I have finally migrated my blog to my new server. Part of the fun was tweaking Ray Camden's BlogCFC to be PostgreSQL compatible. It really wasn't that hard because BlogCFC already had Oracle support, and PostgreSQL's and Oracle's SQL commands are pretty similar. I guess we will see if I introduced any bugs in my tweak shortly. I should probably tweak the skin as well.

I was wondering if anyone has figured out a better way to expose a cfc for Flash Remoting or as a webservice when using MG:2 than the way I have been doing it. I know it's possible to to just target a cfc directly but I want to have Coldspring configure of the cfc I'm targeting as have the ability to use Reactor within it. Coldspring actully has a very cool ability to create a facade of a bean for use for flash remoting.

The training wheels were off, and we were rolling on our own with two presentations from locals. Both presentations were similar in that both featured tools to simplify how data is managed by Coldfusion web applications but that was where the similarity ended. Kristian Ward and David Mayerlen from UpstartX and the Pointt, gave a presentation on their product the Pointt. At first I thought it was a RAD tool or some sort of ORM tool, but now I realize it's more of a datamining/manipulation tool.

For our first real CFUG meeting, we got the help of the very popular Flash Users Group (Flash in T.O.) and had joint meeting at their usual place the reactor gallery. I took the liberty of giving a presentation on the work I've done on the TAXI.ca website. Kristian Ward and David Mayerlen from UpstartX gave a presentation on their experience making a photo album for the Dove campaign for real beauty website. Nolan Dubeau and Theirry Load gave a presentation on their work for johnst.com and mijo.

I have just added PostgreSQL database support to Doug Hughes' Reactor for Coldfusion, which is a database abstraction code generator. It already supported Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL. Oracle and DB2 support aren't far off either. A tool like Reactor can remove a lot of the drudge work involved in putting data into and getting it out of a database. It integrates easily with all the popular CF frameworks like Model Glue, Mach II, or Fusebox.

For better or for worse I'm a mac user. One of things I thought was kind of neat while using a PC at work was the dockable debug pane for debugging Coldfusion. Unfortunately it doesn't work in Safari or Firefox, so when I switched (back) over to a Mac at work I was stuck with "Classic" debugging. I rarely seem to use the Coldfusion debugger anymore, and I didn't really use it that much to begin with. Mainly because it gets in the way and disrupts the formatting of the HTML.