I usually try to remain fairly positive on this blog and not be outright negative about, well, anything. But this time I simply don't have any way to look positively on my most despised feature of ColdFusion. To put it simply, I hate how ColdFusion shows a JavaScript alert every time there's a problem with anything related to cfajax. Right now, I'm working on an absolutely insane HTML form. When done it will probably have multi-hundreds of fields.

Sorry for the obscure title on this blog entry. I couldn't think of a better way to title it. This entry covers some problems I ran into configuring a Flex application to work with ColdFusion Flash Remoting on Mac OS X. I am working on an Air application which will talk to ColdFusion via Flash Remoting. My components are accessible via an Apache virtual host. My virtual host answered to the domain http://photoframe, which I configured, tested and was working correctly.

Its been a busy week since I got back from MAX and I am just now getting around to posting the files from my presentation, 'Hackproofing Your ColdFusion Applications. The session seemed to be well received and the room was packed (by far the largest group of people I spoken in front of since my days as a stand-up comic). I thought MAX was a great experience. I spent a great deal of time at the "CF Unconference" which was run by Ray camden.

This morning my day was kicked off with a warning from OS X that I had next to no space left on my hard drive and that I'd better clean stuff up pronto. Luckily, I knew exactly what to remove and I took care of it. However, while cleaning up files I stumbled across a set of files in my home directory with names like "c/\temp\924A8A06-FE9F-462A-F4BDCA63C95797CE". Now that's an odd name for a file on a Mac!. I opened one of these files to see a barcode image and realized what was going on.

On a bit of my own time last evening, I was looking over the beta version of Broadchoice Workspace (which is pretty durn cool in and of itself, even if it has a ways to go before it's completely ready for prime time) and decided to post the suggestion that they integrate document versioning into the product. For the things I'd use it for, versioning would be pretty important.