Matt Gifford aka coldfumonkeh | Consultant Developer
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Apr 29, 2014

ColdFusion 11 released today!

Today is a good day. ColdFusion 11 is officially released to the wide world.

Feb 20, 2014

ColdFusion Thunder and Splendor Public Betas Available Now

Good times ahead.

Feb 17, 2014

Status Pages Made Awesome with SorryApp

Keep your users informed of your application’s status quickly, easily and beautifully with SorryApp. Check it out!

Jan 28, 2014

monkehTweet Authorization Issue Without Callback URL Defined

Have you experienced the dreaded ‘Element AUTHURL is undefined in AUTHSTRUCT’ error when using monkehTweets to authorize an application against a user? You have? Step right in and see how to solve the issue.

Jan 27, 2014

Saying Goodbye to CFHour

I have just finished editing and publishing the last CFHour show as official producer. I have loved every minute of being involved with the show, and Dave and Scott have made it a truly entertaining experience.

My first show was #120,...

Jan 17, 2014

Adobe Magic with Photoshop Perspective Warp

Quick iterations and rapid deployment to the end user  and consumer. This is one of the reasons why I love the Creative Cloud.

At Adobe Max 2013, a truly amazing demo was shown during the sneaks session that...

Jan 10, 2014

Code the web with Brackets - Web Designer Magazine Issue 218

Issue 218 of Web Designer magazine is now available in the shops, in which you will find a five-page tutorial from me on the awesome code editor Brackets.

An editor has to satisfy a number of requirements, namely performance, comfort and suitability for the tasks in...

Jan 7, 2014

Creative Cloud Status Page

A quick post for any Adobe Creative Cloud users. If you ever wanted to check the status of the services available (just in case you were experiencing any temporary issues) you can do that easily.

Visit http://status.creativecloud.com/ in your browser to see the...

Dec 16, 2013

Installing Apache Ant on OSX Mavericks for PhoneGap development

I haven't developed any PhoneGap applications on one of my laptops since upgrading it to OSX Mavericks. Earlier this evening I stumbled across a problem when running the following command to run the app against the Android SDK:

phonegap run android

The error is received was:

[phonegap] detecting Android SDK environment...

[phonegap] using the...

Dec 13, 2013

Automate development processes with Grunt.js – Web Designer Magazine Issue 217

Issue 217 of Web Designer magazine is now available in the shops, in which you will find a five-page tutorial from me on automating your development processes with Grunt.js.

Alleviate the stress of repetitive tasks and make the most of development time with the Grunt.js task...