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. Keep up the good work Brian.
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. Here is an example below;
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;
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. 10.5 also comes pre-installed with Apache 2.2
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.
Kforce in Tampa is looking for a senior ColdFusion architect. If you are interested, please contact Nicole Stephenson – nstephenson@kforce.com. The job description can be found below.
Seann T. Mulligan of K-Force in Tampa is looking for a ColdFusion Application Architect. There is a job description and contact information below;
Todd over at cfsilence.com had a a question about one of my recent blog posts on converting WMF files to GIF files. I gave an example of how to do this in .NET, but how do you leverage ColdFusion's .NET integration to do the same thing in ColdFusion.
The first thing you have to do is create a class project in .NET. Add a reference to the System.Drawing library. Here is the class I built for this example;
I heard about this today on the CF-Talk list. There is a survey about what ColdFusion developers would like to see in a IDE if one were to be developed by Adobe. Here is your chance to let Adobe know what you want in an IDE for ColdFusion.
I personally use CFEclipse and enjoy using that more than DreamWeaver or Homesite.
