The AM Agg: Better file inputs, Sean on Frameworks, Dubya is a slow biker

One <input type="file>, multiple files!

First up today is a handy bit of DOM scripting from the Stickman at the Stickblog. Through a bit of script, it allows you to use one input you upload multiple files. Pretty slick! Maybe I need to re-learn some client-side stuff...

Sean on Frameworks. Again :)

Sean Corfield is giving his ever-popular frameworks talk at the Salt Lake CFUG at the end of September. If you're looking for a good review of the three main CF Frameworks (Fusebox, Mach-II, and Model-Glue), it's a great was to get some unbiased info!

RSS bad. "Web Feeds" good.

Microsoft, Google, Firefox, and others are looking for a more friendly name for RSS, and this article at eCommerce Times talks about a potential rename to "Web Feeds"

Sean on Frameworks. Again. AGAIN!

Sean Corfield's also giving his frameworks talk at the Portland CFUG on the 25th of August. Is the name of his sabbatical "The 2005 US Frameworks Tour"? If you live close enough, you should go.

Are there no best practices?

James Bach takes on the idea that "Best Practices" even exist - instead, they're all based on circumstances.

Armstrong told to place second

Ok, off topic, but I think it's funny. Apparantly, when you ride with the President, you have to let him ride first. Lance Armstrong and the Recreationist-In-Chief went for a much touted 17 mile ride over the weekend. The Crawford house rules state that Dubya rides in front. Much has been made of him being a "strong rider" and a "competetive" guy.

17 miles in two hours? That's 9.5 miles an hour - an insult to a guy like Armstrong, considering a schmo like me averages somewhere around 18 on easy offroad terrain.

3 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:22 AM - Categories: See Also

The AM Agg: Weekend Update

Well, I haven't blogged much recently - work has been slammed, and I'm in the middle on renovations at home. I thought I'd get back in practice by trying to sum up the past 24 hours in the CF & Macr blog scene in five minutes or less. So, here's what's happening on this fine AM:

New Atlanta goes Private

Nope, not in terms of SEC, but in terms of the ongoing debate over their marketing and the mySpace thing. Vince has stated that folks are free to say what they want about NA and BD in public, but that any further discussion with them on the matter will be done in private. The next time someone on CF-Talk posts a "Why hasn't NA responded to someone spreading FUD?" we should be spared (mercifully) a 70-post-long occaisionally flaming thread on everything for the meanings of "powered by" to Voltron.

Flex your Mental Muscles

There's been a debate recently over the necessity of MVC and frameworks for Flex development. In one of the more creative, constructive posts, Steven Webster at iteration::two asks for folks to strategize on how'd they'd add functionality to add features to the Flex Store demo application.

<cfset myClass="CompiledJavaAsBase64Here" />

Not a month goes by without Doug Hughes showing me something truly innovative. This time, he's packaging *compiled* Java code inside of his CFCs as strings by using a custom ClassLoader.

FDT: Pure Coding Comfort

FDT ("Development Tool for Flash" - maybe it should be "Flash Development Tool?") is an Eclipse plug-in for Flash development. I used to do a fair amount of Flash, and have started to poke around with it again recently, and this looks like I could use it! Ant integration, live error handling, compiling - all in the IDE I leave open for days on end!

Learn M-G, Move to SoCal, Get Hired!

Sami Hoda, who I had the pleasure of meeting at CF-United, has an opening in his company for a CF developer familiar with OO, Model-Glue, Mach-II, etc. So, if Winter's approaching where you are, and you'd like to flee to a warmer climate, check it out!

That is all.

3 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:24 AM - Categories: See Also

Model-Glue Jobs, Coast to Coast!

Jared Rypka-Hauer and Scott Stroz sent me three exciting links over the past week! It looks like Model-Glue is beginning to make it into job descriptions, coast to coast!

In California:

http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=313 42962&AVSDM=2005%2D06%2D27+10%3A22%3A04&Logo=1&q=model-glue& sort=rv&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1,128,1862,1863

In Minnesota, eh:

http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=313 98988&AVSDM=2005%2D06%2D25+17%3A21%3A49&Logo=1&q=model-glue& sort=rv&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1,128,1862,1863

In my town, Washington DC:

Go to http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/AdvancedSearch, choose District of Columbia -> Washington, and keyword ColdFusion (sorry, they hide their links...).

That is all.

7 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:10 PM - Categories: Model-Glue

Model-Glue 1.0: Inherit the Quickstart

The current Model-Glue Quickstart is great for what it is: how to create a really quick application that shows the features of the framework. However, the framework's gone beyond the scope of the original example it builds (a stock quote app).

Because of this, I'm asking for volunteers to help with a new Quickstart. It'd be great to both get ideas for a new sample as well as someone who'd be willing to help write both the sample and the Quickstart itself.

If you'd like to contribute to either, please think about how you'd use the following new parts of M-G 1.0:

* The REDIRECT and APPEND attributes on , keeping in mind that the viewState is preserved across the redirect

* Event Beans

* The getModelGlue().createSingleton() method, which is just like createObject(), but will create singleton instances

I'd rather not demo async events in the quickstart, but don't worry, they're in there.

2 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 11:11 AM - Categories: Model-Glue

Ban Cute Server Names

I've decided to take up a new cause: I want to eliminate cutely named server names from the face of the planet. Comic Sans can wait until after lunch. Never again do I want to have to use a wall chart to remember whether Dumbo is a mail server, DNS, or app server. Nor do I want to get a page from Goofy telling me that Medusa is giving him SNMP fits. Call things what they are, and if you're in multiple locations, include where they are!

21 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:03 AM - Categories: Off Topic

CFForm-based MXNA/Goog reader: Wow!

The gents over at ASFusion have put together a very compelling, Flash-based MXNA/Goog reader using nothing but CFForm! It's definitely worth checking out, and makes a compelling case for MX7!

Flash MXNA/Goog reader

1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:01 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX