Ruby on Rails commercial in the style of Mac vs PC ads. ( read more on Ruby on Rails VS ColdFusion )

Google Analytics shows following top 5 countries visiting this (ColdFusion Developer in Australia) website since its launch about 11 months ago:

1. United States
2. Australia
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. India

This weekend I have developed simple Facebook application in ColdFusion — The Friend of a Friend.

Facebook gives you opportunity to view friends of a single person, but not all friends of your friends at once. This application allows you easily list friends of your friends, who have installed this application too, on just one screen.

More functions are coming... Join Facebook!

When: 20 September 2007 @ 7:00pm
Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)
Agenda: We have the venerable Robin Hilliard coming down to talk to use about using AIR in conjunction with SQL.

One of the most exciting features recently added to the Adobe Integrated Runtime is support for SQL. In this presentation Robin will:
- Show you how to use the flash.data API,
- Cover what subset of SQL is supported, and
- Give you an idea of the performance of the SQL engine.

Robin Hilliard is founder and CEO of RocketBoots, a company providing consulting, training and software licensing services to teams working with Flash Platform technologies. He is an experienced software architect, with a particular focus on Adobe's Flex, ColdFusion, Flash and Flash Media Server products. Formerly with Allaire and Macromedia, Robin is a certified Flash and ColdFusion developer, an Adobe certified Master Flex Instructor and has a BSc in computer science and pure mathematics from Sydney University. Robin is based in Sydney, Australia.

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com

Now you can easily get Alexa Rank or Google PageRank in ColdFusion using getRank! library.

A while ago Rey Bango gave us facility (GotCFM?com) to create a list of ColdFusion-powered websites.

In addition to recent Ed Tabara's CF list analysis, I have compiled my Top 100 ColdFusion websites list based on Alexa rank, but it also includes Google PageRank and will be updated automatically once in a week.

Many thanks to Adam Fortuna for his original idea.

Working with CFEclipse was never a better time to me until recent days when over time saving network files become slower and slower. Today while saving files (those are on mapped network drive) Eclipse has started randomly throwing error "Save could not be completed. Reason: Has been changed on the file system" after hanging access to network drive for 10-30 seconds and saving an empty file. ( read more on Saving to network drive in Eclipse )

On July 30, 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced availability of Adobe ColdFusion 8.

ColdFusion 8, a powerful development tool for building dynamic websites and Internet applications, increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments, and delivers rich and engaging experiences for users. Since May 2007, more than 14,000 developers have actively participated in the ColdFusion 8 public beta, praising the new capabilities in this latest version.

All! It's a special CF8 Launch party!!!!

When: 8th of August, Meeting starts at 6:30pm, so get there before hand
** Please note, we are starting a little bit early this time, due to the crossover between states.

Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (map)

Agenda:

This is the official ColdFusion 8 Launch Party!

We will have presentations from Ben Forta via Connect, crossovers between the launch parties at all the other CFUGs across Australia and New Zealand, and prizes from Adobe for those people that attend!

Everyone is welcome, and if you haven't attended a single CFUG meeting yet, now is the time to come down!

RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT com

As per usual, we'll grab pizza during the evening, so we have something to scoff down!

Look forward to seeing you all there.

You can use following code to convert string encoding using Java library:


( read more on String encoding conversion )