A recruiter contacted me to ask if I knew anyone looking for ColdFusion and Flex work in the Philadelphia area. Unfortunately, I don't. If I did, I would probably steal them to fill an open position in my department. But in hopes that someone out there looking for work in the Philadelphia suburbs might fit, I offered to post the information here.
Flex/ColdFusion Developer needed for a 3 week project in Malvern PA.
Please contact Jacky Barry, j.barry@thebossgroup.com or 610-668-3456
It sounds like freelancers and moonlighters might be able to take it on, but I'm not sure if it requires working on-site or during normal business hours.
Posted in
Jobs
| No Responses Yet
June 26 2009
If you listen closely to CFConversations Episode 33, you'll hear Terry Ryan and Adam Lehman explain why Adobe's official product names and release dates are kept secret for so long -- hence the use of code names like Scorpio, Centaur, Bolt, Catalyst, etc.
"Basically, if we say the name of the product it has to go on our reports, and because we're not selling it yet you get zero's on the report and so that causes all sorts of problems. There are very legal reasons for doing it..." -- Terry
"Then there's copyright and trademarks. If we were to (hypothetically!) come out a year ago and say, "it's called ColdFusion 9", but then took more than a year to release it someone could actually steal that trademark. Traditionally, when we go to public beta is when the official names come out." -- Adam
That said, Adobe has been publicly announcing (CF, Bolt) that the name of the next version of ColdFusion is (big surprise) ColdFusion 9, and the name for the IDE (that we currently refer to as Bolt) is ColdFusion Builder. I guess we can expect an announcement for public beta any time now, right?
When you put two and two together, you can infer that they will be released more or less hand in hand. It wouldn't make much sense for them to be released a week or two apart, splitting the hype; it makes much more sense to combine them and have one big party. That isn't much of a surprise. Some of the features announced for Centaur -- ColdFusion 9 -- pretty much require IDE integration. (And some of them don't, but are still pretty badass!)
But the big take away from these announcements is that we can expect ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder to be available for purchase no later than June of 2010. The clock is ticking.
Oh, but there's that big Adobe MAX conference in October, too. I wonder what they'll be talking about...
Posted in
Adobe |
ColdFusion
| 8 Responses
June 18 2009
Personally, I'm pretty excited about this. Peter Elst posted a video from AdobeTV of Ryan Stewart demoing a feature that might be in the next version of ColdFusion. As a matter of fact, here's the comment I left on Peter's post:
Holy @%^&*@#%%^&%@##$%.
So what's this cool new feature? It's actually something being developed by the ColdFusion team, not the Flex team. Essentially, what it boils down to is that by adding a line of configuration code pointing to your ColdFusion server, and setting up a user account on that CF server that has this new remote access enabled, you can access some core ColdFusion functionality from your Flex application without writing a single line of ColdFusion code.
In his example, Ryan uploaded a PDF file, and used CFPDF remotely from his Flex application to access the meta-information about that PDF from Flex -- all without writing any CFML. (I'm guessing that the upload itself required a few lines of CFML, but that wasn't what was being demoed.)
It sounded like Ryan said that access can be restricted per-user to specific tags, so it should be highly configurable.
I paused the video at about 2:10, and it looks like these tags are already supported: CFChart, CFDocument, CFImage, CFLDAP, CFMail, CFPDF, and CFPOP. This list has the potential to grow between now and release, too. I would bet they only have code-hinting enabled for features that are already functional, and I'm sure they're hard at work finding and implementing other great tags. I wouldn't be surprised to see CFExchange, CFDBInfo, and a few other tags added to that list. (How cool would it be to have a Flex app to administer MySQL in the same manner as phpMyAdmin?)
Ryan says that this feature "may be in ColdFusion 9, code named 'Centaur'." Let's be real about this: When has Adobe ever demoed a feature or product that wasn't all but guaranteed to be released? They are too careful to do something like that. So this may change form a little bit, but I fully expect it to be included, in some way, shape, or form.
When it comes down to it, this isn't incredibly ground-breaking, because you can already accomplish all of this by writing some server side code. But what's happening here is that the ColdFusion engineering team is doing what they do best: making tedious or complex things easy.
Most of all, it made me realize that we need to start thinking more about the status quo in our applications. How many flex applications do you have that require a username and password that get handed off to be handled by your hand-written server-side LDAP authentication code? You can do that automatically as the application loads, and the user doesn't even have to think about signing in, but still gets their personalized interface. You can do that today, but with these new "Proxy Tags" it would require less code.
I think ColdFusion 9 is poised to be a game changing release. Are you ready?
Posted in
ColdFusion |
Flex
| No Responses Yet
June 12 2009
The developers at my office, Wharton Computing, get together monthly to remind ourselves that we are all normal (well, mostly normal) people with interests and hobbies outside of work, and to relax a little bit; and we're extending the invitation to the entire PhillyCFUG group.
It's a great opportunity to blow off a little steam, get to know your peers, and if you're into that sort of thing, do some networking. (You know, we do have a couple of open positions. You can search in the Org "Wharton Computing and Instructional Technology")
This month we're meeting TOMORROW -- June 4th -- at 4:00 pm, at Slainté, on the corner of 30th and Market -- the opposite corner from 30th Street Station. Typically we're there until at least 6:00, but the bar has a great atmosphere and I've personally stayed at one of our happy hours until around 9:30, just hanging out talking about geeky stuff with a bunch of people, before retreating to the suburbs.
It's a great time, and we hope you'll come join us.
See you there!
Posted in
CFUG |
ColdFusion |
Philadelphia
| 1 Response
June 03 2009
