Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
We have just released a ColdFusion Survey to try and understand more about what are the actual ColdFusion developer’s perceptions.
We’ll be giving away a free copy of CFWACK 9 Volumes 1 – 3 for a lucky person who successfully completes the survey.
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes
I’m delighted to say John Farrar has released his new ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial book, and it’s now available from all the major retailers around the world.
I’ve already ordered mine, and am expecting to get it at some time next week.
In the meantime, I’ll start reading the e-book version of it, which can also be purchased via Packt Website.
If you’re unsure about this book, I’d recommend you having a read at the freely available chapter 4 that can also be found on their website.
I’ve been asked by the publishers to write a review on this book, which I should be doing once I get the book and read it, so watch this space.
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
Photo by: laihiu
I jumped into the Android bandwagon about two months ago, and so far I can’t cease to be impressed.
One of my favorite features is how easy it is to install new apps, as well as how open (source) the whole thing is. You can install and do whatever you like, without having to rely on closed platforms, or having to “sync as soon as I get home“. Do it anywhere, and whenever you please. It’s your phone, and you should be allowed freedom.
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes
Photo by: cote
It came to my attention today that one of the most famous ColdFusion conferences, CFUnited, will cease to exist from 2011 onwards. While the fact that one of the most important and longest running ColdFusion conferences in the world will not be around next year deeply saddens me, but at the same time I see it as a door opener for the new and more modern conference models.
I have never been to the American version of CFUnited myself, and believe everyone that say it’s a Summer Camp for developers. On the other hand, I have been to the European Version back in 2008, and have to say I wasn’t impressed at all. After talking to people during the conference who have actually been to the American version, I was left underwhelmed by their comments about it being 50% marketing. My first impression about the whole thing was the companies would pay a top price to have their stands around and offer their products while we tried to get something out of the conference itself. While I understand conferences aren’t cheap, i’ve been to other conferences before, and marketing wasn’t so aggressive.
Anyway, the objective of this post is not to slag CFUnited off, but to bring some hope to the hopeless, and happiness to the sad.
The end of CFUnited DOES NOT mean the end of ColdFusion (CFUnited.dead() NEQ ColdFusion.dead()). ColdFusion is alive and kicking, and after CF9, it’s been livelier than ever. Ever since Adobe bought Macromedia, ColdFusion has never been in a better situation than it is right now.
ColdFusion currently has an entire team of engineers working actively on it, and a really capable team working on it’s evangelism. Better than all that, this entire team can be easily reached by anyone willing to do so.
Some examples are:
- Terrence Ryan (@tpryan)
- Adam Lehman (@adrocknaphobia)
- Liz Frederick (@lizign)
- @alihuselid
- Ben Forta (@benforta)
And many others. That is without mentioning the great community the CFML language has. Some people there will remain my friends, even if I one day decide that ColdFusion is not the main technology I’ll be using.
That said, what really triggered me to write this, was a blog post by Hal Helms earlier today, where he tries to somehow tie the fact that CFUnited is only halting because ColdFusion is not strong enough, and that although people should not over-react, they should not under-react either.
This in my opinion (with all the due respect to Hal Helms) is just plain FUD, and was intentionally posted to generate flame. While I truly believe someone like Hal Helms would not need this sort of “notorious popularity”, I fail to understand what exactly his point was on posting such a thing.
I believe knowledge is the key to everything, so you should keep learning constantly, and try your best to keep on top of everything on your domain, and agree that Hal made a good point by saying this. It’s just that it doesn’t really seem like the same person who wrote this just the other day.
Now, in terms of conference, there are tons of good ones around, and just to mention some of them:
And many others as Terrence Ryan mentions here.
With that said, we still can’t forget that the CFML community got recently a tremendous addition when Railo was made open-source. This takes CFML to a whole new level, where developers coming from other languages can’t complain any more about ColdFusion being too expensive, or it’s source being too strict. There is no excuses not to use CFML. It’s got a great community always willing to help, some excellent resources all around, development of complex systems is made a breeze, and more and more companies are adopting it.
Long live to CF!
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes
I recently had to move an entire folder on SVN from a place to another. When you think “folders”, you simply imagine that would be an easy drag & drop task.
In fact, if you try to drag a folder into another, you will end up in a “missing” folder nightmare as such:
This is not very good, as when you try to commit, it will most likely not let you. However, if it lets you, it (SVN) will try to delete the folders first, and then re-create them again.
TortoiseSVN makes it easier to do though, as with a very nifty trick, you can get it to use svn move properly.
To do so, simply right click (holding it) on the folders you want to move, and drag them to wherever you want them to be moved to.
Once you release the right click button, you should be presented with a screen like this:
This gives you various options of actions that can be performed with the selected folder, such as:
- Move the versioned items into the folder;
- Copy the versioned items into the folder;
- Export versioned items into the folder;
TortoiseSVN will then take care of everything for you, and when you commit, it will properly move your folders, and not give you any grief.
Recent Comments