CF Developer needed in Philadelphia, PA

Thomas Jefferson University^* is currently looking for an Intermediate to Advanced level ColdFusion developer with strong design and layout skills. Flash/Flex skills and knowledge of Contribute a plus.

We are a small team that maintains TJU's internet and intranet web presence. In addition we do small to medium sized ColdFusion applications for various departments. For many of our projects we utilize Model-Glue. We provide complete service from design to database work. We are currently in the middle of a re-branding effort, our new look can be seen on our Electronic Medical Records site.

^*Note: Our employment page is due to be upgraded in the very near future. As such I'm providing a basic link that will be valid before and after the upgrade.

Labels: Actionscript, Adobe, ColdFusion, Contribute, Contribute Publishing Services, Dreamweaver, Flex, Object Oriented Programming

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Odd LDAP Calls from Contribute Publishing Services

We've recently updated our LDAP and noticed a slowdown on authenticating through Contribute Publishing services. Upon looking into the issue, we determined that Contribute Publishing Server was sending what to us appears to be a malformed LDAP filter. Before I call Adobe support, I thought I'd check to see if anybody else has encountered this issues. Our setup looks something like this. (I've changed the actual data for security reasons.)

Our user search tab has CN, Mail and UID Defined along with a basic filter. (!(status=I)) Our Group tab is blank as our LDAP does not contain groups. With this setup, when attempting to authenticate user lm1000, CPS send the following filter to the LDAP.

(&(!(status=I))(|(uid=lm1000)(=lm1000)))

When I run this filter in an LDAP browser I see the same slow behavior, however when I remove (=lm1000) the LDAP responds immediately. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Am I not configuring something properly, because to the best of my knoledge, an LDAP filter must contain an attribute name to look for a value in.

Update: It turns out that adding the UID field in the group tab resolves this issue.

Labels: Adobe, Contribute, Contribute Publishing Services, LDAP

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Future ColdFusion Features

During the recent Adobe Developer Week, I somehow found myself in a private session showing off some high end features that are being worked on for ColdFusion 9. Now, I'm sure that those invited all agreed not to disclose any information that was being presented, but since I ended up there uninvited, I thought I'd share what I saw. They began the session by explaining that what with all of the great new features released in ColdFusion 7 & 8, ColdFusion is in danger of losing one of it's sets of core users. They call this group the Common Laymen and Office Dwellers or CLODs for short. In order to address the concerns of their CLOD constituency that ColdFusion is getting too complex, they've decided to add a new tag.

<cfsite type="brewpub" skin="blue" name="Nodding Head" location="Philadelphia, PA" />

That simple tag produced the following site...

From what I can tell, the tag does a yellow pages search on the name and location to find specific address, phone and hours, then goes out and finds appropriate graphics, before finally generating the site. My assumption is that the site is then cached somewhere, since I would assume that those searches would run a bit slow under load.

I for one am very exited about the efforts Adobe is going to in order to make the life of the average CLOD better. Oh, and if anyone asks, you didn't hear this from me.

Labels: Adobe, ColdFusion, Humor

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