Over the last few days I've been scouring the web looking for examples of pure script based cfcs in ColdFusion. I've bee using cfcs since they were introduced to CF, but recently at Adobe MAX I saw may people using script based cfcs in place of tag based cfcs. From there I decided I would like to learn the script based cfc setup as I figure it would be beneficial to know both as I start to do more Flex development. 

If anyone has any recommended resources and/or code examples for learning script based cfcs please leave a comment.

Tomorrow I leave for Adobe MAX 2011. This is very exciting for me as it will be my 11th year going to an Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe developer event. I'm psyched for this years event. MAX 2010 was awesome, even though I didn't blog about it. I spent most of my time on twitter talking about it and interacting with others. I'm planning to do the same thing this year, but will also try to post daily recaps here on my blog. Look for future posts about the days events, keynotes, special events and whatever else I feel like writing about.

Recently, my personal web server running a couple of my sites, BlinkBase Technologies and DavidYakovich.com, went down. Thankfully I was able to recover most of my data. This server had been running for close to 6 years without any real downtime, so from a stability standpoint, I was extremely pleased. The server was running an older instance of Ubuntu (9.04 Server) and CF8. When reloading the box, I obviously went with the most recent release of Ubuntu Server (11.04).

Since I did not have access to a license of CF9, I decided to give Railo a spin. I had been experimenting with Railo in VirtualBox instance I created several months back. I was extremely happy with the performance of the server. It definitely seems a lot faster than CF9. Setup in Ubuntu Server was extremely easy. The install took less than a minute. Having had some experience configuring Railo to work with multiple sites in my VM instance, setup was again a breeze. Literally less than 5 minutes after installing the Railo server, my sites were up and running.

I’m looking forward to posting more of my experiences with running Railo. For now, I’m extremely happy to be back up and running very quickly with what I believe to be a top quality server product. Now, if I could only find the motivation to update my personal page, I’d be completely set.

I’m starting to sketch out what will be my next CFWheels application and possibly my first commercial, subscription based application. I’m now starting to look at hosting providers for this site and companies to handle the credit card processing.

I’m thinking of using GoDaddy for the CF hosting and PayPal for the credit card processing. I’m not expecting a huge amount of traffic when I release the app, but expect traffic to rise steadily over time.

Does anyone have recommendations for inexpensive ColdFusion hosting? If so, leave a comment or send me a message on twitter.

For the last week I’ve been working on my PubMan publications software. In the last two days I’ve run into a snag. I have the create and delete statements working, but the index list and update functions are what I’m having problems with.

I’ve created a detailed post over on the CFWheels Group. If you can help me out with this headache, I’d be most grateful.

For the past several months I’ve wanted to work on a project that I could build using CFWheels. I’ve finally found that project. I’m building a Communications Management System for the Communications Department of the company I work for. This software will manage our Press Releases, E-mail Newsletters, and other communications publications. The initial release will have Press Release support.

I started building this app earlier this week. While I have hit some speed bumps along the way, the CFWheels community has been a huge help, quickly responding to my questions.

I’m looking forward to seeing this app grow and documenting my progress here.

Happy 4th of July everyone. I’m not only celebrating our country’s independence, but one month at my new job. Good day!

I’ve obviously not updated this blog in a long time, and I think I should start it up again. I had been spending a lot of time on Twitter, but have slowed down posting. I’ve been spending the last four months looking for a new job. I’ve applied to over 80 jobs and unfortunately have not been asked in for an interview.

I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what my future should be. One of my friends from high school was recently laid off from his job of ten years with a tech company he started with out of college. Like me, he is wondering if it’s time to change careers and move out of the tech sector. Connecticut is one of the worst places to be looking for a tech job.

The next couple of months will tell what I ultimately end up doing. I’m just hoping I find a job soon.