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ColdFusion 9 Beta Hosting Available
Dear Customer, ColdFusion 9 Beta plans are now available!
This latest iteration from Adobe includes many exciting new features and improvements that will make your life easier, including:
Adobe's first ever ColdFusion IDE, ColdFusion® Builder™
Better application performance with more granular control over code, templates, and applications
Language and database enhancements
And much more
After ordering your FREE Beta Plan, please share your thoughts in our CF9 Beta public forums. As one of the first developers to test-drive CF9 in a full-featured hosting environment, we'll be anxious to hear what you like as well as what needs improvement. We're thrilled to be the first host fully backed by Adobe to offer CF9 Beta, and hope you're as eager to experience it as we are to offer it. Please let your colleagues and other industry contacts know - in fact, feel free to tweet it from the virtual rooftops. Simply click the link below, login to your Twitter account, and either use the embedded message or create your own.
**Please note that the beta plan is only available on new site orders made at http://www.crystaltech.com/coldfusion9.aspx. The free beta is not available for existing site upgrades.
Happy Test-Driving! -The CrystalTech Team
New captcha added
Here's the code I added to make it happen. Thanks to Ray Camden's blog about how to do it, or as I call "copy and paste help ;)".
<cffunction name="makeRandomString" returnType="string" output="false">
<cfset var chars = "23456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRS">
<cfset var length = randRange(2,5)>
<cfset var result = "">
<cfset var i = "">
<cfset var char = "">
<cfscript>
for(i=1; i <= length; i++) {
char = mid(chars, randRange(1, len(chars)),1);
result&=char;
}
</cfscript>
<cfreturn result>
</cffunction>
...
<cfif isDefined("form.addcomment")>
<cfif hash(ucase(form.captcha)) neq form.captchaHash>
<cfset errorStr = errorStr & "The text you entered for the image did not match. Please try again.<br />">
</cfif>
</cfif>
...
<cfset captcha = makeRandomString()>
<cfset captchaHash = hash(captcha)>
<cfimage action="captcha" width="155" height="35" text="#captcha#">
<input type="hidden" name="captchaHash" value="#captchaHash#">
The hash stuff is to make sure the spambot doesn't do a simple search for the actual captcha text in the hidden form and use it. In simple terms, you need the actual captcha text in a hidden field for validation on submit but you don't want anything to be able to read it except your script, so you hash it then unhash it.
ColdFusion MX 7 Certified!
Score: 98%
Advanced Certified ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
Flex and Java certs are planned early 2008.
Adobe conferencing and new portal
Adobe Acrobat Connect: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/ - Web conferencing from Adobe, free 15 day trial, $39/month. Unlimited meetings up to 15 ppl. Screen share, phone connect, whiteboard, chat, audio. Flex interface.
ColdFusion 8 (aka Scorpio) upgrade.
CrystalTech, the hosting provider of my web site, has stated that their intermediate plan, the one I have right now, will no longer support MySQL 4 or MSSQL. Only MySQL 5. My database is currently version 4. It's no big deal to move to version 5, but they will have to delete my current database and then I will have to recreate (move) my old data to the new database. I put a backup on my local drive to migrate with but if I put in an entry and miss a backup, I'll lose some data.
Any ways, the rest is jibber jabber. The important thing is that my site is moving to ColdFusion 8 so I can start doing some cooler stuff and making some tutorials and such that actually work. I think I'll start with the new cfimage tag in few days.
For now I'm trying to figure out a way to put those video tutorials I promised on my site. After looking into actually putting them on and the amount of space and such that it would take, I had to find another solution because I could only fit about 40 ten minute videos with my amount of space. I needed more space for the same price. So I'm thinking about just uploading them to Youtube and linking here. The only problem is that I would have full control and what if they changed something or deleted them or something. So I'm thinking still.
Video Tutorials Coming Soon!!!
The technology for screen and audio recording is available, so why not use it, right? Introducing a new tutorial source right here on CFCDeveloper.com. I can get work done and show you some tricks at the same time, how cool would that be!
The "Creating an MVC ColdFusion OOP Application" tutorial I started here in text form will be discontinued in favor for video and audio.
Stay tuned...
Adobe Beta Testing
Is Registerfly.com Stealing My Domain Name?
960 Author Godfrey Road
Suite 402
Miami Beach, FL. 33140
The domain name cfcdeveloper.com was purchased through you, RegisterFly.com, under the agreement that the owner would retain ownership and be able to make changes as needed including the ability to transfer management to another registrar of owners choice. You are in violation of this agreement and are presently commiting fraud against the consumer. Several attempts have been made to contact your office including submitting 2 support tickets and calling several times with no response. The Domain Whois "Modify Contact Information" feature on your site is not operating correctly. An information change request was submitted 2 days ago and you have ignored it. This is a demand that you change the Whois Administrative Contact information for cdcdeveloper.com to the following:
xxxxxxx
You have 24 hours to comply and your local government consumer-protection agencies will be contacted for further action. This includes Miami-Dade County's Consumer Services Department and the Attorney General at the Miami-Dade County Economic Crime Division. As well as The Better Business Bureau and the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network. Please comply ASAP.
Thank you,
xxxxxxx
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Links:
Registerfly.com Sucks - Funny
Registerfly.com Lawsuit
Even a search on Registerfly at Google brings up negative results.
Update (4-12-2007):
Oh happy days! I don't know if it was the constant nagging and emails or the manner in which I asked it, but I got my domain name back now. The final straw was emailing Registerfly every 2 days until they did something. I emailed compliance@registerfly.com. I used the subject "Can't change whois - 4th email attempt", and included account name and domain name. Finally Robert Oniell answered back today that it has been fixed. Then I transfered it to Godaddy.
ATTACK!
Basically they added the following code to my index page at the top:
Be aware.
MM takes over Adobe?!
Originally heard from: www.web-relevant.com
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