Javascript saves the day again.

As some of you know, one of my hobbies is electronics with micro controller usage, and I happen to use an electronics forum a lot when I'm losing hair excessively. One of the functionalities I really miss on this forum (vBulletin), was an option to be able to see the code posted in a bigger version, not by magnifying it, but upsizing the code box, so I didn't have too much scroll like this:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 5:25 AM - Categories: General Techie Stuff | Javascript

CFDEVCON 2008

Yes! It'll happen again. Following the successful conference that happened in 2006, Nick Tong, Russ Michaels and Richard Cooper has decided to do it again. This year they are packed with some great speakers, and some of the hottest topics ever. Just a small compilation of some of the speakers they will have this year:

1. Aral Balkan
2. Peter Bell
3. Sean Corfield
4. Mark Drew
5. Hal Helms
6. Ray Camden (can't make it)

and much more... And after all that, you still get to hit the beach, as the conference this year will be happening in Brighton. So what else do you need to go to cfdevcon's website and buy your early bird ticket (only till 30th of June)? On my old post about CFDevcon 2006 you can a bit about what were my impressions about the 2006 conference, and make sure that you'll most definitely see me there again More to come....

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:53 AM - Categories: Conferences

Cool posts with CFUnited 08 topics

Ken Auenson has been working hard on a nice set of posts about CFUnited 2008. He's giving away some great information about all the topics. Check here

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:25 PM - Categories: Conferences

What are you doing?

Well, I decided to start this topic after realizing that us, Adobe / CF developers kinda know each other from other web blogs, twitter, messenger etc, but sometimes don't know much more than that.

So for the three many people who read my blog, I decided to talk a little bit about me, and would like to encourage all of you (thee guys) to do the same, and link to this post, so I can keep track.

It shouldn't be like the "about me" section, but more of a "about me now". So let's start:

Current work: EU Commission;

Team size: 4 here (plus the hundred others in the other buildings)

Main Technologies used: ColdFusion MX 7 and Oracle;

Projects Mainly internal apps involving a massive CMS, resource management, Action Management and Business Objects;

Current Studies JQuery, BO

Next Studies Maybe AIR...

Current Hobbies Electronics as usual

What will happen next? Will probably return to UK (as soon as I find a cool job)

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:44 AM - Categories: Misc

ColdFusion 9 (AKA Centaur) to have impressive new features

I've been following closely all the comments and blog posts from the guys at CFUnited 08. I've managed to compile a list with all the new functionalities announced yesterday 18/06/08 for the ColdFusion 9 (codename Centaur). This is still work in progress, and I'm still scavenging into all the blogs and twitter posts to amend my list, but here are the key points I've go so far. ColdFusion 9 will:

• have hibernate running native;
• have implicit get/set methods in CFC's;
• have new LOCAL scope in functions;
• give you the possibility to create CFC's in cfscript (more on that later);
• have a 100% free enterprise edition for students and educators;

So far, I've been really impressed by all the points here, as some of them are really ticking items on my complaint's list. It seems that Adobe is still interested in ColdFusion (contrary to what some people think), and are really investing on it (the free editions for students tells it by itself) One of my main complaints about ColdFusion was that it wouldn't let you use OO properly (I've mentioned this hundreds of times), and now, it seems to be being addressed in a very gentle way. Well keep an eye here to read more about the new functionalities for CF9

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 1:21 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Adobe

Back in Business

Well, I know it's been a real long time since my last post here (dating over a year...). In fact I've been just involved in lots of other projects lazy and didn't really have time to update. As some of you may know, I've been working for the EU Commission for over a year now, and for some reason, the firewall blocked my blog (note that I still didn't post pics from naked chicks or stuff), and I simply let it be. Till yesterday when I found out that my blog has been massively attacked by bloody spammers, and was fully packed with nasty URL's. Maybe this is the reason why it was blocked by the firewall in first instance. I did a good clean-up on it, and now it should be OK. There's some stuff I want to post here later, so stay tuned for some exciting stuff about the new ColdFusion version (codename Centaur)

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:18 AM - Categories: General Techie Stuff | Adobe | Misc | ColdFusion