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#cfunited Notes – “Intro to jQuery”

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Javascript is NOT the enemy. You can find peace. Why jQuery? powerful, wide support, works for me (after initial period of grumpy old man whining) History 3 years old high compatibility free minified, gziped or full fat available on Google CDN What does it do? finds stuff changes stuff loads stuff and more stuff Signs [...]

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#cfunites Notes – “Advanced Custom Tags”

Saturday, August 15, 2009

What is a custom tags? CF custom tags are user created tags to extend the tag set written in CF executed on CF server used along side standards tags locally available Why use them? code reuse encapsulation abstraction simplification customized control flow packaging What about CFC? yes everything you can do everything in CFCs but [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Create a Public Facing API”

Friday, August 14, 2009

APIs – The Basics application programming interface 2 types – RESTful and RPC offers ability to share data and functionality centralize functionality Possible Problems poor planning can cause poor usability needs to be accessible across multiple langauges variable scope may not exist / be accurate documentation needs to be extensible security can be tested/attacked The [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Extending CFBuilder w/ CFML”

Friday, August 14, 2009

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/ What can extensions do? Anything CF can! •    written w/ CFML and XML •    runs on a CF server Common Uses •    code generation •    framework scaffolding •    server management / probes •    code analysis •    reporting Add New Context Menus •    RDS View (databasees and tables) •    Outline View •    Resource View (projects [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Facebook applications with a CF Backend”

Friday, August 14, 2009

Workings of a Facebook App Facebook -> your website -> Facebook API -> your website -> Facebook They scan for “bad” stuff before displaying it. Good though because its all secure for you. Setup name your application (read the terms – good bathroom reading) make note of your API key and secret (needed for all [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “CF Developer’s Guide to Mate Flex Framework”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Sample Application Uses upcoming.org REST API to show events ColdFusion End basic CFC to call API (getCountryList, getStateList, getEvent, search, etc) Mate easily handle flex events tag-based dependency injection supports modules flex messaging support extensible (extensions available) Typical Process view — event –> main.mxml -> eventMap (remote objects to CF) -> manager result is then [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “CF & PDF: Improving Your Workflow”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

What’s the problem? Normally, lots of steps in the process involving lots of different people at different levels. What’s the solution? After noticing the problem for some time, most organizations will finally address the problem. CF + PDF! Accelerates form creation that has server side connections. Tools LiveCycle Designer – Windows only!?!?!? Comes free with [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Code Reviews and Team Dynamics”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

What is code quality? Not talking about the little things like “you missed a cfQueryParam there” but more “is it going to stand up to the test of time” so that things last. Steve McConnell 1 of 3 most influential people in the software industry (Bill Gates and Linus Torvald as the other two) “Testing [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “CF9 and AIR: Developing Offline Applications”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The same 3 ways (WebService, HTTPService and RemoteObject) to connect to CF from AIR that existed in CF8 will continue in 9. New things in Centaur Fast Remoting made several times faster direct data translation between ActionScript and CF types circular ref bug is fixed no code changes required support the old style remoting for [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “CF911: Tools and Techniques for CF Server Troubleshooting”

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

When the stuff hits the fan: you want to know what went wrong and why diagnostics to track errors and other info – in CF, web server, DB and whole OS. available tools for monitoring CF – free/commercial/cf/generic presentations at http://www.carehart.org/presentations Typical Scenario CF stops responding What do you do? Restart CF – doesn’t find [...]

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