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What about a Railo AIR runtime engine?

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:02:04 GMT

My poor little blog has had no love. But the little guy suffers for very good reasons:

I’ve been in HOG heaven banging out ORIGINAL GROUD UP ColdFusion code 10 hours a day, doing my own code reviews every night and all night, plus I have the THE BEST CLIENT!

I LOVE: In this FIRING order (how could there be a preference?): Model-Glue, ColdSpring and Transfer. GOSH DARN! I FREAK OUT AND LOVE THEM!!!!!!!

And.... ohhhhh I am PUMPED for a serious hammering from a serious(?) web site security tool, and I’m not kidding. I am really looking forward to it. Very much, I await the outcome. I am safe. I am safe... or I will find out how I am not... :? I’m looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to it. AOP.... AOP... securityAOP... securityAOP... securityAOP... please GOD!!!! PLEASE!!! THIS MUST WORK, BE SIMPLE AND EASY FOR THE NEXT GUY!!!!!!!!!

All the ColdFusion blog yaking about validation is REALY REALLY perking my interest at the moment.

but... back to THE question????????????????

WHY NOT A RAILO AIR RUNTIME ENGINE?!?!??!?!?!?

I WOULD FREAK OUT IF I HAD COLDFUSION.. and uhhhh AIR... ummmmmmmm WOWOWW WOW WOW WOW

VERY PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!!! I WOULD BE!!!!!!

Active Denial Systems are DA BOMB! And Good for People! =>

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:56:31 GMT

I love this thing!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System

And sadly missed:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20497575/?GT1=10252

With something like this, WHO CARES about perceptions?

Well, we have this wounder of a crowd please/tamer, depending on the side. Lets use it!!!!

ModelLocater Pattern UPDATE: ModelLocater is KEWL!

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:09 GMT

I am NOT the sharpest tool in the shed! Or, my Googling has been poor! Or I didn’t know what to Google!

Jeffry Houser give a good summery of the AWESOME Steve Websters paper on RIA and sheds clear insight about the reasons for the ModelLocater Pattern.

Thanks Jeff!

Forgot that a Flash application is LOCAL, and that makes the ModelLocater pattern pretty cool! A Part/Some of a Cairngorm .fla’s “model” is the clients local storage (not the Commands or Services code part of the “model” which happen BEFORE the SomethingModelLocater.as {file[memory space]} gets updated) which is just a reflection of the REAL model: your ColdFusion code working the db and giving it back to Flex via the cumbersome Delegate/Service layers of Cairngorm! Great! Cumbersome, but easy to understand! The LESS AS3 code the BETTER! Give me my

{cfawesomeabstractiontag x = anotherGreatColdFusionFunction(iLoveColdFusion, “itsTrue”, “100,000,000,000”)}

any day of the week! Ick AS3! I think Cairngorm will let me do WAY easer and more templated (is that a word?) AS3 code. Cairngorm is PRETTY SLICK! Lots of files... but slick!

I think my fear is that I can’t seem to control a Sequence-of-Things-After-a-Cairngorm-Command, but maybe a switch statement in the onResponse is what I’m looking for. Will test in the AM.

Being a Noob is kinda (and only kinda!) fun sometimes =>

ModelLocater.... Yikes...!

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:12:36 GMT

It’s weird!?!? It’s NOT like ModelGlue /Mach-ii /FuseBox !!!

Is it true??!?!?! EVERYBODY LOVES/HUGS/TOUCHES/CHATS/KNOWS about a POOL (ModelLocater.as file) of data!??!? Is that a kool pattern!?!?! Scared!??!?!?!?!? =%

Well, anyway... If you love ColdFusion Framework development, take a look at Cairngorm, its pretty clean, super cool, ready for CodeGeneration (seems like), and has a VERY sexy name.

Daddy is starting to like. Once you grok/make all those Events/Controller/Command/Deligate/Service/FinallyInLovlyColdFusionLand.cfc files, it seems like a LOT of fun!!!! Seriously! The workflow is clean... but....... ModelLocater?!?!??!?!

ModelLocater Pattern (another link Steve Webster is KOOL!), from a HTML web developer perspective, seems fraught with danger!!!!!! It scares the dickens out of me!

Side note: Am I totally STUPID or dose the Guasax framework cache things. I spent SEVERAL hours trying to get this AWESOME looking puppy up and running. Good when “onApplicationInit”, but then NOTHING changes after that unless you KILL the framework specific code at the top of your <ms:Application>, and then re-run, add the framework code back in, and then re-run again. I know that I am missing a “production”/”development” setting some where, but WHERE is that documented. NOT Bitching! Seems like a PHAT, super simple ModelGlue like front controller framework and GO SPAIN for making something so cool looking. Gonna mess around with you some more.

Printing makes me a WAY better programmer.

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:10:35 GMT

I know the trees hate me, and I know that I cost the company a small bit of money, but I have to say it: I MUST PRINT EVERY LINE OF Views, Controllers, and Models, and proof read it and even better on 11x17 in great color.

I miss HomeSite, it printed the BEST! and as cool as Parallels is, Im either in or out so booting WICKED HORRID CRAPPY MICROSOFT DUMB LOSER Illegal SUPER DUPER ILLEGAL!!!! BREAK THEM UP!!!! XP Pro (YEA PRO....... ARG!!!! Im trembling right now), is a little bit of a bummer for me just to print. But don’t get me wrong, Parallels ROCKS! Worked in my “ColdFusion MX7 CommonSpot BaseLine” work station and was in HOG heaven! Once icky Windows ... kajshldfjkbddlkjasdh HATE!!! is booted it was as tight as my old (BEST FORM FACTOR EVER) T-60 dual core.

You know one thing to complain about my “I totally love” MacBookPro is: it gets totally wickedly HOT! I do hate that bit about the machine. I bet Apple let that go thinking: “Ohhh they'll love it like their best looking first borne smart daughter who might have a bit of an ‘Im the best so know it attitude’, they love it so much they'll just over look that ‘bad’ part.” I do.

But back on track, I have to proof read my code, line by line, at night. My AWESOME girlfriend is sweet and don’t mind me sitting at the kitchen bar all night and doing so.

I catch SOOOOOO much and also almost ALWAYS find some thing to hit FistThingInTheMorning!!! And my code has started to really have a clear and generic look to it. Daddy LIKES! THANKS FRAMEWORKS!!! Reading (in this order): dspOrder.cfm, Model-Glue.xml, OrderController.cfc and OrderService.cfc, should read like a novel, if it don’t... back to the drawing board.

Seriously, if I didn’t. Ohhh heck... Not as bad AS DUMBASS MICROsoft but still: ICKY ICKY ICKY ICKY!!!!! Ohhh I Shudder, and Shiver at the thought.

More stupid simple DSL

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:30:47 GMT

I used this for a shopping cart application i have spent lots of time on.

I like it cause is lets me say: "Change me forever, I LOVE CHANGES!"

CF and the concept of DSL makes simple form generation GREAT!

Abstract what they say from what the text of your form looks like. I love it.

[codeshare juldfce7]

Now the HTML is one layer abstracted from my db. Ohhh....... abstraction.... how i love the thought!!!!!!!

Ohhh....... abstraction.... how i love the thought!!!!!!!

blog posting

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:16:34 GMT

Posting to your personal ColdFusion Blog is hard.

No news but that the awesome social software website www.Instantspot.com just added file sharing.

I work on side projects to make me sharp, but these guys get to do some super cool stuff! Only shows that ones self is the motivator to producing better code.

You impress me InstantSpot.com

DLS's!!! WOW!!! ColdFusion CAN DO ANYTHING!

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:55:22 GMT

Im a HUGE fan of Peter Bell .

He posted this link to a Martin Flower 25 min smoken, super fast, way not boring, totally cool, super makes you say "hummph, ohhh, hummmumph, Ohhhh MY", super clear, SUPER INSPIRING talk from some heavy Java thingy.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/domain-specific-languages

Ive never been to school for computer programming, but even I can listen to this sermon and totally understand what's cool about it because of my obsession with learning OO.

The only way I could have had this obsession is cause ColdFusion is SOOOOOOOO TOTALLY COOL!

I have REALLY put a lot of time in the wood shed over the last few years learning "how to program". The only way I was able to get any good at "programing", is because ColdFusion is so perfectly abstracted and wonderfully implemented.

ColdFusion loves you , and makes sure that if you put some thought into your code, you will always get maximum satisfaction in return.

Now.... on to the Great thing for me:

[codeshare juna0600]

After hearing Mr. Flowers awesome sermon, and now needing to re-factor the payment process of a shopping cart im building, and that ColdFusion is SOOOO COOL....This here stupid little guy is gonna make a form builder!

We in the ColdFusion world ARE THE LUCKIEST PROGRAMMERS AROUND!

We get OOP, AOP (thanks ColdSpring ), and LOP cause ColdFusion is GREAT.

My head is spinning, Im freaking out that 90% of the repetitive tasks I have so ignorantly done over the last 13 years of hacking away at this stuff will never be repeated AGAIN!!!!!!

I LOVE COLDFUSION!!!!!!!!!

By By Windows - I will not miss you, I will not miss you

Thu, 24 May 2007 18:50:50 GMT

New Job, new computer! I happily closed the top on my last windows machine, and opend the top to my new MAC! Its really cool. It makes me feel cool.

Aptana - Eclipse plugin - WOW! Install it!

Wed, 23 May 2007 12:34:10 GMT

Thanks to Mark Drew for making life better. CFEclipse is DA BOMB!

Another plug-in I just discovered Aptana is JUST AS COOL!

I have to do loads of front end stuff and never LOVED some of the popular tools out there.

Aptana has an amazing array of features that make HTLM, CSS and XML editing more fun. Its support for AJAX stuff is not to be believed!

Just like so many other great things you great smart people put out there, its FREE!

FeedBlitz - IS AWESOME!!!!!! USE IT!!!!!!

Tue, 22 May 2007 19:50:12 GMT

The people at FeedBlitz are SUPER COOL! They are responsive, nice, and totally smart.

I have been "working" with them for the last week or so to get ColdFusion to work with their API (which is TOTALLY awesome).

So without further ado...

If you want to let users subscribe to your FeedBlitz Subscriptions (like if you want a user to get emailed when your blogs RSS has been updated):

1. get a FeedBlitz account

2. Do this:

[codeshare may1728c]

IMPORTANT: The XML in the above code NEEDS to be outputted on 1 line.

THANKS FEEDBLITZ

I think I love FeedBlitz.

Microsoft Mentions BlueDragon 7.0

Tue, 15 May 2007 20:51:14 GMT

I have never seen (maybe I have missed such a site) MS mention CFML.

I was browsing the IIS site and low and behold:

They mention it!

and here: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1448.

Not the most exciting news ever, but made me look twice.

LightWindow - LightBox on Roids

Mon, 14 May 2007 18:10:36 GMT

If you need to accomplish LightBox type features please check out this implementation by a sharp guy Kevin Miller :

LightWindow

http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/

Why is it cool?

post form to page inside the light box effect
plays almost ANY type of media on top of EVERYTHING
optional title bars and data boxes
check the Image Gallery with Multiple Images (more like MULTI GALLERIES) - AWESOME
For us ADOBE lovers who cant wait for CF8 and PDF generation, it displays PDF's over anything as well!

LightWindow - super cool

The Next POTUS

Mon, 14 May 2007 13:44:45 GMT

I am breaking my personal pledge to NOT post political thoughts here on this ColdFusion Blog...

But...

I want to get this recorded:

Barack Obama will be the next President of these United States of America.

I am not making this statement from any political view point, its just that I follow this stuff ALL day every day (I listen to C-SPAN all day long).

I am not saying this because I believe it would be the correct course for our country.

I am say this cause it's true, the kid has it. He has it like Regan, JFK, and Clinton had.

My semi(well maybe more serious then semi)-serious political analysis theory: since the election of JFK, Americans elect the best looking stump speaker, period. Experience has had NO relevance what so ever:

1. JFK beats incumbent VP Nixion

2. Carter beats incumbent Ford

3. Regan beats incumbent Carter

4. Clinton beats the BEST resume ever incumbent Bush

5. Bush beats sitting VP Gore (all be it, he didn't speak better, just spoke more plainly, and IS better looking then Gore)

As you can see by this lengthly in depth analysis, my argument is rock solid and correct.

Just wish I understood how to make a perfect db schema the way I can see the future of American politics.

What ever the outcome, our next President will be faced with challenges that are hard to fathom, challenges that scare the heck out of me.

I hope the next guy/gal will have the backbone, the brain, and the gift of inspiration to help this great nation meet the serious challenges that face us.

Go America

Microsoft are Liers

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:54:25 GMT

There is profanity in this post, so if you are uncomfortable with bad words, please hit the back button of your browser. – Thank you, John Allen

__________________________________________________________________

Microsoft lies in there television broadcast commercials.

They say that they help you discover you’re potential and realize it.

Those JERK, LOSER, BULLSHITTING ASS HOLES!

Internet Explorer was made to: MAKE IT SO I CANT DO ANYTHING BUT CRAP, UNLESS YOU HAVE TWICE THE DEVELOPMENT TIME. AHHHHHHH ARHHHHHH!!!! BULLSHITING FUCKING JERKS.

FUCK YOU FOR FUCKING UP THE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR OR ANY SMALL BUSINESS THAT WANT SOMETHING BETTER ON THE INTERNET

I ABSOLUTELY HATE INTERNET EXPLORER. INTERNET EXPLORER SUCKS, IT SUCKS THE WORST.

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE GOVERNMENT WHEN YOU NEED THEM

BREAK THAT FUCKING COMPANY INTO 2, AND LET THE FREE MARKET DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT AS A BROWSER!

IF THE SPLIT HAPPENED, EXPLORE SPIN OFF COMPANY WILL BE OUT OF BUSINESS IN 4 YEARS CAUSE THERE PRODUCT SUCKS.

INTERNET EXPLORER FUCKING CAUSES SERIOUS DAMAGE TO A GROWING SECTOR OF OUR ECONOMY, SMALL BUSINESS, CAUSE IT MAKES EVERY FUCKING GOOD SITE NEED TO BE DEVELOPED TWICE.

INTERNET EXPLORE SUCKS

If this post, one in a zillion, in any way can help in being a soft breath, that turns the tipping point, and SPLITS THAT DUMB ASS BEHEMOTH COMPANY, GOOD FOR THE WORLD.

MICROSOFT… YOU SUCK FOR LETTING THIS PIECE OF SHIT BECOME 70% OF WHAT PEOPLE TRY TO USE FOR A BROWSER, AND THE DECISION MAKERS ON THE INTERNET EXPLORE TEAM ARE FUCKING INCOMPETENT

I WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER BUY ANOTHER MS PRODUCT AGAIN, AND I WILL FIERCLY FIGHT ANY DECISION, IN ANY MEETING THAT MIGHT LEAD TOWARDS THEM RECEIVING 1 STUPID RED CENT.

Again, You Tube Clone So Simple

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:36:37 GMT

My buddy needed to clone YouTube and asked for the the code. Yea, CodeShare !

So now presented in the glory of InstantSpots OVER THE TOP COOL CODESHARE :

Gonna need these applications:

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html

http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/download.html

[codeshare maycfda3]

InstantSpot , this site ROCKS!

Funny video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKGyLh_aIA

301 redirects

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:28:04 GMT

I never knew the joy of writing a hundreds and hundreds of 301 redirects.

I just never knew!

I guess I forgot that I LOVE huge long running pages of switch statements!

HUGE LONG PAGES OF CODE ARE COOL!

_______________________________________________________

What is the harsh world of WWW cooking up for me next?

What new task are you going to ask me to learn and be pissed scared of!

_______________________________________________________

301ing a whole site is NERVERACKING! I work in Public Relations, so killing a companies SE's PR would be the END of me.

ColdBox Sample Code - WOW Mr. Manajo is WILD SMART!

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:27:48 GMT

Music:I THINK IM IN LOVE... OHHHH Ohhhhhh. I THINK IM IN LOVE... OHHHH Ohhhhhh.... Music ends.

ColdBox is wildly great.

To have a fullfilling day:

Go download it.
Print out the RSS sample application and the documentation (11x17)
Sit is a very comfortable chair, with good light
Crack open a Miller Light, and put C-SPAN radio on in the back ground
Read the documentation
Then another Miller (by now you might be scratching your head saying it cant be this good)
Read the RSS source code
Another Miller
Maybe at this point you are jumping up and down, screaming at the top of you lungs "I think Im In Love", you read the line in the controller:

10. Read the rest and watch yourself say: wow, thats slick over and over again

His code is Awesome. His examples are pure, and correct.

If anyone is wanting to get a feel for OO, see some examples that really GET TO THE POINT, Mr. Manajo, has your line.

Thanks Mr. Manajo!

RocketUnit - Test Driven Development - A LIFE OR DEATH MATTER!

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:25 GMT

I again need to say, I'm no borne programmer, but I want to be!!!!

A little voice in my head has been yelling at me, getting louder and louder everyday. It started as a faint chant and is now as loud as a train:

TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT! TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT! TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT!

I am going to start a surge to insure my personal security. I saw this yesterday:

RocketBoots has release a super small testing framework: ROCKETUNIT!

There is so much to do, so much to program, but i think my life has to stop! I MUST CHANGE AND ONLY DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD! DO TDD!

If I don't, I'm gonna keep writing what i think is good code, but how can i prove it?

I'm no borne programmer! But TDD might make it look like it!

ColdBox Is PHAT!

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:18:57 GMT

I read the documentation last night. BLEW MY MIND

I donwloaded it today. ITS A SNAP!

Migrated my security application. 30 min and TOTALLY FUN AND SUPER EASY! Those controllers are DA BOMB!!!!!!

Gonna use it this weekend! Making my buddies T-shirt shopping cart. If the code comes out good I'm gonna release it.

Why ColdBox TOTALLY TOTALLY TOTALLY ROCKS:

Built in object cache manager with a smoken dashboard, built in i18n internationalization, cfc controllers (yea!!! programmatic controllers!!!!), auto detection and configuration of application environment and context (production vs development). Ohhhhhhhh my!

I think I'm in love.

Sample code is solid, if you know any of the BigThree ColdBox is a NO brainer.

Again the controllers are DA BOMB!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!!

Thanks Mr. Manajo!!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!!! ColdBox