Coder's Revolution

cf.Objective() Session-- Grow a Backbone.js and drag your apps out of the past with JS Templating

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:33:00 -0500

Yesterday I talked briefly about my Agile session I'll be presenting at cf.Objective(). Today I'd like to give a quick mention to my Backbone.js session I'll also be giving at 9am Saturday the 18th. I'll admit, I'm a little nervous about this topic simply because it's farther outside my normal comfort zone. The push to improve myself as a developer and learn some front-end JavaScripting frameworks has been a recent and exciting one. [More]

cf.Objective() Session-- Waterfall to Agile: Improve your Project Workflow Without Drowning

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:11:00 -0500

cf.Objective() is almost upon us and I'm super excited as this will be my first year as an attendee and a speaker. I wanted to give a brief teaser for my session, "Waterfall to Agile: Improve your Project Workflow Without Drowning" which is currently scheduled to occur at 1:45 on Saturday the 18th. I am the most excited about this topic and here's some reasons why. [More]

ContentBox is Giving Away a Kindle Fire for Christmas

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:37:00 -0500

ContentBox and Ortus Solutions just announced a new contest today. All you have to do is write an original ContentBox Theme or Module and submit it to ForgeBox by the Dec 14th deadline.

First prize is a Kindle Fire and a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Runner up is $50 worth of iTunes and Amazon Gift Cards. We're excited to see what the community comes up with. [More]

My "One Tough Puzzle" JavaScript Brute Force Solution

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:20:00 -0500

So, I've been sitting on this for months (because I'm lazy) and decided it's finally time to post it. My mother-in-law visited a while back and brought a puzzle for the kids to play with. It's called "One Tough Puzzle". It claims to have "more the 300,000 wrong ways, but only one right way to assemble it." Well, after fiddling with it for a while, I did what any code-blooded hacker would do and wrote some JavaScript to brute force solve it. [More]

What do you want in ColdBox?

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:33:00 -0500

Team ColdBox is working on putting together a list of features for our 4.0 release. Before we finalize anything, we'd like to hear from you. Please give us your wishlist for the ColdBox Platform and what you'd like to see us work on. There's always items like documentation and additional screen casts, etc but let's focus specifically on what development items we can do to make ColdBox faster, easier, smarter, and flexible for YOU. No suggestion is too big or small. ColdBox Platform

Core MVC
WireBox
LogBox
CacheBox
MockBox

I started a thread on the official ColdBox mailing list>, but I also want to open up comments for people not in the Google Group. Please leave a comment with your thoughts and suggestions.

Call to Arms: We All Need to Evangelize

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:28:00 -0500

Prior to this week, there were Wikipedia entries for MockBox, CacheBox and WireBox, but they've all been deleted by Wikipedia. There still is an entry for the ColdBox Platform-- for now. It's also been marked for deletion. So has the FuseBox page. The main reason for the deletion notices is that those articles don't have enough notable third-party references to support them. Wikipedia moderators say those topics just don't have enough articles, news, and books written about them OUTSIDE of their own community, or for that matter; the ColdFusion community. [More]

Get Your Copy of CacheBox: Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:25:00 -0500

Luis Majano has just released his latest Book, CacheBox: Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications. You can buy it in printed, eBook, and Kindle form. More here.

CBDW Featured Session: MultiLingual (i18N) Solutions in ColdBox Platform

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:05:00 -0500

There's only 1 week left before ColdBox Developer Week and the featured session this week is "MultiLingual (i18N) Solutions in ColdBox Platform" by Oğuz Demirkapı on July 24th. Read more about this featured session on the ColdBox Blog.

CBDW Featured Session: Seamless ColdBox-Powered Rich Internet Applications

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:58:00 -0500

There's 2 weeks left before ColdBox Developer Week and the featured session this week is "Seamless ColdBox-Powered Rich Internet Applications" by Phill Nacelli on July 26th. Read more about this featured session on the ColdBox Blog.

Take A Quick ColdBox Survey, Win An iPod Shuffle

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:40:00 -0500

If you currently use (or recently used) ColdBox, we want to know your thoughts. Take our quick, anonymous survey to tell us what you like or dislike about ColdBox and we'll put your name in for a drawing to win your choice of either an iPod Shuffle or a 1 hour consultancy with the creator of ColdBox, Luis Majano. http://blog.coldbox.org/blog/why-do-you-use-coldbox

I'm The New ColdBox Platform Evangelist!

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:13:00 -0500

I've been working with Luis and the rest of the ColdBox team for several years now. I was excited when Luis asked me to become a ColdBox team member last year, and now I have the privilege to bear the responsibility of the first ever ColdBox Platform Evangelist. [More]

How To Ignore Whitespace in GitHub Unified Diff

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:28:00 -0500

I just ran across this little gem and wanted to throw it out there for anyone else who uses GitHub. If you're ever viewing a unified diff like the kind that shows up at the bottom of a commit list, you might find it annoying if there were a bunch of whitespace changes (like tabs and such) that are cluttering the diff. [More]

Getting Inherited CFC MetaData

Sun, 06 May 2012 01:19:00 -0500

ColdFusion's getMetaData function is a very handy way to introspect the functions, properties, and annotations of a component in an easy-to-digest format of arrays and structs. ColdFusion even nests structs to represent the metadata of the classes your component extends as well. Recently, for an enhancement I was building for WireBox, the DI /AOP framework inside ColdBox, I wanted to be able to condense all the metadata down for the component in question as well as all the components it inherits from to a single list of functions, properties, and annotations. After a short bit of Googling, I didn't find any code that did that so I decided it was a perfect opportunity to write a function that did just that. [More]

Coder's Revolution Now Powered By Railo 3.3.1

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:43:00 -0500

Well, I've done it. After all those years of threatening to get of my duff and do it, I've finally dragged my personal site and blog out of the dark, shameful hole of ColdFusion MX7 (shudder) to the bleeding edge Utopian glory of Railo 3.3.1. [More]

Error installing ColdFusion Builder 2 HotFix 1

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:34:00 -0500

So, downloaded HotFix 1 for ColdFusion Builder 2 just now and tried to install it on my Windows 7 machine. InstallAnywhere started up, but then gave me the following error:
"Unable to execute the desired program.
Please get another copy of the installer and try again." [More]