JUL 29
2010
FoursquareCFC is starting to gain traction. I've gotten emails from developers who rave about it, and one email asking if it was possible to return pure ColdFusion. Well Matt Gersting, this one's for you. I did some research on the Google and found another Riaforge project called xml2struct. Interestingly enough it converts a packet of XML to a series of ColdFusion structures and arrays. After an hour or two of implementing, the result is foursquareCFC 1.0, now with even more ColdFusion-y goodness.
JUL 11
2010
Are you a JavaScript, or jQuery developer and want to find out more about Adobe AIR? Are you interested in building desktop applications, but don't know how to get started? Then you should definitely check out the free presentation I'll be giving to the Boston ColdFusion User Group on July 21st at 6:30 ET.
JUN 2
2010
Do you live in, or around, Manhattan and are interested in learning more about desktop and mobile application development? Then you're in luck. I'll be speaking to the New York ColdFusion User Group (NYCFUG) on June 8th at 6:30 at the New York Medical Center. I'll walk you through the steps to write applications that can be deployed to the web, desktop, and mobile devices from a single codebase. Learn the basics of jQuery, AIR, and Phonegap. Use existing skills in jQuery, HTML/JS/CSS, AIR, and ColdFusion, to compile applications that can truly be used anywhere.
APR 3
2010
I've just confirmed that I'll be presenting in person to NYCFUG, the New York ColdFusion User Group on June 8th. That in and of itself is exciting as it has some top notch members. Even better than that is that I'll be presenting IN PERSON! That's right...I'm coming all the way from Nashville, TN to the big city to talk about one of my favorite topics in programming these days...Adobe AIR.
MAR 22
2010
Last night at midnight Adobe released ColdFusion Builder, a brand new IDE built upon Eclipse for ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS development. The price is $299 and includes a full license for Flash Builder 4 Standard. This is a fantastic deal and if you're not using ColdFusion Builder already, then you should definitely give it a go.
MAR 18
2010
After releasing tumblrCFC a week ago, I decided to drop a line to someone at tumblr letting them know about it, in case anyone was asking them for ColdFusion options. I received an email back today letting me know that tumblrCFC had been listed on their third-party apps page, under the "Desktop + Mobile Applications" section. That's more than I would have expected, and so very gracious of them. Thanks to Marc LaFountain, tumblr's Community Ambassador, for the nod!
JAN 26
2010
A month or two ago I noticed a twitter friend of mine, and respected designer, Dee Sadler talking about a new conference she was planning. She's based in Kansas City, and having found out how active their development and design user groups are, I was intrigued. This Designer/Developer workflow conference sounded awesome. It wasn't just for developers, they wanted to target designers as well. Having started my career as a designer I decided to submit a topic. I just found out that I was accepted to speak! I'll be presenting a workflow topic covering how to build AIR applications with jQuery and ColdFusion. If you're in the midwest and you're looking to learn a wide range of topics, come check it out.
JAN 21
2010
On January 20th I gave a presentation to the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group (BACFUG) on Building AIR Applications with ColdFusion and jQuery. It went well, with about 30 or 40 people in attendance, both live and via Acrobat Connect. I just wanted to take a moment to post my code samples, as well as a link to watch the recorded presentation. Hope you enjoy, and don't forget to check out some of my other AIR posts.
JAN 5
2010
Way back in May, at cf.Objective(), I met a great guy named Sid. He shared with me that he was involved in the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group way out in the country of California. Sid told me that he was impressed with my jQuery presentation and asked if I would be interested in speaking to BACFUG. Fast forward 7 months and it seems that they've finally been forced to make good on their offer and let me speak. I'm sure it's because Sean Corfield can't be bothered to make the drive into the Adobe offices, but who am I to complain. (yes, I'm just kidding).
OCT 12
2009
The next 2 weekends are going to be super busy here in Nashville. Or maybe I should say busy for me in general as I'll be going out of town for both of them.
OCT 9
2009
Adobe announced that it would be putting all of the content presented at this year's MAX conference online, for free. Yep, that means that you can learn from the same presenters as the people who paid thousands of dollars to attend MAX. Speakers like Christian Cantrell, Raymond Camden, Russell Brown, Grant Skinner, and much more.
SEP 4
2009
Registration for CFinNC is now open! CFinNC is a free web development conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina during the weekend of October 17th and 18th with an International line-up of speakers presenting on timely and relevant topics on web development. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the creativity of the planning committee, registration for the event will be free and includes entry to the weekend event and to all presentations.
AUG 26
2009
My October just got a little more interesting this year! I was just accepted to speak at the ColdFusion Community's newest Conference, CFinNC. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, CFinNC is a conference focused on "bringing the awesomeness of the Adobe platform to developers everywhere".
AUG 10
2009
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By now the entire ColdFusion community has read the story of Ben's altercation with an unruly .NET developer. He finally admits at the end of the story that it's just fabrication. I was with him this weekend and wanted to tell the real story behind his injury. Sorry Ben...here it goes.
JUN 24
2009
JUN 20
2009
What the hell...here's another wallpaper. Also inspired by the user group tour, this one's got to do with the killer shirts that Adobe handed out to everyone. It features this sweet logo (found in the middle of the wallpaper), on a black t-shirt. I just started playing around with this one and this is what I came up with...hope you like it. Standard, widescreen, and iPhone versions available.
JUN 20
2009
I've got a new wallpaper for you guys. This one's inspired by the recent Adobe ColdFusion User Group tour stop in Nashville promoting Centaur (ColdFusion 9) and Bolt (ColdFusion Builder). While Greg Wilson was flipping between applications, I kept catching a glimpse of the Bolt icon. I immediately thought that it would make a fantastic wallpaper and that's just what I did. This one's inspired by what I saw on screen, but doesn't necessarily represent the final artwork for Bolt. Standard, widescreen, and iPhone versions available.
JUN 19
2009
Greg Wilson was in Nashville last night for the 2009 Adobe ColdFusion/Flex User Group Tour. He presented to a group of about 60 people at the Dave Ramsey campus in Cool Springs, TN. There was free food, drinks, and lots of great swag; both from Adobe, and from Dave Ramsey (thanks to both companies for the great stuff). The event got started at 7pm with Greg taking the stage around 7:30. He spoke for about 2 hours and covered lots of great features from ColdFusion 9 and the recently, publicly, named ColdFusion Builder (aka Bolt). Since I read blogs, follow mailing lists, and twitter religiously there wasn't a ton of stuff that I hadn't already heard about, but there were a few new features that I'd like to mention that really got the wheels in my head turning. I'll mention 3 of them in this post.
JUN 14
2009
You may remember the ColdFusion Bolt wallpaper that I released a while back. I designed it right after the announcement that Adobe was developing a ColdFusion IDE. Adobe will also be releasing the next version of ColdFusion, codenamed Centaur. This past weekend I decided that my site was a little light on design flavored posts so I whipped up this wallpaper to commemorate the pending release of ColdFusion 9. I've also written my first Photoshop tutorial documenting the steps I took to design the wallpaper! So dig in and enjoy...you can download the wallpaper below.
MAY 14
2009
Keynote has started, Adam Lehman and Terrence Ryan from Adobe on stage.
