Just a quick note to let folks know about a few slide decks from CFUnited 2010 that have been uploaded to SlideSix. Here is a quick list of those presentations available at the time this blog post was published (please leave a comment if I missed one): [More]

Web Application / ColdFusion  Developer Leading Internet-based Retail and Wholesale company based in Texas seeking ColdFusion Developer. We are a well established internet-based arts & crafts supply company, prosperous since company launch in 1996. Our company provides an entrepreneurial, fast-paced business environment with a casual and collaborative atmosphere. We offer competitive compensation and an excellent benefit [...]

I was doing a bit of research on a potential project when I stumbled across faint, a Java facial recognition library and decided to give it a quick try. The bad news is that the documentation is literally non-existent. So I did a bit of poking around the Jar and quickly found an ‘OpenCVDetection’ class. [...]

The ColdFusion UPS Package is a set of components that make it easy to work with the various UPS services. Currently there is support for Address Verification, Shipment Tracking, and Service Rates. (Although the service rates should be considered alpha quality.) You will find the project at RIAForge

Software Design/Development US Citizeninterim or active secrect security clearance. The position requires a vast skill set; from helpdesk type support (for Content Management System) to software installation/configuration to application development and all areas in between. Candidates should expect to work on projects using many tools and technologies, including but not limited to, ColdFusion, JRun, JBoss, [...]

TEKsystems is working with a great client that is need of a ColdFusion Developer to join their team. The right candidate will be working in a small team of developers to help design, develop, and maintain enterprise level web applications. The candidate will develop ColdFusion templates using the Fusebox methodology. You will perform ColdFusion Integration [...]

If you've not noticed a blog post from me since January that's because I haven't blogged ;) Life has been busy and most of my time has been spent on things I can't just go blogging about. Besides the majority of the work is not CF related and most of the folks out there would not find much interest in it. That being said I am ecstatic to announce I'll be teaming with Matt Woodward to provide a complete day of sessions/training at BFusion concentrating on Open Source CFML. BFusion is one of those conferences that has an awesome mix

From time to time I'll get alerted about blog entries aggregated on CFBloggers that is either not-ColdFusion related or perhaps inappropriate. I don't have a firm set of guidelines on how I handle situations like that. I thought I'd write down a few ...

I was browsing around the Sencha site this morning and saw that they announced the beta release of 3.3 which includes two major new components: PivotGrids Calendar While those will garner much attention, the ugly stepchild mentioned at the bottom of the press release is also very cool. The ActionColumn allows you to put icons [...]

Just one this week: AllBusiness.com, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) is looking for a ColdFusion developer with at least 3 years experience. Other requirements include 4+ years of JavaScript and DHTML, 3+ years of SQL Server, and familiarity with Linux and using ColdFusion in a mixed OS environment. Details on craigslist.

I’ve downloaded all of coldfusion 8 functions and printed out to put my wall for ACE coldfusion 8 exam. Sometimes, I just read through and test how does it work. Among them, ListChangeDelims is one of the coolest functions of Coldfusion 8 list function. Using this function is to replace new delimiter into old one. [...]

If you use Google Apps this will be all to familiar to you. As Google Apps users we all lived in this kind of limbo where we had to have our Google Apps account as well as a Gmail account since outside of Google Apps your Google Apps login was useless. In fact, it was so useless that you may have even accidentally created a 'ghost' Google profile using your Google Apps credentials for services like Google Reader etc where the account your using wasn't your Google Apps account but a ghost version using the same email address etc.But no more! Google

Subversive error because a newer version is already installed After a recent update to my Eclipse install every time I restarted the application I kept getting the following screen pop up The issue was that it didn't matter which connector I installed I got a message stating Cannot complete the request. See the error log for details. "Native JavaHL XXX.XXX Implementation (Optional)" will be ignored because a newer version is already installed. "Subversive SVN Connectors" will be ignored because a newer version is already installed. After Google not helping me I went through the About Eclipse > Installation Details and

First time for using CFFILE within cfscript so thought I should document this for myself and anyone else. Open and close a file myFile = expandPath( "somefile.txt" ); fileObj = fileRead( myFile ); writeOutput(fileObj); // OR myFile = expandPath( "somefile.txt" ); fileObj = fileOpen( myFile, "read" ); fileClose( fileObj ); // Once a file is closed you cannot access the object [More]

If you ever see this error it means you're trying to output a function which doesn't return a value. For me I was playing around with fileDelete() and without looking at the docs I assumed this would pass back a boolean to tell you if it was successful or not.