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CF Online Meetup – VirtualBox for the CF Developer: Results

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Questions about VMs, VirtualBox, Linux, ColdFusion or any combination are welcome at DavidHenry |at| coldfusionpowered.com

A link to the recording:

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p36124700/

Slides

http://blog.coldfusionpowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vbox_for_cf_dev.pdf

Better Answers to Questions I Answered Poorly

Is Xen dead? No, Xen is alive and kickin’

Can you run a VM inside of another VM? To my surprise, yes. VirtualBox seems to allow this but it is extra slow.

What was the problem when you tried to use snapshots? The machine I was presenting from was using an old version of VirtualBox (3.0.12).  The feature I was trying to show was introduced in VirtuaBox 3.1.  Download directly from virtualbox.org to get the latest version for your operating system.  Proper use of snapshots can be found at http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#snapshots.

Magic commands to forward a port from host to guest “MyVM”

DOS/Terminal Commands


VBoxManage setextradata "MyVM" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guesthttp/Protocol" TCP
VBoxManage setextradata "MyVM" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guesthttp/GuestPort" 80
VBoxManage setextradata "MyVM" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guesthttp/HostPort" 8585

–== OR ==–

Edit {vboxhome}/Machines/MyVM/MyVM.xml

“pcnet” is the default network card, “0″ is the first network card

Add this to the <ExtraData></ExtraData> section:

<ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/GuestPort" value="80"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/HostPort" value="8585"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/Protocol" value="TCP"/>

Links

http://www.virtualbox.org/
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.12/UserManual.pdf
http://forthedeveloper.com/2009/coldfusion-virtualbox-and-ubuntu/

http://blog.zoobiesoft.com/index.cfm/2009/10/22/

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias
Making the cfide directory map correctly in Apache2.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusionBuilder/Using/WS0ef8c004658c1089-38317734121cdfd5fd3-7fff.html#WS0ef8c004658c1089-38317734121cdfd5fd3-7ffe
ColdFusion Builder RDS setup instructions.

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David Henry Presenting VirtualBox for Online ColdFusion Meetup

Monday, January 11th, 2010

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This Thursday night (1/14/2010) I am giving a presentation on the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group at 6pm.  I am very excited about this!  I’ll be presenting on Virtualbox for the CF Developer, showing how virtual computing can enhance your web development efforts.

I’ve been watching the CF Meetup since early 2007 when it was brought back by Charlie Arehart.  Hundreds of speakers including most of my personal CF heros have given presontations on various CF-Related topics through the group.  I am very proud to be joining this list of presenters.

Wish me luck!  Hope I see you there.

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FREE Conference – ColdFusion, Flex AIR – in North Carolina!

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The organizers of the CFinNC 2009 Conference are proud to announce the ColdFusion in North Carolina 2009 Conference to be held October 17-18, 2009 on the Centennial Campus of NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The conference will be aimed at ColdFusion and Flex developers and others who are interested in web design using these technologies.

Registration for the event will be FREE which includes entry to the weekend event and all presentations.

In preparation for this conference, we would like to hear feedback from you and your members on what types of content you would be interested in hearing. We hope to make this conference relative to all levels of developers, so your input will be invaluable.

Please visit our website www.cfinnc.com for more information. We are currently accepting submissions for presentations. If you have a topic you would like to speak on, please go to www.cfinnc.com/page.cfm/presenters for more information.

Please announce this to your members. We are really excited at the opportunity to organize this conference and hope that it will be a useful resource for you and your members.

Sincerely,

The CFinNC 2009 team

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TACFUG is on the Upcoming Flex/Flash Catalyst and Coldfusion/Bolt Tour!

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

TACFUG in Raleigh, NC (my beloved local CF user group) has been selected to be a stop on the upcoming Adobe Flex/Flash Catalyst and Coldfusion/Bolt tour!  AKA ‘Gumbo’ and ‘Centaur’ as I understand.  We’ve been politely told by Adobe *NOT* to refer to specific version numbers when talking about this event.  I suppose that is just in case they decide to change the versions to Flex 5/ColdFusion 10 at the last moment.

Tour Event: Adobe Flex/Flash Catalyst and Coldfusion/Bolt tour
Date and Time: June 16, 2009 from 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Address: Rail Inc7001 Weston Pkwy Cary, NC 27513
Speakers: Adam Lehman

If you don’t already have a Adobe Groups account you will need to create one before you can RSVP:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm

While you are signing up – join the TACFUG Adobe Groups site:
http://groups.adobe.com/groups/911243f4d1/summary

PLEASE RSVP for the Adobe User Group event – we expect this to be a HUGE crowd and need to get an accurate count:
http://groups.adobe.com/posts/398525e60f

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