Speaking at CF in NC...Come Along and Enter to Win a Flip CF Dude Camera
ColdFusion, CFinNCI am delighted to have been chosen to present at the CF in NC conference in October on the topic of "One Liners in ColdFusion". Its a topic I enjoy, one that I've blogged about and one that Joe Rinehart mentioned in his excellent keynote on day two of CFUnited.
The session line up at CF in NC conference is very exciting and if you can make it I suggest coming along. There is even a chance to win a CF Dude Flip Video Camera.
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My 30onAir Video
ColdFusion30onAir is a rather fun site where developers explain why they love certain technologies like CF, Flex, Air, AJAX, etc. Here is my CF attempt:
How to Add a Derby Database with DerbyCFC
ColdFusion, DerbyCFCTwo simple lines to add a Derby database with DerbyCFC:
<cfset variables.derbyCFC = createObject("component","derbyCFC").init(adminPassword)>
<cfset variables.success = variables.derbyCFC.createIfNotExists(name)>That will add a database with a datasource of the same name. The createIfNotExists function also takes in all the other potential settings for a datasource (select, insert, grant, etc). I made some small changes to the code base to make the creation possible in two lines and with this comes version 1 of DerbyCFC. I hope it proves useful for open source projects, let me know if you use it and if you have any suggestions.
It has been a fun little project to work on and interesting to delve a little more into the AdminAPI. Lots of good stuff in there.
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Two Thumbs Up: Lynda Online Training
ColdFusion, Training, FlexI have been learning Flex for a few months and the best resource I've found is Lynda online training. They have several Flex courses including many that focus on ColdFusion and Flex communication (and some on .NET and Java) and this has been extremely useful. I learn new topics and languages quicker from training and having the video's of all topics available at any time has been a big boost. Most video's are 3-10 minutes long which means I can pick up a new topic or part of a new topic during a moment of scheduled or unscheduled downtime.
One other huge advantage to the Lynda subscription is the sheer number of courses they offer that focus mainly on Apple and Adobe products. There are five ColdFusion courses that are very good and they complete the web development area with classes on CSS, HTML and SQL. Course's exist for many other products, for instance, at work we just bought a XServe and the Lynda training has proved invaluable in setting it up.
Overall I give the Lynda online movies two thumbs up!
Insanely Useful: Spoolmail
ColdFusionFor years I have programmed all sorts of workarounds for sending email in development. Recently I tried Spoolmail, written by Ray Camden, and have found it to be insanely useful.
Set up is simple. First in the CF administrator set your mail server settings to a non existent mail server.
Second, as detailed in the instructions that come with spoolmail, place the folder in cfide/administrator folder and alter one file. Next time you log in to the CF administrator under Custom Extensions is a listing for Spoolmail.
Click on that and Spoolmail will list the contents of the undeliverable mail folder.
And here is a partial showing of clicking on one of the emails, in this case a multi-part email:
Learn CF, Write CF Tutorials and Win CF
ColdFusionLearncf.com is a new web site that aims to help people learn ColdFusion via tutorials with running demos. Everything must run on CF 8 and the tutorials, so far, mostly show off the new features of CF 8 like cfwindow, cfpresentation and .Net features.
And if you submit a tutorial before the end of the year you have a chance of winning a copy of CF 8.
I've contributed two tutorials so far on auto-saving a form and showing off some of the new file functions. I find that once I write a tutorial with explanations then I truly understand a topic. Other contributors include Ben Forta, Sean Corfield and many others. To submit a tutorial go here. The site is the brainchild of Dale Fraser, an Australian ColdFusion developer.
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