Simeon Says

Last night the Portland ColdFusion User Group had the opportunity to be joined (via breeze) my Joe Rinehart. Joe took some time to present on us on the framework he created called Model-Glue.

I can’t speak highly enough of this presentation! Joe did an amazing job of layout out some of the challenges presented to us developers in our work, and how we can use Model-Glue (and other frameworks) to over come them.

And in a suprise for the whole group, the second half of the presentation was on Model-Glue 2.0 - Unity. Joe has done some amazing work in helping developers do their job better and faster. It was a great presentation and I am better for having watched it.

What’s That? You want to be better for having watched it? Oh, well…. um… Ok, i guess. Luckily for you I recorded it Check it out here:

http://adobechats.breezecentral.com/p45971854/

Thank you sooo much Joe! You Rock.

After My previous post I was talking with Rob about Afae I noticed that although it had fusebox and mach-ii support, Model-Glue was lacking. His response was that he didnt have the dtd handy. Well I felt inclined to help with that and I got him a copy.

Not 2 days later Afae has been updated to include support for Model-Glue. If ever there was a reason to buy him something nice, I think now is the time

Up next? ColdSpring and Reactor

Joe will be presenting via breeze to the Portland Adobe Servers User Group tonight. If you are here in Portland and want to come watch with the group we will have pizza at 5:30 in preperation for the 6pm PST start time.

If you are not local and would still like to join in you can visit with us at this url.

http://adobechats.breezecentral.com/r50669459/

See you tonight!

ps. Tonight is one of the last opportunities to get your entries in for next months Flex-Travaganza meeting. We will be giving away software (certificates) and our UG sponsor SchoonerTech will be giving away one free training class! So come on out and join the fun. Details on meeting on the UG Website

I am not sure when it happened but the amazing Rob Rohan has released AFAE his All-Purpose editor for eclipse for FREE. About the only files it doesnt have support for are CF files because (he the father of CFEclipse) there are already projects for that.

So if you were looking for a plugin to edit your Fusebox, Html, or js files (or any of these, now you have an option. Take a look and remember if you like it send rob something nice from his wishlist. Like this for instance

Thanks Rob!

I try pretty hard to keep my blog tech related. I often dont post things that I want to because I am honored to be aggreagated on several tech related site. But this is news I want to share with all my friends.

My wife Carrie and I are proud to annouce that we are expecting a new addition to our family! We had our first appointment yesterday with the doctors and we got to see our new baby and its darling little heartbeat. We will be 10 weeks tomorrow and looking at a December 18 birth.

Carrie has a post with pictures and stuff if you are interested. I’ll not drone on here, but I really wanted to share with all of you my happiness. Many of you know that Carrie and I had been trying and ( ironically enough) in our ninth month we hit the big prize.

My boss just sent me this press release. It appears that Skype is making is skypeout service free for all US and Canada phone numbers. What does this mean? Well most simply it means if you have a micraphone attached to your computer you can now call your grandmother on her regular phone on the other side of the country for FREE!!!!! No more excuses. Get in touch. Its only one day past mothers day

I just want to post this link in a highly visible space. It seems some folks are having problems with the Mystic Beta 3 installer. The Adobe folks have done a great job of outlining the steps required for installation on many platforms. Check them out here:

Installing ColdFusion Flex Connectivity Beta 3

Something important to note that has come up in a couple emails, is that cf running on JRun is not always the same as a multi-server cf install. So check out the instructions for the install that matches your setup.

I just saw this post over on Damon Cooper’s site, and I have to say I am very impressed with the updates for CF Mystic Beta 3! And there are Many Many of them. Make sure you check his blog for the list.

One thing I really want to pull out here, is that the CF team has said on several occasions that they want CF to be the choice platform for Flex 2.0 developers and with the wizards and plugins they have developed for us, I cant see how you could choose any other platform. Take a look at his post and go get the updates for flex 2.0 beta 3 and the CF Mystic updates.

Its True! Beta 3 is up on labs. Flex Builder is still a Windows only product, but all the other downloads ( SDK, Charting, FDS, and Flash 9) all have Mac OS Downloads.

Not only that, but the wonderful CF team have made a CF Mystic update for the Mac! Thanks to all the CF team for that wonderful suprise, because it means I dont have to spend the next hour trying to get it working so I can play with the Beta 3 SDK!