ColdFusion Developer in Australia

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.

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

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 )

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!

Ruby on Rails commercial in the style of Mac vs PC ads. ( read more on Ruby on Rails VS ColdFusion )

Google Analytics shows following top 5 countries visiting this (ColdFusion Developer in Australia) website since its launch about 11 months ago:

1. United States
2. Australia
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. India

This weekend I have developed simple Facebook application in ColdFusion — The Friend of a Friend.

Facebook gives you opportunity to view friends of a single person, but not all friends of your friends at once. This application allows you easily list friends of your friends, who have installed this application too, on just one screen.

More functions are coming... Join Facebook!

Now you can easily get Alexa Rank or Google PageRank in ColdFusion using getRank! library.

A while ago Rey Bango gave us facility (GotCFM?com) to create a list of ColdFusion-powered websites.

In addition to recent Ed Tabara's CF list analysis, I have compiled my Top 100 ColdFusion websites list based on Alexa rank, but it also includes Google PageRank and will be updated automatically once in a week.

Many thanks to Adam Fortuna for his original idea.

I’ve got an odd problem with CFMX server (at least version 7.0.1) recently — it looks like DateFormat function reset content type to text/html despite use of cfcontent tag for defining different mime type before. ( read more on Broken content type )