http://tomdeman.com/blog A technical blog spanning all arenas of Web Development.With a focus on Coldfusion and Object Oriented Programming. en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:01:24 -0400 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:56:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss blog@tomdeman.com blog@tomdeman.com http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/8/20/The-Opimized-for-Colbox-edition-of-TransferSync-now-available The second release of TransferSync, didn't see any bug fixes. Instead, this edition includes some optimizations for those using Coldbox. There are no major changes to the methodology or function. Everything works the same. However, a few things have ... Transfer TransferSync ColdFusion Coldbox Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:56:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/8/20/The-Opimized-for-Colbox-edition-of-TransferSync-now-available http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/8/20/Clustered-Keep-Transfers-Cache-in-Sync-with-ActiveMQ-JMS Transfer has become almost a necessity for me these days. I recently had to deploy it on a clustered environment, and had to find a way to keep the Transfer cache between nodes in sync. A centralized caching system like memcache would work, but a ... Transfer TransferSync ColdFusion Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:35:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/8/20/Clustered-Keep-Transfers-Cache-in-Sync-with-ActiveMQ-JMS http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/17/Clustered-Environments-and-Coldbox-SES-Interceptor I was using the Coldbox SES interceptor and the built in Coldcourse integration, and ran into a little snag the other day. Our production boxes are clustered behind a load balancer using sticky sessions. In order to, reinitialize the framework, I had... ColdFusion Coldbox Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/17/Clustered-Environments-and-Coldbox-SES-Interceptor http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/16/Where-is-all-the-CF-talent I am once again in a position where I have to hire some CF programmers. In the past, the pick-ins were slim, and I thought I was asking too much. Here we are almost a year and half later, and it's not improved much. Are my expectations too high? ... ColdFusion Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:48:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/16/Where-is-all-the-CF-talent http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/14/BugLog-Plugin-for-Coldbox-gets-Performance-Upgrade Thanks to Oscar and Rob for the quick feedback. Both pointed out flaws that needed addressing immediately. I made the appropriate updates, and after a quick review with Luis, even more. This release should be as optimized as it gets. Oscar, ind... BugLog ColdFusion Coldbox Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:14:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/14/BugLog-Plugin-for-Coldbox-gets-Performance-Upgrade http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/14/Coldbox-Webservices-Plugin-updated-to-support-Environment-Interceptor I recently posted about the Coldbox 2.6 environment interceptor and how it allows you to set different config settings for your app. Then, I released a BugLogHQ plugin for Coldbox. After taking in some feedback, and chatting with Luis, I have made so... ColdFusion Coldbox Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:53:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/14/Coldbox-Webservices-Plugin-updated-to-support-Environment-Interceptor http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/7/BugLog-and-Coldbox If you have heard of BugLogHQ, a nice centralized bug reporting application, written by Oscar Arevalo, and you want to integrate it with your Coldbox apps, then this article is for you. Let's get started... Be sure to set the Exception Handler ... BugLog ColdFusion Coldbox Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:31:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/7/7/BugLog-and-Coldbox http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/26/CF-versus-the-DB--CFUnited-Presentation-Online The Connect Recordings from CFUnited are now available on UGTV. Even though I was unable to make the trip to DC, Rolando Lopez did an excellent job filling in for me. I will post the PowerPoint and Code Samples, as soon as I get Rolando's changes ... CFUnited ColdFusion Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:44:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/26/CF-versus-the-DB--CFUnited-Presentation-Online http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/23/Multiple-CF-and-Front-End-Dev-Positions-available-in-Southern-California I have a handful of positions opening up here on the West Coast in Manhattan Beach, California. If anyone is interested or knows anyone, please contact me for full job descriptions. Senior & Junior CF Developer (experience with Coldbox a plus)... ColdFusion Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:02:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/23/Multiple-CF-and-Front-End-Dev-Positions-available-in-Southern-California http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/20/Transfer-and-Reserverd-Words-Quick-Fix I ran in to this when I first started using Transfer ORM a while back, when I was building a new app. However, now I am curious for those working on an existing app and db structure. If you have a table called User, for example, Transfer will thro... Transfer ColdFusion Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:15:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/20/Transfer-and-Reserverd-Words-Quick-Fix http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/18/CFUnited-Speaker-Cancellation Unfortunately, I had to cancel my trip to DC. A nasty case of Strep throat has me out of commission and living off of chicken soup right now. I was really looking forward to the great opportunity and being a part this amazing event, Teratech worke... CFUnited Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:37:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/18/CFUnited-Speaker-Cancellation http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/9/Together-IBM-Cell-and-AMD-Opteron-Break-Speed-Record "A unique hybrid of Cell BE and AMD Opteron processors, has recorded an official throughput speed above one quadrillion floating point operations per second -- one petaflop." You may have heard the phrase 'Cell technology' being thrown around befo... Misc Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:42:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/9/Together-IBM-Cell-and-AMD-Opteron-Break-Speed-Record http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/9/Have-Our-CFML-Prayers-Been-Answered I wanted to leave comments on Sean's and Ben's posts, but after writing them, they were just too long, and it can't hurt to drive a little traffic to one of the smaller people, right? It seems the buzz around the direction of CFML relating to Open... ColdFusion Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:05:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/9/Have-Our-CFML-Prayers-Been-Answered http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/3/Coldfusion-No-body-does-Coldfusion-anymore It's good to see everyone is taking the time to discuss and think about CF and its future. I just hope we don't spend too long talking and justifying while other products like Railo, and openBD put their efforts into development and a more proactive ... ColdFusion Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:39:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/3/Coldfusion-No-body-does-Coldfusion-anymore http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/2/Using-jQuery-to-Validate-A-Required-Selection-with-Checkboxes I have a form with two sets of check boxes. I need to validate a selection from each set has been made before I allow a submit. jQuery has a handful of selectors to help you easily get a hold of elements. The common approach is to treat the check bo... jQuery Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:53:00 -0400 http://tomdeman.com/blog/2008/6/2/Using-jQuery-to-Validate-A-Required-Selection-with-Checkboxes