Scotch on the Rocks 2008
Scotch on the Rocks 2008 is now unfortunately ended, read on to see my thoughts.
CFML is a dynamic RAD server-side programming language.
It originated as the language powering ColdFusion, but these days there are two FLOS CFML engines, Open BlueDragon and Railo, both with active development and innovative features.
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Scotch on the Rocks 2008 is now unfortunately ended, read on to see my thoughts.
Today at the midday Scotch keynote, Gert Franz and Luc Texier made an impressive announcement: Railo is going completely Open Source.
This is an exciting move both for Railo and for the CFML community as a whole, and I'll be writing more details about it later, but for now here some some quick key details...
There will be two editions of Railo, with the Community and Professional editions combining into one, and the Enterprise edition being the other:
The new Community+Professional edition will be Open Source and there will be no limit to the number of web contexts allowed.
The Enterprise edition will have added value features, including tools from Intergral.
The license will be LGPL2, which means you can distribute Railo along with commercial software.
The timeline for release of the source code is mid to late October, around the time that Railo 3.1 is due for release.
The announcement is online at the JBoss website at www.jboss.org/railo
More Information available: Railo goes Open Source with JBoss.org (Update)
The code for my QueryParam Scanner has been uploaded to RIAForge.
QueryParam Scanner is a simple tool which scans your code for queries and
reports back about any variables that are not inside <cfqueryparam/> tags.
I have just released Java RegEx Utilities on RIAForge, which is a CFC enabling easy access to Java Regular Expression functionality, adding to what is available in the standard CFML functions.
Currently there are two main functions.
jre.get(Text,RegEx) returns the matches to the regular expression as an array.
jre.replace(Text,RegEx,Replacement) is similar to REReplace, but the Replacement argument can be a function pointer, allowing you to process the results of a regex match with a function
You can find more usage details on the jre-utils wiki, which I plan to update with some examples of when each of these functions can be useful.
I have tested jre-utils against Railo 2 and CFMX 7, but it should also work with ColdFusion 8 and the Java version of BlueDragon - if anyone can test/confirm this please let me know.
The highly anticapted next major version of Fusebox has finally been released to the website.
Fusebox 5.5 allows you to use the Fusebox applications without using XML, which should please many people.
Instead of fusebox.xml it checks conventional places for your circuits, and instead of circuit.xml it can either use CFCs, where each function is a fuseaction, or just a directory, where each file is a fuseaction.
It also brings support for dynamic do to both xml and non-xml configuration, which is a feature I've really wanted on a couple of occasions.
Get it while it's hot...