Dzone have got a PDF reference card available via there site. Create by Terry Ryan, the Adobe CF Evangelist it coveres:

• installing
• starting a new project
• connecting to servers
• views
• extensions
• .... it goes on

A handy PDF to have saved locally and free as well, go get it at http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-adobe

You can now buy ColdFusion Builder for £200.92 ($299) from Adobe. Also included with your purchase is a complimentary copy of Flash Builder 4 Standard making the low price a great purchase for any developer!

Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ software is a highly customizable, Eclipse™ based IDE that enables developers to build ColdFusion applications faster than ever before. It also allows them to save time by managing the entire ColdFusion development cycle from concept to production with one easy-to-use tool

If you are running CF Builder in standalone mode on the Mac and you are having issues there is a bug submitted by Seb Duggan at http://cfbugs.adobe.com/bugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=80249

Bug description:

Running standalone CF Builder on OS X 10.6.1.After a short time, the whole system slows down, especially when switching between applications (I have 10GB RAM).Activity Monitor shows that the WindowServer process is fluctuating wildly, often right up to 100% CPU.Quitting CF Builder stops the process misbehaving, and computer performance returns to normal.

After installing CFBuilder beta 2 in standalone mode I noticed that after a period of time the WindowServer service was eating up my CPU.

After a quick mention on twitter I found out @sebduggan was also having the same issue.

For anyone else getting this @sebduggan has posted a bug to the Adobe ColdFusion Bug Tracker (ID: 80249)

For the record I have gotten around the issue by installing CFBuilder as a Pluggin to a fresh copy of Eclipse

Its a good day to be a CF Developer!

ColdFusion 9 has made it out of the labs in to the wild, while CFBuilder has made it to beta 2. Get 'em while they're hot!

After admitting I had a little Adobe Max jealousy @ryanstewart DM'd me to let me know you can catch the keynote online. All you have to do is register at http://max.adobe.com/online/keynotes/

Actually, after a little digging around Ryan even posted about this yesterday.

I sometimes forget how useful/powerful RegEx can be. Take the following bit of CFIF logic

[sourcecode language="plain"] <cfset username = trim(form.uname) /> <cfif len(username) LT 4> <cfset errorMsg = "Your username is too short" /> <cfelseif NOT reFindNoCase("[\w]", username, 1, "false")> <cfset errorMsg = "Your username is too short" /> </cfif> [/sourcecode]

A quick regex guide: the "\w" reference stands for "word character", which translates to [A-Za-z0-9_] n.b.the underscore as well

You can actually add on to the regex and at the same time cut down a lot of the logic by doing the following:

[sourcecode language="plain" gutter="true" toolbar="true" wraplines="true"] <cfif NOT refindnocase("[\w]{4,}", username, 1, "false")> <cfset errorMsg = "Usernames must be 4 characters in length and contain [A-Za-z 0-9 _" /> </cfif> [/sourcecode]

The key is "{4,}". Using the curly braces to specify a specific amount of repetition of "word characters" and is equivilant to "len(username) LT 4"

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I now have a Mango Blog at:

http://www.andyjarrett.com/blog

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I've just posted a comment over on Simon Whatley's blog which made me think some people still might not know that ColdFusion is free for education and this includes all qualified students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.

You can find out more at freeriatools.adobe.com/coldfusion/ though you will have to prove you eligibility with some form of ID.

Also don't forget that Adobe offer Flex Builder under the same conditions as well.

It looks likes this one slipped by me, but Adobe Labs have released Dreamweaver beta, Fireworks beta, and Soundbooth beta.

I think everyone knows I'm more of a CFEclipse person myself, but I love Fireworks for web graphics, and I actually do need DW due to some internal work projects.

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