Boyzoid's Blog & Stuff

The planning of CFUnited 09 is well under way.  The folks at Stellr have put together a short survey for attendees (and perspective attendees) to be able to vote on what topics they would like to see covered at the conference this year.

So, if you are planning on attending the conference, go on over and take the survey.  It should take no more than a few minutes...go ahead..I'll wait.

Oh...one thing before you go...I hear that Stroz guy is an excellent speaker ;)

I have been fighting an issue with ImageGetBlob().  I am trying to run some very simple code:

<cfimage action="read" name="img" source="#expandPath("zoid.jpg")#"  />
<cfset moo = ImageGetBlob(img) >

When I run this on my dev macine, which is running Mac OS X with ColdFusion 8 installed as 'multi-server', I get a JRun 500 error, the first few lines of which are:

ROOT CAUSE:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
at coldfusion.image.Image.getImageBytes(Image.java:519)
at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.ImageGetBLOB(CFPage.java:5642)

There have been 2 other people who are running ColdFusion under similar operating system/server install configurations that get the same error.  I have also asked someone running ColdFusion 8 as a 'stand alone' on a Mac and the code works as expected.  The code also works as expected on Windows XP running ColdFusion 8 as a 'multi-server install.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  If you are running ColdFusion on a Mac, either as a 'stand alone' or 'multi-server', would you mind giving the code above a try (obviously changing the image path) and reply back to say if you were successful or not and what your set up is?

Thanx in advance!

Scotch on the Rocks wrapped up today and I must say Fuzzy Orange did a fantastic  did a fantastic job.  I highly recommend this conference next year to anyone in Europe (or even the US).

Alos, we started the golf part of our vacation.  My dad, brother and uncle arrived around 1:30 PM and we headed out to St Andrews.  We were not able to get on the Old Course, but we did get a tee time at the New Course.  Just playing golf there was amazing...and seeing parts of the Old Course was astounding.  We still have 2 more chances to get on the Old Course.

Time for dinner...pictures to come later.

I am sitting in Newark Airport waitng to board my flight to Edinburgh.  It only took about 6 hours to get here from Dulles.  That means I could have driven to NJ from home to catch this flight, and my wife would just about be home again.

Let's hope the rest of the trip in uneventful.

I am currently sitting in Dulles airport waiting for my delayed flight (about 30 mins late) to start my trip to Scotch on the Rocks.  I am really looking forward to this conferecne as I have heard such wonderful things about it.

Oh, and I am looking forward to gofl as well. ;)

As I mentoined here, when going over to Scotland for Scotch on the Rocks and then a little vacation, we where hoping to get a tee time at Turnberry.  We got confirmation the other day that we did indeed secure a tee time.

This means we are playing 2 courses in the Open Championship (British Open) rotation, and according to Golf Magazine, we are playing 3 of the top 100 courses in the world.  We are planning to try and get on the Old Course as well, so those numbers may change.

Also, I found out a while back that Carnoustie has a web cam on the first tee so that anyone interested can watch me emabarass myself.  You can check out the web cam here. Our tee time is at 3:20 PM GMT, which makes it 10:20 AM EDT on June 8th.

T-minus 4 days and counting....

Edited to enter the date we are playing Carnoustie.

Recently, my wife's desktop was acting up and for about 2 days I was unable to play music while I was working.  I forgot how difficult it is for me to code in silence (or near silence).  This got me thinking, when I need to focus and just crank out code, there is a certain album I listen to, James Taylor LIve (CD1 and CD2). For some reason, that album always puts me in the zone and I can code like a madman.

So, when you need to be heads down, and crank out code like its no body's business, what do you listen to?

As I mentioned here, I am kind of organizing a trip to see Iron Man during CF.Objective(). I also set up a tee time at the Unniversity of Minnesota - Les Bolstad Golf Course for myself, Dan Wilson, Phill Nacelli and Scott Pinkston.  We are playing at 3:00 PM on Thursday May 1st.  If anyone else would like to join us on the links, just drop a comment below and call to make a tee time.

CF.Objective() starts in a few weeks on May 1. Coincidentally Iron Man is being released the following day. If you would be interested in seeing the movie with some of your favorite (or maybe not so favorite) ColdFusion geeks, leave a comment here, and be sure to subscribe.  I will post details of when and where we will be going to see the movie.