Matt Gifford aka coldfumonkeh | Consultant Developer
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Oct 14, 2010

Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion Book OUT NOW

Today is a very exciting day for me - my first book "Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion" is out NOW!

Oooooh, exciting!

I know, right?

Gimmee Some Details

Published by Packt Publishing, it is a handy-sized 192 pages or so, and full of ColdFusion OOP goodness.

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Oct 14, 2010

Generate QR Codes with bit.ly ColdFusion Component

This morning I released an updated version of my bit.ly ColdFusion CFC Wrapper, which is now at version 2.0.

The core reason for the update was to provide the new methods now included within the official bit.ly API.

What’s changed?

There are four official new methods that have...

Oct 12, 2010

Introducing HTML5 Book Giveaway

Last week, I posted a review of "Introducing HTML5" by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp.

Introducing HTML5 Book Giveaway

With thanks to Bruce, Remy and the publishers, New Riders, I am...

Oct 8, 2010

Introducing HTML5 Book Review

Co-authored by Bruce Lawson (@brucel) and Remy Sharp (@rem), this little gem of a book has been eagerly anticipated by developers and designers alike.

216 pages in length, its...

Sep 17, 2010

Caption Competition

It's Friday (always awesome), and what better way to celebrate than with a competition.

This week's request is nice and easy; in lieu of the fact that Scotch on the Rocks 2011 is rapidly approaching us (although we have to shift through Christmas first.. *sigh*), check out the picture below from...

Sep 13, 2010

Moving to ColdFusion Builder

Shiny and New

This morning see's the relaunch of the Adobe Developer Connection site, a fantastic site packed with resources and information on the various Adobe products, including ColdFusion (of course).

Adobe Developer Connection

Congratulations to the web...

Sep 13, 2010

monkehTweets ColdFusion Twitter CFC Update

Following on from a change in authentication protocol at Twitter HQ, monkehTweets stopped working at the end of August.

The previous release of monkehTweets used only the Basic Authentication method, which sent the username and password through as a header in the HTTP request for all API calls. Twitter decided to...

Sep 1, 2010

SOTR 2011 Speakers Revealed

The Scotch on the Rocks team have unveiled the list of speakers who will be presenting at SOTR 2011 in Edinburgh on 3-4th March 2011.

The list is incredibly impressive across the board, and these are just the names; just wait until we release...

Aug 31, 2010

ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hotfix 1 Released

Adobe have released a ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hotfix 1 (CHF1), which address a number of issues.

If you haven't already done so, check out the official hotfix release and update your servers.

Aug 24, 2010

Raise money and win a copy of ColdFusion Builder

For any who have not yet seen, Russ Johnson (@russ_johnson on Twitter) fellow ColdFusion ACP, community member and all-round good-guy is taking up a fantastic personal challenge and raising money for a superb cause at the same time.

Russ will be cycling 150 miles for...