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!

ColdFusion 8 Launch Party in Melbourne

30 July 14:34 (EST)
All! It's a special CF8 Launch party!!!!

When: 8th of August, Meeting starts at 6:30pm, so get there before hand
** Please note, we are starting a little bit early this time, due to the crossover between states.

Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)

Agenda:

This is the official ColdFusion 8 Launch Party!

We will have presentations from Ben Forta via Connect, crossovers between the launch parties at all the other CFUGs across Australia and New Zealand, and prizes from Adobe for those people that attend!

Everyone is welcome, and if you haven't attended a single CFUG meeting yet, now is the time to come down!

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com

As per usual, we'll grab pizza during the evening, so we have something to scoff down!

Look forward to seeing you all there.
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ABN Validation

10 April 2007 17:48 (EST)
Australian Business Number (ABN) validation function, based on ABN format description from Australian Taxation Office (ATO):

<cffunction name="isValidABN" returntype="boolean" access="public" output="false">
   <cfargument name="ABN" type="string" required="true" />

   <cfset var aWeight = listtoarray("10, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19") />
   <cfset var sABN = "" />
   <cfset var i = 0 />
   <cfset var hashSum = 0 />

   <cfset sABN = rereplace(arguments.ABN,"[^\d]","","all") />

   <cfif len(sABN) eq 11>
      <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="11">
         <cfset hashSum = hashSum + aWeight[i]*(mid(sABN,i,1)-iif(i eq 1,de(1),de(0))) />
      </cfloop>
      <cfif hashSum mod 89 eq 0>
         <cfreturn true />
      </cfif>
   </cfif>

   <cfreturn false />

</cffunction>
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CFXM 7 Hosting

8 March 2007 11:10 (EST)
HostingFuse Optima — AU$99/year (see details)
CrystalTech — US $16.95/month