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Don't miss the CF8 version of the "getting started experience"

Note: This blog post is from 2007. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.

If you hadn't yet noticed, the CF 8 version of the "Getting Started Experience" site is now available on the Adobe site:

http://examples.adobe.com/cf8gettingstarted/experience/index_content.cfm

For many, the best feature in the GSE is the "Code Snippets by Feature and Tasks", which offers sample code (often also available as a live running example). In particular, note the section on "what's new in coldfusion 8", with examples for all the new tags and functions. Many of these are quite different from what's offered in the CF8 docs, both the "CFML Reference" and the "Developer's Guide".

Note that while you can click on the appropriate link in the page above to get to it, you can also link directly to:

http://examples.adobe.com/cf8gettingstarted/experience/snippets.cfm

It doesn't appear too much else in the GSE (getting started experience), such as the "Real World Apps", has been modified for CF8 (other than wording to refer to CF8 vs CF7). Maybe that will change in time. If anyone knows or finds differently, please comment here.

Also, you may notice that this CF8 GSE was not installed locally on your machine with the CF 8 install (as it was in CF7, under CFIDE\gettingstarted). I'm asking around about that at Adobe to see if we can get it to download. You can now download it, and extract it into your webroot. Check out the readme.txt that comes with it.

If you're a fan of the free LogParser tool, check out the new forums

Note: This blog post is from 2007. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
I've written previously about the great, free Log Parser tool from Microsoft. It can do some incredible things, and I plan to write more about it in time.

Still, one thing I mention in that article is that there was a logparser.com site. Sadly, that got assimilated into the collective...I mean...um...was removed as an independent site and now instead points to a page about it and other tools within Microsoft. Many of us who were fans of that site wonder where everything's gone.

Well, at least the forums are now available again. They are at http://forums.iis.net/default.aspx?GroupID=51. Looks like it happened just last week, and there are no new postings as of today (the "last posts" all have 8/21 at 2am as their timestamp but they're really from June). Again, it's nice that the old notes were propagated.

Now we're waiting to see where all the scripts and articles end up. For those really interested in this, you may want to follow a thread I'm involved in at the IIS.NET forums with an MS rep who seems to be helping keep us updated.

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