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Got Energy? Creativity? Skill? - Awesome WORDPRESS Needed!!! by dantonip

ejazazeem — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:35:23 +0000

Lights, Camera, Action…. We are a young adult travel & entertainment company. We book, plan, organize large travel groups & party events… We’re talking spring breaks, bachelor parties, graduation trips, sexy Las Vegas Weekends, Ibiza trips and more… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Cold Fusion, Graphic Design, Social Networking, Website Design, WordPress)
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The Fusion Conundrum

Mike — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:00:17 +0000

by Mike Sitting around at a table top debate amongst friends of various political stripes and backgr

Issues when null value is sent for a variable of type Date or Integer from Flex to CF

lksmurthy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:35:27 +0000

When we make use of Cold Fusion as the backend server for a Flex Application. We have to take precautions when handling variables of type Date and Integer. In particular, precaution has to be exercised when a null value is sent for the Date and Integer variables from Flex to CF.

Reason: When a null value is sent for variable of any data type from Flex, the Cold Fusion handles it differently. In particular, Cold Fusion does not believe in the concept of null and stores it as empty value i.e. If there is a variable by name “dt”. Instead of having dt = null, we will have dt = “” in CF. This creates issues when building Data intensive applications (one of the key focus area of DCD). MySQL associates the concept of nothing to “null” and not to {empty}/””. Only in the case of String does MySQL recognizes {empty}/ “” and stores it as null.

Work Around: Let us look at the following lines of code, to better understand the work around.

a) <cfquery name=”updateItem” datasource=”Test”>

UPDATE test

SET Start_Date = <CFQUERYPARAM cfsqltype=CF_SQL_TIMESTAMP null=”#dt1#” VALUE=”#item.Start_Date#”>

WHERE test_id = <CFQUERYPARAM CFSQLTYPE=”CF_SQL_INTEGER” VALUE=”#item.test_ID#”>

</cfquery>

The above lines of code show a sample SQL query in CF. It shows an Update query which tries to set the value of field Start_Date, to the value existing in the variable #item.Start_Date#. In the above code I would like to draw the attention to a specific property in the CFQUERYPARAM, the property “null”.

Above we have set the property null to a variable #dt1#. This property decides if we are passing a null value to the Query or Not

b) Now let us have a look at dt1 variable. dt1 is a CF variable with a boolean value. The Boolean value for that variable is decided on the value present in item.Start_Date. If item.Start_Date is empty then dt1 is true.

<cfset var dt1 = “false”>

<cfif item.Start_Date EQ “”>

<cfset dt1 = “true”>

</cfif>

Combining a and b. We have the following algorithm:

a) Initialize a CF variable dt1 to false

b) Check if the value present in item.Start_Date = “”

c) If empty, set dt1 to true, else keep it at false

d) In the SQL query set the null property to take the value present in dt1

e) If dt1 is true, then null value is sent to database, else database gets the value in item.Start_Date

New Energy Technology

Dennis Kidwell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:16:34 +0000

The term “New Energy” refers to revolutionary alternative energy technologies that can r

Online Chess Game by regnatarajan

ejazazeem — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:26:47 +0000

I need a web based Flash or Java based Chess game that would allow players to play against each other. They don’t need to play against the computer, but the game should not allow illegal moves. It… (Budget: $1500-3000, Jobs: Cold Fusion, Flex, Java, JavaFX)
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Adobe Web Technologies in Action this weekend in Raleigh

Nancy L Starr — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:54:45 +0000

In my days at doing tech support for Sony, I worked extensively with their proprietary time-line bas

NT Authentication

jkocen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:58:01 +0000

when you want to authenticate people using an IIS web server but don’t want to use groups.

<cffunction name=”authenticateUser” access=”public” returntype=”struct” hint=”Authenticates the user.” output=”yes” static=”yes”>
     <cfargument name=”userid” type=”string” required=”true” />
     <cfargument name=”passwd” type=”string” required=”true” />
     <cfargument name=”domain” type=”string” required=”true” />
<cftry>
<cfscript>
ntauth = createObject(“java”, “jrun.security.NTAuth”);
ntauth.init(arguments.domain);
// authenticateUser throws an exception if it fails (bad anythin userid or password,
// so we don’t have anything specific here
ntauth.authenticateUser(arguments.userid, arguments.passwd);
// make sure this is being requested via SSL
if (cgi.https neq ‘On’) {
status.isAuthenticated=false;
status.message=”You must call this function from https, not http”;
}
else {
status.isAuthenticated=true;
status.message=”Valid Credentials for #ucase(domain)#\#ucase(userid)#”;
}
</cfscript>
<cfcatch>
<cfscript>
status.isAuthenticated=false;
status.message=”Authentication failed for #ucase(domain)#\#ucase(userid)#”;
</cfscript>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
<cfreturn status>
</cffunction>

Need someone to build PHP forms to MySQL from my mock-ups by iquotient

ejazazeem — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:56:05 +0000

I am working on a remote database project. I need someone who can: 1. Take my Excel list of fields and tables 2. Create PHP front-end forms in PHP, Cold Fusion or Flex. 3. Create an environment that will allow one to enter data in the fields and store to MySQL server… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Cold Fusion, Flex, PHP, SQL)
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Need someone to build PHP forms to MySQL from my mock-ups by iquotient

ejazazeem — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:55:56 +0000

Cold Fusion Photo Album Code

smitchell1974 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:24:04 +0000

Cold Fusion Photo Album
Adobe Cold Fusion Photo Album

MOST POPULAR!
A complete adobe cold fusion online photo album allowing you to upload and organize your pictures.
If you have been searching for an easy to use, easy to install and low cost alternative to the other providers, you have come to the right place.
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This easy to use and low cost cold fusion application includes:

- session based login authentication
- create unlimited viewbooks for specific events
- view photos by page number (as many as you like, default set to 6)
- photo viewer screen with viewbook menu
- upload unlimited photos
- main menu navigation by viewbook
- ms access database included

Click here for more information

Cold Fusion or Thermal Fusion?

Julia Humphrey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:21:26 +0000

Cold Fusion or Thermal Fusion for Your Hair Extensions

When looking into hair extensions it is important to choose the right attachment method for the look you are going for as well as the type of hair that you have. There are a number techniques from weaving, clip ins, chemical bonding, and fusion.

There are, however, two types of fusion and it is important to know the differences between the two if you are intending on taking this route to attach your extensions. These types of fusion are cold fusion and thermal, or heat fusion.

Both approaches do the same thing, except in different ways. For example, both cold and thermal fusion attaches the hair extensions on a strand by strand basis. This allows for excellent coverage and an extremely natural look because the extensions will fall naturally the way your normal hair does.

Because of the great amount of detail that goes into applying these extensions, in can take many hours to complete so it is good to understand that whether you are choosing cold or thermal fusion, you will be sitting for quite a while. The upside is that by maintaining extensions that are fused to your hair you can keep your hair extensions looking great for a longer period of time that virtually any other attachment method out there today.

Thermal or heat fusion uses a heat gun to melt the bonding agent that is at the tip of the hair extension. The tip will then fuse to your hair strand and will create a long lasting bond. Thermal fusion is a very popular way to apply hair extensions because they last a long time and can be applied very precisely to obtain exactly the look that you want. One drawback is that thermal fusion uses heat which can be damaging to your own hair if it is not done properly.

Cold fusion is a modern and revolutionary technique for applying hair extensions. Cold fusions uses ultrasonic waves, also known as sound waves, to soften the tip of the hair extensions and allows you to be able to bond the hair extension to your hair without subjecting your hair to the possible damages of heat. There is also no risk of burning the scalp with cold fusion so the hair extension can be applied much more closely to the root of the hair strands because there is no risk of burning.

DIY Hair Extensions – Home Page

vaidehipatil — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:07:17 +0000

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

Cold conFusion ?

XML in Coldfusion

jkocen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:58:52 +0000

Need to process XML after you have read it from a server?

Can be in the content or if from a BB in the header

x = tostring(GetHttpRequestData().content) or x = page content via a web server

Convert string to XML – xmlparse(xmldata)
Verify it is actually XML – isxml(xmldata)

xmldata.tag.tag.xmlchildern is an array

xmldata.tag.tag.xml.attributes.tag is a data field between 2 tags

xmldata.tag.tag.xmltext is data inside a tag

Futuristical Perspectives #1: The Sewing Machine

logicmania — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:26:53 +0000

By time-traveler extraordinaire John Titor

Sewing machines have come a long way and they’re gonna be even more amazing. Just think: in 20 years how sewing machines won’t just be sewing your clothes, but they’ll be sewing up cats, humans, buildings with serious fractures, and possibly even rips within the fabric of space and time itself!

Once you guys start to understand the science of superstrings, sewing machines will be able to not just knit those buttons back on your shirt, but they’ll be knitting new forms of exotic matter into existence.

Sewing machines will be very advanced by 2020. If you have lacerations that go deep into your bowels, don’t call EMS, just put yourself under the Sewing Bot 3000 and in no time you’ll be fit as a fiddle or fit as some other more appropriate metaphor. Don’t worry about the Sewing Bot 3000 injuring you; if it does injure you, then it can just sew you back up! And if Sewing Bot 3000 becomes evil and tries to kill you, then you probably have given it a reason to be that way. But just in case it’s evil for purely evil intentions, just remember to have a Sewing Bot 3000-and-1 handy and close by.

This goes far beyond prosaic, boring repair work by the way. Future sewing machines can stitch together the fabric of failed relationships, repair the seams in a nation’s economy and help us put patches over our empy lives!

By the year 2025, sewing machines will probably be too advanced to operate. But don’t worry, the sewing machine will probably know how to operate itself. You can be rest assured as you sleep at night the sewing machine will be stitching up the proper materials that it thinks is proper to stitch. Since the sewing machines will probably not be human operated, they will probably have purely humanoid metal endoskeleton with a sewing mechanism attached to their abdomen. You’ll never have to worry about turning them on or off as they will have a 200 year life cold fusion cell powering them. All sewing machines will be operated by a central program called Skystich or Sewnet (it was one of those, can’t remember which).

In the future, if the self-aware sewing machines sew something that doesn’t need sewing, then it probably shouldn’t be a problem. More than likely, a sewing machine like the Sewing Bot 3000 will carry a 5 gigawatt laser that can quickly undo the stitches by burning straight through them. This laser might sound pretty powerful but it shouldn’t produce anymore heat than the surface of the sun for more than an hour.

Some people think that the future holds nothing but malaise for all humankind – that we’ll live under some kind of technological dystopia. They’ll think again when they live in a world full of self-aware sewing machines that never sleep, never eat, never feel pain, never can be reasoned with, and much more importantly never can be turned off or destroyed, but just keep sewing.

25 Lies About Me

nickory — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:23:42 +0000

I just found this again on my Facebook, and I feel the need to share it again. If you have never ma

Ajax call in ModelGlue without rendering a view

ajithmanmu — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:50:40 +0000

Making an Ajax call is simple and straight forward in ModelGlue. The concept is simple and is given in detail in Doug’s blog. Read the full tutorial.

In ModelGlue(2) to call the Ajax call we need to have a view. i.e a page needs to be created to act as the view. This is in need if we are using the Ajax call to dynamically load HTML content. The Javascript receives the rendered view and does whatever it was told to do with it. But however there are times when we do not want to have a view rendered for our event(i.e our Ajax call). We simply want to return a value from server(it can even be a mere checking..!!) and assign it to a Javascript variable. For this simple purpose we do not want to create a new page/view.

In order to accomplish this we will have to break the ModelGlue architecture (till now..i couldn’t find any other suitable methods). Anyone who is familiar to ModelGlue architecture will find it easy to understand the below code.

My ModelGlue event:

<event-handler name="test.testFunction">          
     <broadcasts>
          <message name="testFunction" />
     </broadcasts>
</event-handler>

Please note that i am not using a view in this event.

And my controller function:-

<cffunction name="testFunction" returnType="any" output="true" >    
<cfargument name="event" type="any" required="true">        

<cfset justtest = 1>

<CFCONTENT TYPE="text" RESET="Yes"><CFOUTPUT>#serializeJSON(justTest)#
<cfset request.modelGlueSuppressDebugging = true />
<cfsetting showdebugoutput="false" /></CFOUTPUT><cfabort>

</cffunction>

Here we are converting the justtest variable in JSON format and outputting via cfcontent. Here cfcontent acts as the rendered view and returns justtest in JSON format. Here aborting at the end of controller function can be considered as breaking the ModelGlue archi , but this is one way around to solve the problem.

By the way here is my Ajax call:-

new Ajax.Request(root+'test.testFunction',{
  method: 'post',
  parameters: {param1:paramval},
  onSuccess: function(response){
    alert(response.responseText);
    var myresult = response.responseText;
  }
});

I am making use of prototype library for this.

We will get 1 if we alert the responseText call back from the server.

This is only applicable to ModelGlue2. If you are using ModelGlue3 then you would also need to check out how to use fomats in MG3. Thanks Ray Camdon for sharing this link.

Magnets, A Home In Point Loma, Little Gray Men

shortsalenurse — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:22:35 +0000

The other day a few friends of mine met at our favorite San Diego taco stand over looking the Bay. From the vantage point of our table we could see one of the Aircraft Carriers coming into the bay. Our respective careers took us in different directions so three industries were represented. Real Estate Broker, Medicine (MRI TEC) and Banker.

The MRI TEC is always interesting to talk to because he follows advances in science and the Banker and I have educations that were science based. Last time we met he was discussing Cold Fusion as a source of energy, and how someone right here in San Diego may have worked it out, but our discussions always seen to come back to the ecomony.

Looking out over the bay to the aircraft carrier the MRI Tec told us that he saw a special where the Navy is working on launching planes off Aircraft Carriers with Magnets. I mentioned that I had seen something recently where they believe it is possible that Crop Circles are being created with magnetic forces and the Banker had to chime looking for humor and said, “Money is getting a little easier to borrow but we are not giving it to the little gray men that are making crop circles, yet. ” We all laughed and though about things that had nothing to do with the ecomony for a few minutes.

The Banker started humming a song that had to be inspired by the theme of our discussion and looking to Point Loma he stopped humming and said “Someday I will buy a home on that hill right over there” pointing in the direction of Cabrillo Monument. Well I hope everything gets worked out, the Navy figures out the magnets, little gray men from where ever find a way to borrow money and my friend buys his home in Point Loma, if its a short sale or a foreclosure and he saves a ton of money, even better.

I guess there is that bond of friendship that makes us all want our friends to find what they are searching for. In contemplation , I guess what brought me to Real Estate, was the feeling gained by helping people in their search for a home, chase their dreams and solve their problems. The Real Estate Market is going to spin forward and I don’t want to predict when but I bet it is before they find out what is making crop circles. If mankind finds out aliens are making crop circles, I bet people quit buying and selling property,,,,,,, Na.. I guess there is nothing to worry about, I’ll bet you crop circles (2) are being made by unemployed English Bankers or are they?

George Kenner is a Broker Associate with Prudential California Realty, in La Mesa California. He can also be found at NumberOneInSanDiego.com or contacted at 619-723-5714. George Kenner is also the owner of Kalabash Marketing.

Removing viewstate values in ModelGlue

ajithmanmu — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:38:02 +0000

A quick blog post on removing viewstate values in Model Glue…everyone knows about this, but i didn’t find any useful reference while googling this…also for my reference as well just in case i forget…

Removing a value from the viewstate:

<!--- Here key is the name of the value you want to remove--->
viewstate.removeValue('key')

Reading Schedule task details from neo-cron.xml

ajithmanmu — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:27:26 +0000

I found this code helpful while working with schedule tasks(i’ve been working with it for a while now ).

Schedule tasks that are created in the Coldfusion Administrator can be accessed as structure programatically. This is particularly in need when we need to check through code whether a schedule task has been executed or not. We can also get the details of the existing schedule tasks that are in the Coldfusion administrator.

<!--- Get the scheduler xml file.  It's stored as WDDX in CFroot dir--->
<cffile action="Read"
          file="#Server.ColdFusion.RootDir#/lib/neo-cron.xml"
          variable="TaskXML">

<!--- Convert the WDDX to CFML - and array of structs --->  
<cfwddx action="WDDX2CFML" input="#TaskXML#" output="GetTasks">

<!--- Dump all the schedule tasks in CF Admin in Struct format. ---> 
<cfdump var="#GetTasks#">

The Scheduler configuration file neo-cron.xml stores all the schedule task details in the CF Admin in xml format. We are simply reading the file and converting the WDDX into an array of structs.

The output should look something like this:

(Web) Backend Technical Support - (Toronto)

Glenn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:51:42 +0000

I have a client in Toronto that is looking for a web technical support person. Person would need to

CF9 out in the wild...

ajithmanmu — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:37:17 +0000

Adobe Labs just released the much anticipated public beta versions of ColdFusion 9(Centaur) and ColdFusion Builder(BOLT). Adobe went for three simple categories of improvement with this release: Increase user productivity, improve integration with popular enterprise software, and simplify the workflow between Adobe products.

Top 10 ColdFusion 9 Features to lookout for:-

1.Adobe AIR database synchronization

By enabling this feature in your AIR application (both on the server and in the client app), the application syncs the data from a ColdFusion datasource to a local SQLite database. To support offline AIR data access, you code ActionScript elements on the client side and CFML on the server side.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSAFE323E5-CA8B-429e-BC1C-450DA839D705.html

http://askjayvir.blogspot.com/2009/07/coldfusion-9-air-sqlite-offline-support.html

1.Adobe AIR database synchronization

http://askjayvir.blogspot.com/2009/07/coldfusion-9-air-sqlite-offline-support.html

2.Object Relational Mapping (ORM)

ORM allows you to do complex database calls without writing a single SQL query thus making your code a lot cleaner and more manageable. This helps save lot of time and your apps will even run faster because of the built-in ORM optimizations in CF9.

http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/7/ORM-Rethinking-ColdFusion-Database-Integration

3.Flex integration

By using the ColdFusion proxy ActionScript classes, you can access several ColdFusion services without actually writing any ColdFusion code for Flex-based applications that run on Flash and AIR . You just call the ColdFusion service straight from your Flex code. ColdFusion 9 now uses Blaze DS to power Flex remoting and messaging.

http://www.mischefamily.com/nathan/index.cfm/2009/7/15/ColdFusion-9-Flex-Improvements

4.ColdFusion as a service

ColdFusion 9 has an exposed service layer that lets you to have direct access to a bunch of CF9 services from any server language you use. You can even call them using SOAP or Flash Remoting without writing a single line of CFML. These services include charting, document services, PDF utilities, image manipulation and email. Also these web services can be sandboxed, permitting access only to authorized applications.

5.New Enhancements in <cfscript>

You can now build CFCs entirely in CFSCRIPT, including Application.cfc. You can invoke any tags and functions in cfscript. You can use new operators like abort, exit, include, and throw, to simplify your cfscript. WriteDump() is the equivalent of <CFDUMP>, WriteLog()is the equivalent of <CFLOG> (both of these are named similarly to the existing WriteOutput() function), Trace() is the equivalent of <CFTRACE>, Location() is the equivalent of <CFLOCATION>, and Throw() is the equivalent of <CFTHROW>.

6.Office application integration

ColdFusion 9 extends its reach into .NET based technologies like Microsoft SharePoint and MSOffice.The <cfpresentation> tag allows you to create, convert and read presentation files with just a few lines of code.The same thing goes for documents and spreadsheets.

7.Server manager

Server Manager is an AIR-based desktop application that allows you to centrally manage multiple ColdFusion servers from one location. We can apply hot fixes, change configs, create data sources etc to all servers at once. We can also clear caches across a cluster of ColdFusion servers.

8.PDF integration

With the enhanced PDF support in CF9, you can extract all the content form a PDF file. You can also update PDFs and even optimize them on the server .

9.Dynamic UI Controls

ColdFusion 9 provides access to a broader set of AJAX controls that use the new Ext JS 3.0 library via easy to use CFML tags and attributes. New controls include mapping, Video Player, multi-file upload, enhanced data grid, accordion navigation, progress indicator, confirmations and alerts as well as customizable buttons and sliders.

10.ColdFusion Builder (BOLT)

ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse based IDE for CF development that is deeply integrated with CF9. With just a few clicks, you can create all the necessary CRUD code to use in your CF application or your Flex application. We can also extend ColdFusion Builder with our own extensions using CFML.

Playing SWF files using cfcontent

ajithmanmu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:32:38 +0000

Playing swf files using cfcontent is very simple.

The video will not play when we call only the HTML page in which the flash video is embedded. Instead we also need to call the swf file using cfcontent to play the video files.

Playing flash files embedded in HTML can be done by the following code snippet:-

<cfcontent type=”application/x-shockwave-flash;” file=”#FilePathandFileNameOfSWFFile#” deletefile=”no”>

<cfcontent type=”text/html” file=”#FilePathandFileNameOfHTMLFile#” deletefile=”no”>

Hey, everybody's doing it!

scientifictendencies — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:37:36 +0000

Science + Music = Me

A concise, simple equation that will hopefully also come to describe this blog. I plan to blog on scientific stories I find interesting and old and new music I like. Incongruous? Possibly. Life-changing? No. Interesting? Hopefully. A cold-fusion powered guitar amp? Yes please.

Why every Flex developer should learn Cold Fusion (new betas)

aflexwrold — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:58:27 +0000

I must admit that, even though I’m working for Adobe and have worked with Flex for a long time, Cold Fusion was still a bit off my limit. Now, with the new beta releases of CF9 server and CF9 Builder, I have taken the opportunity to get into it and here is my conclusion plain and straight: Cold Fusion is amazing and every Flash developer should learn and use it.

Why? First off, it makes your life sooooooo much easier. Things that would take you ages in PHP or Java take you minutes, few minutes, to get them done in CF. This is how a query looks like in CF:

<cfquery datasource="cfartgallery" name="myquery">
SELECT * FROM APP.ARTISTS WHERE LASTNAME = 'Kim'
</cfquery>

For anyone who has been querying with PHP, this is heaven. And come to think of it, you don’t even have to do this out of Cold Fusion. With CF9, every Flex/Flash developer (as any PHP, Java or .net) can invoke CF as a web service. Take a look at this:

<mx:Application xmlns:cf="coldfusion.service.mxml.*">
<cf:Mail id="cfMail"
to="bill.gates@microsoft.com"
from="steve@mac.com"
subject="Have you heard about CF9"
content="It rocks!"
type="html"    />
cfMail.execute();

via Forta.com

And remember: CF9 Builder comes as a standalone installation or as part of your Eclipse, which means it also integrates into Flash Builder. Come to speak of Microsoft: CF9 has a really nice integration with Sharepoint and the major office products, like Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You can dynamically generate PPTs and XLSs, and convert DOCs and PPTs to PDFs. You can read more about the new features on Serge’s blog here. By you should be all hot to try out a bit of CF. I promise it will make your life so much easier, allow you to be more productive and be a better Flash developer. Here are two docs that will be your new bible. See them as the old and new testament

For a quick start, don’t miss out on the videos over at Adobe TV (tv.adobe.com). I’ve made a quick selection of the three videos that will best get you started.

Build a Cold Fusion powered Flex app (Ben Forta)
Flex for Cold Fusion developers (Tim Buntel)
Proxy Tags in CF9 (Ryan Stewart)