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I have put up my CFEclipse Reloaded presentation online for your viewing pleasure under my Presentations. It includes a lot of information on how to edit your frameworks explorer as well as how to fix the language dictionaries if you find errors.

You can check it out there as well as my other presentations or you can download it directly

At cfObjective? Got a Tash? Want to win a Flex 2 Book? Then head over and post your photo over at TashR! Or if you dont have a 'tash, head over there anyway and vote for your favourite!

C'mon, dont make me look like a dutch porn star all by myself!

Sean mentioned last night, due to Hal Helms being unable to come to cfObjective because of health reasons a few sessions have been flipped about but like one of those slidey puzzles where you are trying to get those squares in order to make a picture of a butterfly, there is still a slot missing.

I shall try to fill in that slot with a introductory presentation into ColdSpring called "ColdSpring: Better living through configuration". Since its a last minute change, I am hoping *some* people will turn up!

I actually enjoy doing this presentation so it should be a laugh if anything!

I finally made it to St Paul's for cfObjective 2008!

After a brief detour through Amsterdam (and some strange interviews before boarding?!) I am finally here. Slightly lagged but ready to rock!

I am in room 1313 of the conference hotel, and will be heading out soon to grab something to eat and maybe later check out a couple of places for drinks!

Let me know when anybody else arrives!

Its time again for the fantastic cfObjective in Minneapolis!

I am heading off tomorrow morning and should be in town by mid afternoon (all going well)

If you want to follow the adventures of people at the conference check out the following link http://twitter.com/cfobjective/with_friends

See you all there!

I know this isnt related to any technology, but I am chuffed, I got a new tattoo on saturday (and other mishaps involving tequila, strangely enough, AFTER I got the tattoo).

Check it!

I should mention that I got this done by Charlie at Kids Love Ink, which is an awesome place in of itself!

Aptana, the people behind the Aptana IDE and Jaxer, have announced Aptana Cloud which describes itself as:

... a scalable Elastic Application Cloud™ featuring the most popular and widely adopted Web infrastructure, ready to use and ready to scale as you need it. Aptana Cloud also plugs right into your IDE to provide instant deployment, smart synchronization, and seamless migration as you scale. Aptana Cloud is ideal for developers who use scripting languages to create Ajax, Facebook, mySpace and all other sorts of Web applications.

Its nice to see a variety of players in this market apart from the usual gorillas of Google and Amazon. It would be interesting to see CFML applications deployed easily in this manner in my opinion.

I also wonder if companies like Microsoft and Yahoo would get involved in this? They already have the infrastructure, of course, not sure how Windows servers would handle this!

Aptana Cloud is currently in beta and there is a early access request form if you would like to get involved!

A friend of mine asked me if I knew anyone that would like to apply for the following job:

A small, relatively new company that has been set up as a sister company to a leading new media agency. Both companies work closely together and both have recently won new clients and have exciting growth and development plans and potential. Due to our size, culture and approach to client service we are looking for candidates who can demonstrate an ability to multi task, work under own steam from brief to completion and who are committed to delivering work that works.

We would ideally like someone who can work on own initiative in Flash, Flash Lite 2 (nice to have), HTML, CSS, ASP. The emphasis would be on Flash but must have an eye to dynamic data driven content and applications, through to flash based sales presenters, banners etc.

They will need an eye for design (though often design is provided), lateral thought, motion and interactivity when it comes to Flash. In an ideal world they would also have an understanding of .Net or at least what can be done with it.

Must have lots of energy, passion and dedication to the job in hand.

As a company we will be moving towards dynamic applications which may encompass Adobe Air, Flex etc. in the future.

Salary level: circa £35K with possibility of share options

Don't send me details, you can email them

As some of you might have noticed, if you have ever posted a comment on this blog, I have been having a number of spam comments being submitted.

Since I am using captcha for each blog post, I think this is basically sweatshop workers in China being told to do it. (enyone watched JPod? same thing). There is no real way round this, since its humans doing it (or maybe install CFKismet or something?).

The main point is, if I dont have any real readers in China, should I simply block all the IP's that come from there and put a proper message?

What do you think? unfair? I think as a whole it would be, but then again, I dont get many *real* readers from there, speak up if you are though!

I have been having a bit of a play with Eclipse's DLTK and Aptana to build two versions of CFEclipse, or rather a CFML editor. They are not complete yet (in fact, the editor doesn't work yet in either). And I thought I would put them up for people to see what I have done, contribute, play etc.

No, there will be no downloads as yet, its just source, so you have to build and debug it yourself, besides, apart from being plugins there isnt really a workable editor there yet. The part that is really missing from both is me hooking up the CFML parser.

The SVN locations are: Aptana based CFML Editor: http://svn.cfeclipse.org/experimental/com.aptana.ide.editor.cfml/ DLTK based CFML Editor: http://svn.cfeclipse.org/experimental/org.cfeclipse.dltk.cfml/

They both have readme.txt files that say which tutorial I have followed, but as I said, I havent finished them

After some investigation, I have also found that both the Aptana and DLTK can both use ANTLR based parsers, which I presume will be for most editors.

Mark Mandel did a lot of work on using Antlr to create a language parser and tokenizer which I havent had a good proper play with as yet. But it has been checked in and people can have a play. There is no documentation as yet, but will work on some of that at a later stage.

http://svn.cfeclipse.org/org.cfeclipse.cfml.core/trunk/

I havent integrated it yet into either of the projects as yet, but that will my next step.