Just wanted to remind everyone that the BAUG April meeting is next Wednesday. We have some great topics and speakers so it should be a good one. If you haven't registered, go over to http://www.baltimore-aug.org/

This month we have Samer Sadek on CF and Air as well as Marc Esher on Unit testing with MXUnit.

Hope to see you there!

I want to thank everyone for coming to the first Baltimore Adobe User's group. Also, many thanks for not grilling me too hard, it was my first User group presentation so I've still go some kinks to work out.

Here is a link to the CF OOP site I mentioned, and if you click the "download" link at the bottom of this post you can get my slides and my code samples.
cfOOP.org

Also, be sure to check out this link on Nic Tunney's site if you'd like to download the Eclipse snippets I was using last night.
Object Snippets

One last thing, you need to be running CF8 to use the interfaces! Everything else should work fine in CF7.

I meant to blog this a couple days ago, but for those who don't know from all the others that have mentioned it; Adobe is offering free online training this week via Adobe Connect.

Follow the link below to get all the details.

Adobe Developer Week

The first meeting of the Baltimore Adobe User Group is tomorrow at Towson University. It starts at 6pm at the building on 7400 York Road.

Here's what's on the agenda:

Intro to OO programming with CF - Curtis Layton (ME!)

What’s all the buzz about Adobe LiveCycle ES? - Rolando Lopez

Unleash the power of Reader Extensions ES - Rolando Lopez

I encourage you to come check it out. There will be free Pizza and sodas. For more information and to RSVP for the meeting, go to http://www.baltimore-aug.org.

I hope to see you there.

AboutWeb is currently hiring Jr-Mid level ColdFusion developers in the Baltimore area for an immediate need. If you would like to build your skillset with web technologies, here is your chance!

We're looking for developers that have roughly 2 years experience with ColdFusion (or 1+ in ColdFusion MX) and exposure to CFCs and custom tags. If you are interested in joining the AboutWeb team and working with me, send me your resume.

We are also looking for senior J2EE and CF developers in both the DC and Baltimore metro areas.

The inaugural meeting of the Baltimore Area Adobe User's Group is going to be Wednesday, March 26, 2008 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Towson University.

I'm going to be helping Nic Tunney get this up and running. There should be a website and an agenda for the first meeting very soon. Please let me know if you're interested in attending, speaking at a meeting or if there are topics you'd like to hear.

Here are directions to the location:

Location: 7400 York Rd, Towson, MD 21204 (From Towson Univ, head south on York Rd, past the entrance to St. Joseph's Hospital. 7400 is a 5 story brick bldg on the right, and shares a driveway with Central Presbyterian Church. If you hit Stevenson Rd, you've gone too far. Plenty of free parking behind bldg. Entrance to bldg is in back. When you walk into the lobby, TU classroom is first door on your right.)

Last week I did a presentation for a group here on my current contract on ColdFusion Custom Tags. I thought I would make the code and presentation available. Nic Tunney and I have been doing "Lunch and Learns". We get together as a group and discuss topics that apply to our current project. It has been very successful so far. Here's some info on the Custom Tag Preso.

The agenda includes:
-What is a custom tag?
-How do I make a custom tag?
-How do I call a custom tag - 3 ways
-Executing a custom tag
-Nesting custom tags

Good stuff. Check it out.

To download the files, click the little download link below.

Sorry for the extended outage. There was a snafu with a server upgrade that caused my blog to go down. I'd meant to get it back up and running, but life and work intervened, weird...that never happens!

Well, I hope to blog a bit more regularly, hopefully weekly.

ok, we're legit now. Here's the projects web site. I'll work over the next day or two to get the files, screens and more information up there.

http://cftag.riaforge.org/

I've been working on a documentation tool that functions very similarly to CFCDoc except that it is useful for documenting large libraries of custom tags. I actually used some of the code from CFCDoc as a starting point. I'll post a screen shot and probably submit the code to RIAForge at some point.

It's definately a beta product right now, but it's useful.