Beans are a hot topic amongst the Object-Oriented ColdFusion crowd. For a while, the ColdFusion-scoped definition seemed to be changing every few months, but it looks like we're settling down a bit now that tools like ColdSpring are showing us just how abstract the concept of a ColdFusion "Bean" is.
4 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:27 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX | Model-Glue
Joel's posted a draft of "Introduction to Great Design" over on his blog. Always entertaining, he starts off talking about something that's always puzzled me: why is it so hard to turn a cell phone on?
Read more at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/design/1stDraft/00.html.
1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:38 AM - Categories: See Also
A few months ago, one of Raymond Camden's blog entries was reprinted under the Sys-Con/CFDJ banner, with Sys-Con's copyright appearing at the bottom. He blogs about it with his entry "Should I Be Honored Or Offended?." I guess it's now my turn, as my October 31 entry "Introducing Arf!" has been reprinted, in its entirety, on Sys-Con's site as part of the January 2006 CFDJ "Digital Edition."
Update: Sys-Con has removed the article. Simon Horwith, editor of CFDJ, has posted a very good comment regarding his (lack of) involvement in the matter:
"I don't have anything to do with what shows up on the Sys-Con website, nor was I aware that they took a blog entry and turned it into an article...I never saw a copy of this 'article' nor was made aware of it's existence."
So, not Simon's fault at all! Please don't blame him.
I was never contacted for my permission to reprint my contact. While my blog's content is implicity protected by copyright law, I do state an explicity copyright.
Now, my words are being reprinted on a revenue-generating page that contains Sys-Con's copyright information. This is simply plagarism, and plagarism with financial impliciations.
I've contacted Sys-Con and asked for it to be removed. This is a repetitive behavior on their part, and needs to cease.
12 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 1:10 PM - Categories: ColdFusion MX | Model-Glue | Causing Trouble
Mark Mazelin has posted a very real-world example showing why the Model-Glue <result> tag has "redirect" and "append" attributes, explaining the situation that called for them very nicely. Check it out over at his blog.
0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:57 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX | Model-Glue
If we had questions, they've been answered. Adobe has thrown its weight behind CFUnited-06 as a platinum sponsor.
Maybe this year I'll get cool stuff in the goodie bag instead of VB.NET books!
1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:45 PM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
The wee pod to the right of this entry ("From Joe's Phone") is a quick BlogCFC pod + scheduled task I hacked together to grab JPG images from a POP3 account (sent from a whitelist of allowed e-mail addresss). Perfect for camera phone shenanigans. I'll post the code tomorrow, it's sort of in "test" mode right now.
Oh, yeah, it's not going to be encrypted or anything ;).
9 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 4:11 PM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
I'm currently installing IE6 on my work laptop to test an IE6-specific issue. At least, I think I am. This installer is a model of how not to build things.
I downloaded the IE6 installer from IE's site. That gave me a file named "ie6setup.exe" on my desktop.
I ran it. Agreed to EULA. A minute or so later, I get a message that the next time I need to run Windows Update, run ie6setup.exe from Programs -> Something -> Obscure.
Ok. I didn't want to update windows. I just need IE6.
I click ok.
All windows close.
Explorer.exe locks. End Now.
Windows starts to reboot.
(waits a few minutes, checks GMail on personal machine)
Back at the ranch, the laptop has rebooted. Seems to start up ok. Nothing about any new IE install.
(clicks the blue E of doom)
Looks the same to me.
Help -> About -> Version 6.xxxx
Hey, looks like it worked. Thanks for the great experience, makes me really look forward to Vista.
2 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 10:08 AM - Categories: Off Topic