Coming To China: Adobe Flash Platform Summit - Feb 05

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

Open Government Slides Posted - Feb 03

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

Kevin Lynch Weighs In On Flash, Openness, And More - Feb 02

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

Presenting At Events in London, Paris, Cologne, Liege, And Amsterdam - Feb 01

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

ColdFusion 9 Security Fix Released - Jan 29

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

And That's Why Flash Support Is A Must - Jan 28

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

We're Looking For An RIA Architect - Jan 28

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

List Of Products Related To Flex - Jan 27

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

ADC On Creating Self-Updating ColdFusion Builder Extensions - Jan 26

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

My Tweaked ColdFusion Builder Perspective - Jan 20

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

Using ColdFusion Builder FTP Integration - Jan 19

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

Check Out The Flash Platform Game Technology Center - Jan 18

Source: Ben Forta's Blog

Locale switcher with theme using css and javascript - 11/11/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

I made small css based locale switcher with theme. You can see the demo here. In this example, common.css has generic style definations for page elements. gray.css has india locale and gray theme style definations. yellow.css has US locale and yellow theme style definations. Below 3 lines of javascript code will switch locale as well as theme.

<script>
function changeTheme(){
    var obj = document.getElementById("themeContainer"); 
    obj.className = (obj.className=='gray')?'yellow':'gray'; 
}
</script>

you can download this example here.

Small UI Issue in CF Grid - 11/09/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

While trying to implement samfarmer blog entry example, I found a small UI issue in CF Grid. In My local machine, I installed CF 9 as "Build-in web server" then I configured my web servers using "Web Server Configuration Tool". So I can run my CFM codes in IIS, Apache as well as in build-in web server based upon client requests.

I run the Samfarmer's code in build-in web server's web root. It was working fine.

<cfquery name="getArt" datasource="cfartgallery">
select ARTID, ARTNAME, DESCRIPTION, ISSOLD, PRICE, CURRENT_DATE aDate 
from ART 
</cfquery>
<cfdump var="#getArt#" top="10">

<cfform>
<cfgrid format="html" name="art" query="getArt" align="left" selectmode="edit">
    <cfgridcolumn name="artname" type="string_noCase">
    <cfgridcolumn name="isSold" type="boolean">
    <cfgridcolumn name="price" type="numeric">
    <cfgridcolumn name="aDate" type="date">
</cfgrid>
</cfform>

While I try to run the code from IIS web root. I got follwoing JS error in Firebug. I know it is because of JS,CSS file path issue.

"ColdFusion is not defined
 ColdFusion.Ajax.importTag('CFGRID');
 http://localhost/cfgridNewDataType.cfm at Line 20"

I imported the JS, CSS file paths using cfajaximport.

<cfajaximport scriptsrc="http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/scripts" csssrc="http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/scripts/ajax" />
<cfquery name="getArt" datasource="cfartgallery">
select ARTID, ARTNAME, DESCRIPTION, ISSOLD, PRICE, CURRENT_DATE aDate 
from ART 
</cfquery>
<cfdump var="#getArt#" top="10">
<cfform>
<cfgrid format="html" name="art" query="getArt" align="left" selectmode="edit">
    <cfgridcolumn name="artname" type="string_noCase">
    <cfgridcolumn name="isSold" type="boolean">
    <cfgridcolumn name="price" type="numeric">
    <cfgridcolumn name="aDate" type="date">
</cfgrid>
</cfform>

After did sorting in a column I found below UI issue. x-grid3-sort-icon pointing to /CFIDE/scripts/ajax/resources/ext/images/default/s.gif instead of http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/resources/ext/images/default/s.gif

Is it Issue? I am not sure, May be I missed some argument.

My blog in Adobe Feeds and coldfusionbloggers - 11/07/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

My Blog aggregated in Adobe feeds as well as in coldfusionbloggers. My special thanks to Ray and Adobe feeds coordinators.

Hi to all, Quick intro about me, This is CF Mitrah(CF Friend). CF Developer.

you can reach me here.

For ColdFusion Foundation - 11/04/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

4CFF (For ColdFusion Foundation)  was announced to increase the popularity of CFML and to help open source CFML projects. To get more details, check 4CFF website or follow 4CFF official twitter

ColdFusion 9 Released - 10/04/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

I got a new lover ;) yes  ColdFusion 9 aka Centaur released.you can download here & enjoy new features.

Source : @coldfusion

Adobe Certified Expert on Adobe ColdFusion 8 - 10/03/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

I am happily announcing to every one, today I finished ACE coldfusion 8 certification examination. Now I am an Adobe certified expert on coldfusion 8. :)

In my CF 7 certification, Ben forta helped me through his book Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide. This time he didn't show me any grace. ;)  But Adobe live docs gave me helping hands. Adobe live docs is invaluable resource to prepare for any Adobe certification exam.

Posted By : ACE - Coldfusion 8 from India. :) ha ha

Update: I got printer quality soft copy of my certifications in PDF format. wOOt

What happened to fusebox - 10/01/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

I am a fan of fusebox. It is a great & matured framework for coldfusion. As of now I am preparing for CF 8 certification. So I missed what's going on with Fusebox for past couple of months. Today morning I got mail from fusebox yahoo mailing list.

" Strange thing is going on fusebox.org website after appearing of FuseNG.
I was looking for Fusebox 5.5.1 Docs, yesterday links was redirect to FuseNG Docs, but Today It goes sugercrm login form. I think it is better to wait for some time so everything get settled. And I expect a clarification for both Fusebox and FuseNG, how to download the codes and where to find the Docs."

- Ameen

2 months back, Adam Haskell ( lead CFML Architect of Fusebox team) resigns his job from fusebox. He explained his resignation statement here. He announced a new framework ( FuseNG :  Fusebox Next Generation). It is a fork from Fusebox 5.5.2. Beacuase of this, some of the site related to fusebox is pointing to FuseNG home page.As Ameen said, I will wait for some time. As of now u can access fusebox trac site here & fuseNG trac site here

excludes svn directories in coldfusion builder - 09/02/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

I tried one or 2 days CFB, I felt CFB is very slow. Again I jump into cfeclipse in aptana. I heard lot of supporting voices for CFB & its new features. Then I return back to CFB. Today I did a file search on CFB it includes the .svn directories by default.It is not happened in my previous configuration of cfeclipse with aptana. I cross checked with my previous configuration. I found subclipse plugin installed in my aptana.

Conclusion : If you install the subclipse plugin then it automatically excludes the .svn directories

Eclipse update site URL for subclipse : http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x

Uncheck "Subclipse integration for Mylyn 3.x" Because it has dependencies. First we need install mylyn. It is a task-focused interface for Eclipse

Cross site scripting in Coldfusion - 09/01/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

Today I was trying to play with galleon (open source forum by Raymond Camden). I just installed in my CF9 web root. I noticed two things those are worth enough to share as a blog entry.First thing, I got a error while I configured in CF9. The error in image.cfc because of new keyword "throw" introduced in CF9. I just renamed the function & function calls. It is working fine.

Second thing, I tried to embed YouTube video code in a post, but got object, embed html tag replaced with InvalidTag string.First I thought it is issue in galleon forum (DP_ParseBBML.cfm in tags folder). Even after commented every thing in DP_ParseBBML.cfm, I got the same issue. As usual I went to google. I found scriptprotect="all" in my cfapplication tag is reason for this issue.  

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MBocBdDw7g0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param
name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MBocBdDw7g0&hl=en&fs=1&"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true" width="425"
height="344"></embed></object>

converted into

<InvalidTag width="425" height="344"><param
name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MBocBdDw7g0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param
name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><InvalidTag src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MBocBdDw7g0&hl=en&fs=1&"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true" width="425"
height="344"></embed></object>

whenever you see "invalidTag" , check your Application.cfc or application.cfm
this.scriptProtect = "all"; <!--- In application.cfc --->
or
<cfapplication .. scriptProtect = "all">

scriptprotect variable introduced in CFMX to avoid XSS (Cross site scripting). XSS attacks are written in a client-side scripting language, most often a dialect of ECMAScript (e.g. JavaScript, JScript), sometimes including some markup language such as HTML or XHTML. XSS sometimes affects Sun Microsystems's Java, Microsoft's ActiveX and VBScript, Adobe's Flash and ActionScript, and RSS and Atom feeds. (Thank WIKI). Often attackers will inject these techniques into a vulnerable application to fool a use. For example, hacker can insert JS into your site, Which navigate your user to their site.

<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "http://www.hacker_site.com/"
</script>

XSS rules are stored in neo-security.xml  in lib folder of coldfusion installation. Part of default neo-security.xml, which converts embed, object tags into InvalidTag.

<var name="CrossSiteScriptPatterns">
   <struct type="coldfusion.server.ConfigMap">
       <var name="&lt;\s*(object|embed|script|applet|meta)">
           <string>&lt;InvalidTag</string>
        </var>
   </struct>
</var>

you can define your own rules here & restart CF server & secure your application as per your need.

Uplift poor children - Agaram & Vazhai Foundation welcomes to be a volunteer - 08/28/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

This is about a off topic. I am willing to share this.Agaram and Vazhai are working close in the same strap of poor children uplift from the rural area of Tamilnadu.

We are pleased to welcome you to Vazhai and we thank you for your interest on fulfilling your social responsibility. Here in Vazhai we are nurturing the poor students who is going to school first in their generation from the literally backward Dharmapuri district. In the successful commencement of fifth year, we are selecting the 'Mentors' who can guide the child to come up in their life. Let us replicate the help to the next generation which we got from somebody in your generation.

Two major teams are working for Vazhai in Bangalore and Chennai. Now we are looking for mentors in Bangalore region. For becoming a mentor you should be able to spend four weekends(eight days) in an year in Dharmapuri District, speak weekly once through phone with the child(6th Student) you are going to mentor and write letters once in a month to the child. If you are convenient with this and want to start your journey in Vazhai as a Volunteer, we have an 'Introductory meet about Vazhai' followed by a workshop on 'Mentoring' on 6th September Sunday. Your move to attend this meeting is a step to convert your 'thinking of serving' the society into actual execution.

This mentor workshop will give you insights on Vazhai, and the ways you can volunteer in it. Please confirm your presence at the earliest by replying to this mail.

For any clarifications/queries on Vazhai mail to info [ at ] vazhai [dot] org. Visit our site www.vazhai.org for more details.

Most Useful jQuery plugins - 08/16/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

Like most of CF programmer, I am also a fan of jQuery. jQuery is fast and awesome JS framework. I love jQuery. Here I mentioned some useful jQuery plugins which i used in most my projects.

Date Picker - Great plugin which will replacement for cfinput type="datefield"
Form Validation - Used to validate emails, URLs, CC numbers ....
Tablesorter -  can create sortable table without page refreshes
Color Picker - Web color picker like dreamweaver color picker
Thickbox - You can create a image browser within 10 min
Twit - Display Twitter Tweets on a Blog
uni-form - combiantion of uni-form & form validation plugins will be better user experience
flexigrid - Customizable grid with Search, Pagination, Sorting..
flexselect - convert textbox as flex-matching incremental-finding control

I know, I mentioned only few plugins.Lot of jQuery plugins missed here. One last word don't miss jQuery UI

Let everyone know you're a CF developer - 08/12/09

Source: CF Mitrah Blog

Now a days, twitter become very popular marketing & knowledge sharing social media. Let everyone know you are a CF developer from your twitter profile icon.

http://twibbon.com/join/Coldfusion
http://twibbon.com/join/railo

This will provide CF / Railo icon on your profile picture in twitter.