Earlier this month, I attended Adobe Max 2011. It was a great conference and I highly recommend anybody who is considering attending to sign-up as soon as possible.

While on the cross-country flight out to Los Angeles, I saw post on Twitter that once of the pre-conference instructors was stuck in Europe and wouldn't be able to make it in time for his class. The class was "Adobe ColdFusion and Modern Web Front Ends" and a request was posted for a substitute teacher. Naturally, since I work with Adobe ColdFusion and modern web front ends everyday, I volunteered to teach the class (finding out later it was a 7 hour class :) ). I was sent the presentation and class materials on the plane and dove in.

The next morning, we explained the situation to the class and they were very understanding. We went through the course material throughout the day and, except for one ColdFusion bug in the demo code, everything went really smoothly. The class was amazing and asked great questions.

As promised, below is a list of links we reviewed in the class:

Responsive CSS Examples
http://meltmedia.com/
http://www.kayakcapers.co.uk/
http://2011.dconstruct.org/

Fluid Images
http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/entry/fluid-images/

Browser Tools
http://resizemybrowser.com/

HTML5 Resources
http://html5boilerplate.com
http://www.modernizr.com/
http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/
http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/

If anybody has an questions from the class or any of the material covered, please let me know.

I am very honored to have been selected to speak at NCDevCon 2011! The event is September 17-18th, 2011. If you'd like to come hear me (or these other great speakers ) be sure not to miss this event. My topic is "Building lightning fast mobile & desktop web applications". We'll be exploring different techniques to build extremely fast and responsive web applications. We'll also look at Backbone.js and using it to build Single Page Web Applications (SPWA).

If there is anything specific you'd like me to address or specifically speak on, either related to 'lightning fast mobile & desktop web applications" or Backbone.js specifically, let me know in the comments below.

See you in Raleigh, NC on September 17 - 18, 2011!

This week, I'm attending cfObjective for the first time. Below are some of my quick notes from the cfObjective Keynote. They are down and dirty but if you have any questions, leave a comment. Also, make sure you check out the cfObjective Twitter Feed. There's some great presentations over the next day.

Scott Stroz

"God is a PHP Developer, it took him 6 days to create everything, if he was a CF developer it would only take 4 days, and then a 3 day weekend"

The thing that sets us apart is the community

Ray Camden

Speaking about CFB2

"If you see 4 numbers at the bottom of your file, you're doing it wrong.

Jason Dean

Speaking about ColdFusion developers and jobs

Use students and interns

Bob Silverberg

Speaking about open source involvement

Contributing to documentation helps too

Mark Esher

Next version of ColdFusion

jRun is going away and Verity is too

Apache Solr is going to continue to be included for search

Apache Axis2 included in the next version of ColdFusion

Great scheduled tasks support. Application specific tasks.

Async job queue in next version of ColdFusion

"Something cool" coming with HTML5 and jQuery

Next version of ColdFusion will include support for closures

Big advances in Security in the next version

Also check out this online shared Google Doc for more notes.

If you missed my presentation on AdobeTV at AdobeMAX, you can check it out below or AdobeTV.

Welcome to the new layout for ColdFusioning.com and ibjhb.com!

The new site layout contains many improvements and will allow me more room to post code and add features on ibjhb.com.

Let me know what you think or if you have any other ideas!

I recently ran into this error while using ColdFusion 9 on a Mac. I was trying to use the new feed() function in cfscript. So naturally, I Googled it to see if anybody else had ran into the same thing. Well, Todd Sharp had, so I went into my cfadmin and checked my Custom Tag Paths.

Oddly enough, my tag path was there!

Really weird. I opened the path in Finder, and there were a few cfcs, but feed was specifically missing (there were others too).

So I checked another server (Windows) and it had them all! I copied them from one server to the other, and everything worked. I'm not sure why they didn't install on the Mac but they weren't there.

Thanks Todd for sending me in the right direction.

On Wednesday night, I have the pleasure of traveling to San Francisco and attending the Tour de ColdFusion Contribution Night.

I am pleased to announce that at the Tour de ColdFusion Contribution Night, thanks to Adobe and Greg Wilson, we will be giving away a copy of Adobe CS5 Web Premium (Windows) and a copy of ColdFusion Builder!

Come out to the Adobe San Francisco Offices at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, September 15th and help contribute to the Tour de ColdFusion. I will be leaving it up to the User Group organizers on how to determine the winners but we will be giving away a copy of each piece of software.

Hope to see everyone there. Look for a large update to the Tour de ColdFusion later this week!

Tonight I gave a presentation on using ORM with ColdFusion or Railo. You can watch the recorded presentation on Adobe Connect. As promised, I'm publishing the source code from the meeting.

Since the code uses ColdBox and a database, it requires some setup. If you follow the steps below, you'll be able to get setup to run the examples:

• Setup ColdBox with a mapping ("/coldbox") to the ColdBox source
  (I'm using Version 3115)
• Unzip the source files to a empty directory
• Setup a new site (I'm using "http://office.scribble/" in the examples)
• In ColdFusion Admin
  • Setup a mapping "scribble" that points at the directory
  • Create a datasource pointing at a new database
• Update Application.cfc with the new datasource (line 24)
• Call the application from the browser

At this point, you should see the ColdBox version number and a list of actions. You'll want to run the "Reload" link first so the tables are all created. I'm not sure why, but if you receive an error on the "Reload" page, refresh the browser a couple times and I'll complete properly.

If you have problems setting up ColdBox, please refer to the ColdBox Documentation at http://wiki.coldbox.org/

Most of the code you'll be utilizing is in either /handlers/dev/ or /model/objects/

Also, I added a deleteContact example that wasn't covered in the presentation. It should be pretty self explanatory.

Lastly, this code is a basis to build on and should not be used in a production environment.

If you have any questions or problems, please leave a comment below.

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