CFObjective 2008 – Day 2 – Using ANT to make development easier

ANT requires the use of source control because it’s a scripting tool that does a bunch of things automatically… can mess things up if you get it wrong. You’ll need to be able to restore if necessary.

Latest version is 1.7. Java-based and comes bundled with Eclipse with ANT 1.6.5. Can be used right [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 2 – Selling Professional Development

How to get everyone else to use the modern development tools and techniques that you do.

“Pragmatic Programmer”

Things we should probably use in the office:

Eclipse (with Aptana and Flex Builder) – With Aptana, I have officially and completely switched over to Eclipse.

Local Development – for full server control, general debugging, [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 1 – Implementing UI: Improving your chances

Presentation of CommonSpot from PaperThin and how they massively changed their UI in an updated, extensible fashion. Sounds a lot like where the VFC is at right now. Their product needed to be faster, easier, and more extensible. They also needed to maximize available space without clutter. It also needed to be scalable, of [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 1 – Leveraging CF with AIR

Samer Samek

Different ways to connecting CF and AIR. Different ways to write code to AIR apps. Aptana is the method of choice right now.

Open up Aptana plug-in in Eclipse and start a new AIR Project. It will create a simple app for you to start with.

Export project to deploy your app.

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CFObjective 2008 – Day 1 – Keynote

I made it to Minnesota. 280 people here.

Adobe Keynote – Jason Delmore

ColdFusion is a hot language now. Check out the Tiobe Software Index. ColdFusion has jumped 11 slots recently and it moving up fast.

We need to install CF 8.01. It’s got a bunch of new features and more than 500 bug [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 1 – Flex 3 for CF Developers

Mike Nimer

Flex is an HTML replacement according to Mike Nimer. BlazeDS vs. LiveCycle Data (Data Management – Data sync for simultaneous data editing – Realtime push to 5 or 5000 clients). Blaze does data push and updates, but I guess LC is a little more “enterprise”.

LiveCycle can be installed within or next [...]

Need a ColdFusion IsTime() Function? Just use IsDate()!

This is very old news, but I think it still generates a lot of questions and searching from ColdFusion developers. There is no literal IsTime() or IsTimeFormat() function in ColdFusion in order to check whether or not a value is formatted properly as a time.

When a developer needs this functionality, they will often [...]

What Would Ben Forta Do?

Come find out for yourself!

Ben Forta will be telling us all about the new release of ColdFusion (codename Scorpio), and how friggin’ awesome it will be.  If you live anywhere near southern Connecticut, you are welcome to come by!  Here are the details:

Ben Forta introduces Scorpio: ColdFusion MX 8

May [...]

CFObjective: Day 3 – Top Secret Scorpio

Ben Forta

Scorpio focus: Developer Productivity, Integration, Management & Admin New features have relation to Eclipse in some way AJAX Support

Controls – cfgrid, autosuggest, etc. Layout Wizards – ColdFusion/AJAX Application Wizard – Kick start for AJAX apps

Eclipse-based ColdFusion Debugger

Step through debugging Access to variables Breakpoints

This debugger is pretty cool.  Eclipse [...]

CFObjective: Day 3 – SOA with ColdSpring and Trans

Sean Corfield

Service-Oriented Architecture – Expose common business entities and operations to multiple clients across the enterprise. Adobe Hosted Services “Stanza” project

These concepts might be quite useful for our “bird” project.

SOA

Data Dictionary – Everyone needs to agree what a “customer” is. Service Directory – You need to be able to find [...]