For the third year in a row we'll be having a Birds of a Feather session on board and card games. Board games have had a recent resurgence thanks to shows like TableTop on the Geek and Sundry network and thanks the game designers that are bringing us fantastic new games almost constantly. Kickstarter, I think has also been a huge helper in bringing new table-top games to the market.

I love board games. They are a great way to have fun and make new friends. EVERYONE is welcome at this BoF. I will be bringing games to share, you are welcome to bring your own as well. I love teaching new games, so if there is something you would like to try, let me know. I plan on staying late, so if I am involved in a game when you arrive, please try me again later or feel free to grab a game and sit down to start looking at the rules.

There will be games for everyone. Some simple, some not. I have games that can be taught in 3 minutes and games that can take hours to play and a lifetime to master. I love them all and want to share that with you.

So please, don't be shy. Come join us on. We will be in whatever the biggest session room is. I believe it will be the same room the keynote is in. Stop in and be social, find a group and grab a game.

Here is what I plan to bring:

• Roll Through the Ages
• Pandemic (TableTop Episode)
• Castle Panic (TableTop Episode)
• Dominion
• Illuminati
• Munchkin (TableTop Episode)
• Zombies!!!
• Risk - Vintage
• Trivial Pursuit - Millenium Edition
• Carcassone
• Android: Netrunner
• Fluxx (TableTop Episode)
• Flash Point: Fire Rescue
• Infiltration
• Race For the Galaxy

I encourage others to bring their favorite games. This BoF is scheduled to run pretty much as late as we want to go. This year I believe the room is being reserved until the wee hours of the morning. So even though on the BoF schedule this BoF is only listed for 2 hour, it will actually run for 5+ hours. Awesome.

Since I cannot, obviously, spend the whole session teaching people to play all of these games, I would LOVE to get some volunteers who know these games or are willing to learn them to sign up to "host" a game. One or two hosts per game would be great. Also, feel free to offer to host your own game of whatever you like.

We'll be in the big room so we can have several games going at once and not bump into each other too much.

Please feel free to add a comment to volunteer to host a game and to add the game you want to bring.

Note: I will also be bringing some very simple pick-up games that take a short time to learn and I'll bring a normal decks of cards. So even if you can't stay the whole time or want to play something simple, please stop in.

These will include:

• Catherdral (two-player)
• Normal cards (Spades, Hearts, Cribbage, etc)
• Spite and Malice
• Zombie Dice (TableTop Episode)
• Yahtzee
• Spot It

Last year this was so much fun. Please come join us either right away or after the other BoF sessions. Drop in any time, grab a game and have a blast.

Again this year it seems like no one has an interest in suggesting the Birds of a Feather sessions or proposing Lightning Talks at cf.Objective().

These things are two of my favorite parts of cf.O(). Perhaps you guys are just lazy sacks who can't be troubled to spend a few minutes going to the Engage app to submit ideas or even to vote on your favorite ideas. Or perhaps you don't understand what these are and why you might want to do it.

Birds of a Feather Sessions

A BoF session is NOT another presentation. It is a group of people with a common interest that get together to discuss that interest. It might involve demonstration, group discussions, small group breakout sessions, or any number of other things. It can be an opportunity for someone who is new to a subject to sit down with others who are more experienced to ask questions and seek advice. It could also be an opportunity to socialize instead of sitting in your room watching pay-per-view after the conference.

So far this year, very few BoF ideas have been suggested. I have suggested a couple, one technical and one social. And I have voted on those others that I would like to see at the conference (whether or not I think I would be able to attend the BoF). Now it is time for you to do your part. What BoFs would you like to see at cf.O()? Make suggestions or vote for those you would like to see.

Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks are fun. They can be about any subject, and they can give you the opportunity to speak at a conference like cf.Objective() (For about 6 minutes). If you would like to try your hand public speaking and have some fun doing it, submit a proposal.

Lightning Talks are a simple idea. You get 20 slides for 20 seconds each. They auto-advance. So it is important to have your timing down. That's it. They can be on any subject you like. I have seen fantastic presentations on:

• Relationships
• Leadership
• The history of Volkswagen air-cooled engines
• Technology Projects at the Free Library of Philadelphia
• International Adoption
• Software Development
• And more

You can do your presentation on whatever you like. Be it Technology, hobby, activist, or whatever.

So get on that. Fame and fortune will follow (probably not).

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a LOOONG time. I have fond memories of logging into IRC (for embarrassing amounts of time) when I first logged onto the internet in 1995. I have been using IRC ever since.

The are many server choices on IRC, but the one I keep finding myself coming back to is Freenode.

"freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities, for not-for-profit organizations and for related communities and organizations."

Seems like a perfect place for a Mura channel.

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Intro

I upgraded some of my Macs to Lion and Mt. Lion over the last week and had problems when trying to Install ColdFusion 9.0.2. When trying to connect CF to Apache (during the install) no errors were reported, but the connection did not work.

The Problem

At first the problem was that when trying to browse to /CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm the browser would prompt me to download index.cfm instead of rendering it. This got me looking at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. There I saw that the JRun settings had not been added. They look something like this:

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Every once-in-a-while I still see/hear people perpetuating the false statement that in ColdFusion you cannot put CFCOOKIE and CFLOCATION on the same page because the cookie will not get set due to the relocation. I even saw one today.

This is FALSE

A long, long, long, long time ago, this was true. But for the last 10 YEARS it has not been. This behavior was changed in CF6 (2002, I think).

So all you old-timers who are still spreading this falsity, knock it off.

Thanks,

Jason

Reference: CFWACK 7 Page 1008

The Birds of a Feather sessions for cf.Objective() were just announced, and my suggestion was accepted. So we'll be having a BoF session on board and card games. We did this last year and it was such a big hit that we're doing it again.

I will be bringing a bunch of games you're welcome to bring some too.

Here is what I plan to bring:

• Roll Through the Ages
• Pandemic
• Dominion
• Illuminati
• Munchkin
• Zombies!!!
• Risk - Vintage
• Trivial Pursuit - Millenium Edition
• Dungeons and Dragons

I encourage others to bring their favorite games. Unlike last year, this BoF is scheduled to run pretty much as late as we want to go. Last year we could only schedule two hours (we ended up going for four). This year I believe the room is being reserved until the wee hours of the morning. So even though on the BoF schedule this BoF is only listed for 1 hour, it will actually run for 5+ hours. Awesome.

Since I cannot, obviously, spend the whole session teaching people to play all of these games, I would LOVE to get some volunteers who know these games or are willing to learn them to sign up to "host" a game. One or two hosts per game would be great. Also, feel free to offer to host your own game of whatever you like.

We'll be in the big room so we can have several games going at once and not bump into each other too much. Last year I think we had at least 5 games going in different areas of the room with no problem. We likely had room for more.

Please feel free to add a comment to volunteer to host a game and to add the game you want to bring.

Note: I will also be brining some very simple pick-up games that take a short time to learn and I'll bring a normal decks of cards. So even if you can't stay the whole time or want to play something simple, please stop in.

These will include:

• Catherdral (two-player)
• Normal cards (Spades, Hearts, Cribbage, etc)
• Spite and Malice
• Zombie Dice
• Yahtzee

Last year this was so much fun. Please come join us either right away or after the other BoF sessions. Drop in any time, grab a game and have a blast.

So it seems like no one has an interest in the Birds of a Feather sessions or Lightning Talks at cf.Objective. Why the hell not?

This two things are two of my favorite parts of cf.O(). Perhaps you guys are just lazy sacks who can be troubled to spend a few minutes going to the Engage app to submit ideas or even to vote on your favorite ideas. Or perhaps you don't understand what these are and why you might want to do it.

Birds of a Feather Sessions

A BoF session is NOT another presentation. It is a group of people with a common interest that get together to discuss it. It might involve demonstration, group discussions, small group breakout sessions, or any number of other things. It can be an opportunity for someone who is new to a subject to sit down with others who are more experience to ask questions and seek advice. It could also be an opportunity to socialize instead of sitting in your room watching pay-per-view after the conference.

So far this year, very few BoF ideas have been suggested. I have suggested a couple, one technical and one social. And I have voted on those others that I would like to see at the conference (whether or not I think I would be able to attend the BoF). Now it is time for you to do your part. What BoFs would you like to see at cf.O()? Make suggestions or vote for those you would like to see.

Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks are fun. They can be about any subject, and they can give you the opportunity to speak at a conference like cf.Objective() (For about 6 minutes). If you would like to try your hand public speaking and have some fun doing it, submit a proposal.

Lightning Talks are a simple idea. You get 20 slides for 20 seconds each. They auto-advance. So it is important to have your timing down. That's it. They can be on any subject you like. I have seen fantastic presentations on:

• Relationships
• Leadership
• The history of Volkswagen air-cooled engines
• Technology Projects at the Free Library of Philadelphia
• International Adoption
• And more

You can do your presentation on whatever you like. Be it Technology, hobby, activist, or whatever.

So get on that. Fame and fortune will follow.

This is a blog post I have been contemplating for a long time, and I want to make sure I pick my words carefully so as not to send the wrong message.

I am currently an Adobe Community Professional and have been involved in the ColdFusion community for some time. I have been seen by my peers as an Adobe Fanboy, and, for the most part, I have been OK with that. I still like Adobe, I still support Adobe, and I actively use Adobe ColdFusion. But the part I need to get off my chest is that I am NOT against the Open Source CFML alternatives (specifically Railo and OpenBD). In fact, I believe that Railo and OpenBD, along with other open source projects like Mura CMS, ColdBox and ContentBox, FarCry, Slatwall, Razuna, and many others are vitally important to CFML's future.

Let's face it. ColdFusion and CFML do not have a great reputation. It's unfortunate that so many ignorant assholes spout off about ColdFusion because they once had a bad experience, or because they used it 10 years ago and assume that nothing has changed but them. But however you slice it, ColdFusion is looked down upon by much of the rest of the web development world. I believe that much of the disdain over Adobe ColdFusion is because it is a commercial, proprietary, closed-source system. I also believe that much of the reason our current community is becoming divided is for that same reason.

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So I have been working with Mura CMS a lot lately and I have also migrated all of my projects to Git. But I find myself in a situation that I don't really like. I have an idea of how I might fix it, but I am not expert enough in Mura or Git to know if this is a good idea or if I will find myself in a tough position with it in the future.

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Here is a handy tidbit that I came across while I was switching some of my projects from SVN to Git.

While in the project's root folder, when you run this it will delete any .svn folders that it finds in the project folder and any of its subfolders. This made removing the SVN version control quite simple without having to run an SVN export on every project and make copies of all of them.

Mostly I am blogging this so that I have it for my own reference, but I thought others might find it useful too.

I am no expert on bash command line scripts, so I won't pretend to understand exactly what is going on here, but it seems obvious that this script will do a find on the current folder and its subfolders for any folder/file named '.svn' and run 'rm -rf' on if. The -rf attributes tell the rm command to recursively force-delete any folders and its children. This is needed since .svn matches we'll be finding are directories.

Be careful when running this, it will NOT ask you if you are sure. Of course, this will work with other files and folders as well. Like if you want to delete all of those .DS_Store files that OS X likes to stick everywhere.

Since .DS_Store files are not directories, the -rf options are not needed.