Matt Gifford AKA ColdFuMonkeh

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Rhea: ColdFusion Rackspace Cloud API CFC

03.10.10 Posted in ColdFusion, Projects by Matt

Another day, another open-source ColdFusion API released to the community
Fuzzy Orange are pleased to announce the release of our first open-source project.
Codenamed Rhea, after the Greek mythologicial figure and mother of Gods and Godesses, the project has been a labour of love for the last few weeks, and one that I’ve certainly enjoyed [...]

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Bit.ly URL Shortening Service ColdFusion API

03.10.10 Posted in ColdFusion by Matt

Shrink it, expand it, explore it, understand it… there are a few things you can do with a URL if you use the bit.ly URL service.
To make things a little easier for ColdFusion developers and URL-shrinking fans alike, I’ve built a ColdFusion CFC wrapper to interact with the bit.ly service API. Your URL shortening concerns [...]

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TwitPic API ColdFusion Wrapper

03.08.10 Posted in ColdFusion by Matt

Having developed the monkehTweets Twitter ColdFusion Wrapper, I wanted to carry on working with the Twitter ‘market’ and decided to build a quick little CFC wrapper to interact with the TwitPic API.
This CFC wrapper will easily allow developers to integrate the upload functionality into any projects, and will enable users to upload an image [...]

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SOTR 2010 Wordpress Plugin

02.21.10 Posted in Development, Events by Matt

The badgers are on the march again, and the 2010 Scotch on the Rocks conference will be with us very soon.
To celebrate and to promote the event, I have developed a Wordpress widget plugin for any WP blog users out there.
The plugin allows the user to select which SOTR10 badge they wish to display on [...]

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ColdFusion 9 Cumulative Hot Fix 1

02.20.10 Posted in ColdFusion by Matt

Adobe have released a Cumulative Hot Fix for ColdFusion 9, and it is recommended to all users that the hot fix is applied if they have experienced any of the following issues:

Fix for the NullPointerException error thrown when deploying a car file from Coldfusion 7 containing datasources to Coldfusion 9
Fix for the issue where Coldfusion [...]