Alright guys…… I launched a new web site yesterday. Some of you that are in my contacts list via gmail may have already gotten an invite so if you did then you can disregard this post.

First up thanks to all of you that make this user group possible. Without it I think my skills as a developer would not be where they are today for sure. In an effort to get more exposure in the languages that I develop in and also to allow for opportunities for you guys to teach, learn, and grow in the development community, I have started Coder Resource.

If you are sick of yet another Social Network I totally understand. My goal here is to leverage this site to open more opportunity for the local user groups and individual programmers that have not yet found a local community to be a part of. This may also open opportunities for meeting developers that are willing to come and teach us some new things or in the case of some of you that are really good at what you do….. you may find that other groups or businesses may want you to come and teach them some of your kick ass ninja coding skills !

The site is set up in a way where you can do a couple of things. There is a blogging feature so that you can write a small blurb and link back to your own site if you like or write a full blown article. I don’t really care as long as you 1. benefit from using it and 2. the community comes away with some little bit of info that helps them all. There is also a video feature for posting small clips if you like of something that you figured out. If you have a longer video tutorial I would encourage you to link to your own server if it is a fairly large file.

The other feature of the site that I like is you can set up your own group so if you do join and you don’t see a group for your specific language interest then please start a group. I have already set up a CF, Flex, and PHP group. I know some of you are .NET programmers and I am sure there are some other programming interests out there that I don’t know about.

Again thanks for taking the time and I hope this new site benefits you in some way. Let me know your thoughts and suggestions if you have any at all.

http://coderresource.com

ColdFusion? Isn’t this a Flex Group site? Well I have had a need to learn some CF over the last few days for a Flex project that I may be working on so here goes.

I haven’t enough time to actually learn any CF yet because of the issue with getting CF8 running on my local OS X Leopard machine. After trying just about every suggestion out there on the CF blogs I found one that worked for me. This worked well  on both my PowerMac G5 and my MacBook Pro. Here is a link to my personal blog where I have posted a video on how to set this up. Hope this helps for any of you developers that upgraded to Leopard and need a CF8 development environment.

http://www.flashalisious.com/2007/12/14/installing-coldfusion8-on-leopard-using-mamp/