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Last day for early registration for CFUnited Express
Thread posted on Mar 31 by John Blayter , tagged announcement

Register today and save $50

Today is the last day to register for CFUnited Express on April 6th and get the $149 price. It will go up to $199 starting tomorrow. Check out the schedule below. It looks like it is going to be a great mini conference.

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Meeting Tonight: Beans, Beans and More Beans
Thread posted on May 11 by John Blayter , tagged announcement

Railo 3.1 has been released
Thread posted on Mar 31 by John Blayter

In case you have not seen all the happenings on Twitter and the mailing lists today Railo 3.1 has been released.

http://www.getrailo.com/

So you think you are feeling lucky? 3 copies of CS4 being given away tonight!
Thread posted on Jun 24 by John Blayter , tagged announcement

Just a reminder that the main event is tonight! We will have pizza, soft drinks, live music not to mention a sneak peak at Flex 4, CF9 and ColdFusion Builder (Bolt).

http://fx4cf9denver.eventbrite.com/

Presentation Ideas
Thread posted on Mar 09 by John Blayter

Here are some ideas I had for some future meetings. What do you think about it?

1. ColdFusion Administrator API
2. Subversion and branching patterns
3. How to cluster ColdFusion with JRUN
4. JQuery - Get Ben Nadel or Ray Bango to do this via Connect
5. Data encapsulation with beans
6. Best practices for securing your ColdFusion application for
   existing and new projects.
7. Social networking integration into your application - developing a
   Facebook application powered by ColdFusion
8. Image processing in CF8 - we build a icon builder in the meeting
   like Facebook or Twitter
9. ColdFusion and Groovy / GRails
10. Configuration management with ANT
11. MAX / CFUnited recap

Intro to SOA tonight 1
Thread posted on Apr 13 by John Blayter , tagged announcement

I just wanted to remind everyone that I will be presenting an introduction into Service Orientated Architecture tonight. If you find your business logic to get a bit spaghetti like SOA is a way to help you keep it closer to lasagna. We have some giveaways from CFUnited. The presentation will only be about an hour depending on the number of questions. After the meeting there will be a opportunity for some networking over refreshments at a venue yet to be determined.

http://groups.adobe.com/posts/8f9c2dcde1

Sturm Hall
2000 E. Asbury Ave.
Room 323
Denver, CO 80208

Recent Comments (1 of 1)
04/13/09 by John Blayter: Also as part of this presentation I will be releasing a new project on RIA ...

boolFormat() GTE YesNoFormat() 3
Thread posted on Sep 30 by OhkaBaka

Is it just me, or is YesNoFormat() the most myopic built-in function in the history of programming?

Yes and No are the absolute bottom of the boolean food chain... which looks something like this:

So... YesNoFormat()? Seriously?

Sometimes I think the CF engine developers, have, over time, done things to cause programmers to choke on their Mountain Dew.

HOWEVER... because silly begets silly, sometimes you NEED to say "Yes" when you mean 1

The idea of writing a function that ONLY converts recognized booleans to Yes and No is really wasteful.  Not focusing specifically on that ONE NESCESSITY, you realize that sometimes you need to say "Monkey" when you mean 0... and sometimes you need to say true when you mean "Rhinoceros"

...in theory.

Which brings me to the "If you aren't part of the solution..." section of my rant... behold!

I needed to convert something ridiculous to a boolean recently, and realized I've written this function, or a variation of it, too many times not to start maintaining a single version.

function boolFormat( inBool ){
/*
 USAGE boolFormat( var [, format (string)][, matches (string)][, returnNull (bool)]
var         (string|boolean|numeric)(required) The value to test (complex values are
            considered empty strings). Required.
format      (string)(optional [default: "1:0") Two string values separated by a colon ":",
            representing the desired format of the value of the function, with the "true"
            value on the left, and the "false" value on the right.
                eg: "Opened:Closed"
            If a third value is passed, and returnNull is true, the third value will be
            returned in the event that invariable is an "" (empty string)
                eg: "Opened:Closed:Ajar"
            Values passed in the format argument REPLACE the [default] return values of
            0, 1, and "" (empty string)
        
matches     (string)(optional  [default: see below]) Two comma delimited lists of values
            that qualify as true and false, separated by a question mark "?", with the
            "true" values to the left, and the "false" values to the right.
            eg: "yeah,sure,uh-huh?nope,negatory,uh-uh"
            Values passed in the match argument will be APPENDED to the [default] matching values:
                True: 1, true, "1", "true", "t", "yes", "y", "on"
                False: 0, false, "0", "false", "f", "no", "n", "off"

returnNull  (boolean) Set to true, an empty string (or non-simple value) passed in the
            variable argument will trigger the return of a third format, which can be
            set with the format argument, and defaults to "" (empty string)
*/

    tVal = 1;
    fVal = 0;
    returnNull = false;
    nVal = "";
    tMatches= "1,true,t,yes,y,on";
    fMatches= "0,false,f,no,n,off";
    for( arix=2; arix LTE arrayLen( arguments ); arix = arix + 1 ){
        if( find(":", arguments[ arix ] ) ){
            if( find(":", arguments[ arix ], find(":", arguments[ arix ] ) ) ) {
                //CUSTOM NULL RETURN VALUE EXISTS
                nVal = REReplace( arguments[ arix ], ".*\?[^\?]*", "" );
                arguments[ arix ] = REReplace( arguments[ arix ], ".*\?[^\?]*$", "" );
            }
            tVal = REReplace( arguments[ arix ], ":.*", "" );
            fVal = REReplace( arguments[ arix ], "[^:]*:", "" );
        }else if( find("?", arguments[ arix ] ) ){
            tList = REReplace( arguments[ arix ], "\?.*", "" );
            fList = REReplace( arguments[ arix ], "[^\?]*\?", "" );
            for( tMix=1; tMix LTE ListLen( tList ); tMix = tMix + 1 ){
                tM = listGetAt( tList, tMix );
                if( not listfind( tMatches, tM ) ) tMatches = listAppend( tMatches, tM );
            }
            for( fMix=1; fMix LTE ListLen( fList ); fMix = fMix + 1 ){
                fM = listGetAt( fList, fMix );
                if( not listfind( fMatches, fM ) ) fMatches = listAppend( fMatches, fM );
            }
        } else if( arguments[ arrayLen( arguments ) ] EQ true ) returnNull = true;
    }
    outBool = fVal;
    if( ( isNumeric(inBool) AND inBool GT 0 ) OR ( isBoolean(inBool) AND inBool EQ true )
        OR listFind( tMatches, inBool ) ) outBool = tVal;
    if( inBool EQ "" AND returnNull EQ true ) outBool = "";
    return outBool;
}

Feel free to use it or comment on it if you find it at all handy...

Recent Comments (3 of 3)
11/06/09 by OhkaBaka: Somebody FINALLY responds... and its spam... lol.
11/05/09 by GirishLaikhra: Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily bas...
10/15/09 by OhkaBaka: 135 views and Noooooo comments... Thats a harbinger of something... I thin...

Oh for the love all things employable...
Thread posted on Oct 15 by OhkaBaka

I just had to turn down a job.  Thats sorta horrific really, given that I've been separated from my family for FIVE MONTHS while I try to find a job in Colorado.

I hate turning down jobs, I hate turning down AWESOME jobs even more... and it was, in every imaginable way, aside from the $30000 dollar pay cut... yowza.  Didn't see that coming.

I was avoiding saying anything here... Seemed karmically like a bad idea.

As it turns out, we just posted an ad on the Phoenix CFUG for another dev... and I thought, if I can ask for people to fill a position on one CFUG, I think Karma will tolerate me asking for a position to fill on a different CFUG.

So... anybody know of a CF web dev III open in northern colorado? (Or...  js... SQL... you know, I'm comfortable being traitorous if I have to, so maybe... PHP? dotNet?)

Good morning Northern Colorado 2
Thread posted on Sep 05 by OhkaBaka

I'm the new guy.  I'm gonna get all superior and preachy now... isn't that just the way?

I suspect I'm a little spoiled on the Phoenix CFUG, which produces about three to five messages a day.  Granted they have 270 members... but still.

Lets do the math, assuming there is only one or two new messages a day (and a bunch of replies) from that group, a group that is one seventh the size could be producing one message (and a bunch of replies) each week, doncha think?

WHERE IS THE LIFE, my brethren?

Somebody ask a question! Somebody challenge our uberness! Somebody teach us a new trick.  Somebody say something, because really, if you let me keep going it'll all be obnoxious Grail quotes and references to comic books and grotesquely gooey reflections about how awesome my son is.

Viva la Fusionaires!

...or something.

Recent Comments (2 of 2)
09/08/09 by John Blayter: OhkaBaka I am with you! I ran the Phoenix CFUG about 3 years ago and just t...
09/07/09 by Runrocket: Ok Travis, I just posted. By the way love the TRS-80 Coco. Got a museum of ...

CFML tags,functions, contructs coding examples made simple. 2
Thread posted on Sep 07 by Runrocket

Hi all,

  Looks like Travis AKA OhkaBaka put forward a challenge to increase posts. As a past speaker and contributer for Denver CFUG I'll see if I can meet his challenge. I hope you do to. I've set up a new site  http://www.runrocket.com , currently in beta, that includes CFML examples all the way up to MX 7.2. They are designed to supplement ColdFusion LiveDocs. The examples are designed to be intuitive and easy to execute. I've also included a zip file with all the dependencies if you want to run them on your own environment without any real setup. Please note, though, that since I've switched to Railo, some of them don't work. I'm fixing them as I can. Hope the site helps you in some way.

Thanks,

Stephen Johnson (RunRocket)

Recent Comments (2 of 2)
09/10/09 by Runrocket: Thanks Travis. I absolutely share your opinion. This project was born out o...
09/09/09 by OhkaBaka: Nice work! Generally speaking, if you can find a relevant example (particu...

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