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Error opening the editor

14 May 19:11 (EST)
Today I ran into the following problem while working in CFEclipse:
Error opening the editor.
org.eclipse.jface.text.Document cannot be cast to
org.cfeclipse.cfml.editors.ICFDocument

As a result of further investigation I discovered lack of permissions to a few files on mapped network drive with my spaghetti code.

Validate your feed!

3 March 22:10 (EST)
Tonight I had some time to clean up blogroll for CFDA aggregator and noticed how many CF blogs does not validate their feeds.

While aggregator is setup to fix common errors (null characters, non-standard date format, etc.), from now it will also be counting http errors and checking feeds validity to prioritize data fetching. Therefore I want to encourage you to double check your feeds and its validity.

Another kindly request is to properly categorize blog entries using relevant tags.

For feed validation you can use W3C Feed Validation Service or FEED Validator.

BTW, ColdFusion is a single word for many years already, not Cold Fusion.

HMAC SHA1 using Java

18 January 17:59 (EST)
Working with OpenID CFC project I found another way to create HMAC:SHA1 string using Java: ( read more on HMAC SHA1 using Java )

OpenID 2.0 Final

11 December 16:14 (EST)
Late summer 2005, Brad Fitzpatrick at Six Apart came up with OpenID to facilitate authenticating your ownership of a URL to another website. The driving force behind this was to enable commenting across multiple blogging sites with the need for accounts on each of these services.

On 5th December 2007 OpenID 2.0 specifications has been released.

OpenID 1.0 is largely about authentication. OpenID 2.0 adds several important new capabilities:

- directed identities
- attribute exchange
- support or large requests and responses
- robust support or extensions
- support for XRIs

OpenID should be viewed as a core fundamental enabling technology. It allows the authentication and exchange of account data between un-related websites. Indeed, it does not attempt to solve higher level problems, such as authorization. Instead you can invision it as the underlying technology for interactions between social networks.

More than 8,000 websites currently accept OpenID and this figure is growing by five percent per week.

Melbourne CFUG: Meeting of the YEAR

11 December 02:03 (EST)
When: 20 December 2007 @ 7:00pm
Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)
Agenda: Dale Fraser will be presenting on CFAJAX!

ColdFusion 8 includes a lot of Ajax features, and if you think Ajax is complicated, think again. Ajax will make some of the things you do now easier, and if you can write ColdFusion code, you can easily use Ajax with ColdFusion Ajax features. So if you have always wanted to do some Ajax stuff or you want to learn what Ajax is, then this is for you.

Topics covered include:

- CFAJAXPROXY to bind to controls and CFC's
- CFGRID a DHTML grid with binding and paging
- CFINPUT an autosuggest feature using Ajax binding
- Javascript methods that come with ColdFusion 8
- and more

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com

Inexpensive CF hosting turns into cheap one

15 November 16:22 (EST)
Recently my hosing provider (HostingFuse) has decided to upgrade their hardware, what supposed to be a good move.

In reality this turns into hell ( read more on Inexpensive CF hosting turns into cheap one )

ColdFusion Camp Australia

9 November 11:04 (EST)
CFCAMP is a free, mini-conference for ColdFusion developers by ColdFusion developers.

November 2007
20: Sydney at Rydges World Square
21: Brisbane at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
22: Melbourne at the Crown Promanade
27: Perth at the Hyatt Regency

Registration is free, but number of seats is limited to 100.

Be there or be a .NET developer!

OpenSocial

2 November 23:14 (EST)
Today Google officially launched OpenSocial, a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web. OpenSocial allows developers to write an application once that will run anywhere that supports the OpenSocial APIs.

Sitemap Protocol extended by Google

19 October 13:59 (EST)
Google has extended Sitemap Protocol to support code files, so your public source code will be searchable via Google Code Search. Now it is possible to specify all the code files on your site, as well as the programming language and software license for each file.

Melbourne CFUG (October)

8 October 16:15 (EST)
When: 18 October 2007 @ 7:00pm
Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)
Agenda: Luis Majano himself is going to talk to us over Connect about the ColdBox Framework.

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in sunny Redlands, California. He graduated from Florida International University and holds an Advanced Coldfusion MX 6,7 Developer Certifications. He has over 7 years experience in software development, networking and system design. He is also a freelance engineer and president of Ortus Solutions, Corp.

ColdBox is a proven event-driven CFC based ColdFusion Framework, specifically designed for high availability web applications. The purpose behind ColdBox was to create a fast & stable development methodology that could be shared among several developers. It makes use of an MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern implemented via CFC's. It uses event handler CFC's that hold all the code necessary to prepare views, call model CFC's or a business layer (SOAP/WS/XML/J2EE) and render views (HTML).

More information on ColdBox can be found at:
http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com

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  • ColdFusion Weekly Podcast 3.08: Andy Powell on Enterprise MVC with CF and Java
    Brian Swartzfager, 17 May 22:45
    The latest version of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast was released yesterday. In this episode, Matt and Peter talk with Andy Powell about using native Java objects as the basis for your model when building your ColdFusion applications using the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Andy gave a presentation on this topic at cf.Objective(). As always, you can get it by either subscribing to the podcast via ITunes or by downloading it from the ColdFusion Weekly web site.
  • Did you know a hot fix for ColdFusion was released this week?
    Raymond Camden, 17 May 21:24
    I didn't. I really wish there was some type of service (perhaps using a web application - anyone know how to build those?) where I could ask Adobe to email on each and every ColdFusion update. I definitely get that some hot fixes are not for everyone. Adobe recommends you only get a hot fix typically if it applies to an issue you are having, but this weeks release was a cumulative hot fix - something most folks probably want to install. You can find it here: ColdFusion 8.0.
  • See You At WebManiacs & A Rock Climbing Expedition
    Andrew Powell, 17 May 20:05
    I head out to Webmaniacs tomorrow.  I'm speaking at three sessions:Fundamentals of Mach-IIFlex & Java (Implementing BlazeDS)Open Source Flex / CF PanelI am also trying to organize a trip to a local DC area rock gym.  If you're interested, or know of a good one in the area (Metro accessible), leave a comment.
  • ColdFusion Weekly Interview
    Andrew Powell, 17 May 20:05
    A few weeks ago, I did an interview with Matt & Peter at ColdFusion Weekly.  It was intended as cf.Objective() preview, but things happen, and it was released last night.
  • Links: 5-16-2008
    Aaron Johnson, 17 May 18:50
    Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!) - O’Reilly Radar The "… the ability to consistently create and deploy reliable software to an unreliable platform that scales horizontally" is a competitive advantage.
  • ColdFusion 8.0.1 Hot Fix
    Sean Corfield, 17 May 16:46
    If you're on 64-bit Linux and you're using RewriteRule in Apache, you probably need this Culmulative Hot Fix for ColdFusion 8.0.1. I hit this during testing and it was a blocker for Broadchoice to move from 32-bit Linux to 64-bit Linux (bug 71362). There are also four other bug fixes in this hot fix so check out the Tech Note. Anyone else running ColdFusion 8.0.1 in production on 64-bit Linux or are we the first company to do so (on our twelve-server cluster)?
  • CF 8.0.1 Cumulative Hot Fix - Get It Now
    Todd Sharp, 17 May 13:44
    I'm not sure how in the world I didn't know there was a hot fix released this week, but I just spent a few good hours trying to figure out why CF wouldn't delete an image after I'd resized it. Apparently it is a known bug that has been fixed. Go get it. Do it...
  • I just got 500k, what can I do with it? [Financial Fridays]
    Jeremiah Merrick, 17 May 13:32
    I have started to do a segment on fridays called “Financial Fridays” where I will write about something having to do with personal or business finance. I have always been intrigued with money and making it work so this is a natural progression for this blog. If you have questions you want to submit just [...
  • Free ColdFusion Training
    Andy Allan, 17 May 12:53
    I've been considering this one for a while, but because of Scotch on the Rocks, moving house and planning a wedding - well, Leanne has been planning and I'm just nodding in agreement - it's sort of slipped off the radar. The plan quite simply is... one days free training on "something" ColdFusion 8 related. Since CF8 came out, I've given a few presentations, I've been writing tutorials for Web Designer Magazine, I've been organising Scotch and now I want to lay on a days worth of training.
  • ColdBox 2.6 + AJAX (powered by jQuery) = Sinfully Easy
    Matt Quackenbush, 17 May 07:48
    I've mentioned before that I <3 ColdBox and that I <3 jQuery. Independently of one another, they are just a pleasure to work with. Today I decided to write my first-ever jQuery-powered AJAX functionality inside a ColdBox-powered application. It's ridiculously simple to do - one might even say sinful. So easy in fact, that I decided to post a quick "tutorial" on how to handle a pretty common task with ColdBox and jQuery.