Today I was inspired to write a Random utility component. The first article that inspired me to write this utility was Pete Freitag's article on selecting a random row from a database table. The second was Ben Forta's article on how ColdFusion is not a DBMS. The main point was to leverage the DBMS whenever possible and let ColdFusion do the job that it needs to.

I am not sure how I missed this but I did. Beta version 1.3 of CFEclipse is now able to run on eclipse 3.1. This is huge because I have to run 3.1 to take advantage of the RDS plugins. It really is a great time to be a fan of CFEclipse. If you are running 3.1 or higher and would like to see what is new with CFEclipse please click on the link below.

I am not sure how I missed this but I did. Beta version 1.3 of CFEclipse is now able to run on eclipse 3.1. This is huge because I have to run 3.1 to take advantage of the RDS plugins. It really is a great time to be a fan of CFEclipse. If you are running 3.1 or higher and would like to see what is new with CFEclipse please click on the link below.

In building a shopping cart application you always have to remember that the product is the backbone of the application, well at least to the customer it is. The reason a customer needs a shopping cart is because they need the ability to sell their product so I always like to remind myself the why! With that being said the Product Table and model are my next steps in building a rock solid core. The first thing I would like to visit is the product table and define the basic fields.

In building a shopping cart application you always have to remember that the product is the backbone of the application, well at least to the customer it is. The reason a customer needs a shopping cart is because they need the ability to sell their product so I always like to remind myself the why! With that being said the Product Table and model are my next steps in building a rock solid core. The first thing I would like to visit is the product table and define the basic fields.

I did not know it but I am now getting indexed by fullasagoog. I have been trying to get added over there and now I got picked up. I am not sure when or how but thanks to everyone over there! [update] - My apolgies for slamming the good with a ton of posts. Todd over at http://www.cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm showed me how to update my posts!

I did not know it but I am now getting indexed by fullasagoog. I have been trying to get added over there and now I got picked up. I am not sure when or how but thanks to everyone over there! [update] - My apolgies for slamming the good with a ton of posts. Todd over at http://www.cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm showed me how to update my posts!

With any system there is a core that needs to be rock solid. When it comes to shopping carts I think this is especially true. So when designing a shopping cart I think it is important to start from the core, build it right, and then build out from there. With that being said I am working on an open source cart for the community (more on this later) and I would like to share some ideas on the core component of the application, the cart component.

I was amazed to find out that keyword new was not a reserved word. I was fairly certain that it was not a keyword that is being used but I thought It may be reserved for latter use. With that being said and my new found love for cfcUnit (more on this later kids!) I now have a cool little utility function. Again, I got the idea from cfcUnit as they use the newObject() form. So I alway have a base class for each project that all other components or other base classes will extend.

Last Night we held our CFUG and AUG joint holiday meeting. We had a very nice turnout and It was great to see everyone get out and have some fun last night. I want to send out a couple of thank you's. First off a big thank you to Jacqueline Lum who was kind enough to donate a $15 Starbucks gift certificate and a $25 gift certificate. Also another big thank you to Brian Meloche for putting it all together. So on to my big news from last night.