Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

Hot on the heels of the previous 1.3.5 release, the CFEclipse team have released a maintenance release. 

You might wonder why so many releases nowadays? Well, the team have a new release schedule, which like all nighttime coders, is based on the cycles of the moon. So what has been fixed you ask? Checkout the full listing but a summary is here:

#509    Errors with implicit structure/array creation
#106     mishandling of multiline strings        
#478     attribute validation with spaces    
#486     asking for content assist when you have a broken parse tree throws error
#496     word wrap throws null pointer exception    
#510     insert cfabort action, doesn't
#512     useSmartPaste preference default is not initialized
#513     context menu added with each file opened
#515     smartpaste preference doesn't seem to take
#516     Code Formatting splits regex onto 2 lines    
#520     syntax errors inside comments
#521     space at the end of strings/single quotes inside double quotes    
#523     Code Parsing error with cfinterface/cffunction
#504     cfdump and cfabort tags should print out their respective dump() and abort() functions in cfscript
#517     Content Format menu option incorrect display
#518     Code Parsing and formatting

An awesome job to everyone involved!

So this is a bit of a fishing post (at least I am being honest!)

In the next few months Railo Technologies will be working on a number of projects and we are  looking to build up a good list of contractors that can work on these projects with us.

I am not posting details of specific jobs of course, but you should have a variety of skills round CFML and CFML development, such as frameworks, ORM techniques, code optimisation and  load testing etc.

Please, read carefully now, I am not looking for agents, I am sure you have wonderful contractors and reasonable rates and make coffee to die for but please do NOT contact me.

So, if you are contracting at the moment, or will be looking for contracts in the UK and Europe over the next few months send me an email with your CV, letting me know which areas you enjoy/are good at/ both/ want to get into etc.

IF YOU ARE NOT AN AGENT, email me over at mark at getrailo dot com

Finally, as previously mentioned, I shall be treating emails from agents with the contempt they deserve, so don't ruin your day eh?

This weekend I got a package in the post, with an awesome t-shirt from the NYCFUG! I want to thank Clark Valberg and Ben Nadel from Epicenter Consulting for sending me such an awesome item as well as for the fantastic reception I had at the NYCFUG in May! 

 

 

I am currently in Zürich, after doing two days training on ModelGlue, Reactor, ColdSpring, Test Driven Development and Ant (a lot packed into two days I tell you!) as well as hanging out with Gert Franz, the first time since we both starting working with each other!

Anyway, on Friday the 8th of May I am heading off to New York City to hang out with Peter Bell for a few days which shall be a blast again, just before cfObjective, and to present at the New York CFUG on the 12th of May.

Find out more details over at the New York CFUG (http://www.nycfug.com/) come over and join us, as well as having a beer (they do beer in NYC right?)

In my last post I wrote about using ZIP and FTP as resource locations.

Today, I want to focus on why you might want to use RAM as a resource. Imagine the situation, for some crazy reason, you happen to have some code in your database, that you want to actually run. Its in fact just a text string, but you want to run this code. Let's say it is a code example in a blog post or something. How would you get this code to run?

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As I hope nearly everyone has heard by now, Railo finally went open source yesterday, you can check out the new Open Source Railo site at http://www.getrailo.org and as well that Railo Technologies has started up http://www.getrailo.com

But this post isn't about that. I have been involved with the guys at Railo for a long time and been very impressed with the work that they have been doing, so much so that I have decided to buy join them.

So, as from today I am the CEO of Railo Technologies UK.

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It has been a while in the making but finally I can announce that Mark Drew Consulting will be up and running as from the 9th of March.

Mark Drew Consulting is a little firm based in London specializing in CFML development, ColdFusion and Railo administration and deployment, process, development tools, ajax, frameworks as well as training and support. If you have any needs why not come and talk to us, we are friendly, and have cookies.

The new website should be going live before the 9th so you can have a look at some of the offerings and if you are interested you can always email me or use the contact form!

It has been a long time coming and I am sad to be leaving the guys at Design UK, if you have design, ecommerce, emarketing or content management projects you should definitely go talk to them! The smartest people I have worked with in my career and the most fun.

There are a number of projects I am looking forward to taking off the ground, some that I want to devote more time too and other ideas and developments that I really look forward to sharing with you all in the near future!

I have been so excited about this for the last few weeks, I can tell you that the future is bright!

Andy Allan, the man behind the "fast-becoming-legendary" Scotch-on-the-rocks conference has announced that tickets for this year's conference are finally available! The conference spans three locations: London, Manchester and Edinburgh all in a week and should be a blast as always! The tickets are priced at £49 + VAT for each event or if you want the full madness of the event, £129 + VAT for all three days. With some great speakers and awesome content, this shall be a great tour of the British Isles at least!

Next tuesday the UKCFUG is having a meeting about Cloud, Elastic and Virtual computing and how it can improve your deployments, expandability and reliability

Head over to the UKCFUG website to register for this event, it should be very enlightening!

 

I found something that I am not sure if it is a bug or a "feature" whilst developing some functionality in our CMS. Essentially imagine you have the following directory layout:

• index.cfm
• level1/
  • level2/
    • index.cfm

In the root index.cfm I want to expand the path to level2, that is, get the full folder path of "path2", you would do something like:
<cfset mypath1 = "/level1/level2">
   <cfdump var="#expandPath(mypath1)#">

Which (in my case) returns: /Library/WebServer/Documents/scratch/level1/level2

BUT if you add the forward slash to the path:
<cfset mypath2 = "/level1/level2/">
   <cfdump var="#expandPath(mypath2)#">
You get: /Library/WebServer/Documents/scratch/level1/level2/index.cfm/ ?!
Where did "index.cfm/" come from? I can understand how that might be useful in 0.1% of cases but not when you are simply trying to find the path to the folder. If you remove the index.cfm from the folder it all works fine.

Shome mishtake, shurely?