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Thanks to everyone for the (largely positive, and all constructive) feedback regarding my Webdu presentation on a lightweight approach to MVC frameworks with ColdFusion 7....more

Simon Horwith has just announced a very interesting project that compares the various ColdFusion frameworks by using them to reimplement the original CF PetMarket site....more

Breaking news in the lead-up to Webdu - my talk is now going to be about ColdFusion development instead of Flash unit testing, to help Geoff balance the number of presentations in each conference stream....more

David Ringley commented on my Ruby iterators for Actionscript post asking if there was a way to do the same thing in ColdFusion....more

Geoff Bowers and Nick McNaughton will be presenting tonight with Geoff's presentation being broadcast via Breeze to other Australian CFUGs....more

CFIMPORT is very close to being my favourite Coldfusion tag but I've never used it, because no matter how you try to get around it at the end of the day you need to hard-code (i.e at compile time) a directory path for the location of your custom tag library....more

Hey, is everyone getting excited? Less than a fortnight to MXDU 2005, and from all indications so far its going to be a bloody ripper :-) I love the superhero characters Nectarine have whipped up this year - ColdFusion's hair is great, his quiff looks like it came out of a soft-serve machine at a...more

I've been hankering for an easy way to quickly create complex structures in ColdFusion, similar to the curly/square brace object/array literals in Actionscript....more

I've been experimenting with "mixins" in ColdFusion - a sort of Claytons inheritance where one component can bolt on one or more component's methods dynamically at run-time without having to extend them....more

It seems that on every big project I've worked on over the years, the geek held in highest reverence by the project has been the Big Iron DBA - we're talking CICS-IMS, DB2, Informix, and Oracle here, not your wussy-point-and-click SQL Server, nested-selects-still-alpha mySQL or (gasp) Access....more

Last night at Sydney CFUG I gave a presentation on regular expressions. In the presentation I used a nice Eclipse plugin that lets you test a regex live - perfect for teaching and programming with regular expressions....more

There are lots of ways to trace the execution of a ColdFusion request. Originally you could just cfoutput variables and "starting/finishing x" messages to the page....more

I just noticed something interesting about getMetaData() that might come in handy - if you pass it a function reference (instead of the usual cfc instance) it gives you the metadata of the function - access, name and a parameter array....more

Last week at NSW CFUG I presented a simple example of a Blog built using the Model View Controller pattern, which also used some caching techniques to get really fast request processing times. After numerous requests I have the source code ready for download....more