Hosted at JBoss.org, as a JBoss project Railo will be supported by a much larger community than can be provided purely by the CFML community.  This will give Railo a very well deserved boost.  I am continually surprised by how few savvy CF people who are not aware of the importance of this.

There are now a few good CFML engines available for developers who want to develop with CFML:

• New Atlanta’s BlueDragon
• Adobe’s ColdFusion 8 (and soon 9).
• OpenBD
• Railo Open Source
• Railo Enteprise
• Smith

It will be interesting to see how Adobe respond to this development with the release of ColdFusion 9.

Learning to Digg, Backflip, or Furl might sound less than Delicious, until you Ask for a spoonful of RawSugar and a quick Wink from Mister Wong, the Frappr, who’s taken a StumbleUpon a Flock of Magnolia after a Spurl last night at the LinkaGoGo, and suddenly your site becomes Mashable on the Newsvine, where, as fast as you can say Blinklist, all the world will Digg by iPhone your Facebook on MySpace before you quickly Squidoo over to YouTube for 43 Things you must Flickr with before you’re forced to Reddit again, plus get Linkedin while praying to the Gods of Twitter that one day you’ll “get” what the Technorati all this social media stuff means.

Tags: socialmedia

Few people realise how important it is to be able to do colour by numbers.  There are other sites I have found that help with colour palettes eg. www.colorcombos.com.

It is a thorough analysis by function and tag.

http://www.cfml-engines.info/wiki/index.php/Comparison

http://www.commoncraft.com/show

You can also purchse their videos in hi-def in their online store.

http://coenraets.org/blog/2008/05/insync-automatic-offline-data-synchronization-in-air-using-lcds-26/

I have downloaded this example and will post on some of the issues of getting it work if a) you are not experienced in Tomcat and b) you are coming from ColdFusion background.

MkW3Site.vbs is a WSH script installed by default to the \inetpub\scripts directory when you install Windows 2000. (You can download MkW3Site.vbs from the Code Library on the IIS Administrator Web site at http://www.iisadministrator.com.)

This powerful script creates Web sites for you. MkW3Site.vbs takes 10 possible parameters.

MkW3Site.vbs isn’t pathed (i.e., placed in a folder that Windows locates automatically by default), so you need to navigate to the \inetpub\scripts directory to execute it. In addition, creating Web sites requires a security privilege, so make sure you’re authenticated as a member of the local administrators group on the server you’re using. Alternatively, you can use the command-line utility Runas to impersonate a user when you run the script.

Although you can run MkW3Site.vbs in CScript or WScript, I recommend CScript so that all screen output is directed to the command window from which you run the code. WScript initiates a series of pop-up windows that you have to close by clicking OK. I executed the command

CScript mkw3site.vbs —r e:\ _
inetpub\wwwroot\sitepath _
—t "sitename" —h _
www.sitedomain.com —n 3 —v

Also read this article on setting values in the metabase

1. How to Break Web Software - excellent book on the subject by by Mike Andrews and James Whittaker
2. Google video - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5159636580663884360
3. Mark Krugers blogs and podcasts on the security pyramid - http://mkruger.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm?mode=alias&alias=security.pyramid.intro

Sites dedicated to the subject

1. WebAppsSec - http://www.webappsec.org/
2. OWASP - http://www.owasp.org/documentation/topten.html
3. Security Focus - http://www.securityfocus.com/

Listen to episode 16 of ColdFusion Podcast http://www.coldfusionpodcast.com/node/45

Review articles on MVC framework concepts at http://www.benorama.com/coldfusion/

Review Ray Camden’s Quick Guide on Model-Glue

Review Ray Camden ColdFusion Cookbook implementation for a more full on example of using Model-Glue.

“There’s millions of lines of free code out there in the form of frameworks, tools, and other packages intended to aid and abet the skilled and professional development of ColdFusion applications.” Examples:

• CFEclipse
• Fusebox
• Mach-II
• ModelGlue
• onTap
• CFCDev.org
• cfLib.org
• Tartan
• COAL
• ColdSpring
• http://www.productivityenhancement.com/plum/WhatPlumCanDo.cfm

As for complete applications, here’s just a few (and there’s more!):

• Galleon Forums
• BlogCFC
• FarCry