CF and the Evolving Web

I've been very busy lately so please excuse the absence of posts. While I'm on the subject of being away, I'll mention that I'm leaving the country to embark on my annual trip to India in 9 days.

Last week I spoke at the MD CFUG - the planned topic was CF Powered Flex and AIR, including a discussion of the changing role of CF on the web today. What ended-up happening was a 45 minute discussion about CF's role in the evolving web with an hour's worth of code and demos crammed into 15 minutes at the end. That said, it was a productive and interesting discussion, which I really enjoyed. I plan to elaborate on the main points of that discussion in a blog entry in the very near future.

Unfortunately, the announcement about the availability of BladeDS had not been made yet when I gave the preso. It would have added a bit of relevant very current events to the talk. For those of you who haven't heard about BladeDS, it's the (currently) beta release by Adobe of a subset of the technology that drives LCDS (formerly Flex Data Services) as an Open Source solution. BladeDS includes the specification for the AMF 3 protocol and a (J2EE) server-side communication piece that supports AMF, messaging (including subscription-based messaging) and using the server as an HTTP Proxy for Flex applications. You can dowload and learn more about BladeDS on the Adobe Labs ste at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/

As many of my readers are aware, I've been learning LISP in my 'free' time. Most recently, I've been spending a decent amount of my time understanding how LISP handles binary data and bit streams. Needless to say, I've never had to work with data at the bit-stream level on any projects (many languages including ColdFusion abstract this for developers). My new understanding for how to manipulate data as bit streams gave me a lot of understanding and appreciation for how AMF works, as I read over the AMF3 technical specification (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/amf/amf3_spec_121207.pdf).

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Simon, where in india are you going for your pilgrimage? Just curious as I am from India as well.
# Posted By Anuj Gakhar | 12/18/07 4:25 AM
This trip, like most of my trips to India, I will be in North India. I spend most of my time in New Delhi and will also be in Ujhani, a small city in the Badaun district in U.P., for 4 or 5 days. My wife's ancestral home on her father's side is there and the family all meets there to ring in the New Year each year. That's where the picture on my blog of me playing Holi was taken earlier this year (http://www.horwith.com/index.cfm/2007/3/4/happy-ho...).
# Posted By Simon Horwith | 12/18/07 9:13 AM
Nice one Simon...I have been to Delhi many many times myself and I come from North india as well.
Enjoy your trip. :)
# Posted By Anuj Gakhar | 12/18/07 9:17 AM
How did your trip go? It is a wonderfull country to visit. the people where very nice when I visited there about 6 years ago.
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# Posted By Drew | 3/4/08 5:06 PM
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