I just released another new feature on CFBlogs.com today.
If you have an event coming up related to ColdFusion, Web Development, or Adobe products in general, you can now post them on CFBlogs.com in the new section called “events” here.
Aside from being FREE, you can search against it as well as grab the RSS feed either in it’s entirety or filter it by keyword so you only get events that you are interested in.
I just added CFUnited, please consider adding any others.
I created CFBlogs.com back in Jan, 2006. It’s a fun little site to use. Every few minutes it pulls all ColdFusion-related jobs and blogs into a local database which then allows you to keyword search against them.
Up until now, I haven’t made a lot of changes or enhancements. Now, since I migrated to CF 8, I thought I’d play around a bit with CFFEED as well as make a few other enhancements.
For example, you can more easily email your blog or job feeds (see credits) and I’ll add them to the list after a quick vetting process :). You can also now keyword search against all blogs or jobs and then subscribe to that filtered feed… Wooohooo! The site also has a simple, cleaner look.
I realize cfbloggers.org has since been released by Ray Camden but just like with McDonalds and Burger King, I visit both often for different reasons 
Send me your blog feed today!
So I went to cfblogs.com for my daily fix of cfbloggers that I like to read. While I was there, I thought it might be nice to also see ColdFusion-related events. Something like event title, event description, intended audience, dates, contact information, website and geographic location. I’ll have to noodle on that and search to see if there are any adobe or user group offered or other RSS feeds for events. I could also consider adding the ability to post this information if I can’t find anything. I just can’t stand spammers and would want to make sure it doesn’t end up being yet another place I have to battle those automated server farms against spam.
Having written CFBlogs.com a while ago as a pet project, I still find myself going here first when I have a ColdFusion-related question. I also like to see what all the other CF folks are up once a week or so.
I started wondering if maybe you all have suggestions for other features. I was thinking about providing the ability for you to add feeds directly. Maybe have me vet them before indexing them. Also maybe allow you to set up an account and add your own feeds directly without vetting since you would be the only one who sees them. The benefit might be that user-contributed feeds would help to grow the index in a much quicker way than me adding them manually. Also, offering my own RSS feed for the entire aggregated list might be helpful for you all?
What features would you like to see if any?
Just the other day my client wanted to have the ability to sort a
column of data. I could have spent some time writing some custom
server-side code using ColdFusion but I figured someone else probably
had a solution I could use.Sure enough, You can include a simple javascript file called http://www.cfblogs.com/vincecollins/TableSort/sorttable.js
and then just insert the class in the table tag.
<table class=”sortable” id=”unique_id”>
I tried it on a table of data from my cfblogs.com site here:
http://www.cfblogs.com/vincecollins/TableSort
Pretty cool eh?
You can ad fancy sorting icons and more by visiting Stuart’s site here:
Vince Collins
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