FusionDox finally has its own blog!  Check it out, and read about new features in our upcoming release. http://www.fusiondox.

Here are the presentation files and sample flex apps from my presentation on "Charting with CF and Flex" on Friday June 20, 2008. RIA328_Charting_with_CF_and_Flex.zip (5.

I am finally back in the office after CFUN Europe (and some travelling afterwards). My apologize to all those who have been asking about my presentation files.  They are posted below. cfun_europe_08_recursion.zip cfun_europe_08_xml.zip Overall I thought CFUN Europe was very successful.  There were a lot of presentations on CF+AJAX, and a lot of focus on integration between CF and Flex -- very valuable stuff for any CF coder.

On a clean multiserver install of ColdFusion 8, I was surprised that <cfapplication> was throwing an error. The error I was getting was: An error occurred in creating the presentation. java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\JRun4\servers\SERVER_NAME\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\WEB-INF\cfusion\lib\preso\viewer.

CF United Europe is coming up people!  It looks to be a good show.  I will be there and speaking on XML and Recursive programming. Register for CFUnited Europe by Jan 10th 2008 and save $100 off the base registration rate. Also as a group discount, register 3 for the price of 2, for more details contact info@cfunited.

Not too long ago I posted a coldfusion component to handle compression for rar and 7z.  Here is a report from the first time using it. For reference, here is the important info: Download version 1.0 -- lib_rar7z_cfc_v100.zip This is of course released as-is no warranty, no support, blah blah, and eventually if people like this, I will officially make it open source.  Its a small piece of code, so who knows how useful it will be.

No, this isn't an "original" rant...  just spreading the word on an already available, and excellent eye-opening writeup of why CF doesn't fit the "mold" of other "programming languages" and why it isn't a simple process to say "this is free, why isn't CF free?" Anyway, stop reading my blog, and read this instead: http://www.cfinsider.com/index.cfm/2007/11/10/Things-ColdFusion-is-not-and-Why-ColdFusion-isnt-free Thanks to CF Insider!

I am truly impressed with what this group has brought to the development community.  Long ago I loved a code editor called "HomeSite+" which existed in several interesting flavors, ColdFusion Studio (i think?), and JRun Studio were two other flavors I remember.  Then came the Dreamweaver shift...  I never really got on that bandwagon.  I resisted for a LONG time, then I tried it out, and just never really was thrilled with it.  I am a coder at heart. Then came Eclipse.