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Moving my Blog

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:57:00 GMT

I've moved my blog over to my VPS running Railo and Mura. The domain will remain the same, but here's the URL anyway. http://lanctr.com/index.cfm/blog/

I'm With Stupid

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:20:00 GMT

We just launched stupidsem.com, take the quiz and see if your Search Engine Marketing strategy gives you the whole picture. Also, the Century Interactive crew will be at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose next week. Stop by our booth and say hello. We'll be answering questions about the services we provide, how to use them and whatthey mean to your business. Our developers will be on hand for any technical questions you might have. You could even win an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt.

ColdFusion 9 CFSpreadsheet + ORM + Flash Builder 4 July DFWCFUG Presentation Recording

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:23:00 GMT

About an hour of banter about some of the new CF9 features, including but not limited to, CFSpreadsheet, Hibernate ORM, and Flex 4 integration.

https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p76123212/

Download my sample code here: http://slantsoft.com/files/ServeFiles.cfm?file=CF9_July_DFWCFUG.zip

Delivering Raw Image Data to JavaScript & Dallas Tech Fest 2009 Presentation Files

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:11:00 GMT

With Dallas Tech Fest 2009 over I can now share the demo files I was working on for my presentation. Below you'll find links to both the demo application and my slides (PDF). The jQuery Gallery demo displays a method for delivering Base64 Image data from a remote CF method call to JavaScript. The application is packaged up and downloadable from the main demo page. Demo Application: http://portfolio.lanctr.com/cfimage Slides (PDF): http://slantsoft.com/files/ServeFile.cfm?file=dallas_tech_fest_2009_steve_good_cfimage.pdf Enjoy, and as always, feel free to drop me any questions or comments.

Applying Design Patterns in ColdFusion - The Observer Pattern

Thu, 21 May 2009 15:14:00 GMT

I have to say, I'm pretty excited about how the observer pattern works. Coming from the mindset of event driven programming and asynchronous communication, it seems to have many similar traits. Head First Design Patterns describes the observer patterns as: The Observer Pattern defines a one-to-many dependancy between objects so that when one object changes state, all of its dependants are notified and updated automatically Or to put it another way, the Observer Pattern allows one or many objects, in this case we call them observers, to register themselves with a single object, the subject, in order to have the data they need pushed to them from the subject. How each of the observers reacts to the data can vary greatly.

Applying Design Patterns to ColdFusion - Intoduction

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:51:00 GMT

I recently had the Head First Design Patterns book handed to me. This is a fascinating book, however, I imagine that a number of ColdFusion developers would take one look, see all the Java and move on to the next book, or worse, abandon the concept of design patterns in CF. I think if I had picked up this book a year ago I would have been in the latter camp and stuck with what I know and enjoyed my comfortable rut. My goal, over the course of reading this book, is to share with community the patterns I learn and how to apply them in CF with some close to real world examples. If you are interested in how to use design patterns with CF and would like to follow along with my journey I encourage you to buy, borrow or steal (ok, don t steal it) a copy of the book. I ll do my best to relate my posts to the chapters they are inspired by. I hadn t planned on covering chapter 1, but if anyone feels that it should be looked at please let me know and I ll take a look at it again. I ll be starting my series with chapter 2, The Observer Pattern, later today.

WhenWhatHowLong - A Simple Time and Task Tracker

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:30:00 GMT

Over the weekend, out of necessity, I threw together a very simple AIR app for tracking tasks, when they were done and how long they took. It's basically a glorified stopwatch with historical logging. If this is something that interests you I encourage you to check it out and leave me some feedback.

Enjoy! slantsoft.com/index.cfm/products/wwhl

I am on flexcf.com

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:25:00 GMT

Thanks to Paul Kukiel (http://blog.kukiel.net/) for getting my demo code up on http://flexcf.com/ Very cool!

Presentation: Moving Data Between ColdFusion 8 and Flex 3

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:35:00 GMT

On Sunday, Feb. 15th I did a connect presentation for the Dallas / Fort Worth CFUG on moving data between CF8 and Flex 3. Here is the recording of that presentation and the files I used. http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p37889200/

Moving Images Between CF 8 and Flex 3 (AIR 1.5) - Part 2 of 2

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:01:00 GMT

In this entry I cover the Flex side of sending and receiving image data through the RemoteObject to ColdFusion 8.

Moving Images Between CF 8 and Flex 3 (AIR 1.5) - Part 1 of 2

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:45:00 GMT

In this first of a two part post I'll be showing how I setup my CFC to handle the server side image reading and storing.

XKCD

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:49:00 GMT

I've added a link to my XKCD proxy. This lets people behind firewalls view the latest XKCD comic.

Resizing an image with CFImage (Creating a Thumbnail)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:35:00 GMT

An example of how to resize an image to create a thumbnail.

dlog private beta

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:56:00 GMT

I'm going to be releasing version 0.1.0b of dlog as a private beta. To be part of it, shoot me a DM on twitter (http://twitter.com/stevegood), or hit the Contact Form button below my picture here on the blog. Either way, send me your email address and I'll make sure to get you included in the beta.

dlog preview

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:32:00 GMT

Early stages of dlog (Desktop {B|MicroB}logging tool). Mostly just demonstrating the transitions between views and the general style.

Widget Outage - Widgets Back Online

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:39:00 GMT

x10hosting.com, the host where my widgets were being stored was doing server updates. I've moved the widgets to the lanctr.com domain. They are all back online again, but the wizards will need to be re-run to get the object and embed tags with the new domain.

ColdFusion Book for Coda

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:41:00 GMT

With the 1.5 release of Coda, an OS X IDE, you can now create your own books. I've created one that uses the CF liveDocs.

Badge / Widget Wizards

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:45:00 GMT

I've added two more badge wizards. A weather widget, and an auto updating webcam widget. Check them out here: http://learncf.lanctr.com/badges/index.cfm

Twitter Badge Wizard

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:20:00 GMT

I've created a Twitter badge wizard. It generates the object and embed needed to display your own twitter feed.

Twitter Badge - How I Did It

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:21:00 GMT

A walkthrough of how I built my Twitter badge / widget.