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Better UI Means Better UX at ColdBox Developers Week 2013
On June 20, 2013 at 3pm CST, I'll be presenting a ColdBox version of my KungFoo Gallery application during ColdBox Developers Week. This online conference runs from June 17-21, 2013. 5 days & 19 sessions on ColdBox, ContentBox, WireBox, PhoneGap, REST, ORM and more.
Slides and Code from my cfObjective() 2013 Presentation
Slides and code are available via DropBox and Github. I've posted links on my Twitter account @iKnowKungFoo already, but here they are for those not following me (and why aren't you?). :)
Ditching ColdFusion's UI Controls at cfObjective
Saturday at 3pm, I'm presenting at cfObjective(). The title in the schedule says, "Building Modern ColdFusion Applications", but I should have asked them to update it to say, "Ditch ColdFusion's UI Controls". In this session, I'll cover why and how you can replace the native UI controls with HTML5 and some modern JavaScript and CSS libraries. I'm also running a Birds of a Feather session about Coding Standards and will be giving a Lightning Talk on my multi-monitor standing desk.
Installing ColdFusion 10 on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
While setting up my Macbook Pro for web development, I was flummoxed by the issues reported by many people trying to setup ColdFusion 10 on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, as well as Window 8. Adobe even has a pre-release program to test new installers for both. I can understand having problems with Windows 8, but installing on OSX 10.8 couldn't have been easier.
Always install ColdFusion Builder 2 as an Eclipse plugin
I recently picked up a 17" Macbook Pro and am in the process of setting it up as my primary development machine. I'm a long time user of Eclipse and moved from CFEclipse to ColdFusion Builder when version 2 arrived. I've heard a number of users complain about performance. Other than opening massive legacy files that contain thousands of lines of code, I haven't had many issues myself. The trick is to not install CF Builder as a stand-alone IDE. Here's why and how.
