Today I ran into the following problem while working in CFEclipse:

Error opening the editor.
org.eclipse.jface.text.Document cannot be cast to
org.cfeclipse.cfml.editors.ICFDocument

As a result of further investigation I discovered lack of permissions to a few files on mapped network drive with my spaghetti code.

Tonight I had some time to clean up blogroll for CFDA aggregator and noticed how many CF blogs does not validate their feeds.

While aggregator is setup to fix common errors (null characters, non-standard date format, etc.), from now it will also be counting http errors and checking feeds validity to prioritize data fetching. Therefore I want to encourage you to double check your feeds and its validity.

Another kindly request is to properly categorize blog entries using relevant tags.

For feed validation you can use W3C Feed Validation Service or FEED Validator.

BTW, ColdFusion is a single word for many years already, not Cold Fusion.

Working with OpenID CFC project I found another way to create HMAC:SHA1 string using Java: ( read more on HMAC SHA1 using Java )

Late summer 2005, Brad Fitzpatrick at Six Apart came up with OpenID to facilitate authenticating your ownership of a URL to another website. The driving force behind this was to enable commenting across multiple blogging sites with the need for accounts on each of these services.

On 5th December 2007 OpenID 2.0 specifications has been released.

OpenID 1.0 is largely about authentication. OpenID 2.0 adds several important new capabilities:

- directed identities
- attribute exchange
- support or large requests and responses
- robust support or extensions
- support for XRIs

OpenID should be viewed as a core fundamental enabling technology. It allows the authentication and exchange of account data between un-related websites. Indeed, it does not attempt to solve higher level problems, such as authorization. Instead you can invision it as the underlying technology for interactions between social networks.

More than 8,000 websites currently accept OpenID and this figure is growing by five percent per week.

When: 20 December 2007 @ 7:00pm
Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)
Agenda: Dale Fraser will be presenting on CFAJAX!

ColdFusion 8 includes a lot of Ajax features, and if you think Ajax is complicated, think again. Ajax will make some of the things you do now easier, and if you can write ColdFusion code, you can easily use Ajax with ColdFusion Ajax features. So if you have always wanted to do some Ajax stuff or you want to learn what Ajax is, then this is for you.

Topics covered include:

- CFAJAXPROXY to bind to controls and CFC's
- CFGRID a DHTML grid with binding and paging
- CFINPUT an autosuggest feature using Ajax binding
- Javascript methods that come with ColdFusion 8
- and more

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com

Recently my hosing provider (HostingFuse) has decided to upgrade their hardware, what supposed to be a good move.

In reality this turns into hell ( read more on Inexpensive CF hosting turns into cheap one )

CFCAMP is a free, mini-conference for ColdFusion developers by ColdFusion developers.

November 2007
20: Sydney at Rydges World Square
21: Brisbane at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
22: Melbourne at the Crown Promanade
27: Perth at the Hyatt Regency

Registration is free, but number of seats is limited to 100.

Be there or be a .NET developer!

Today Google officially launched OpenSocial, a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web. OpenSocial allows developers to write an application once that will run anywhere that supports the OpenSocial APIs.

Google has extended Sitemap Protocol to support code files, so your public source code will be searchable via Google Code Search. Now it is possible to specify all the code files on your site, as well as the programming language and software license for each file.

When: 18 October 2007 @ 7:00pm
Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)
Agenda: Luis Majano himself is going to talk to us over Connect about the ColdBox Framework.

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in sunny Redlands, California. He graduated from Florida International University and holds an Advanced Coldfusion MX 6,7 Developer Certifications. He has over 7 years experience in software development, networking and system design. He is also a freelance engineer and president of Ortus Solutions, Corp.

ColdBox is a proven event-driven CFC based ColdFusion Framework, specifically designed for high availability web applications. The purpose behind ColdBox was to create a fast & stable development methodology that could be shared among several developers. It makes use of an MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern implemented via CFC's. It uses event handler CFC's that hold all the code necessary to prepare views, call model CFC's or a business layer (SOAP/WS/XML/J2EE) and render views (HTML).

More information on ColdBox can be found at:
http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com