CF Mumbo Jumbo

So this year cf.Objective() is pretty special to me.  My first ever ColdFusion conference was the final cfUnited in 2010.  I had been a community "lurker" for about 10 years prior to that.  After that first ColdFusion conference it re-energized me and I have been actively involved as much as possible.  This year at cf.Objective() 2013 I was invited by Jared Rypka-Hauer to be on the Steering Committee and the Content Advisory Board (CAB.)  It was a daunting challenge, Bob Silverberg had that job the years prior and always did an excellent job.  But with guidance from my fellow CAB members, Dan Wilson, Emily Christensen, Simon "The Face" Free and particularly Jason Dean  we managed to line up what we felt was very compelling content.  But you know what they say about "the best laid plans"  "they Gang aft a-gley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain" Whatever that means.  So how was day 1?

When ColdFusion 10 was in early beta, I was really interested in playing with web sockets. Unfortunately I was only *playing* with them, I didn't have a real world need. So when Ray Camden wrote several demos that showed how web sockets would work, I ran the code, saw that it worked and then moved on to test something else. Long story short, I understood the principles of web sockets, without really know how to write one: till now.

Some code snippets to convert your git log into a changeLog.

Here is how I deploy my changes to our DEV, Staging & Production webservers using a combination of GIT, batch files, ColdFusion on Windows machines.

ColdBox Developers Week July 23rd-27th

I presented the very first presentation of the very first ever ColdBox Developers Week!  My topic is basic. Understanding MVC. But is it basic after all?

The Devil is in the details isn't it? Did you notice the price increase of ColdFusion 10?  That is not the biggest change you should be concerned about, read the fine print in the EULA that defines what a CPU is to truly understand how much more ColdFusion 10 is going to cost you.

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?