http://coldfusion.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for coldfusion en Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:24:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675202 unknown@DZone.com Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it was during a CFObjective presentation by Dan Wilson, I witnessed the copy down shortcut (ctrl-alt-down)....... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:24:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675202coldfusioneclipseopiniontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670290 unknown@DZone.com I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant tasks that you can use for various purposes, once of which is the..... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:15:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670290coldfusioneclipsejavaxmlProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667239 unknown@DZone.com I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a fundamental concept, Conditional Execution, and a cool trick.
 
 The concept was the if and unless attribute of an ant target. I have read about them but it was great to see them in action. He covered it quick so I had to watch that section a couple times...... Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:29:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667239coldfusioneclipsejavaxmlProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667056 unknown@DZone.com Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage).
 
 Oh. My. God.
 
 I'm a huge fan of closures. They're elegant, simple, and easy to use. Their semantics are subtle, but not confusing. They allow for very concise implementation of otherwise complicated algorithms, trimming a vast number of "normal" control structures, particularly various looping constructs. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:25:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667056coldfusiongroovyjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2666039 unknown@DZone.com Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:05:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2666039ajaxcoldfusiontrendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651654 unknown@DZone.com ColdFusion 8 is arguably one of the most significant releases of the product since ColdFusion MX (6.0) first graced our servers in 2002. The release brings with it long awaited image manipulation tags and functions. Built-in AJAX integration makes it easier to create "Web 2.0" applications. Compared to previous releases, it's also wicked fast. Given the significance of these new features, it may be easy to overlook some of the enhancements that have found their way into ColdFusion 8. In this article by Charlie Griefer, we will look into the some of the enhancements to existing features and functionality that you may have missed. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:29:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651654coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647717 unknown@DZone.com I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and running quickly. Neil Middleton, Peter Farrell, Matt Williams and Erik Meier each contributed in some way and Neil Middleton was kind enough to create an ANT task to automate the process
 
 The code has been contributed to the Mach-II group and should be available on the official site soon Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:15:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647717coldfusionframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2646027 unknown@DZone.com Christopher R contacted me through my contact form to ask about object composition. 
 To reiterate, composition models a "has-a" relationship between objects, as opposed to an "is-a" relationship which is typically done through inheritance or interface implementation. However, Christopher seems to be working with two different kinds of objects here: Singletons and business objects. How you handle the composition can depend on the kind of object you are dealing with and what they are meant to do. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:43:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2646027coldfusionframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2643003 unknown@DZone.com I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. We achieved about an average 18% compression rate for all our js/css files. Download example and run with it. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:15:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643003coldfusioncss-htmlhow-tojavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2606935 unknown@DZone.com "This article presents an introduction to ColdFusion components (CFCs). For developers seeking to take their skills to the next level, CFCs are an invaluable addition to the toolkit, allowing the adoption of a more professional approach to web application development." Mon, 26 May 2008 16:28:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2606935coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2586750 unknown@DZone.com A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to come back to the site and rebuild it using Spry or JQuery. Not because I wasn't happy with the CF8 Ajax stuff, but because a) it's fun to totally rebuild your own sites and b) I wanted to learn more about jQuery. Wed, 14 May 2008 21:07:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2586750coldfusionframeworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2583962 unknown@DZone.com We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available.
 
 The image contains:
 CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades as of 05/11/2008)
 Tomcat 5.5
 MySQL 5.0.22
 Apache 2.x
 and of course Open BlueDragon (build of 05/11/2008) Tue, 13 May 2008 13:45:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2583962announcementcoldfusionopen sourceserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2580467 unknown@DZone.com Simple tutorian on CFM encryption Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2580467coldfusionhow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577923 unknown@DZone.com If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is incredibly powerful. Yes the interface to Java from the CF level is cumbersome and creating hybrid CF/Java applications pretty much costs you CF's RAD capabilities, but there are some real gems in the Java libraries. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:24:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577923coldfusionframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577925 unknown@DZone.com There were a couple of big news items in the blogosphere this week, but making the most noise was the cf.Objective() conference. I’m not going to link to those blog posts here - I’m going to wait a few days for the dust to settle, and for everyone to get home and write up their thoughts, and do a big round-up early next week. From what I’ve seen so far it the people who were fortunate enough to attend had a great time and learnt a lot. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:11:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577925coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577806 unknown@DZone.com This will be the first post in a series relating to clustering ColdFusion. In this first series of posts we will be looking at clustering CF at a software level using ColdFusion 8 Enterprise. Hopefully later on, we can move to a Hardware-Software set-up with examples.
 
 I mentioned in a previous post that what I will detail is drawn from my experiences from either creating clusters for clients or working on existing clusters. There are no doubt other ways to do this.
 
 Firstly, I always create what I call a "master instance", typically the first instance which is created from a multiple-instance install. Here are some important steps from that... Fri, 09 May 2008 13:03:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577806coldfusionframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577757 unknown@DZone.com There have been several blog posts recently about class-loading issues apparently linked the use of the Sun-Java 1.6 (6.0) JVM. Mark Mandel has a detailed article on this here.
 
 Before seeing this article we had been working on optimizing a ColdSpring-ModelGlue-Reactor application. We blogged our progress in this article.
 
 We thought a reality check was a good idea and ran some load tests comparing this same application performance in Java 1.5 and 1.6. Once again we observed better performance in 1.6; here are the results.
 
 These results are for a 50 Virtual User (vUser) Test for 1 hour with 8 second think time (delay between clicks) comparing Java 1 5 to 1.6.
 
 Firstly Java 1.5
 
 Total Number of Clicks: 13,345 (0 Errors)
 Average Click Time of all URLs: 5,298 ms Fri, 09 May 2008 12:52:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577757coldfusionframeworksjavaserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577759 unknown@DZone.com I've been a bad boy. I was supposed to write a review of ColdFusion 8 back in October of last year, but an imminent change of job and my 10 month old boy (now sixteen months) conspired to eat up all my time to play with CF8, let alone write a review. When ever I did try to write a review I always ended up with writers block. All the blog entries, by developers far more knowledgeable and respected than I, seemed to already talk about all the great new features in this latest, and greatest, version of ColdFusion. Fri, 09 May 2008 12:39:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577759coldfusionframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577760 unknown@DZone.com Clustering in particular with ColdFusion and JRun can get fairly complicated pretty fast and I urge all who are going to embark on clustering to plan out how you want to cluster and why. 
 
 Another key issue is to make sure when we are creating a web application that it designed and engineered from day one with clustering in mind. I have helped so many clients who hit major problems when they start building clusters, largely because the application was too tightly coupled to the environment it is running in. Hard-coded directory paths would be a classic example.
 
 In this blog posting I wanted to illustrate an interesting concept, well two in reality, Horizontal Clustering and Vertical Clustering. Let's look at a diagram.... Fri, 09 May 2008 12:39:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577760coldfusionframeworksjavaserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577718 unknown@DZone.com I presented at CF.Objective on the subject of clustering and distributing ColdFusion applications. During the presentation I pointed out a "gotcha" I have encountered many times; where I have been asked to review existing High Availability (HA) environments. It has been mentioned before in previous blog posts but I wanted to amplify it, as I believe it is very important to avoid this pitfall. 
 
 Hardware clustering devices can and often do, perform two distinct functions. Fri, 09 May 2008 12:22:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577718coldfusionframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577548 unknown@DZone.com CFChris provides a simple "how to" for using Java SoftReference with caching to leverage memory sensitive garbage collection with caching in ColdFusion. Fri, 09 May 2008 09:39:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577548coldfusionjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577549 unknown@DZone.com I have added several blog postings here before on the theories of High-Availability (HA) and Clustering. In this series of blog postings I will be attempting to create dedicated postings for the following scenarios. Please keep in mind that there will be alternative ways to do these things and what I am showing here is drawn from my experiences from either creating clusters for clients or working on existing clusters
 
 Here are the scenarios I will be posting on...
 
 Setting up a two instance cluster from a fresh install of ColdFusion
 
 Load testing a two instance cluster on Java 1.6 (6.0) using the Round Robin algorithm
 
 Load testing a two instance cluster on Java 1.5 (6.0) using the Round Robin algorithm Fri, 09 May 2008 09:38:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577549coldfusionframeworksjavaserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2575957 unknown@DZone.com Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to leverage your existing in-house skills and infrastructure. We'll briefly touch on some of the features of ColdFusion, the Java-EE-based application server from Adobe, and discuss why ColdFusion is more relevant today for Java developers than it has ever been............. Thu, 08 May 2008 08:33:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2575957coldfusionjavaopinionrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2552367 unknown@DZone.com If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to you, check out Assembla.com. I signed up last night and am really quite floored....... Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2552367announcementcoldfusioneclipseProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2529899 unknown@DZone.com Ever wanted to get started with BlazeDS? A bug bit me yesterday that forced me to sit at my computer for hours on end until I could achieve two things: setting up Amazon's EC2 Webservice and getting up and running with BlazeDS.
 
 I had to do quite a bit of hunting due to my inexperience with a few things, which led me to the conclusion that someone else out there might want to benefit from my Googling and bookmarking. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:12:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2529899coldfusionflash-flexphpriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2526430 unknown@DZone.com Is Coldfusion dead. The Coldfusion community says, no. But in reality have we heard anything outside of the community. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:15:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2526430coldfusionopinionweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2525787 unknown@DZone.com Selenium is not a framework but needs one desperately. I have noticed some references to selenium as a framework thus this blog posting. I am using the Template method pattern to creating my own Selenium Framework. The template method pattern is the..... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:37:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2525787coldfusionframeworksphptoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2523163 unknown@DZone.com I feel like I am in Battlestar Galactica when using Mylyn to work inside Eclipse. Task focused user interface is the future and the future is now....... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:06:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2523163coldfusioneclipseProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2518158 unknown@DZone.com ColdFusion 8 Update 1 provides developers with 64-bit support for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and provides the latest updates to ColdFusion 8. The updater also improves functionality in several areas including AJAX functions, CFPDF, and CFIMAGE and updates several software libraries. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:00:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2518158coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2493580 unknown@DZone.com The term Rich Internet Application (RIA) was coined by Macromedia (now Adobe) in 2002. An RIA is a web application -- it runs inside a web browser, but looks and feels more like a desktop application. Gartner analysts Mark Driver, Ray Valdes, and Gene Phifer describe RIAs as "the next evolution of the Web" Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:03:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2493580coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2486393 unknown@DZone.com Very simple anti-bot spam technique that works extremely well. It requires no javascript, cookies or complicated server weirdness, is fully accessible, has no hidden fields, has negligible overhead and takes just a moment or two to implement. It requires that the user fill out one field with a number, so it's good for anti-bot but will not prevent human spammers. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:19:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2486393coldfusionusabilityweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2481922 unknown@DZone.com ColdFusion's new onMissingTemplate() function is a great addition to our toolbox, and mind blowingly useful for Dynamic Page Generation. Adam shows a working solutionto the problem of requiring a ColdFusion template to be requested in order to invoke the functionality. Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:09:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2481922coldfusionframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2479980 unknown@DZone.com Set up ColdFusion debugging in Eclipse on a ColdFusion 8 server running on JBoss Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:11:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2479980coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2479462 unknown@DZone.com New Atlanta has announced plans to release a free open source edition of BlueDragon, their ColdFusion-compatible web application server. Since 2001, New Atlanta has worked to create new and innovative features and platform versions of BlueDragon to meet the varying and diverse needs of the CFML community. This next logical step by New Atlanta ensures that CFML will become and forever remain a free web-scripting language option for web application deployments on the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology stack. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:54:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2479462coldfusionopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2477292 unknown@DZone.com New Atlanta has announced plans to release a free open source edition of BlueDragon Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:07:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2477292coldfusionopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2475058 unknown@DZone.com AnyEdit is a great little utility for Eclipse/Flex Builder. Helps in code formatting and cleanup. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:38:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2475058coldfusioneclipseflash-flextoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2469465 unknown@DZone.com A note to myself: The only constant in life, Indy, is change!
 
 I've been using Subversion for version control for a couple of years now. It was quite a change moving from Microsoft Visual Source to Subversion. A different mind set. A different way of doing things.
 
 And then I read about Mercurial today....... Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:14:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2469465coldfusionreviewstoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2468659 unknown@DZone.com DZone sits down with Aaron West, the man who set Twitter free of the browser. Aaron is a long time ColdFusion, Flash and Flex developer who created twitterAIR, the first Twitter/RIA integration based on the Adobe Integrated Runtime platform Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:19:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2468659coldfusionflash-flexriaweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2461795 unknown@DZone.com One of the new features in ColdFusion 8 is the ability to manipulate images using ColdFusion tags and functions. In addition to being to do generic image manipulations (like rotating, resizing, and cropping), you can also add text to an image using the ImageDrawText function, like in this example: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:02:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2461795coldfusionjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2452295 unknown@DZone.com We are in the process of reviewing some of our project management processes here at Alagad in search (as always) of ways to better manage and track projects. Currently, we use a combination of Trac sites, SVN repositories, and a handful of other tools for our projects, but I have often found this collection of individual tools can be burdensome..... Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:57:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2452295coldfusioneclipsephptoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2435647 unknown@DZone.com I've known about the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views (or system tables) in SQL Server for a while, but I just leared recently that they are actually part of the SQL-92 standard and supported on other database platforms.
 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA views provide meta data information about the tables, columns, and other parts of your database. Because the structure of these tables are standardized you can write SQL statements that work on various database platforms. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:05:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2435647coldfusionusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2434205 unknown@DZone.com I was reading some SQL tips and found this small but quite handy tip. If you have a boolean column in your database which holds values like 0 and 1 , you can modify your Select queries to represent that data as a Yes or No by doing this. Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:26:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2434205coldfusiondatabaseProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2420634 unknown@DZone.com Integrating your application with Active Directory (or another LDAP based directory) is a common requirement in many business applications. Almost every language has a way to query LDAP but little known is the approach of integrating SQL Server with your LDAP controller. This quick article will guide you through setting up and using LDAP queries through SQL Server 2000 with Active Directory as the LDAP controller. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:15:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2420634.netcoldfusiondatabasehow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2417840 unknown@DZone.com After a lot of trial and error tonight, I am able to start and stop my ColdFusion server from Eclipse. I am working with Ubuntu, CF8, and JRun along with Eclipse 3.3.1.1, your environment may need tweaking. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:52:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2417840coldfusioneclipsejavaserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2411994 unknown@DZone.com This entry is a quick review of Working Sets in Eclipse. I will show how to create a new working set and selecting/deselecting. Working sets help reduce the clutter. A working set groups resources for display in the Navigator view. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:01:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2411994coldfusioneclipseProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2411785 unknown@DZone.com Mike Brunt, of Alagad, discusses how he tuned an application by working with the myriad of JVM settings. Examples complete with charts and config settings. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:15:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2411785coldfusionframeworksjavaserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2410989 unknown@DZone.com While programming with Model-Glue, I find that I have to often include JavaScript files in each individual view. I most often do this for form validation but it could be for whatever other reason. To keep things consistent, my project layout is based on the standard Model-Glue project layout with the editions of "css", "js" and "images": Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:15:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2410989coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2413637 unknown@DZone.com While programming with Model-Glue, I find that I have to often include JavaScript files in each individual view. I most often do this for form validation but it could be for whatever other reason. To keep things consistent, my project layout is based on the standard Model-Glue project layout with the editions of "css", "js" and "images": Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:15:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2413637coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2410891 unknown@DZone.com Those who haven't used CFML often have the perception that it is a niche language or 'training wheels' for developers to get their feet wet with programming before moving on to a 'real' language. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:58:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2410891coldfusionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2413639 unknown@DZone.com Those who haven't used CFML often have the perception that it is a niche language or 'training wheels' for developers to get their feet wet with programming before moving on to a 'real' language. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:58:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2413639coldfusionProgramming