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Borrowing some code & ideas from Pete Freitag’s CFIMAGE presentation; this is a rather simple, safe, and easy way to upload photos using a User-Defined Function in ColdFusion.  Uploading files is very straight forward in ColdFusion, but I like this function because it takes care of all the little details, so I can concentrate on working with the file afterwards, and moving to the next iteration when programming.

I ran into two small hurdles when installing the ColdFusion 8.0.1 updater on my CentOs Linux server.  Here is a quick overview of what I did to get the installer to work.

In case you haven’t already checked it out, be sure to have a look at the applications available for download at the Adobe AIR Marketplace on Adobe Exchange.  What is the Adobe AIR Marketplace?  According the FAQ:

Adobe AIR Marketplace is a place where AIR developers can publish their Adobe AIR applications for users to download. You can find the Adobe AIR Marketplace at www.adobe.com/go/marketplace.

Thats right, you can get Flex Builder 3 Professional for education for free if you qualify.

As I am sure you have probably already heard, the official AIR 1.0 was released, along with an update to the Ext JS framework to work with the AIR application sandbox.

I wanted to learn what Adobe AIR was all about, so I created an AIR application with the ColdFusion 8 documentation that utilizes the Ext 2.x library. The application allows you to easily view and search the ColdFusion 8 documentation.  Best of all, no need to be online - everything is stored locally in the sqlite database - so it runs extremely fast. There are still a couple of minor bugs, and I am hoping to make some future improvements to the application, so be sure to check back.

Some people have reported issues with the ColdFusion extensions for Eclipse provided by Adobe.  There is an update out there that you can download directly from Dean Harmon’s blog.

You heard right.  There’s a new ColdFusion community site provided by Ning and setup by Nick Tong at www.coldfusioncommunity.org.  The site provides several group features all within a friendly interface that is simple and intuitive.  I highly recommend you check out the site, and sign up for an account.  Great idea Nick - very cool!

I have been using CFFTP to successfully implement a file browser that easily enforces local file/folder permissions because the CFFTP client connects and authenticates as the user that is logged in.  It was really quite simple and straightforward (thanks CF!).  However…