Kay Smoljak

Kay is an all-round web developer who has been hacking ColdFusion since 2000. She runs Clever Starfish with her partner Dave and several very demanding cats, and sits on the committee of the Australian Web Industry Association.

Kay Smoljak

Tired of the same old URL shorteners like TinyURL, tr.im or bit.ly? Ever wished you could run your very own URL shortener? In ColdFusion, it's probably easier than you think.Read More
The recent WebDU conference in Sydney, Australia, kept developers working with Flash, Flex, AIR and ColdFusion educated, entertained, and well caffeinated. Read Kay's summary of the second and final... Read More
With 46 sessions over two days, the recent WebDU conference delivered the goods for developers working with Flash, Flex, AIR and ColdFusion. Kay penned a few thoughts after the first day.Read More
While SitePoint's live reports from this year's WebDU conference will no doubt be sterling, wouldn't it be even better to be at the conference yourself? Kay shares with us a couple of ways that... Read More
 
CF9 the shirt, that is. If you’re eagerly anticipating ColdFusion 9 – codenamed Centaur – you can now get the unofficial tshirt. As well as looking after your fashion woes, Kay wraps up the... Read More
This week was strangely quiet. Nothing much on the frameworks front; Open BlueDragon and Railo kept to themselves. Hmmm, looks like everyone is heads down coding… let’s see what they’ve got... Read More
Isaac Dealey is the author of two ColdFusion frameworks: onTap and an object relational mapper called DataFaucet. SitePoint recently had the privilege of sitting down with him for a discussion about... Read More
So… did ya miss me? I had an awesome holiday, and have come back to an overflowing feed reader. Although I may touch on some of the big things that happened while I was away, I’m going to... Read More
 
In the last few weeks, the number of code-related blog posts in the ‘ole CFBlogosphere has skyrocketed – which is just the way I like it. This week I found lots of good material on writing object... Read More
Last week there were lots of announcements and the odd bit of controversy in the ‘ol CFML blogosphere… this week, not so much. However, I do have some tasty code posts for you and some even... Read More
One of the big topics this week has been the announcement of the CFML Advisory Committee at CFUnited. This group, headed up by Sean Corfield, includes members of the Adobe ColdFusion community and... Read More
Scotch on the Rocks and WebDU were last week (see my WebDU Day 1 post here) and CFUnited is now underway. It looks like CFUnited will generate heaps of blog posts, so I’ll probably have a separate... Read More
Now well-established in it’s sixth year, WebDU in Sydney is the top Australian conference for Adobe-based technologies (primarily Flex and ColdFusion). The venue for 2008′s conference was... Read More
Lots of news in open source this week! I sneaked in news last week of the Railo open source announcement. There’s been a lot of discussion and it seems that the move is seen, in general, as a... Read More