Tonight is the night of the JaxFusion meeting. The presentation for tonight's meeting will be on how to integration of Flex/Air applications with ColdFusion. Thanks to the folks at Southwest Signal for hosting the meetings. Here is a map to their office. See you tonight.

Sorry about the last minute confusion, but the next JaxFusion meeting will be held next Tuesday on the 22nd. I apologize for the last minute change. The meeting will cover some of the different ways you can integrate Flex/Air applications with ColdFusion 8.

It has been awhile since the last JaxFusion meeting. We are meeting at Southwest Signal next Wednesday. I will be giving a presentation on integrating ColdFusion with Flex and Air applications. There have been a lot of changes in the ColdFusion community in the last couple of months and I am looking forward to meeting up with the developers in the group.

The Jacksonville Code Camp needs sponsors. The Code Camp is a free event for developers now in its forth year. Sponsorships can be as low as $25.00. The code camp needs to raise $10,000 for the entire event. This years camp should be very good, because there will be tracks for .NET, Java, Ruby, Flex and ColdFusion.

The fine folks at SouthWest Signal will be hosting the next JaxFusion meeting. July's meeting will be covering how to integrate ColdFusion with Flex/Air applications. We will be giving away a lot of goodies from Adobe. We hope to make this a regular occurrence again. We are also going to have a presence this year at the Jacksonville Code Camp.

I was saddened when I heard that the CFWeekly podcast was being retired. I thought Matt and Pete did an excellent job with that podcast. One of my favorite podcasts was when they had a round table of different CF developers. One of those developers was Brian Meloche. Brian is now hosting a new podcast called CF Conversations. The first podcast has a round table with Rick Mason, Adam Haskell, Jeff Coughlin and Aaron West. I listened it this morning, and I really like the format.

I got a question yesterday about how to just get the XML being returned from a web service call. SOAP Based web services use a XML standard syntax when the client communicates with a service. ColdFusion does a pretty good job of translating the return value into either a simple object, or a Java like serialized object. I believe CF7 included some new functions for returning the XML used in the request and the response.

I have been developing almost exclusively in C# .net for about a year now. In that time, I have wished for some of the language functionality in ColdFusion to find its way into C#. I have been using Visual Studio 2008 since it came out, and I found a project that is used to test Linq called ObjectDumper. It compiles a class called ObjectDumper that can be used for dumping the value of just about any object into a command line. Here is some sample syntax; using System; using System.Collections.

Adobe has released the ColdFusion 8 updater 1. This contains some hot-fixes, but the real news is that Adobe has released 64 bit version for Windows, Linux and Mac OS 10.5. Previously the only 64 bit version of ColdFusion ran on Solaris only. If you have been running any server software on 64 bit hardware, you have probably seen improvements in permormance and memory usage. For Mac OS X users, the installer will now work with 10.5. All of my Macs are now using 64 bit hardware with Mac OS X 10.5.

I am taking a class on Microsoft SharePoint architecture this week. I learned today in the class that the next version of SharePoint will be 64 bit only. If you are going to be buying new server hardware, get 64 bit hardware. Not only does SharePoint run better on 64 bit hardware, so does MS SQL Server and ColdFusion. You can also take advantage of much more RAM. I believe that 32 bit hardware is limited to a maximum of 2-4 GBs. 64 bit hardware can go up to 256 Terabytes in theory.