Last Updated: 06/17/2011 02:17:00 PM

Who am I?

I am Vice President of IDMI, a software development group of companies that specialize in Internet technologies for the Insurance and Credit card processing industries.  ColdFusion, MS SQL developer since 1998. Located in Central Georgia, USA, we have 80+ developers and are continually growing.  I am a ColdFusion fanboy, Dr Who nut, DJ Music afficiando and avid beer brewer.

Email: timcunningham71@gmail.com

 

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Recent News

February 1, 2012
Bolt Talk: Open CF Summit with Kurt Wiersma
Bolt Talk: Open CF Summit with Kurt Wiersma

Kurt Wiersma joins me on Bolt Talks to explain the mission and purpose of the Open CF Summit.  All users of ColdFusion regardless if they use Adobe ColdFusion, Railo or OpenBD CFML engines can benefit from attending the Open CF Summit.  He also explains the "open space unconference" style of the conference as well as the HackFest that will take place.

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Tags: ColdFusion, Conference, Open Source, Kurt Wiersma, Open CF Summmit
January 27, 2012
Bolt Talk: Mike Henke - Cloudy with a chance of tests.
Bolt Talk: Mike Henke - Cloudy with a chance of tests.

Mike Henke talks about trying to introduce continuous integration and unit testing into his legacy code. Taking a "baby steps" approach he tells how he sets up a continuous integration environment, to test code changes even without unit testing.

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Tags: CI, Unit testing, Jenkins, ColdFusion, Henke, legacy code, continuous integration, source control, GIT
January 13, 2012
Bolt Talk: Luis Majano - ContentBox an Enterprise level content management system.
Bolt Talk: Luis Majano - ContentBox an Enterprise level content management system.

 Luis Majano is the founder of Ortus Solutions an Open Source Software company that is responisble for the ColdBox Framework, Wirebox, Forgebox & all things "Box." Their latest offering is an Enterprise level content management system, not surprisingly named: "ContentBox."  Luis joins me on BoltTalks to chat with me about ContentBox. 

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Tags: CMS, ColdFusion, Open Source, ColdBox
January 6, 2012
Bolt Talk:The Future of BlogCFC with Scott Stroz
Bolt Talk:The Future of BlogCFC with Scott Stroz

 BlogCFC is the most widely know opensource blogging software written to run on ColdFusion.  The brain child of Ray "ColdFusion Jedi" Camden, BlogCFC has had some recent news regarding it's future.  Scott Stroz aka Boyzoid joins me on Bolt Talks to talk to me about these exciting changes.

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Tags: Blog, CMS, Open Source, ColdFusion
December 8, 2011
Bolt Talk:Getting Involved in the Community, Why? with Michael Seid
Bolt Talk:Getting Involved in the Community, Why? with Michael Seid
Tags: Community
December 7, 2011
How to use showerror with cfabort in CFScript
How to use showerror with cfabort in CFScript

With CFabort you display a custom error message when the page aborts this way: <cfabort showerror="My Fail Whale message"> But how do you do it in cfscript?

 

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November 10, 2011
BoltTalks LIVE!: 1 hour long Fishbowl panel at Adobe Max
Bolt Talks LIVE!: 1 hour long Fishbowl panel at Adobe Max

Recording of the incredibly fun and enlightening Bolt  Talk Live: Fishbowl edition. It was held at the Adobe Max ColdFusion Unconference. Ben Forta was kind enough to join us. A fishbowl is an open discussion format that encouraged the audience to be on the panel. Topic: Best Practices of a Modern ColdFusion Developer.

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November 9, 2011
Bolt Talk: ColdFusion Koans with Ryan Anklam
Bolt Talk:ColdFusion Koans with Ryan Anklam

The ColdFusion Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn ColdFusion. The goal is to learn the ColdFusion language, syntax, and structure. It will also teach you culture. Testing is not just something to pay lip service to, but something to live. It is essential in your quest to learn and do great things in the language. 

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Tags: ColdFusion, Koans, Unit Testing
October 12, 2011
Why you should drink the Github Kool-Aid
Why you should drink the Github Kool-Aid

 

At Adobe Max 2011, Scott Stroz & Dave Ferguson asked to have me on their show CFHour, to speak about GitHub.  Scott said that while he loves Git specifically, he hasn't drank the Kool-Aid on why GitHub is the best thing since a Vulcan Jedi  Ninja.  I am not sure why they asked me to be the person to speak on the topic.  I don’t proclaim to be a Git or GitHub expert.  I am a vocal advocate about the two, so maybe that is enough.

Below I list the reasons why I think GitHub is the mutt’s nuts.  What would you add? What would change?

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September 29, 2011
I need you as a panelist at my Max UnConference presentation!
I need you as a panelist at my Max UnConference presentation!

A ColdFusion Unconference Event -- and you are welcome to be a panelist!  The topic is "best practices of a Modern ColdFusion Developer"  You do not need to be an expert. You just need an opinion.  I am sure you have one of those!

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Tags: AdobeMax, Fishbowl, Elliott Sprehn, Ben Forta, Matt Gifford, CodeBassRadio