The "Beyond Boundaries" Edition with Guest Host Kurt Wiersma!

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Just got back from MAX
  • Working on a whitepaper comparing and contrasting Mach-II and Model-Glue
• What Kurt has been up to
  • Just got back from MAX
  • Digging into Flex

CFReport – at 12:09

• What Makes a Good Programming Language?
• MachBug: Mach-II Bug Tracker
• Firefox 2.0 Is No Dud
• The IE Team Sends the Firefox Team a Cake
• Sitepoint Article: The State of ColdFusion
• CF 8 and .NET integration--notes from MAX courtesy of Ray Camden
• Unlocking the CF Server Black Box--notes from MAX courtesy of Rob Brooks-Bilson
• FlexBuilder 2 Beta for the Mac is available on Labs
• ColdFusion string manipulation--remember that strings in CF are java objects!
• FarCry 4 beta released

CF_Focus – at 24:37

• Matt and Kurt's MAX 2006 Roundup

CFQuery – at 46:05

• Jason Daiger weighs in on the future of ColdFusion

CF_Quiz – at 54:08

Still on vacation, but call in and beg for a free year of hosting from Sozo Hosting!

CFExit – at 55:30

"Pushed Away" by J.R. Byrd

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Version 1.26 - October 23, 2006

The Future of ColdFusion Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Getting ready for MAX, which has broken attendance records--3000 people!
  • New Mac Mini--Linux is great for development and pretty much everything else, not so great for recording podcasts
  • Big discussions on Mach-II
• What Peter has been up to
  • Resource pooling proof of concept in Mach-II
  • "Dork"-typing proof of concept - is it really worth it?

CFReport - at 6:30

• RIAForge Launches!
• Adobe Addresses the Macromedia Development Community
• Clark Valberg recently launced DeveloperCircuit.com, which is a job board for ColdFusion and Flex developers
• Flash Player 9 Beta on Linux
  • Creating a YouTube player in Flex on Linux
  • Flash 9 on Linux: It's not about Linux!
• IE 7 is out, like it or not!
• Firefox 2.0 coming out on Tuesday
• Frameworks Conference voting open
• cf.objective() 2007 - preliminary info
• Visual Studio vs. Dreamweaver: Microsoft on the attack!
• CFEclipse 1.3 on FlexBuilder
• Interested in a Fusebox plugin for Eclipse? Let Mark Drew know what you want.
• Google launches docs and spreadsheets
• Tags in Subversion

CF_Focus - at 22:05

• Why interfaces in ColdFusion are irrelevant
• More on the evolution of CF into Java Lite
  • Bonfanti: Is CFML already "Java Lite"?
  • Corfield: Java Lite - are we there already?
  • Houser: CFCs aren't Objects; they're Abstract Data Types (But what's the difference anyway?)
• Dynamic vs. Static
• Joel Spolsky on Bruce Tate's book "Beyond Java"
• Ryan Guill on CF 8

CFQuery - at 50:58

Apaparently we were wrong a lot recently ...

• Nic Tunney actually DOES like the facade pattern, just not in the specific use in a controller to access the Application and Session scopes (which is actually one of the places where I do think it's hand)
• John Beynon has had great luck with Windows NLB for clustering and wanted to let people know that my experience with it may not be the final word
• Sean Corfield called to tell us about an article that illustrates the use of NLB with CF
• Rick Osborne called about Trac in CF

CF_Quiz - at 56:45

Beg for the free year of hosting that Jason Daiger is re-gifting back to the community!

CFExit - at 1:00:40

"See Other People" by The Jupes

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Version 1.25.5 - October 16, 2006

The "Call for Calls" Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • I'm now happily running Ubuntu on my ThinkPad
• What Peter has been up to
  • Hanging out in Duluth

We want to hear from YOU!

We think something's been building in the ColdFusion community for quite some time, so we'd like to talk about it and get your opinions as well. Specifically, ColdFusion as a product and ColdFusion developers both seem to be at a crossroads. Some people see this as simple growing pains, while others seem to think we're about to go over a cliff. Which is it? We have our opinions, but tell us what you think! For context, check out these links if you haven't already, then give us a call. Next week we'll dig deep into this topic and let you know what others think.

• The ColdFusion Knowledge Gap
• Is ColdFusion Harming Itself?
• Why Interfaces in ColdFusion are Irrelevant
• Is CFML already "Java Lite?"
• Java Lite - are we there already?
• CFCs: Objects? Abstract Data Types? Is there a difference?
• Dynamic vs. Static
• Joel Spolsky reviews "Beyond Java"

CFExit

"On Top of It" by The Ultronz

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Version 1.25 - October 9, 2006

The Fusebox 5 Edition

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Greetings from Texas, y'all
  • Almost finished with a Mach-II Photo Gallery application--download by next week
• What Peter has been up to
  • New Rooibos bean generator!
  • Yummy FedEx Ship Manager API integration

CFReport - at 4:37

• Charlie Griefer is blogging on cfblog.com
• Mike Nimer blogs about how to use DOJO and JSON with CF
• UGTV is officially "on the air"
• Yahoo! Giving away their email code
• Ben Forta says "Use cfinsert and cfupdate!"
• Dave Shuck describes his brand-spankin' new Subversion setup
• Dave Shuck asks, "Is ColdFusion harming itself?"
• Resources for new CF developers courtesy of Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Dave Shuck shares some lessons learned while using Reactor on InstantSpot
• Adobe hiring ColdFusion developers
• DealerTire hiring 2 CF developers (Mach-II)
• ISITE looking for a ColdFusion rock star
• Point and Pay hiring Fuseboxers
• Adobe XPAAJ now includes ColdFusion examples
• FusionDebug Part 4: Tips and Traps
• Rich Text Editor built in Flex
• Revert CF back to developer edition
• Savvy and CFDynamics offer free hosting and CMS to user groups
• Nic Tunney asks "How do you handle the 'C' in MVC if you aren't using a framework?"
• Pete Freitag has javascript and CSS for multiple file uploads a la gmail
• SitePoint has a list of the four web developer stereotypes
• IE 7 is coming. SOON.
• Contribute 4 available
• Flash Player 9 Update Beta--full screen video!

CF_HotSeat - at 30:21

• Sean Corfield tells us all about Fusebox 5
• The Official Fusebox Web Site
• GrokFusebox
• Proton Arts (Fusebox books)
• Helms and Peters FLiP out! (top right-hand side)
• Discovering Fusebox 4 by John Quarto-vonTivadar
• Sean Corfield's Fusebox category on his blog

Wrap Up - at 57:36

CFExit - at 1:00:08

"Perfect Day" by Far Cry Fly

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Version 1.24 - October 2, 2006

FusionDebug: Our 25th Show!

Introduction & Comments

• What Matt has been up to
  • Dead car
• What Peter has been up to
  • Framework stuff

CFReport - at 8:16

• CFUnderground VIII -- Sunday, October 22 in Las Vegas (the night before MAX)
• Ray Camden on using the Yahoo! Search API and Yahoo! Answers API with CF, along with Yahoo! weather
  • Yahoo! Search
  • Yahoo! Weather
  • Yahoo! Answers
• Ray Camden updates his Google Calendar CFC
• "ColdFusion Jedi User Group" -- Acrobat Connect recording (think Breeze) on basic application security
• CFEclipse update from Mark Drew -- CFEclipse is now in SVN and Trac so you can check on the progress
• cfblog.com launches
• Anti-Patterns: the Unmaintainable Code Site
• CFC BOF session (and other BOF sessions) at MAX
• Todd Sharp at cf_silence: open challenge to the cf community to GET INVOLVED!
• Named parameter support in cfprocparam will be put back into CF in an upcoming hotfix
• Ben Nadel on Nesting Custom Tags
• The ColdFusion Knowledge Gap
• ColdFusion SVN Browser
• CFUnited Call for Speakers is available
• Ben Forta on Flex Session State Management
• CFUGS: Take advantage of Breeze Accounts!
• Charlie Arehart's UGTV

CF_HotSeat - at 25:35

• Charlie Arehart tells us all about FusionDebug

Wrap Up - at 1:04:25

CFExit - at 1:07:00

"Unlike You" by J.R. Byrd

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