if you ...
With the talk of the "ColdFusion community", I found this post interesting, what would you do if you were a Microso
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April 13, 2008
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Tax Rebate For CFEclipse ...
I was reading a thread on CFEclipse Users and had an idea. I am going to give Mark Drew some of my tax rebate. I guess the NP
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April 11, 2008
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Dead Language (ColdFusion...
Dead Language (ColdFusion) breaks top 20 with big jump in TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2008 "The TIOBE Pr
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April 09, 2008
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ColdFusion is dead (yet a...
Yet again another semi-annually, ColdFusion is dead. I suggest vote negative on the dzone landing page, but don't click throu
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April 09, 2008
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6 Comments
tsvncache.exe is a cpu ho...
I have noticed tsvncache.exe is a cpu hog on my computer. Tsvncache.exe collects data needed to display the icon overlays for
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April 08, 2008
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Schedule Updating SVN Wor...
I watched Mark Esher's presention "ANT On The Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS" a couple weeks ago and liked th
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April 08, 2008
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Mylyn Rocks, Mylyn Rocks
I feel like I am in Battlestar Galactica when using Mylyn to work inside Eclipse. Task focused user interface is the future a
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April 06, 2008
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Selenium is NOT a framewo...
Selenium is not a framework but needs one desperately. I have noticed some references to Selenium as a framework thus this bl
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April 06, 2008
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selenium setVariable file...
Anyone have an example of using Selenium and having a skeleton main file the loads a variables file for setting variables. Ex
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March 28, 2008
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next NECFUG – Advanced SQ...
Next meeting: March 25th
Mark Kruger will be giving a presentation on Advanced SQL Server Tecniques. Items covered include in
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March 19, 2008
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Malformed uxxxx encoding...
I had this issue, Malformed uxxxx encoding, when moving an ant variable into a properties file. I found this solution after a
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March 12, 2008
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Eclipse Working Sets – Pa...
Eclipse Working Sets – Part I Abstract: In this installment, Peter Friese looks into how working sets can help you to u
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March 05, 2008
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Add ColdFusion support to...
You can now vote for ColdFusion support in DLTK.
More info on Eclipse DLTK
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March 02, 2008
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Eclipse/CFEclipse NECFUG ...
I think the presentation went pretty well. I think there were 10 or so people present. Most had laptops since this was hands-
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February 27, 2008
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Vote for CFEclipse and My...
Don't let PHP get a jump on us :-) Vote for structure bridges for CFEclipse and Mylyn
Ticket I entered for requesting a conne
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February 24, 2008
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Needed – Provide your Tra...
I created a wiki page called Trac Case Studies in SCM & Project Management Process on trac.edgewall.org for a centralized
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February 20, 2008
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Trac/ColdFusion case stud...
I am looking for case studies to review to see how to structure trac in regards to projects, components, milestones, and vers
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February 19, 2008
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Presenting Eclipse/CFEcli...
With the help of Ryan Stille's, we'll be presenting Eclipse and CFEclipse for the Nebraska Coldfusion User Group on Febuary 2
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February 15, 2008
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MXUnit – New ColdFusion T...
I came across an ACTIVELY developed ColdFusion Unit Testing Framework a couple weeks ago. MXUnit seems really well thought ou
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February 13, 2008
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Start ColdFusion Server W...
After a lot of trial and error tonight, I am able to start and stop my ColdFusion server from Eclipse. I am working with Ubun
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February 08, 2008
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Eclipse Working Sets
This entry is a quick review of Working Sets in Eclipse. I will show how to create a new working set and selecting/deselectin
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February 05, 2008
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Using the Eclipse Workben...
I started to watch the first lesson of Using the Eclipse Workbench last night but got distracted with the CNN debate. I was a
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February 01, 2008
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Mobile Friendly in a Seco...
Make your site and rss feed mobile friendly in a second with help from google. You will have to have your url encoded. Then a
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January 24, 2008
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NECFUG last night
Nebraska ColdFusion Users (NECFUG) meeting was last night. This was my second time attending and I hope to keep attending. Th
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January 23, 2008
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Subclipse D'oh moment on ...
Did you know when committing in Subclipse, you can double click a resource listed and it shows a compare of your working copy
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January 22, 2008
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Firefox Add-on: ScreenGra...
Screengrab!, a Firefox extention, works on Ubuntu to save a web page as png file. Basically I had some Coldfusion output and
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January 20, 2008
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MythBusters: ColdFusion i...
Myth: ColdFusion is Case Insensitive
Rated OTHER
I gave "ColdFusion is Case Insensitive" an Other rating because so
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January 20, 2008
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Accidental new skin for m...
I was working on a new skin for machblog and accidently pushed it live last night. I need to clean up the search button and t
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January 14, 2008
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MythBusters: All I need i...
CFDump and the standard Coldfusion Debugging Error Information didn't work. Charlie Arehart has mentioned several reasons why
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January 07, 2008
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Roommate needed: Model Gl...
Doug Hughes announced Enterprise ColdFusion with Model-Glue training registration was extended till Jan 25th. I am excited en
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January 07, 2008
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Firefox Add-On: LeechBloc...
I stumbed across LeechBlock. I installed it @ work to help me stay more focused and not get distracted on the web. So far it
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December 31, 2007
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Lost Season 3 DVD set
Well, I got Lost 3rd Season DVD set for Xmas. I'll be watching it to get reacquainted with what happened last season since th
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December 30, 2007
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Pimping my Eclipse startu...
A couple weeks ago when writing the entry, UnEclipsing CFEclipse Line Numbers, I stumbled on a couple interesting settings in
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December 29, 2007
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My Top 5 Entries of 2007
I started blogging toward the end of Aug 2007. Here are my top 5 content of 2007 via Google Analytics stats. Happy New Year!
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December 27, 2007
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Uneclipsing CFEclipse Sho...
Quick Eclipse and CFEclipse hint. The entry is mainly about turning on CFEclipse line numbers but useful for other hidden Ecl
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December 20, 2007
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Model Glue training…
I signed up for Enterprise ColdFusion with Model-Glue a couple weeks ago. I am looking forward to learning with hands on trai
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December 16, 2007
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Amazon SimpleDB – limited...
Interestly Amazon has released a limited beta for a web service for running queries on a structured database called Amazon Si
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December 14, 2007
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Added pic and name to Abo...
Due to an oversite, I didn't have my name on my About section or Contact form so I added it and a picture to my About section
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December 14, 2007
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Eclipse Navigator Toolbar
This entry is quick review of built in Eclipse functionality not to be confused with CFEclipse or Aptana features, the Naviga
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December 13, 2007
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Learn Flex 2 over Lunch F...
Starting this Wed (12/12/07), several co-workers are gathering for lunch to learn Flex 2. We are blocking a hour Mondays and
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December 10, 2007
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Classic Podcasts (old but...
I stumbled across Hanselminutes awhile ago. It is usually a well organized and informative podcast.
What is Hanselminutes?
Ha
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December 06, 2007
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RDS, ColdFusion 8 Debugge...
I tried using the ColdFusion 8 Debugger through Eclipse but kept getting an error message saying "Unable to contact the
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December 01, 2007
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UGTV and Online ColdFusio...
Charlie Arehart has been very busy lining up great Online ColdFusion Meetup Group meetings. If you don't know about the group
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November 29, 2007
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Nebraska ColdFusion Users...
I went to my first Nebraska ColdFusion Users Group. The group is ran by Ryan Stille and Mark Kruger from CFWebtools. It was a
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November 27, 2007
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What do ColdFusion geeks ...
What do ColdFusion geeks listen to? I joined the ColdFusion Music Group last weekend. I have been using Last.fm for awhile an
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November 21, 2007
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CFEclipse Just Use Aptana...
Lot of the CFEclipse users say use Aptana. Clarification usually not provided with the generally helpful advice is Aptana doe
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November 20, 2007
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New Look
I changed the skin of my blog. I am using Machblog. The free template is from Luka Cvrk named Internet Corporation. I'll send
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November 16, 2007
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Remote Systems Explorer p...
I have been following an interesting conversation on the CFEclipse user group, "File Explorer issues, again". It st
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November 15, 2007
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Firefox Add-On: Dust-Me S...
I read Firefox Bug: Status Bar Zaniness and he briefly mentions Dust Me Selector, a Firefox extention, but didn't mention wha
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November 09, 2007
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Coding CF fast from IBM d...
I see Jim Priest wrote "Code ColdFusion applications fast with the Eclipse CFEclipse plug-in". The article was rele
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November 07, 2007
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Amazon S3 and JetS3t igno...
It is pretty simple to sync files using JetS3t Synchronize. Some folders I synch contain files I don't want to store on Amazo
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November 06, 2007
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Amazon S3 and JetS3t sync...
JetS3t can be used across Ubuntu and Windows which I needed. I like to be able to sync files between my two systems. JetS3t h
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November 06, 2007
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Lifehacker: Make Your Lin...
With all the Leopard posts going around in the ColdFusion realm, I ran across this for us Ubuntu people using Avant Window Na
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October 31, 2007
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yWorks Ant Explorer
Jim Priest found a cool Eclipse plugin to visualize ant targets and properites from yworks called Ant Explorer. I installed i
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October 29, 2007
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Show Us Ur CFEclipse pers...
I am the guy when watching a presentation, glances @ the presenter's taskbar to see what icons are in the panel. Or notes the
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October 26, 2007
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Google announces Website ...
Here is the schedule and registration information:
Introduction to Website Optimizer (New or inexperienced users)
Tuesday,
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October 24, 2007
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CFAkismet / Machblog chal...
I have been wanting to properly add Akismet to machblog but am unfamiliar with some concepts of MachII so I posted a challeng
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October 24, 2007
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Google Code Search Sitema...
Google introduced code search sitemaps. "Google's Code Search helps users find function definitions and sample code by e
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October 18, 2007
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Thanks coldfusionBloggers...
I would like to thank Raymond Camden for adding my blog to coldfusionBloggers.org. ColdfusionBloggers.org was created so he c
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October 17, 2007
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Eclipse Web Service Explo...
I see RemoteSynthesis.com blogged about Using the Eclipse Web Services Explorer earlier but I stumbled on the Web Services Ex
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October 12, 2007
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Using results from sql An...
This expands on my first entry of using sql results from ant to do other ant process with sql results. This Ant script will s
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October 11, 2007
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Eclipse 3.3 upgrade (Fusi...
I finally am upgraded to Eclipse 3.3. Everything went smooth with FusionDebug, CFEclipse, Aptana, and Subclipse. I did stumbl
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October 10, 2007
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Come Work With Me
Come Work With Me in addition to what the generic posting says, we are a small group. I started in January and love it. My ma
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October 09, 2007
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CodingHorror.com – Softwa...
Great article from codinghorror.com titled Software Branching and Parallel Universes. I'll do an orginal post when I have tim
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October 03, 2007
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Smashing Magazine: Browse...
I have been pretty busy with a quick trip to San Fransisco for a couple baseball games and siteseeing last week but today, I
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October 02, 2007
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Thanks ColdFusion Weekly ...
I would like to thank ColdFusion Weekly and Jim Priest @ thecrumb.com for being kind enough to mention me and link to a coupl
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September 24, 2007
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Using ColdFusion within S...
Selenium only cares the output is in its simple table structure. Please refer to Sebastien Lachance's post about Structure of
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September 24, 2007
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Coldfusion with Selenium ...
I have been wanting to do a Selenium ant script since John Paul Ashenfelter's presentation on Testing CF applications @ CFUni
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September 17, 2007
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Installed ColdFusion 8 on...
Installing ColdFusion 8 on Ubuntu was not complex actually it was very straight-forward.
Here are the three helpful links I
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September 16, 2007
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Google Sitemap XML Genera...
Google Sitemap XML Generator v1.33
CHANGE LIST for 1.33 – 2007/09/13
Added Escaping Entities
Added Technorati.com pin
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September 13, 2007
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Adding JS/CSS compression...
updated script – Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor
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I have been expanding Alistair
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September 13, 2007
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Google Sitemap XML Genera...
Google Sitemap XML Generator v1.32
CHANGE LIST for 1.32 – 2007/09/11
          Added blogsearch.google.com
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September 11, 2007
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Setting up Akismet for Co...
I have heard Akismet mentioned several times so I figured I would look into it. Akismet "is a collaborative effort to make
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September 08, 2007
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Coldfusion Google Sitemap...
I was looking for a sitemap.xml generator and stubbled across this Google Sitemap Generator Code . I emailed the gentleman
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September 05, 2007
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Adobe AIR and eBay's Exce...
Yesterday, a new eBay San Dimas Beta Version was announced. You may wonder what it is San Dimas. It has nothing to do wit
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August 29, 2007
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Add Spell checking to you...
I instant message a lot at work to fellow developers and other employees. I needed a tool for spell checking my messages an
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August 27, 2007
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Gmail, CF8, and MachBlog…
I made a quick hack to Machblog to support Google SMTP servers. I will go back and add the property to the xml file later.Â
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August 23, 2007
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Switch to Ubuntu from Vis...
Well, I was fed up with Vista on a new laptop I purchased in March 2007. Vista performance was horrible and it was buggy.Â
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August 23, 2007
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Get results from sql Ant ...
My first attempt to create an ant using sql results within the ant script. I am using MSSQL has my db server. The example
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July 26, 2007
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SQL Server 2005 Express e...
I had trouble connecting locally to SQL Server Express 2005. I found a great post from Charlie Arehart's blog called Solvin
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July 08, 2007
First Post from CFUnited
Hi, Just testing adding blog entries while in a session @ CFUnited, www.cfunited.com . I am using google docs for notes and
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June 27, 2007
