QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
Luis Majano did a ColdBox 2.5.0 presentation for the Melbourne, Australia CFUG last week. Be sure to check it out if you were unable to attend. You can find the preso link on Luis' post.
Luis Majano recently announced that ColdBox 2.5.0 Beta 1 has been released. There are a *ton* of upgrades and feature additions in this release. Check out his post for the details.
I haven't had a chance to play with the new release yet, but I'm very excited about all of the new enhancements. Simply put, ColdBox is awesome!
I am a web standards junkie. I get really agitated if my code doesn't validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict standards. Why? Adhering to the standards, well, there can be nothing but positive things that comes out of making the additional effort. For instance, I know that if it does validate, the chances of it looking good in a variety of modern browsers - even ones that I don't test in - are very much in my favor. While there are really only three browsers that I really place any real efforts in checking (FF, IE6, IE7), I like knowing that I'm not excommunicating someone from my sites just because they use some little-known browser.
Besides, once you train yourself to adhere to the standards, it's really a painless process and takes no more time than just pushing out crap code. And you'll thank yourself later.
I created my own form markup that I've used for a long time now. It works very well, but I've always wondered if there wasn't a better way to make it happen. Today, I found that better way. Hang with me to the end, it should be worth your while.
Kalendar is in need of a makeover. If you're in need of a copy of CF8, and you've got mad skillz (or even if you just want to practice up on your mediocre skillz), be sure to enter the design contest!
