 | 28 Jun 01:15 Ok, I can’t put this off any more. I keep not blogging about little things because I told my self I wouldn’t write anything else until I got this more important post out of the way. But I keep not having time for this more important post, so I just need to get [... 27 Jun 23:04 Thomas Jefferson University* is currently looking for an Intermediate to Advanced level ColdFusion developer with strong design and layout skills. Flash/Flex skills and knowledge of Contribute a plus.We are a small team that maintains TJU's internet and intranet web presence. In addition we do small to medium sized ColdFusion applications for various departments. For many of our projects we utilize Model-Glue. We provide complete service from design to database work. 27 Jun 21:41 Last week I attended a web application security workshop presented by the SANS Institute. While a majority of the content was a review for me, I did learn about one type of attack I was not familiar with, the Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. This type of attack, also known as session riding, has been around for awhile and is really pretty simple. 27 Jun 21:08 Just read this on the Railo 3 listserv. The second beta is out. A few new features were added, including the shorthand array/struct support CF8 has and cfdocument/cfpdf support. One really interesting update is the ability to specify where unscoped variables go in a UDF. Consider this example: function doit(y) { x = 2; return x*y; } #doit(5)# As you can see, I have an unscoped X variable. When I dump the Variables scope, I see doit and X. However, I can now jump into the Railo Admin... 27 Jun 20:56 In the past, the US has held a near monopoly not only in ColdFusion-based user groups, but also conferences, with CFUnited, cf.Objective() and the more general Adobe MAX leading the way. 27 Jun 13:44 The Connect Recordings from CFUnited are now available on UGTV. Even though I was unable to make the trip to DC, Rolando Lopez did an excellent job filling in for me. I will post the PowerPoint and Code Samples, as soon as I get Rolando's changes and updates. In the meantime, here's the link to the recorded presentation from CFUnited. 27 Jun 12:06 If "Web 2.0" was all about interactions and experience, then what I like to call "WebNext" is going to be about how we communicate with our services. The experience revolution that we've been a part of in the last 5 years has changed the way we use the Web, but WebNext will fundamentally change the way applications communicate and that will open up doors we never thought possible. So what is going to drive all this? Well, it's quite simple. Ever since we've had the Web, and into Web 2. 27 Jun 11:58 One of the big topics this week has been the announcement of the CFML Advisory Committee at CFUnited. This group, headed up by Sean Corfield, includes members of the Adobe ColdFusion community and the Railo community, but notably no one from the Open BlueDragon camp. Ben Forta has posted his thoughts on the committee, and [... 27 Jun 10:15 As previously announced, ColdBox is in the midst of a transition from an Open Source Software project to a Professional Open Source Software project. It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce yet another step in this transition: a new strategic partnership between Ortus Solutions, Corp and Rachel Queen Services Group, LLC, which will oversee ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars and curriculum development. 27 Jun 09:46 The other day, I explored the idea of an audit table that copies the entire record in question, creating a full-record snap-shot in time. In the comments to that post, there was some great discussion as to how to create audits and why we might want to do it a certain way. As we mostly agreed on, the type of auditing you do is highly dependent on the business strategy and what the audit is being used for. In an ... | | | |