Just passing it on...

Job Opening for Sr. ColdFusion Developer in CA/ San Fernando Valley Position:

• Senior ColdFusion Developer
• Contract to hire.
• Seeking an advanced-level developer who lives to push ColdFusion and Object-Oriented Web development to the edge.

Job Description

• Sr. Web Developer / Architect to drive the direction of the company's technology solutions, define and implement best practices and build lean, powerful and extensible functionality.
• Work closely with Business/Systems Analysts, Database Administrators, and Stakeholders to architect, design, and implement robust and user friendly insurance business applications.

More info at his blog post: Job Opening for Sr. ColdFusion Developer in CA/ San Fernando Valley

Earlier today Mike Henke asked if there was a way to generate a tag cloud from an RSS feed. While he was able to find a solution quick enough (Wordle), I thought it would be kind of fun to try this myself. I knew that Pete Freitag had already blogged on tag clouds and ColdFusion, so all I had to do was generate my word data and pass it to his code. Here's what I came up with.

As a gentle reminder, don't forget the excellent resource that is the Adobe Cookbook, including over 200 ColdFusion Cookbook entries. Looks like it has been a while since content was added, so take this as a gentle push to yall to consider adding something.

RIACon 2012 will be held August 6th and 7th in beautiful Rockville, MD at The Legacy Hotel and Conference Centre. The official call for speakers will begin next week, but for more information, check out the web site: http://www.riacon.com. I missed last year but hope to speak at this years conference!

Passing on this job notice from Adobe. It is a contract position with the possibility of converting to full time.

We have an open contract position for a CF engineer that I was hoping you could post on your blogs.

Here are the requirements per the hiring manager:

• BS or advanced degree and 3+ years' experience, or equivalent knowledge.
• Experience in design and development of web applications with ColdFusion, Mach-ii, AJAX, JSON, XML
• Worked with and applied current web client-side technologies – JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.
• Experience working with highly trafficked, scalable web applications with product downloads
• Experience with Adobe AIR applications
• Knowledge of presentation, web, business and data access layers and their interactions
• Experience with web services protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML/RPC.
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, object oriented, design techniques, + software engineering best practices
• Experience in Scrum/Agile software development methodology

Please send resumes to Kavitha Mattikalli kmattika@adobe.com

I'm a bit late to blog on this, almost three months late, but folks may want to check out Ryan Anklam's ColdFusion Koans. What are ColdFusion Koans? (Stealing this from his site...)

The ColdFusion Koans project is intended to teach ColdFusion syntax, techniques, structure, and tips and tricks through unit tests. Even if you are a seasoned ColdFusion developer the Koans can be a fun exercise to keep your skills sharpened. The Koans concept is nothing new, in fact, the Ruby Koans project is quite mature. Recently other languages, such as JavaScript, have also implement the technique.

Having recently taken a look at the Ruby Koans, I can attest to it being an extremely interesting way to learn a language.

I also encourage folks to take a look at this blog post from Grant Copley: (EDIT: Shoot, looks like his blog is down. Well, give it time and hopefully it will come back up.) How I Almost Ditched ColdFusion After 12 Years, Why I Wised Up, and What I'm Doing About It. It's a fascinating blog entry about a long-time CF developer who got frustrated, gave up on CF, and then came back.

I've had a simple CFGRID demo sitting in my local web server for a few months now and never got around to sharing it on the blog. Today I responded to user with another CFGRID question and figured it would be good to share them both in one example. (Plus, the code has been sitting in my test.cfm file all that time and I want to get rid of it. ;) So let's start with the first example - relating one cfgrid to another.

Just passing this along...

The Catholic University of America, located in Washington, D.C., is hiring a mid-level web services engineer. We have a special page for CFMLers that isn't being advertised outside social media at http://computing.cua.edu/about/divisions/iae.cfm.

Any job offer with this on the page has to be a bit cool...

I just typed this code in and I thought I'd share it to see if I was the only one who did this.

I'm working on a process where I need to do one of two things. Tonight I'm working on the first branch, but the second branch may not be worked on for a while. In the past I'd do something like so normally:

If I was half-way awake, I'd maybe even do this:

That works, but lately, I've been using cfthrow. The point being that if I forgot to actually code the other block, the second it does being to fire, I can't ignore it.

Anyone else do this?

Have you ever wanted to create an API for your web site? Many sites do so now - using their API as a way to share their information with others. This allows other web sites, desktop apps, and mobile applications a way to work with and repackage your data. In this blog entry, I'm going to demonstrate how you can use ColdFusion to build a simple API for your site.