They just announced Flash Camp in Boston March 19th and it's free!

Ryan Stewart blogged about it and boy it looks exciting. They will be covering Flex 4, Flash Builder 4 and a bit of ColdFusion Builder. Doing the presentations are a good number of the engineers.

Register sooner rather then later, as these have sold out (free) in the past.

Personally I am most excited about Flash/AIR on mobile. It looks like the agenda doesn't fit much time in for that. Hopefully mobile discussion is a natural part of other sections of the agenda as well. If nothing else we can pin the engineers down during the breaks.

If that didn't sell you on the event (free) they will also "be providing the beer, food, prizes".

I made a few goals for 2010 related to my sites and this weekend I finally crossed some off my list.

I vowed to work on my online brand, blog more and differentiate my personal portal/brand from just being my out of date and sloppy blog.

First thing I did was create a new website. Yes yet another site! It is a one page mini portal of all things me. I put it under joshuacyr.com. The new site aggregates my social media, blog, projects, etc. The idea is that over time I can simply pull in more feeds from sites that I participate in and have them auto populate my page. This is still in its infancy, as I haven't decided if I want to include and or how to include sites such as flickr, facebook, linkedIN, etc. So right now it is just recent blog feeds and twitter posts (filtered) plus select photos.

Next I upgraded this blog to the latest version of BlogCFC, and boy was I way behind. As usual I made the process a much bigger deal than it actually was. Mostly because I was dropping the old design anyway.

Finally my friend Robert Squier, who works at Harbour Light Strategic Marketing, helped me this weekend with a new design for both sites. I owe him a few beers.

There are still a few things I need to do. I am not sold on the image scrolling system at the bottom of my personal page. I still need to add a few more links to projects as well. The headers for both sites are near identical. I think that may be a bit confusing. I also need to add an actual editor into BlogCFC. Just ran out of time.

I am very open to constructive criticism, so let it fly.

Did you know that there are a BUNCH of training opportunities just before cf.Objective() this year? Some are just one day, others two full days. All of which have great instructors.

Building Secure CFML Applications (April 21) - Jason Dean and Pete Freitag

Coldbox:100 Training (April 21) - Luis Majano

Developing Applications with ColdFusion 9 Object Relational Mapping (ORM) (April 20-21) - Bob Silverberg and Mark Mandel

Getting Started with Flex and AIR Development with the Flex SDK (April 21) - John Mason

Mach-II and OOP from the Ground Up (April 20-21) - Kurt Weirsma, Peter Farrell and Matt Woodward

Rapid Development with Model-Glue 3 (April 20-21) - Dan Wilson and Ezra Parker

With the introduction of Firefox 3.6 today I was alerted that the KTML editor used by some clients wasn't fully loading. The error indicated a missing setter. It turns out it is an easy fix.

In the file

/ktm/core/mozilla_ie_compat.js

you will find

This line is trying to set what FF 3.6 apparently thinks is a read only variable. I removed the line. So far no issues.

Next the file:

/ktm/modules/css/scripts.js

As a dirty hack to test I simply changed it to

Basically the code always waited for the complete value in the readystate but firefox wasn't setting it. So it would never fire. Now we force it to fire by skipping the reload timeout.

So far these are the only two items to fix and the editor is working back to normal. However I am not 100% certain other issues may not come up.

The javascript is minified, so can be hard to read. If you ever need to read it there are some online utilities to help make it readable again. I found this one to be very useful.

I just found out I have been accepted into the Adobe Community Professionals program by Adobe for 2010. Specifically for the ColdFusion product. Each year Adobe selects, via a nomination process, people world wide to be a part of the program. This year is a whopping 300 people, 44 of them for the ColdFusion product. CF and Flex seem to make up the bulk, which is interesting.

Also today Adobe announced that the program has changed names. It used to be called Adobe Community Experts. In fact it is still referred that way on the Adobe website. They changed the name to make it a bit less confusing regarding some other acronyms and names that are very similar. (Adobe Certified Experts).

While I haven't been in the ACE/ACP program I was actually a part of Team Allaire back before Allaire was bought out by Macromedia (pre Adobe). Team Allaire was essentially the same thing only much smaller. The bulk of the focus at that time was the forums. Now with so many conferences, user groups, blogs, forums, social media angles, etc it is a whole new ball game.

I look forward to participating in every way I can and a great year for all of us developers.

To learn about who else is a part of the program this year check out Adobe Community Manager, Liz Fredrick's blog.

RIAdventure 360 wrapped up just a few days ago.  Back to the ice cold here in New Hampshire.  We had a great trip and conference.   Fantastic people, great discussions and a good time had by all. 

At the conference we covered Flex, Data Visualization, ColdFusion ORM, Android Dev, Slider, Push Button Engine, Flash to iPhone and more over 2 days and many evenings.

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RIAdventure 360 wrapped up just a few days ago.  Back to the ice cold here in New Hampshire.  We had a great trip and conference.   Fantastic people, great discussions and a good time had by all. 

At the conference we covered Flex, Data Visualization, ColdFusion ORM, Android Dev, Slider, Push Button Engine, Flash to iPhone and more over 2 days and many evenings.

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After reading Ben Nadels blog post about a new CF builder Extension for encrypting and decrypting ColdFusion files I thought I would do a companion blog post about the pros/cons of doing so. 

First off I should really say we are encoding them, not encrypting them.  Basically the .cfm or .cfc files become binary instead of ascii text files.   This ends up causing a number of issues which I will get into later.

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Just thought I would post a little checklist of things to consider for the upcoming cruise/event.

I am REALLY looking forward to this.  Both from a vacation standpoint as well as a great learning/networking opportunity.  We have some very smart people on the ship. 

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