In case anyone is still following this feed we wanted to let you know that we have a brand new web development podcast called Deductive Developers so head over there and subscribe! We'll cover CFML topics as well as web development topics in general, and we'll do our best to be interesting and not waste your time.

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Yes, the time has come for ColdFusion Weekly to bid everyone a fond farewell. We've had a fantastic time working on the podcast for the past two years but we simply can't give it the attention it deserves, so rather than keep everyone in limbo we have decided to officially stop. Not to worry, the web site will stay up so you can always grab old episodes.

In regards to timeline, we made this decision a couple months ago. Long before any of the growing pains occurred in the CFML community. In all fairness, please do not read our in the podcast arena as an indication that we're leaving the CFML community as that is far from the truth.

Matt is going to be spending more time in the Java world, doing more mobile device development, working on Mach-II documentation (and code for a change!), perfecting the Mach-II training, and contributing to the Open BlueDragon project.

Peter is going to be working on the next version(s) of Mach-II (and prodding Matt on the documentation), refining the Mach-II workshops and contributing to other (currently unknown) open-source projects. He is also becoming more involved in the world of food cooperatives and the impact they make on his local community.

Brian Meloche will be starting up a new podcast called CFConversations very soon, so there will not be much downtime in the CF podcast space. We encourage you all to subscribe to his feed when it's up and running! And who knows, maybe you'll even hear your old podcast friends Matt and Peter on there from time to time.

So, dear listeners, thanks so much for allowing us to take up space on your iPods and in your heads for the last two years. The CF community has a very bright future ahead, and we'll still be a part of it, so don't be a stranger!

Thanks,
Matt and Peter

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This week's links ...

• Andy Powell's blog
• cf.Objective()
• Mach-II
• Java Spring Framework
• Hibernate
• Transfer ORM
• Apache Tomcat
• Open BlueDragon
  

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This week we talk Flex Frameworks with ...

• Laura Arguello of ASFusion
• Thomas Burleson, Principal Architect at Universal Mind
• Jeffry Houser, producer of The Flex Show Podcast and owner of DotComIt
• Max Porges, Flex Team Lead at Highwinds Software
• Chris Scott, Senior Software Architect at Managing Editor
• Kurt Wiersma, Manager, Web Application Development at the American Academy of Neurology

This weeks links ...

• Mate Framework
• Cairngorm
• Universal Mind - Cairngorm Extensions
• PureMVC
• The Flex Show Episode 33 - Pure MVC Framework
• Joe Berkovitz - MVCS Resources
• PaperVision 3D
• The Flex Show Episode 39 - OpenFlux
• Ben Stucki's Blog Post on OpenFlux
• Open Flux Google Code Repository
• DeGrafa
  

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Vince Bonfanti - Open Source BlueDragon

This week's links ...

• New Atlanta
• BlueDragon
• Vince Bonfanti's Blog
• Open Source BlueDragon Press Release
• Open Source BlueDragon Overview
• Open Source BlueDragon FAQs
• Open Source BlueDragon Forums
• Open Source BlueDragon Being Released at cf.Objective() 2008
• dzone's Interview with Vince Bonfanti
• Vince's original blog post asking for feedback on open sourcing BlueDragon (May 31, 2006)
• Alan Williamson's Blog
• BlueDragon Customers on J2EE or JX Version
  • CarFax.com
  • Irish Times
  • CruiseMates.com
  • American Airlines
  • Credit Suisse
  • City of Los Angeles
  • Hillsborough County Florida
  • Georgia Department of Transportation (J2EE on WebLogic)
  • Many U.S. District Courts
• BlueDragon Customers on .NET Version
  • MySpace.com
  • eBags.com
  • devx.com
  • National Express (being converted from ColdFusion to BlueDragon .NET)
  • HealthGrades.com
• GNU General Public License, Version 2
  

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This show's links ...

• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring Part 1: Using the Server Monitor in development
• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring Part 2: Using the Server Monitor in production
• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring Part 3: Automated monitoring and request management with Alerts and Snapshots
• ColdFusion 8 server monitoring Part 4: Multiserver Monitor, Admin API monitoring, and more
• SeeFusion
• Fusion Reactor
• ColdFusion Meetup
• cfconf.org
  

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Just two quick notes:

• We'll be interviewing Vince Bonfanti from New Atlanta about the open source edition of BlueDragon next Wednesday, March 25, so please call in your questions for Vince! Use Skype user cfweekly or call 469-293-3820. You can also email your questions to podcast@coldfusionweekly.com
• The Skype line was down briefly. They apparently don't auto-renew, so my bad. It's back up and running now.
  

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BlueDragon Goes Open Source

This week on the CF_Roundtable we discuss New Atlanta's announcement that they will be open-sourcing BlueDragon with ...

• Sam Farmer
• Brian Meloche
• Terrence Ryan
• Brian Swartzfager
• Kurt Wiersma
• Dan Wilson

This week's links ...

• New Atlanta to Open Source Java Version of BlueDragon
• Open Source BlueDragon FAQ
• Vince Bonfanti's Blog Post
• Open Source Blue Dragon, what does it mean for you? by Alan Williamson
• BlueDragon + Amazon = Huge Earning Potential by Alan Wililamson
• SitePoint: New Atlanta Does the Unthinkable!
• Damon Cooper's Response
• "Things ColdFusion is not ... and ... why ColdFusion isn't free" by Jason Delmore
• Yawn, BlueDragon Goes Open Source by Terrence Ryan
• BlueDragon is Dead! Long Live BlueDragon! by Geoff Bowers
• Open Source BlueDragon by Sean Corfield
• BlueDragon Goes Open Source by Mark Drew
• BlueDragon Goes Open Source by Jim Priest
• Open Source CFML, the Door is Open by Simeon Bateman
• Coffee Talk: New Atlanta Announcement by Ray Camden
• Open Source BlueDragon Overview and Wrap-Up by Brian Rinaldi
• Here There Be Dragons! by Charlie Griefer
• BlueDragon: Kudos to New Atlanta by Christopher Wigginton
• BlueDragon Goes Open Source: A Good Thing, But How Good? by Brian Swartzfager
• ColdFusion to be Open Source by Mike Benner
• ColdFusion 8 Wins Jolt Award
• What New Feature in CF 8 Did You Think You Would Really Use, But Have Lost Interest In? by Andrew Powell
• Good Software Takes 10 Years. Get Used To It. by Joel Spolsky
• GNU General Public License v2
• GPLv2 on wikipedia.org

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This week on the CF_Roundtable we discuss Adobe's Flex 3 and AIR launch with ...

• Sean Corfield
• Brian Meloche
• Terrence Ryan
• Brian Swartzfager
• Dan Wilson

This week's links ...

• Flex 3 and Air 1 Released
• Flex Product Page
• AIR Product Page
• AIR Application Gallery
• New Adobe Open Source web site
• Kevin Lynch discusses open source at Adobe
• Blaze DS
• Blaze DS presentation recording by Tom Jordahl
• Blaze DS in plain English by Andrew Powell
• AIR: Revolutionary, or an answer to a question no one asked? How important is "living in the cloud?"
  • David Heinemeir Hansson's opinion
  • Ryan Stewart's opinion
  • Robert Scoble's opinion

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CF_HotSeat With Dave Shuck and Aaron Lynch of InstantSpot.com

Other news ...

• Job available with AvMet Applications
• ColdFusion Weekly is now on Blue Stone Radio!
  

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CF_HotSeat With Ryan Mannion, Managing Editor - Web Technology for Politico

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CF_HotSeat With Jared Rypka-Hauer, Chief Instigator of cf.objective() 2008

• Alagad
• Using CF 8, AJAX, and Flex on volunteer.unitedway.org
• Savvy CMS
• Pre-Conference Mach-II Training
• GreatBizTools
  

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CF_HotSeat With Kristen Schofield, Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe

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CF_HotSeat With Tim Buntel, Senior Product Manager for Flex Builder at Adobe

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The "Scotch On The Rocks" Edition

CF_HotSeat With Andy Allan

• This week we talk with Andy Allan about Scotch On The Rocks 2008!

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The "Selenium" Edition (Testing ColdFusion Applications Part Two)

What we've been up to ...

• Peter:
  • Admiring the new Bosch washer and dryer. It finally came.
  • Thinking a lot about streamlining processes and organization
• Matt:
  • Had a great time in Oregon!
  • Finally got my cable cards working so the TiVo Series 3 is fully operational
  • More A/V stuff--amazon.com Unbox rocks with free downloads of some of the new Fall TV shows right to your TiVo
  • Thanks to Peter and Kurt for the YSlow show
  • Doing lots of reading/research on productivity

No CFReport this week

CFQuery - at 8:40

• Cutter calls to tell us that he was the 1000th site on gotcfm.com, and reminisces about old code
• AJ Mercer called to ask us about organizing your code in Subversion

CF_Focus - at 25:53

• Part 2 in a series on testing
• Selenium is an open source test tool for web applications available
• Used to do system functional testing and browser compatibility testing
• Selenium IDE
  • Firefox extension
  • used to record, edit, and debug tests
  • Can either have Selenium generate scripts for you based on simple actions (open a URL, click a button, etc.) or edit scripts manually
  • Can set breakpoints
  • Can save scripts out as HTML or several other formats
• Selenium Core
• Installing Selenium
  • Download Selenium Core
  • drop into your web root
  • There is no step 3
  • You'll probably also want to install the Selenium IDE (Firefox extension)
• Using Selenium Core by browsing to http://server/selenium/ to see the main menu
• Using the Selenium IDE to create your own test suites
• Creating a test case
• Automating your test cases
  • Using Selenium Remote Control with ANT
  • Mike Henke recently posted a nice post on using Selenium Remote Control with ANT

CFExit Music (Progress by The Exchange) - at 48:35

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The "Using YSlow" Edition with Guest Host Kurt Wiersma

What we've been up to ...

• Peter:
  • Had fun doing some server stuff this week with YUM, rpms and CPAN.
  • New Bosch Axxis washer/dryer coming on Tuesday!
  • More experimenting with ANT and becoming more and more interested in Java.
• Kurt:
  • Just bought a new Trek bike just in time for winter. :-)
  • Taking Peter's YSlow advice at work.
  • Built an ajax powered Fantasy Football Draft System. Then built another version of the same app in Flex.

CFReport – 12:06

• Security Alert -- Get cumulative hotfix 1 for CF8 and cumulative hotfix 3 for CF7.02
• CFDJ is dead!
  • Sean Corfield
  • Brian Rinaldi
  • Matt Woodward
• Fusion Authority Quarterly Update
• cf.Objective is coming -- looks for stuff soon

CF_Focus - at 21:24

• YSlow - an extension for the FireBug plugin for Firefox (both for free)
• The 13 Rules

Wrap-Up – at 1:17:30

Sorry, AJ Mercer - we didn't get to your CFQuery this week!

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The "Welcome Back" Edition

What we've been up to ...

• Peter:
  • Had a geek night with Kurt Wiersma and talked about everything under the sun but planned out Mach-II 1.6 and 2.0.
  • Have been learning ANT (using it with Eclipse). Using tasks such as SVN, JSMin and CFCUnit through ANT to ease website roll outs and to continuous builds.
  • Got summoned for Federal jury duty in October and November.
  • Bought a set of Bosch's Axxis line of washers and dryers, but waiting for them to come.
  • Did a presentation to the TCCFUG on the YSlow add-on for FireBug
• Matt:
  • Moved to a new place, still in Alexandria
  • New A/V toys
  • Extremely busy with work, specifically with Flex projects
  • Starting to work on MachBlog 2
  • Big thanks to Gareth Edwards for all his hard work on the CHUG application lately
  • Way behind on helping Peter with the Mach-II 1.5 release, and we're already talking about 1.6 and 2.0
  • Going on vacation this week to Portland, OR
  • Having fun messing around with Verisign's security key for their OpenID system, and it also works with PayPal

CFReport - 18:17

• Check out del.icio.us for all of this week's news
• 10 CF jobs! Specificaly in NC, CA, and KY
• Work with Mark Drew in London
• Asynchronous file uploads using CF 8
• Mach-II is all grown up
• Model-Glue style broadcast listener for Mach-II
• Hibernate session management plugin for Mach-II
• "Next Gen" MVC apps in CF
• ColdMock - unit testing in CF with mock objects
• Charlie Griefer's Going OO
• Jason Delmore is blogging
• CF WACK Details and Table of Contents
• Pre-order WACK on amazon.com--9/12 release date for volume 1 according to amazon Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
• Google Docs List Data API
• Great intro to OO series by Adrian Moreno
• ColdFusion 8 extensions for Eclipse 3.3
• Active Record Pattern has no consequences?
• Follow up on Active Record by Joe Rinehart
• Scotch on the Rocks 2008 Announced
• Mark Drew presents CFEclipse to the Cleveland CFUG

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