So, after reviewing my web stats I realized a ton of links are coming into this blog looking for older content I posted, mainly with technical info. Since I want people to find content they are looking for I decided to bring the domain back online for archival purposes only. I have removed some content which was pure opinion and left everything else. If you want to follow our new blog please visit http://www.sanative.net/blog
Thanks for visiting!I've come to the conclusion that a lot of what I post is merely my opinion. While opinions do matter to some degree, I have come to realize that the majority of blog posts, including my own, are pointless chatter that really offer no value to anyone. Given that, I am redirecting this blog to my corporate blog at http://www.sanative.net/blog. Posts made to the corporate blog will be based upon fact and contain information readers will find useful and, hopefully, appealing. I appreciate your readership, thoughtful comments and debates over the last couple of years!
The redirection will occur 8/1/2008. No archive of this site will be available from this domain. If you have found any of the info on this blog to be useful, please copy the info to your archives at this time.Another great Adobe event, I'm sure! The camp will cover topics including Flex, AIR, AJAX and Flash. PayPal and Yahoo will also present. The event is in SF, CA on Nov 5, so sign up now!
Sys-Con Media has lost Adobe as a sponsor, the community seeing this as a side effect of bad advertising practices and outright poor business management. A primary reason Sys-Con has lost the ability to continue publishing the ColdFusion Developer's Journal is because, without Adobe's backing, their advertising team is ineffective in placing ads in CFDJ. Calls for ad placement had gone unanswered for weeks and when requests were fulfilled the wrong information was often given.
It is also believed that the majority of persons subscribed to CFDJ actually never requested or paid for a subscription. In order for Sys-Con to increase their "subscriber base" they simply spammed the community with free subscriptions. This is common with all of the Sys-Con Media family of publications.Obviously this was not enough. Potential advertisers, tired of dealing with poor response and customer service from the advertising department at Sys-Con, failed to purchase enough advertising to keep the journal in circulation. As a result Sys-Con was forced to seek out Microsoft as a sponsor. Sys-Con's major fear at the moment is the loss of other major sponsors. These sponsors, potentially wary about Adobe's decision to pull out of Sys-Con, may in turn decide to remove their sponsorship as well. In turn, Sys-Con has decided to attack Adobe's ColdFusion product as well as the ColdFusion community, trying to downgrade the obvious discontent among the ColdFusion community as a whole over Sys-Con's underhanded practices. The previous editorial team from the ColdFusion Developer's Journal has also shed light on the subject, explaining how poorly Sys-Con handled the publication as a whole. Matt Woodward stated "The editorial board--such as it was--didn't serve as an advisory board at all, but rather was seen as a standing pool of free labor for writing articles.". Brian Rinaldi also writes "I was a part of the unfortunate CFDJ Editorial Board, which was kept both uninformed and ignored (so much so that none of the members I am in contact with had any idea this was happening). Therefore, I feel that I know firsthand that Sys-Con as a company could care less about improving CFDJ for quite some time now."Sys-Con is a failing media company. They know it and are using dirty tactics in a last ditch effort to keep themselves afloat.note: this story is a parody on the recent Sys-Con "news" that states that "ColdFusion is dead as a doornail". As a media outlet, Sys-Con holds the responsibility to ensure factual and unbiased reporting, which they have not done. As such, they have become the target of this parody, which in actuality, is probably not very far from truth anyway.So in all the years I been doing ColdFusion (since v 2.0) I've not yet been able to afford a trip to MAX. Now that I am self-employed it is even more difficult, taking time off work and the expenses involved totals about a $5,000 expense. It's a shame, because I would love to go.
Mark Mandel and I were discussing this and I mentioned that if people wanted to sponsor my trip I would be happy to go. He seemed to think it was a great idea. So, if you are interested in sponsoring my MAX trip I will be happy to give you an image ad on my site. A full sponsor will get a free image ad for one year (till the next MAX event). Partial sponsors contributing  at least $1250 will get placement for 3 months. Ill also have a "my sponsors" page dedicated to letting everyone know how cool your company was for sponsoring my trip! If you are interested drop me a comment and Ill be sure to reply.I upgraded BlogCFC tonight because the version i was running broke when I upgraded to ColdFusion 8. Blah, I hate it when that happens! In any case, upgrading BlogCFC apparently causes a change in the RSS stream making MXNA think the old posts are all new posts. My apologies. I will look into a way to prevent this from re-occuring in the future.
That being said, CF 8 is performing MUCH faster on the server than CF 7 was.Want a grandcentral.com invite? Simple, use the contact link on this blog to send me a request. If you do not use the contact link you will not get an invite.
I have 6 Pownce invites. Want one? Send me a note via my contact link! The first 6 folks to contact me get the invites.
It will be here soon.
So after a quick code review this morning I found myself very dissatisfied with the state of the HTML and CSS in Kalendar. I hastily decided Kalendar needed an update to the HTML to make it more XHTML compliant. Turns out this was not an easy task.
Currently it should be XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. In future months I hope to take some time to make it XHTML 1.1 compliant but this may be a big undertaking. Current changes will enhance the overall application's maintainability in addition to a cleaner overall output. The CSS will more easily control the look and feel, allowing skinning to be more fluid. I spent very little time on the admin tools, only running quick verifications and fixing what I found. it is likely you will find non-compliant code, please let me know. Also, the condensed view needs some work. Going through it I realized it was implemented hastily, I found a number of HTML bugs. I squashed those but I really need to spend some time working out the CSS styling of this. My apologies to those of you who have had need of that view and had to hack your way through it! If you downloaded RC2 I recommend using RC3 instead. If no serious issues are found in the next couple weeks I will add a couple small new features and go gold!
