I want my iPhone4!!!!!

Ok so, this morning I am patiently waiting for the Apple Store to come back up as I am ready to pre-order 2 phones, one for me and of course the wife. It is a pretty exiting day for the entire family as now my daughter will also get her own iPhone as she will be handed down 1 of 2 3GS, the other will go to the world of eBay.

But what is this? I have been desperately trying to make my pre-order and the site keeps crapping out. I know, I know, the whole world wants this and as a developer myself, know it is hard to accurately test for situations like this. So who do we blame? Apple? AT&T?

Honestly I don;t know or care ... just please get it working!!! I want to make sure I get mine by the 24th.

Has anyone had any luck? Please comment below.

CS5 Shipping, Trials available for download and the WACK is out!

Well, you probably read this my now but CS5 is finally shipping and trials are available for download now at adobe.com. I already downloaded DW CS5 on my machine and testing to see how it compares to previous versions on my mac. I definitely wish they would of put more love into it for CF9 but oh well. I know, CF Builder is out but honestly I just don't like it.

So go get your trial downloads now !!!!!!!

Now the second topic, the ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kits are available for pre-order from amazon. GO get em .. and please use my links below as it would help me feed my family :-). I hope that they do make eBook version of these for my iPad!


Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Application Development

CS5 Launch Thoughts

So I am sure everyone who is interested already saw the product launch videos and in the least there are a lot of updates that are very cool for the A/V side of things. What I am most excited about is the 64 bits apps especially for Mac, as I do believe they are all native cocoa 64 bit apps now (or I thinks so). I am a bit disappointed in what I saw for Dreamweaver, seems like they are pushing it more for PHP Developers and ColdFusion got no love.

Now I know, we have CFBuilder, but honestly I hate it!!!!!!! I hate the UI! I hate the colors! I hate everything about it! And worse of all it is not included in the Master Collection which is what I am buying/upgrading to.

Honestly, WTF! We get Flash Builder but no CF Builder. I am sure they didn't want to piss off the people who already paid $300, but I still think they should have included it.

Anyways, if anyone reads this blog, let me know your thoughts on yesterday's presentation.

Adobe CS5 Launch on April 12th

Catch the event live! Use the link below to register

ColdFusion Application.cfc/Application.cfm lookup order gotcha!

So today I experienced this weird problem that had me going crazy and basically it is not a bug just a new feature that I wasn't thinking of. ColdFusion 9 has a new lookup order for an Application file, basically by default it will look all the way up to the system root rather than the web root.

So this morning I downloaded a file for a customer I had to review for some changes. This file is an Application.cfc file and I had placed it in my user folder. Now my web root is in my "user folder"/Workspace/Site/ and every time I was trying to browse to it I kept getting a cfmail error. Now my simple index.cfm had nothing in it that specified a cfmail action. So I then decided to set a default mail server on my local instance of CF and look at my undeliverable folder because I knew it would fail. Alas, I recognized the error and it was coming from this Application.cfc, but how? There you go .. that was my gotcha and then I remember about the new lookup. So I logged in to admin, went to settings and changed the lookup to go stop at my web root and error fixed.

Hope this helps someone, it only took a second for me to figure out but I decided, what the hell, let me write about it.