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Comment 1 by Scott Stroz posted on 11/30/2007 at 2:26 AM

Is that a Star Wars trash can behind the book?

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/30/2007 at 2:31 AM

Popcorn tin. The Vader thing to the left is a action figure carrier. VERY old.

Comment 3 by Steven Erat posted on 11/30/2007 at 3:32 AM

Congratulations!

I'll look forward to scoring your autograph on it!

Comment 4 by Rob Huddleston posted on 11/30/2007 at 3:52 AM

The Vader figure case can't be TOO old, because if it is, then that makes me REALLY old, and I refuse to admit that the stuff I played with as a kid is old. So there you go.
You showed a copy of the first book next to a Vader Pez dispenser, and this one is hanging with stormtroopers. Do you have any good guys? I'd think the ColdFusion Jedi would want his book with Yoda or Mace or some other Master, but that's just me.

Comment 5 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/30/2007 at 3:57 AM

I'm pretty sure I had it when I was a kid - I graduated high school in 91, so I'd say at least 85 or so.

Most of my figures and ships are bad guy ships - cuz the good guys suck. ;) Well, ok, I do really like the good guy ships in Ep 4-6. I loved how Lucas did them all run down and crappy looking - which makes sense for a bunch of rebels.

My favorite ship? The Star Destroyer.
My least favorite ship? That ugly silver Naboo thing.

Comment 6 by Dan Sorensen posted on 11/30/2007 at 4:27 AM

Who did you order it from? I have mine on pre-order from Amazon and I'd love to see it soon! :-)

...then again, you might have opted for quicker shipping than me too.

Comment 7 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/30/2007 at 4:31 AM

I didn't order it. It's my copy as one of the authors.

Comment 8 by James Allen posted on 11/30/2007 at 4:31 AM

I imagine Ray gets an early release of the book being a co-author and all.

I've got it on pre-order via PeachPit and haven't had any dispatch e-mails yet..

Really looking forward to this one. Being pretty advanced, the first volume hasn't had too many things I've needed to read in detail although I must admit I've picked up a few things I didn't actually know you could do in CF.. lol

Vol 2 is really where things get interesting..

Comment 9 by Dan Sorensen posted on 11/30/2007 at 4:34 AM

@Ray: I figured that was the case, but I was holding on to some hope that Amazon might be able to deliver mine before the weekend. Oh well...

@James: I'm really looking forward to this one too as it covers CF Javascript and AJAX tools. I'm having a whole lot of fun with those features! :-)

Comment 10 by James Allen posted on 11/30/2007 at 4:36 AM

@Dan: Have you watched Ray's superb presentation on the AJAX functions in CF8? I was really blown away by how extensive and cool the support is. CFAjaxProxy is amazing - almost like a CreateObject for the client side, but linked to server side components.. So cool.

Comment 11 by Dan Sorensen posted on 11/30/2007 at 4:59 AM

@James: Yeah I saw Ray's presentation. It got me jumpstarted down the CF Javascript and AJAX road. I don't quite understand CFAjaxProxy yet, which is one reason I'm dying to see the book! I've been very successful using most of the other things Ray discussed though. I'm getting some pretty nice results on my forms. :-)

Comment 12 by James Allen posted on 11/30/2007 at 5:08 AM

@Dan: Nice one on putting it into action. I think the more you delve into the features and using them you'll get a real grasp of the power they provide. I can see myself using them extensively on a big project I'm about to start. Looking at Ray's DB Explorer shows how easy it is to knock together really usable admin style applications with ease.

As far as I could tell, I think it's good idea to think of cfajaxproxy as a client side CreateObject. I.E. You instantiate the CFC on the client side, like you would on the server side and then access the relevant methods (access="remote" ones) as you would in Coldfusion.

The awesome power here, I think, is that you can code your CFC to work on the server side once, but then utilise it on the client side without any extra work - apart from the JS functions to call the CFC methods.. Absolutely fantastic!

Ray, please correct me if I've misunderstood this feature. I've not had a chance to use it yet, but I definitely had one of those 'wow' moments during your presentation. :)

Comment 13 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/30/2007 at 7:00 AM

James - Yes, I think that is a good analogy (client side createObject), but don't forget cfajaxproxy also has that 'other' mode that I like to call <cfbind>.

Comment 14 by Dan Sorensen posted on 11/30/2007 at 1:51 PM

Thanks for the explanation guys.

I think a whole chapter of the CFWACK could have been dedicated to the various uses of the Bind feature alone. It's popping up everywhere and is taking a little creativity to figure out how to best utilize it. (I'll soon be seeing how many entries are listed for 'bind' in the index of volume 2 ;-) I could have used it in the example I was working on here:
http://blog.dsoren.com/2007...

Comment 15 by Mingo Hagen posted on 11/30/2007 at 3:46 PM

Just wanted to stop by and congratulate you on the new WACK on my way to Amazon...
You don't have an Amazon (or otherwise) affiliate link, right?

Comment 16 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/30/2007 at 5:18 PM

I do - please see the About Me link on top of this page.

Comment 17 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/30/2007 at 5:20 PM

Dan - it doesn't go very deep - I mean - we only have a certain amount of space. Anything not covered well enough there - let us know. I can always blog on things you feel are missing.

Comment 18 by Dan Sorensen posted on 11/30/2007 at 8:38 PM

@Ray: No problem! I've been pretty happy with the amount of CF 8 documentation I've seen so far. :-) Some of the learning will just take some experimentation and creativity to figure out ways to use the new features.

Comment 19 by Dan Sorensen posted on 12/19/2007 at 9:18 PM

Woohoo! I got mine in last night. Excellent book so far. There are a lot of great chapters that will be relevant to my work. :-)