Matthew Williams - CFDev (and admin!)

Bind CFGrid updates to a form field

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:43:00 -0500

I searched for a fairly good amount of time before figuring this out. The background is this.

I don't usually have much use for CFGrid, at least not since the CF 4.x days. That being said, I found myself in need of it this week for a project which I've been assigned to. The grid was pulling data back correctly, but what it really needed to do was refresh when you select value XX from a select box. The answer turned out to be pretty simple. First, the form.

test me

And the CFC

var selectQuery = QueryNew("ID,display"); var tmp=queryaddrow(selectQuery,2); tmp=querysetcell(selectQuery,'ID','1',1); tmp=querysetcell(selectQuery,'ID','2',2); tmp=querysetcell(selectQuery,'display','You chose wisely',1); tmp=querysetcell(selectQuery,'display','You chose poorly',2); select ID,display from selectQuery where ID =

The missing piece (for me) was that first bit in the CFGrid CFC call. myProds.product. If you tell the grid to pass this as a variable into the CFC function, you can then pass that into your select statement. I presume this holds true for any form field and not just select boxes.

ColdFusion Builder Trial: subclipse issues

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Part 2 for getting CF Builder 2 to work for my needs.

I use Subclipse for almost all my projects, as pretty much everything is hosted on my Subversion server. I've never had issues installing Subclipse before so this was new to me. I ran into the same exact problem as found here http://mineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/coldfusion-builder-beta-3-and-subclipse.html (Subclipse won't all you to click the license agreement), but again no resolution that I could find.

This was much simpler to resolve. It looks like some dependencies aren't being met for Subclipse. I added the site for http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios to the list of software update providers (Help -> Install New Software). I grabbed everything from the collaboration packages, but you can probably get away with just the missing ones. The Subclipse install tells you which these are, but to err on the safe side, I grabbed everything.

After a workspace restart Subclipse installed just fine. I'm now all set and ready to test everything builder has to offer.

Part 2 for getting CF Builder 2 to work for my needs.

This was much simpler to resolve.

Part 2 for getting CF Builder 2 to work for my needs.

After a workspace restart Subclipse installed just fine. I'm now all set and ready to test everything builder has to offer.

It looks like some dependencies aren't being met for Subclipse. I added the site for http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios to the list of software update providers (Help -> Install New Software). I grabbed everything from the collaboration packages, but you can probably get away with just the missing ones. The Subclipse install tells you which these are, but to err on the safe side, I grabbed everything.

After a workspace restart Subclipse installed just fine. I'm now all set and ready to test everything builder has to offer.

ColdFusion Builder Trial: connecting up RDS

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:30:00 -0500

My it's been awhile hasn't it? New job, old job, and other jobs between have been keeping me more busy than I can even relate.

Just for kicks I've decided to give the CFBuilder trial a whirl. It's being evaluated by the office, and we were having some issues connecting it up to RDS on our local machines. This lead to the some exploring to find out where the problem lies.

First I went out and grabbed CF Builder 2. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-builder.html. After it got done installing I tried setting up an RDS interface to my local CF 9 install. And, whoops, hit upon the same error my co-worker saw. It's fairly unhelpful, mostly just a null java pointer exception. It lead me to this page on the Adobe forums http://forums.adobe.com/message/4234561, but offered no real resolution.

It dawned on me that RDS was likely not enabled during the installation of CF 9 on my current laptop. I did the following to address the issue with RDS not connecting (note, some steps may not be necessary, such as adding a new RDS user, but it didn't work for me without one).

Open your ColdFusion administrator interface and under the security left hand navigation set both administrator and RDS to use Separate user name and password authentication (allows multiple users) .
Create a new RDS user and give them every authority under the sun (eh, it's local).
Open up the ColdFusion instance web.xml, and this will vary depending on how you installed ColdFusion. Mine was found in C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\WEB-INF. The multi-server install will be in a path similar to <jrun-install>\servers\<instance>\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF.
Do a search on RDS. There should be two separate <servlet> mappings which need to be uncommented. Uncomment each block.
Restart ColdFusion.
In CF Builder add a new server for RDS (or edit an existing one). It was a tab in the bottom pane of the program for my installation.
- Server Name: This can be any value, it's just used the purpose of display
- Application Server: I'll presume you're using JRun
- Host Name: localhost
- WebServer Port: 8500 for standard install, consult jrun.xml if you're using multi-server
- RDS User Name: Name used in the previous step
- RDS Password: Again, from a previous step
- Click Next
- Server Home: Mine was C:\ColdFusion9, not sure where this is on multi-server
- Document Root: It defaults to wwwroot for the ColdFusion9 folder, and I don't see a reason to change it.
- Click Finish

After the above, both my co-worker and I were able to successfully connect to our RDS services.

Win 2008 64bit + Adobe CF 64bit + Apache

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:04:00 -0500

Sometime last year, when we migrated our Win 2003 + IIS servers over to 2008 + Apache, I ran into an issue. It only happens on 64bit Windows (and 2008 at that), and it just slipped my mind to blog something on it. It came up again on a list I follow, so it appears to be a good time to blog on it. I also got transitioned away from the server team over to the development team and the desire to post about it also went the ladder of "things I need to do".

The error message is "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrec". I noticed that the machines I DIDN'T have an issue with already had .NET 3.5.x on them. The machines without it, this error cropped up. The solution (for me) and for the poster on the board was to simply install .NET on the server. After that, no more issues! Another suggestion was to install the VC 2008 components from Microsofts site. I've yet to try that, but it may work.

The other issue I ran into is after getting everything all hunky dory and working, the Apache connector just downright fails as soon as the 9.0.1 patch was installed. The solution there was to run through the wsconfig connectors immediately after installing ACF, THEN do the upgrading of the various servers and instances.

FarCry 6.x tip of the day

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:16:00 -0500

I ran into an issue yesterday that I've not seen before. I was greated with "fuName" doesn't exist in struct (blah,blah,blah) when editing an object in the webtop. This object had been edited within the last few days, and I know that I had pushed up a new property to that object name "fuName", but it shouldn't have been an issue. Editing a random object in the same worked fine, but it was just this one object.

I reinitialized the application, I cleared all my cache. I restarted the J2EE service, and apache. I cleared out over cache folder I could find, but nothing worked. It was until I started breaking everything out line by line from the error trace that it became apparent that the system was seeing a cached version of the object "somewhere". That somewhere turned out to be dmWizard.

So, it appears the dmWizard object holds a cached version of what your working on... but I've not really dug into "why". Regardless, it was a pretty simple fix, but not simple to find. If you should ever see the same situation as above, just clear out all the entries in dmWizard and you should be good to go!

How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 5

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:27:00 -0500

Last day! Although, maybe we'll add some addendums. Let's bang out the database installs.

Grab an install from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/. Don't forget to also grab the admin package http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.2.html.
Install, using the defaults, to c:\cf_dev\mysql
Grab MSSQL 2008 R2 express from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb671149.aspx.
I typically let this one install to the defualts (somewhere in program files) as it's not at all portable. Everything else we installed is able to be zipped up and shared.

Poof, that's it.

So now, we're able to work on ColdFusion 9, Railo 3.3, regular HTTP, MySQL and MSSQL. I'll probably through in a PHP portion down the line, but we'll just see what I end up having time for.

Coming up in the near future, how to set up a kick ass Development server on Ubuntu!

How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 4

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:35:00 -0500

On our plate today, we'll be installing Apache. I'm using the 2.2.x branch.

Go and grab your .msi, I'd recommend the one with OpenSSL included. http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22
Install Apache to c:\cf_dev\apache. You'll need to choose "custom install" to change the directory. The other values can be left at default.
Get CF9 hooked up to Apache, Start-> All Programs-> Adobe-> CF9 xxxx-> Web Server Configuration Tool
Click Add... to create a new connector
Choose the CFusion instance and select Apache as your web server. You'll need to pick out the configuration directory (c:\cf_dev\apache\conf) and the binary object (c:\cf_dev\apache\bin\httpd.exe) and check "install CF9 services".
Edit c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\httpd.conf and add at the bottom (the include pulls in any files we add to dev folder):
#Turn on virtualhosts
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443

Include c:/cf_dev/apache/conf/dev/*.conf

<Files ~ ".hbmxml$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
Find DirectoryIndex in the httpd.conf file, and add index.cfm to it.
Create a new site vhost file, we'll start with site1 (from back on day 1). Create it as c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\dev\site1.conf
Fill it like so:
#site1
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory "C:\cf_dev\projects\site1">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

alias /CFIDE C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\CFIDE
alias /cfide C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\CFIDE

# JRun Settings
<IfModule mod_jrun22.c>
    JRunConfig Verbose false
    JRunConfig Apialloc false
    JRunConfig Ignoresuffixmap false
    JRunConfig Serverstore "C:/JRun4/lib/wsconfig/1/jrunserver.store"
    JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51020
    AddHandler jrun-handler .jsp .jws .cfm .cfml .cfc .cfr .cfswf
</IfModule>

DocumentRoot "C:\cf_dev\projects\site1"
ServerName site1.local
ServerAdmin contact@localhost
</VirtualHost>
Note, you should now remove all but LoadModule jrun_module "C:/JRun4/lib/wsconfig/1/mod_jrun22.so" from c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\httpd.conf. This will allow us to use multiple J2EE engines under the same apache config.
Edit http.conf, and uncomment:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
Create a Railo based site for Site2 (follow the steps found on day one to first create the site2 project), fill the c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\dev\site2.conf with (we use proxypass to hand of CFM requests):
#site2
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory "C:/cf_dev/projects/site2">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

<Proxy *>
            Allow from 127.0.0.1
    </Proxy>

ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2

DocumentRoot "C:/cf_dev/projects/site"
ServerName site2.local
ServerAdmin contact@localhost
</VirtualHost>
To make Tomcat aware of server, we need to add this just before the </engine> tag at the end of c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\conf\server.xml. It seems like duplication, but it just MUST be done:
<Host name="site2.local" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="" docBase="C:/cf_dev/projects/site2" />
</Host>
Edit your hosts file (mine is at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to locally route our requests to the correct place.
127.0.0.1 site1.local
127.0.0.1 site2.local

How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 3

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:08:00 -0500

Today, we'll deploy Railo on Tomcat 6. Note, I'm doing this the "hard way". Jorden, from viviotek, created a handy dandy installer. But, I rather like to install this stuff by hand so I can know what to fix should it break. Pretty much all of this info is gleaned from Sean Corfield and his blog about installing various bits and pieces. You can find it here.

Grab Tomcat 6 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi. I used the Core:32-bit windows zip
Edit your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to c:\cf_dev\<jdk you downloaded previously>
Unzip it to c:\cf_dev and rename the folder to tomcat6
Go grab the Railo JAR files from http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/.
Unzip these files to c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\railo
Open up c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\conf\catalina.properties and find common.loader=. Add ${catalina.home}/railo,${catalina.home}/railo/*.jar to that line.
Open up c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\conf\web.xml At the end of the servlet section, just before the servlet-mapping section, add the following:
<servlet>
   <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
   <description>CFML runtime Engine</description>
   <servlet-class>railo.loader.servlet.CFMLServlet</servlet-class>
   <init-param>
<param-name>configuration</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/railo</param-value>
<description>Configuration directory</description>
</init-param>
   
   <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
   <servlet-name>RailoAMFServlet</servlet-name>
   <description>AMF Servlet for flash remoting</description>
   <servlet-class>railo.loader.servlet.AMFServlet</servlet-class>
   <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
   <servlet-name>RailoFileServlet</servlet-name>
   <description>File Servlet for simple files</description>
   <servlet-class>railo.loader.servlet.FileServlet</servlet-class>
   <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
At the end of the servlet-mapping section, just before the filter section, add the following:
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>*.cfm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>*.cfml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>*.cfc</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>RailoAMFServlet</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/flashservices/gateway/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
   
   <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
At end of the file, add index.cfmto the list of "welcome files".
Open a command prompt, and run c:\cf_dev\tomcat\service.bat install to create a handy windows service

That's it! We now have Tomcat + Railo rolling on our machine. We're still missing the site definition, but that's a task we'll handle after we have Apache up and running.

How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 2

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:57:00 -0500

The next step on our journey is to install Adobe ColdFusion 9.x in the multi-server configuration.

Download the installer from https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion. You WILL need an Adobe ID, but it's free to sign up. If it's not version 9.01, be sure to grab that update as well.
If you don't already have it, you'll need to install the .NET framework (required for the install to complete). http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=22
As mentioned previously, we want to use the multiserver install option after running the .exe, and make sure to configure internal web server (we'll address the connector later). Also, the developer edition will be fine for our purposes. The path I chose was c:\cf_dev\jrun. Install whatever options you want, but keep in mind they're a pain to get in after the fact.
If you need to run the 901 (or other) updater, you need to stop services before hand. The two main ones are Macromedia JRun Admin and Macromedia JRun CFusion need to be stopped. There's also going to be several "ColdFusion" related services that need to be stopped. You can go ahead and set the Admin instance of ColdFusion to manual, as we'll only use that if we want to add a new CF instance.

Optional

If you're feeling adventurous, grab a CF8,7,6 installer. Choose the last option of a ColdFusion EAR/WAR (EAR specifically). Choose the install location to be c:\cf_dev\jrun4\servers\<someinstance>.
Manually open your unzipping program (winzip works), extract c:\cf_dev\jrun4\servers\<someinstance>\cfusion-ear out to the folder cfusion-ear. Go into cfusion-ear and extract cfusion-war out to cfusion-war and META-INF.
The XML file in META-INF will be wrong, you need to change it so it looks like:
<code>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd">

<application>

<display-name>cfusion-ear</display-name>

    <module>
      <web>
        <web-uri>cfusion-war</web-uri>
        <context-root>/</context-root>
      </web>
    </module>
</application>
</code>
Start that Admin instance back up, and log into it at localhost:8000, and use the user "admin" and password <whatever you set the default cf password at>.
Click the "create a new server" link. The server name MUST match the folder name you created in step 1. Ports and such can be left the same.
Create a service for this bugger, bring up a command prompt and run c:\cf_dev\jrun4\bin\jrunsvc -install <foldername> <foldername> "Macromedia JRun <foldername> Server" "Macromedia JRun <foldername> Server" -config <path to jvm.config if you want different JVM settings, which you'll need for older CF versions, JVMs are not going to be compatible>
Start the service, and be happy.

How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 1

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:47:00 -0500

I thought it'd be fun to put out a series of setting up a development environment on you local machine.

Once upon a time, 10 years ago, all of my development was done from a desktop machine and hosted on a staging version of our website. That's nice and all, and it worked because I was an army of just one. Somewhere in the mid piont of the 2000s, it became apparent that I'd need to start hosting this stuff locally, and so began my neverending journey to the perfect dev setup on my laptop. I'll lay out what I presently use, and maybe someone can take solace in my work. I've geared this towards windows as, well, it's what I use. Most of the same information applies to other OS's, but it's not something I can tackle this time around.

The basics we'll go through will be:

Eclipse - for developing code, CSS, XML, JS, etc.
Java JDK 6 - required for Eclipse
CFEclipse - CFML IDE plugin for eclipse
Subclipse - plugin to eclipse for talking to subversion
Aptana - plugin to eclipse for HTML development, CSS, JS, etc. Also includes FTP abilities.
Adobe CF - Installed in multi-server mode, with CF9 and CF8 running on JRun
Railo - Latest Railo version on Tomcat 6
Apache - For serving our content. Yes, I know, Tomcat can do this as well. But I prefer Apache
IIS - Maybe. I've mostly given up on IIS, and don't use it on any of my machines at present.
MySQL 5.x - database engine of choice
MSSQL 2008 R2 - because I've still got some clients on MSSQL.
Oracle - Maybe. We'll see. I have to use it, but you shouldn't be forced into it.

To start us off, we'll grab and configure eclipse. As a note, everything we do will be going into c:\cf_dev. Adjust as needed.

Go get eclipse, I grabbed the java developer as it was the smallest. At the time of this writing, we're at 3.7 of eclipse. http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.7.1-201109091335/index.php
Unzip the contents to c:\cf_dev. You'll end up with a folder called c:\cf_dev\eclipse
Go grab a Java JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u29-download-513648.html. I grabbed a 1.6 version.
Install it to C:\cf_dev\jdk1.6.0_29\. We'll use this later for our J2EE server
Fire up eclipse, c:\cf_dev\eclipse\eclipse.exe, and make the workspace c:\cf_dev\projects. All of our projects will go into this folder.
Install the CFEclipse plugin. Briefly, open up Help-> Install New Software in eclipse. Add a new site, I choose the preview for CFEclipse http://cfeclipse.org/update-preview, but you can also use http://cfeclipse.org/update.
After clicking Add... you'll need to supply a name. I used cfeclipse, as it's all crazy descriptive like that.
You'll see a check box and CFEclipse CFML Editor. Check it, and click the Next button. Follow the prompts and accept the license to complete the installation.
We're going to repeat this process, but the new software to install is Aptana at http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install
Repeat the process again to install subclipse, http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x
Open the Aptana view, Window-> Perspective-> Web. You'll be prompted about missing GIT. I installed the portable copy.

And we're done! One of the nice things that the Aptana studio brings is working with both the file system, or by project, in the left hand tab. For now, create a new project (you should see create proejct) and call it site1. Make sure to choose the CFML type of project. It'll default to our c:\cf_dev\projects folder. If asked to change to the CFEclipse perspective, I choose "no" as I spend 100% of my time in the Aptana perspective. We'll grab the Adobe install next time around.

New Railo plans and pricing

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:36:00 -0500

Crazy, crazy world out there. It looks like I may get a green flag to have my company, Geodesic GraFX, on the community page at getrailo.org. I wouldn't be hosting today without a great open source product like Railo, and I'm flattered to be given a chance to have my name out there as a recommended host.

Odd FarCry 3.1 problem on CF 9

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:32:00 -0500

By way of the grapevine, I was hooked up with a client in DC that had upgraded their server from CFMX 7.x to CF 9.x. There were some issues with built-in functions in the older FarCry code, but that was corrected by the team at Myriad. The front end was working fine, but the FarCry admin was giving a blank page.

In the past, I've seen this with older versions of Railo and built-in functions clashing, and that was the assumption I went with. Alas, that turned out to not be it. However, there were clues in the error logs of the CFadmin. Essentially, it was going into an odd loop looking for a file called "apps.cfm". Ahhhh, that file. It's been a while, but that file controls how the admin finds projects against the URL you're coming in from.

Once I put a call to <cfset stApps['site.local'] = 'farcry_site'>, the FarCry admin started working on my local test. Rock on!

It was a fun little adventure for a weekend. I thought, should anyone else run into this, it'd be nice to document it for future reference.

Update on godaddy refugee plan

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:32:00 -0500

I know this is late, but I've got this plan offering up and in place! In fact, even if you're not a GoDaddy refugee you can get 30 days of free hosting to see if Railo+MySQL+Apache works for you. You can find details here.

Alton Brown Manifesto aka dude, I'm so there with you.

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:01:00 -0500

Be forewarned, this will not be in any way technical or ColdFusion related at all.

I follow Alton Brown, Scott Mosier, Jason Mewes, and Kevin Smith and Bruce Campbell on social media. That's it, as far as celebrities go. Alton is the only TV personality. Mewes, Smith and Mosier are all kick ass Viewaskew folks. Bruce? C'mon, Xiana, Evil Dead, Brisco County... guy is just witty as hell. Even on twitter.

Alton is going on a book tour to promote his latest book, and he's released a fanifesto on what he expects from his fans. It's mostly common sense, but it brings to mind something I think about on a semi-casual basis.

That thought, as boring as it may be, is this. I'd LOVE to meet some of the celebs that make great art that enriches my life. But to meet them, I mean nothing more than a smile, handshake, and a "Thanks. Thanks for making a difference, even just for 90 minutes, in my life". That's honestly where it would end for me. And maybe that's strange to most folks, but I cannot ever see being able to make small talk with folks outside the technical community. I don't ever want to be "friends" with these folks, as I just don't see there being a common view point for sharing.

I felt a bit like this at NCDevCon as well. It was great just to shake Ray and Ben's hands. I guess the only difference there, is they're far more interactive within the social community. And that again works for me, as that's the best medium for me to communicate.

Color me strange, but just some random thoughts for the end of the day.

NCDevCon, Cast, Crew, TacFUG - You Rock!

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:34:00 -0500

I had a great two days at NCDevCon. I had two goals for myself at this conference. One, was "a funny thing happened on the way to looking for jobs, I ran into a conference". And, cram as much knowledge into my head over a weekend as possible.

On the second point, I'd say mission accomplished. Looking up information on mobile dev online is great, but it's beyond compare when someone else does all this hard slogging for you and packages it up in a fifty minute presentation. It appears that I need to give Air/Flex some serious consideration if I want to do cross platform support.

On the first point, well... I showed up. I'm not really able to socialize with my fellow man. At least, not until they get to know me after a few weeks. It's a shortcoming I've had for as long as I can remember, and it's just life being on the spectrum (Autism, that is). That's why I've been so pleased to partner with Metorsite over the years. They guys that run it are the consumate sales guys, leaving me to do what I know best - the Tech Guy (tm).

It was great to meet Ben Nadel and Ray Camden. As mentioned above, I'm just not much of a socializer, so a handshake and a "thanks" is about as far as my conversations usually go.

I'm pretty CFML engine agnostic anymore, and I realize that Adobe is a major sponsor, but I wonder if Railo has any place for next years NCDevCon? I'll forward that thought on to TacFUG, and I guess we'll see.