Well the Fusebox 2004 conference has been announced, weekend 19th/20th September at the Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland.
I’ve looked into flights to hop the pond and it’s pretty reasonable pricing so chances are i’ll be there this year!!! Just got to clear the weekend away with the girlfriend but fingers crossed i’ll see you all there.
Wahey! I’ve written my first Regular Expression and used it in a live app for the first time thanks to Ben F’s excellent new book, Teach yourself Regular Expressions in 10 minutes.
I haven’t finished the whole book yet (far from it) but just a couple of chapters in and i was well away writing my own RegEx’s and certainly will use them more often. Like most i found them daunting but know they’re actually pretty cool!
Alan Hill (thanks) pointed out an error in my orginal release of mappings.cfc. On line 11 I create an object:
and then on line 12 i used the object:
spot the deliberate mistake? No? I created an object called factoryobject but then i reference factory.runtimeservice. I’ve corrected the download on my site here and sent a copy over to the folks at CFCzone.
Microsoft have released the first ‘Release Candidate’ of the much anticipated Windows XP Service Pack 2. The good news is it’s public now so you can all try it out. I’ve installed it this morning on a Compaq Evo 1005v, MSDE, CFMX 6.1
Read more and download the service pack from here
NOTE: This is not recommended for production systems, I am not liable for anything if you install it and it goes wrong 
It seems i’m not the only person to experience problems of installing CFMX 6.1 downloaded from the MM site.
I downloaded it earlier in the week but whenever i try to install it on a new dev box (and i’ve tried on multiple servers) it runs through the extract but then comes back “Specify different location”, i initially thought it was a space issue but i’ve tried on servers with Gb’s of space.
I remembered the Studio MX 2004 CD has CFMX 6.1 on the disk so i used that version and it installed with no problems at all..
perhaps MM need to check the download out that they’ve posted on their site.
Blimey MM have been busy recently. Hotfixes for CF and now the long awaited update for DWMX 2004 to 7.01. So now they’ve updated all the products in the Studio MX 2004 suite, if you haven’t applied them all then you need to go to http://www.macromedia.com/go/studioupdates to get them for yourself.
Here’s one of those applications that once you get it you wonder what you did without it, this is certainly one of those apps. It came up in a discussion on CF-talk suggested by Jeff Peters.
How many times have you been developing across multiple DB platforms and had all the admin consoles open, or been bugged by having different looking Query Editors but this is a one stop shop for writing queries or editing data! Whether it be MS SQL, mySQL, Oracle or even plain old ODBC this app does it! Plus being a Java app it runs on almost all platforms! It’s well worth checking out, personal use is free or $69 for commercial use is well worth the price!
You can find out more here
Macromedia have provided us with a way to protect CFCs so we can control who can execute them with the access= attribute in the function definition. In Fusebox 4 we’ve got the ability to build a permissions based model to access circuits and fuseactions.
Previously i’d not looked into the new CFLOGIN/CFLOGINUSER tags that CFMX brought with it and i hadn’t thought it possible to implement both CFC security and Fusebox 4 permissions. Not sure where i found the link but Brian LeRoux has blogged a neat way to implement both using a Fusebox4 plugin in the preFuseaction phase, you can read more on his implementation here
My copy of Jeff Peters’ books arrived just yesterday at 160 pages long. As far as i know it’s one of two books that address a specific Cold Fusion topic rather than the single mass of ‘Cold Fusion’ (the other being the CFC book published by Techspedition).
I haven’t worked out which category i fall into that Jeff sets out in the introduction, probably the developer studying for certification and the developer ‘pushing the envelope’. I’ve finished reading the chapter on Lists and so far so good. The problem with learning any language is knowing all the functions that are available to you confidently enough to use them efficiently and correctly, something this book will certainly provide you with. Jeff talks through each list function and then provides a chunk of code to demonstrate the use of each function. At the end of the chapter Jeff provides around 10 real world example usages of list functions from phone number parsing to looping over a list.
Anyway, I’m a few pages into the Arrays chapter (something i definitely need to brush up on) so when i’ve finished that i’ll post a further report.
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