What an awesome week in D.C.! I walked away with a renewed excitement about ColdFusion in general and learned some concepts that I believe will change how I code from here out. I went to the pre-classes on Monday and Tuesday.
Monday, I took a class on the domain model/OO/MVC approach by Hal Helms. If you can ever get in a class by him I highly recommend it. I have been writing in CFCs for a little over a year now, but I have been guilty of too often just having a lot of procedural code in them, rather than really making it truly OO. Through his instruction, and then a team project, I really had some conceptual breakthroughs that I can't wait to apply to some projects I have on hand right now. Tuesday, I took a class on forms, beans, and more OO by Joe Rhinehart (creator of Model Glue http://www.model-glue.com/). I also took some really great stuff from that one as well. Speaking of Model Glue, this had a really big buzz around the conference. This is another framework in the vein of Fusebox, or Mach-II. I sat in on an open forum discussion with Sean Corfield, Joe Rhinehart, and others regarding the pros/cons of Fuesbox/Mach-II/Model Glue, and there are some people that really see this as a strong new framework. There were some cool announcements. Among them, Macromedia has committed to helping on the open source CFEclipse project! This is a really cool development. One of the rumors was that they are going to help them add RDS, among other stuff. In other news, the #5 highest traffic site on the internet myspace.com has just implemented BlueDragon on the back end. This is a huge feather in the cap for New Atlanta. From my view, the more people producing CFML processing engines the better off we all are, from the element of competition breeding new enhancements to just more CF code being out there. Microsoft gave a presentation on Longhorn/IIS7. Even the hardcore *nix fanatics couldn't deny that IIS7 is really going to be awesome, from API control of the admin, to web.config files in each site that give the owners of them granular control without having any admin rights at all (think .htaccess on steroids), to other cool features, I am excited about seeing it come out. It should also be pointed out that ColdFusion development has grown as of late. In the first 6 weeks of CF7 being out, there were 14,000 copies shipped. The majority of these were new installations rather than upgrade versions which is also encouraging. Attendance of CFUnited this time was up by close to 50% with over 800 attendees this year. I have written copious amounts of notes on all of this and much much more. Once I have it a little more organized, I will make it publicly available if anyone is interested. ______________ Now, to what I returned home to.... I have had a failure in drive 0 in a 3-drive software RAID 5 setup on RedHat. Since the boot logic was on drive 0, The OS will not load at all. I have replaced with the dead drive with an identical replacement but have no idea how to rebuild from here. Does anyone have any suggestions? I hate to clog the list with this, so maybe it would be best to contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would appreciate any and all suggestions!!! ~Dave ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
