I just saw where the Connecticut ColdFusion User Group has their next meeting coming up on Monday and I wanted to comment on the topic of that meeting, Integrating ColdFusion and BlazeDS, which will be presented by Aaron West. I have been fortunate enough to see this presentation by Aaron in person, and let me tell you, you do not want to miss it! Even if you currently have no need for BlazeDS/CF integration, you will want to see this presentation. Aaron does an excellent job of showing just how dead simple this processes is, and it really got the gears in my head turning.

Trust me, when his presentation is over you'll be thinking about all of the cool little apps you can build with this stuff.

As of today my blog is 1 year old. When I first set this thing up I didn't have a clue what I would talk about, and I still don't. But, 58 useless entries later I'm still hanging on. That averages to a little over 1 entry per week (even though I would sometimes go a month or more between entries), so I guess that's pretty good.

I've posted my current stats below if anyone is interested. I think it's pretty obvious what the top viewed post was (by a landslide!). I blame the spam-bots.

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This is really just a re-post of John Nunemaker's blog post on DZone.

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I received an email today from the Project Honey Pot Team announcing their latest milestone: Project Honey Pot received its 1 billionth spam message. I use Project Honey Pot, along with Akismet, for comment Spam on this blog and it works great! If you're not using these guys, you should be.

They have published some Spam statistics based off of five years worth of data. Some of the highlights include:

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I finally figured out what was causing my code formatting problem in BlogCFC.

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I'm not sure if this is a BlogCFC problem, a Railo problem, or maybe even a ColdFish problem, but none of my blog posts seem to retain any of the formatting in my code examples. Whenever I click "Preview" or "Save" on a new blog entry, all code formatting (indentions, tabs, spacing, etc.) is lost and every line is left aligned. It seems to remove all whitespace except for line breaks.

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We ran into this bug last week and it caused us enough headache that I decided to make a quick blog post about it. It seemed pretty bizarre at first, but after figuring out what was going on, I can definitely understand why it's happening, although I do consider it a bug in IE 8.

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Today is my last day of employment at Dealerskins, and Monday I will start a new job. I jokingly told everyone at Dealerskins that I as going be working at the Skynet Division of Cyberdyne Systems. While ushering in the total destruction of mankind may have its appeal to some, the truth is I'm going to work at Vanderbilt University. I'm very excited about this move and I'm definitely looking forward to it. But this decision did not come lightly as the group here at Dealerskins is top notch, and I have made quite a few friends here. However, the opportunity from Vanderbilt was one that was too good to pass up.

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Several months ago I decided that I wanted to learn a CF framework and use it for an application I was working on. Not for any particular reason other than I've always heard a lot about the various frameworks and decided it was time to learn one.

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This is just a test post to make sure I've got everything working correctly. Not only have I given my blog a fresh new look, but I've also upgraded to the latest version of BlogCFC. Now that I've got a new look for my blog, maybe it will encourage me to start blogging more.