CF Mumbo Jumbo

With CFabort you display a custom error message when the page aborts this way: <cfabort showerror="My Fail Whale message"> But how do you do it in cfscript?

At Adobe Max 2011, Scott Stroz & Dave Ferguson asked to have me on their show CFHour, to speak about GitHub.  Scott said that while he loves Git specifically, he hasn't drank the Kool-Aid on why GitHub is the best thing since a Vulcan Jedi  Ninja.  I am not sure why they asked me to be the person to speak on the topic.  I don’t proclaim to be a Git or GitHub expert.  I am a vocal advocate about the two, so maybe that is enough.

Below I list the reasons why I think GitHub is the mutt’s nuts.  What would you add? What would change?

At a recent presentation that I did on "Working with PDFs made easy with ColdFusion"  for Adobe ColdFusion Developer week an attendee asked me if it was possible to embed a SWF into a page on a PDF with ColdFusion.  I had never tried, so I told him I would find out.  Turns out you can!

Thanks to Adam Lehman (www.adrocknaphobia.com) for pulling some strings and Simon Free (www.simonfree.com) for collecting the speakers, ColdFusion got it's own Adobe Developer Week. This article has links to every presentation avialable. Also I have links to my source code, slides and connect recording.

Video: The Google AngularJS team meets with users to talk about new features added to the latest release, items in work, future enhancements.  I shamelessly plug my NCDEVCon talk about AngularJS.

Today I presented on Design Patterns and how multiple design patterns are combine to make up the MVC Frameworks that are so popular in every language.Code for the slids and the Robot Fight code are on https://github.com/boltz/Robot-Strategy-Example  To see the Robot Fight which exemplfies the Strategy Pattern: http://cfmumbojumbo.com/cf/codedemos/robotstrategy/robotDemo.cfm

You know you are getting old when you come across an obscure magazine cover from 1985 called "Micro Cornucopia: The Single Board Systems Journal" and it sends you into a tail spin of nostalgia.  You have to see this computer magazine from 85! It has articles on Pascal Procedures, FORTHwords, SBASIC, Cooling a Hot Computer. This is what I was reading for fun when I was 14 and I don't regret it one moment.