Our wrap up of day 1 and day 2 of CFUnited with guests Kurt Wiersma and Bob Flynn.

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The "We're Psychic" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Hunkered down at work
  • Great intro from John Allen listening to the podcast gets you a new job and makes you're girlfriend like you more too
• Matt:
  • Just got back from San Jose and the Adobe Community Summit
  • Apple launches Safari ... for Windows

CFReport - 7:30

• Check out del.icio.us for all of this week's news
• What Sean learned at the Adobe Community Summit
• Open Source at Adobe--great presentation at the Community Summit, notes via Sean Corfield
• Two new CF team bloggers
• We're psychic: Flex 3 beta released
• What's new in Flex 3
• Why Flex 3 is a big deal
• We're psychic again: Apollo renamed "AIR" and released as public beta
• onAIR bus tour
• The AIR bus's twitter account
• Christian Cantrell on how web apps will get to the desktop
• Want to see what AIR can do? Check out Project San Dimas
• CF regains its rightful place, featured at the top of the Labs page
• New system requirements matrix for CF 8
• More CF 8 download stats
• Ray Camden digs into the Server Monitor API in CF8
• Charlie talks about impact on production systems with the Server Monitor
• Also, there's a free lunch when it comes to the server monitor
• Generate CFCs from XMI
• Dave Shuck shares his code from an intro to OO presentation he gave to the DFW CFUG
• var scope checker revised and has a new home
• CFEclipse costs how much?
• Secret revealed via twitter--Mark's working on CFEclipse 2.0
• Jobs in Salt Lake City and Dallas
• Scott Stroz, aka Boyzoid, leaves About Web and joins Alagad
• Adobe reports record revenue
• MAX registration is open!
• Ted Patrick is in charge of MAX, and he wants the community to take it back. Power to the people!
• CFUnited bling for your blog
• BlueDragon releases the June 2007 hotfix for 7

CFQuery - 40:27

• Elena Aminova asks "How do I create a ColdFusion User group in my company, which has over 3000 employees and not sure how many CF developers. I know some of them but not all and a User group with monthly meetings would definitely help all of us. How do I go about getting the speakers for the meetings and what is involved in the usergroup organization if I take that upon myself."
• Ryan Hartwich remind us to spell out uncommon tag names like WDDX for the cfwddx tag (Web Distributed Data eXchange)
• Ryan Hartwich calls to let us know that we sound the same which is great because since Matt is the smart guy around here, either I'm getting smarter or Matt is getting...
• A follow up on the service layer question we answered last week from John Allen -- Are service layers "front controllers" for the objects behind them? A new framework?
• For a bit more background on common OO stuff in CF, listen to the 1.10 version of the weekly for the Design Pattern Safari

CF_Quiz - 58:56

• Nobody voted for the best new thing is Scorpio...sad I might say! Brian wins!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up - 1:00:34

• No show June 25th because we're coming to CFUnited!
• CFExit - Beer by The Ultronz

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The "Nothing Special" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Played horn quartets twice this week
  • No show June 25th due to CFUnited
• Matt:
  • Developer Retreat at work is over--got a lot accomplished!
  • Going to San Jose for the Adobe Community Summit

CFReport - 12:06

• Check out del.icio.us for all of this week's news
• CF 8 downloads from labs "blowing away expectations"
• More press coverage of CF 8
• CF 8 syntax dictionary for CFEclipse
• SnipEx - pull snippets into Eclipse from a remote server
• Three more reasons to use CFEclipse: SnipEx, CF 8 support, and Mark Drew's tutorials
• Ben Nadel has a great multi-part JSON tutorial
  Part 1
  Part 2
• Ben Nadel goes nuts on getPageContext() and all you can do with it
• Ben Nadel discusses the new attributeCollection feature of all tags in CF 8
• Steve Bryant on the Derby database that's included with CF
• cfFrameworks workshop on Illudium PU-36 code generator
• New URL for Ray Camden's blog
• Trac/SVN development JumpBox
• Changing the layout of BlogCFC using the Yahoo! UI tools
• Tapping into the power of Yahoo! UI components in CF 8
• Brian Rinaldi has a two-part discussion of objects and composition
  Part 1
  Part 2
• Next Jacksonville, FL CFUG meeting will cover CF and .NET integration
• TeraTech on why IT projects fail
• Sam Farmer demos the cfdiv tag via video
• Sam Farmer discusses application-specific mappings in CF 8
• Run PHP, Ruby, and code written in other languages in CF
  The Project on RIAForge CF 8 Running PHP CF 8 Running Ruby
• Flex 3 release imminent?
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  Jobs in CF, FL, and MN
  Job with Cynergy
• The top-down open source CFML solution
• duplicate() is bad for your object's health

CFQuery - 38:18

• John Allen from D.C. asks about service layers and building with composition.
• John Allen from D.C. brings up Apollo especially the future of us ColdFusion developers in the context of desktop applications

Brian's Bi-Weekly Weekly Open Source Update - 55:20

• SnipEx
• Scripting for ColdFusion 8
• COOP Presentation Recording
• CF ShopKart
• BoomSocket

CF_Quiz - 57:50

• Go to the quiz page to vote for your favorite quiz entry!
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up

• CFExit - Control by J.R. Byrd
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The "Viva La Scorpio" Edition

What we've been up to...

• Peter:
  • Doing some polishing up on the core for Mach-II 1.5 Beta
  • Converting a logical section of a website into a module for easier maintenance - WOW!
  • Enjoyed a nice Memorial Day grillin' party with a few friends
  • Used WDDX for the first time in a real application...
• Matt:
  • Wondering why Vista sucks so badly (I'll keep the rant short)
  • Putting the final touches (seriously this time) on MachBlog
  • Working on the new Mach-II web site
  • Trying to find time to start exploiting Scorpio

CFReport - 8:38

• Check out del.icio.us for this week's news
• Let's see, did anything big happen in the CF world this week? Probably not--as we learned last week, CF is dead. Oh wait--SCORPIO PUBLIC BETA!
• And lots of reaction ...
  • CF 8 makes it easier
  • Press roundup #1
  • Press roundup #2
• Lots of CF 8 examples and tutorials
  • Server-side printing
  • Lots of AJAX goodness
    • Tutorial 1
    • Tutorial 2
    • Tutorial 3
  • Implicit array and structure creation
  • ArgumentCollection for tags
  • cfgrid, AJAX binding, and cfwindow
  • It's the little things that count--duplicate() now works on CFCs, and they're serializable (maybe too much rope with the concept of singletons -- read the comments)
  • Free CF 8 preview on lynda.com
  • Run CF 7 and CF 8 on the same server with Apache
  • AJAX RSS feed reader in less than 60 lines of code
  • CF log viewer in the new Eclipse plugins
  • And how to install those nice new Eclipse plugins
  • GetDriveInfo() UDF powered by ... .NET?
• Free CF 8 hosting at HostMySite
• CFPDF blog now online
• Apollo will include an embedded SQLite database
• UML modeling application built on Apollo
• Google Gears announced--more offline internet application possibilities
• The Google Gears API will be included in Apollo
• Model-Glue 2.0 will be released at CFUnited
• Moving an existing app to Model-Glue
• Some Fusebox 6 features announced
• CF 8 + Hibernate--way easier than it used to be. Time to revive CFHibernate?
• CF 8 + Gmail SMTP servers--it works now!
• Michael Smith running a "selling CF to clients" survey
• And how much do you charge your clients? Dave Shuck wants to know!
• FarCry 4.01 officially released
• What's the secret sauce in Ruby on Rails?
• Digg Scorpio

Konference Korner - 41:57

• Proud to giveaway the last of our passes to CFUnited (June 27th - 30th). And the winner is...
• CFTribe ColdFusion Celebration at the National Zoo
• User Group Manager meeting--fun stuff, even though Matt won't be speaking ;-)
• We had 16 entry codes and over 675 entries
• Flex 360 conference--just an interesting idea. $360, limited to 360 attendees.
• The KK will be on vacation in Bora Bora sipping sidecars on the beach

CF_Quiz - 49:58

• Call in with your favorite new feature in Scorpio and explain why you think it's the best thing EVER.
• Want to win? Skype user cfweekly or call us at 469-293-3820.

Wrap Up

• CFExit - A ceiling fan by The Exchange Band
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