QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
Well, tomorrow I'm off to Minneapolis for the 2008 installation of cf.Objective(). As I mentioned previously, cf.Objective() is the only conference that I attend. I will try to blog about the sessions I'm in, but I make no promises. Of course, if it's a really boring session, I should be able to make lots of posts. ;-)
Luis Majano has released ColdBox 2.6.0 Beta 1. There are a number of new features included in this release that are sure to make your development life even easier. It never ceases to amaze me how many great new features and improved "old" features Team ColdBox manages to fit into each release.
You can download the latest release from the ColdBox Framework site. For full documentation, check the Trac site.
I don't know about you guys, but there are a number of simple, boring view files that are identical across multiple applications. One such example would be a standard user login form. Nothing fancy - it's the same on pretty much all websites. In the past I have always done the ol' copy/paste for these files and had them residing in the directory structure of each application that they were needed in. Well, thanks to ColdBox those days are now gone forever in QuackApps.
If you have not yet registered for cf.Objective(), hurry up and do so. Time is running out. If you have already registered, be sure to set your itinerary. Below is my tentative itinerary.
I've attended seemingly a million conferences over the years of my career, and had gotten to a point where they just really didn't do anything for me, so I quit attending. After about a 7 year break from any conferences, I decided to take a chance on cf.Objective(), because I felt that the material and the speaker lineup were stellar, and that the conference's primary agenda was education rather than corporate sales. I can unequivocally say that my assessment was 100% accurate. There is one conference and one conference only that is now on my calendar each year: cf.Objective().
Now hurry it up and get registered!
Several years ago I had a major hard drive crash, and lost my former "big name" IDE. After asking around to see what was available, I was repeatedly referred to CFEclipse. While it took some getting used to at first (what "new" thing doesn't?), I have been off and running with it ever since.
Luis Majano recently announced that ColdBox 2.5.2 and the new website has been released. Be sure to check out the What's New? guide for all of the new features.
Simply put, I continue to be amazed at how powerful a framework ColdBox is, and how pleasurable it is to build applications on it. Thank you again to Luis and Team ColdBox for all of your hard work!
While there are literally hundreds of songs that you'll hear me say "this is one of my favorites!" about, and thousands more that I can be heard saying "I love this song!" about, there are only 10 that are good enough to make it on this list.
I truly love Gmail, especially for lists, but there's one thing that just annoys the living hell out of me:
Why is it that some items won't show up for hours and hours, and yet the timestamp on them is older than other items that appear first?
The same thing happens with Google Groups. Here's a fine example:
It just really peeves me, for a variety of reasons, but in this particular case it just makes me look like I ignored responses to my question. Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
In case you hadn't heard yet, jQuery is a seriously bad-ass, lightweight library that I'm in love with. Here's what the official jQuery site has to say about it:
"jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript."
However, you can always leave it to a guy like me to find a way to screw things up.
