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- 7 februari 2012
- Calling All Devs: Mach-II Work Session - Saturday March 3rd, 2012 via Google Hang-Out - Mach-II
Matt, Kurt and Peter are leading a Mach-II Work Session in March via Google Hang-Out. If you're interested in helping out on the project - coding, documentation or even have a question drop on by.
When: Saturday March 3rd, 2012 from Noon - 6pm CT (10am - 4pm PT)
Where: Google Plus Hang-Out using SVN / Trac
Just follow our Google+ Mach-II page and join our public hang-out that day. If you're coming, we'd love to hear from you now in our comments and we'll send you a reminder just a few days before!
via blog.mach-ii.comNo experience with Open Source? Don't worry; we're here to help and guide you through the process. This is a great way to expand your horizons and share what you know -- new people means new ideas!
- 7 februari 2012
- China's Ghost Cities
- 7 februari 2012
- OpenCF Summit Speaker Interview - Gert Franz
Next up in our OpenCF Summit speaker interviews: Gert Franz!Gert is the CEO of Railo Technologies, the company behind Railo Server. I live with my girlfriend in Switzerland, close to Zurich and I am a father of three.
OpenCF Summit: Hey Gert! So tell us about yourself.
Gert: I started working with CFML in 2000 and at first I thought it was a big step back for me, being used to strongly typed languages like Java and Delphi. But it grew on me and the speed of development had a great influence on my opinion about CFML. In 2003 we started working on the engine that you today know as Railo. It took us 3 years to have a first version up and running and since then I am using Railo for almost all of my programming engagements. I really love the freedom of Open Source Software and I am happy of being a part of something great.
OpenCF Summit: What does your development environment look like?
Gert: Windows 7, CFEclipse, MySQL, SQL-Server, Railo 3.3.x
OpenCF Summit: What is your experience with Open Source Software? Where do you see OSS going?
Gert: In my opinion Open Source is the way to go for software. One should always consider offering free software and all different kind of services for it. In this way everyone who can't afford expensive software can still use it and even contribute to it, if the license and contributor agreements allow it. IMHO professional open source is the right approach since end users, especially in the enterprise need someone responsible who they can call if they run into issues or need help with configuration or tuning.
OpenCF Summit: Where do you think CFML is heading these days? How would you characterize the state of the CFML community?
Gert: Difficult... At the moment the future of commercial CFML is not very clear to me. It depends really a lot about how big the impact of the CF10 release on the market is going to be and on the ability of the open source engines to foster all the users that are looking for alternatives for whatever reasons. The CFML community is VERY passionate and that is what I love about it so much.
OpenCF Summit: Why are you excited about OpenCF Summit?
Gert: It is always very good to see good friends and discuss with them about the developments of the CFML market and to share knowledge as well as learn lots of new stuff. Open Source is definitely the future and so this is a very good opportunity to further promote it.
OpenCF Summit: One last question: could you tell us a little about what you'll be speaking on?
Gert: I will present on what defines performance when developing with Railo.
Come talk shop with Gert at OpenCF Summit February 24-26, 2012 and watch this space for more speaker interviews!
- 7 februari 2012
- ColdFusion offer from Intergral
- Intergral, makers of FusionReactor and FusionAnalytics, have a pretty cool offer for folks buying or upgrading ColdFusion:
Intergral and Adobe Inc. are running the following promotion up to Feb 29 2012. If you purchase either a new or upgrade ...
- 7 februari 2012
- ColdFusion Koans Giveaway
- With my work and school commitments I haven't been able to put as much time into the ColdFusion Koans project as I'd like to. Instead of staying up another hour and working on it late at night I'm turning to you, the ColdFusion community to help me make the project better. To make it worth your time I'm going to give away a copy of John Wilsh's excellent ColdFusion ORM book (http://www.coldfusionormbook.com/) to one lucky person. If I get over 20 entries I'll give away TWO copies of the book.
There are two ways to be entered into the contest (if you complete both you'll get two entries). The first way to enter is to download the Koans project, complete it, and post a link to a screenshot of all the tests passing into the comments of this post, make sure you subscribe to the comments so you know when I announce the winner. The second way to enter is to add a new test or tests to the project and submit a pull request via github.
You can download the project here: https://github.com/bittersweetryan/ColdFusion-Koans.
- 7 februari 2012
- Foto Feb: day 7
- Not much to say really – a bunch of “Nimm 2″ lollies (one grows up with those in Germany) that someone among the people working at my client here brought from a recent trip home from Thailand.
Also, it shall be noted that @ilaeria dared to not like them and claimed instead that the Orange flavour [...]
Foto Feb: day 7 is a post from: Blog in Black
- 6 februari 2012
- Learning Ruby: Day 6
- Ah, back to Ruby. Unfortunately, I had to take several days off for personal reasons…or rather, work invading on personal time. Ugh. But enough of that nonsense. This day of Ruby is a short one: exceptions and iterations. Exceptions I’ll be perfectly honest: I’m lost on this one. I understand parts of it (for example,…
- 6 februari 2012
- Christophe Coenraets On Backbone.js And PhoneGap
- Fellow Adobe evangelist Christophe Coenraets recently posted a three part article on building a CRUD application using HTML and the Backbone.js framework. He has now followed it up with a post on building a mobile app using Backbone.js And PhoneGap.
- 6 februari 2012
- Flex User Group 2012 Tour European Dates
- Following up on the Flex User Group 2012 Tour: North America Dates dates (mentioned recently), Flex User Group 2012 Tour: European Dates have now also been posted.
- 6 februari 2012
- Automatically Backing Up Directories From Windows to a Pogoplug
Since this was more confusing than it should be I thought I'd throw this out into the wild in the hopes others in this situation will come across it in their searches.
If you have a Pogoplug (and if you don't, get one! they're awesome!) you may find yourself wanting to back up specific directories on a Windows machine to your Pogoplug. Note that on Linux you can of course connect to the Pogoplug and use whatever Linux scripts/tools you want to back stuff up (rsync being my tool of choice), but since Pogoplug does have a native Windows Pogplug Uploader tool you can use that to get this all going pretty easily on Windows.
The only tricks here are figuring out the Pogoplug terminology and then figuring out how to configure things. Nothing against Pogoplug since I know they're trying to make a buck, but by default everything you do either in the browser-based tool or in the Windows application will drive you towards using Pogoplug's cloud space as your backup. This is a perfectly valid option, and gives you the added security of having an off-site backup.
For the Windows machine in question, however, I'm already backing it up off-site using Spideroak, so all I really wanted was a way to make sure every file that gets put into the Documents directory (meaning music, photos, etc.) also makes it over to the Pogoplug. This is both as a "local" (meaning in my house) backup as well as so the music and photos can be streamed from other devices.
The first thing you need to know is "backup" in Pogoplug terminology means backing up from the Pogoplug device's drive to the Pogoplug cloud. To put it another way, you cannot (at least from what I can tell) back things up from your local machine to the Pogoplug device via the "backup" section in the browser-based tool. Also note that if backing up from the Pogoplug to their cloud is something you do want to do, you have to do that through the browser-based tool since backup options are not available in the Pogoplug Uploader that runs on Windows.
What we're looking to do here in Pogoplug terminology is sync, not backup. Makes perfect sense when you think about it. Sync options are available only in the Windows (and Mac probably)-based tools, not in the browser interface.
Let's set this up.
First, open the Pogoplug Uploader on Windows. In the top menu you'll see a "sync" button. Click that.
At the bottom of that screen there's a + button which lets you add local folders you want to sync. Click the + button and choose a local folder to sync.
You'll then see that by default the destination directory on the Pogoplug will be the root of the drive attached to your Pogoplug. If you want to sync to another location on the Pogoplug's drive, simply click the "change" link next to the destination location. This will give you the option to choose another destination on the Pogoplug drive, or you can also sync directly to the Pogoplug cloud.
Hope others find this helpful!