OpenCF Summit Speaker Interview - Mike Henke

Next up in our OpenCF Summit speaker interviews: Mike Henke!

Mike has worked with ColdFusion since 1999 for several companies. Mike co-hosts with Ryan Stille the ColdFusion Show, a ColdFusion-related podcast, featuring news and discussion about the latest topics in the CFML community.

Mike blogs at http://henke.ws

 

OpenCF Summit: Hey Mike!  So tell us about yourself.

Mike: I am an advocate of Eclipse, Source Control, Mylyn, Github, and anything to make developing ColdFusion more productive and easier. My main focus currently is learning Git, Ruby on Rails, and ColdFusion on Wheels. I am an Adobe Community Professional. I have spoken at several user groups and enjoy talking to people about ColdFusion.

 

OpenCF Summit: What does your development environment look like?

Mike:  Windows, IIS, Adobe ColdFusion, SQL Server, ColdFusion On Wheels, Blueprint, JQuery
Sass, Ruby, Coffeescript.

 

OpenCF Summit: What is your experience with Open Source Software? Where do you see OSS going?

Mike: I have contributed to open sources projects like MXUnit. I also like to throw ideas and projects on github for people to use. I see OSS as a critical solution along side proprietary software in most businesses.

 

OpenCF Summit: Where do you think CFML is heading these days? How would you characterize the state of the CFML community?

Mike:  I think CFML is heading to re-establish itself as equal to other dynamic languages. We need to adopt ideas from other communities and refocus ours on what makes CFML great. I think the state of CFML community is good and looking for new leaders to step in as other leaders move on.

 

OpenCF Summit: Why are you excited about OpenCF Summit?

Mike: Yes, it was a great, valuable time last year. It is a friendly, smart, fun group. Every attendee and speaker was very approachable.

 

OpenCF Summit: One last question: could you tell us a little about what you'll be speaking on?

Mike: I'll be helping Curt Gratz with Git/Github session along with discussing CFML in 100 minutes and Cloudy with a Chance of Tests to everyone interested in these projects.

 

Come talk shop with Mike at OpenCF Summit February 24-26, 2012 and watch this space for more speaker interviews!

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I decided to create an array (because they are much sexier than lists), each position with the number of the entry. Then randomise those positions and then simply choose positions 1,2,3 and 4 from their positions in their array

So here is the code (not including the form, since I am pretty sure you know how to make a form.):

<cfscript>
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         }
            
         collection = CreateObject("java", "java.util.Collections");
         collection.shuffle(aEntries);
      </cfscript>
      <cfoutput>
      <ol>
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      </ol>
      </cfoutput>

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