charlie griefer - #coldfusion on IRC

Feb 06, 2007

#coldfusion on IRC

Posted by: charlie griefer

just wanted to do my (small) part to raise awareness of a coldfusion resource that really should be on everybody's radar.

#coldfusion on IRC's DALnet server.

for those of you not familiar with IRC (internet relay chat), it's basically a chat room. IRC is an older technology, so i'll be the first to admit that the interface is somewhat antiquated and the commands are a bit archaic. however, once you get over that learning curve and get comfortable with it, you can be chatting in real time with a lot of folks who love coldfusion and love to help out.

yes, there's a good amount of off-topic talk (and sometimes it's not always... what you'd call "clean"), but when the coldfusion questions are asked, there's usually somebody who is more than willing to break away from the current topic of discussion and do what they can to help out.

if you're on windows, you can download mIRC (sorry, i'm not sure what mac IRC clients exist or which one(s) to recommend) and connect to DALnet (/server irc.dal.net) and /join #coldfusion once you connect.

if you experience any issues with getting the software set up or getting connected, feel free to drop a comment and i'll do what i can to help get the issue resolved.

look forward to chatting with each and every one of you. well... you... you in the back there with your hand stuck down the front of your pants. not so much you. but the rest of you, definitely.

EDIT: in addition to #coldfusion, DALnet is also home to #fusebox, #cfflex, #transfer, #cfeclipse, #cfosx, #machii, #tartan, #reactor, #coldspring, and #modelglue.

if a channel for your favorite topic doesn't exist (and it doesn't have to be code-related), go ahead and start one! :)

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ALL the cool kids hang out in #coldfusion

Posted by: Ryan Stewart - Feb 06, 2007 1:11 PM

can't argue with that! :)

Posted by: charlie griefer - Feb 06, 2007 1:19 PM

Conversation is a very good IRC client for the Mac.

Thanks for the info! I'll have to hop in the channel sometime.

Posted by: Jon - Feb 06, 2007 2:30 PM

IRC. Antiquated. Archaic. Wha?

I can remember wasting a lot of time on IRC... now I feel antiquated myself... :)

Anyone know if the mach-ii channel has any activity? I'll have to see if that'll go through our firewall here...

Posted by: Jim - Feb 06, 2007 2:33 PM

heh. no worries Jim, i was there too.

kids today don't know how good they have it. back in our day we had to IRC in the snow. uphill. both ways :)

Posted by: charlie griefer - Feb 06, 2007 2:57 PM

Ditto - Conversations is a good program to use. I've tried others but the UI is the cleanest.

Posted by: Lola LB - Feb 06, 2007 4:00 PM

Been a while since I've been on, as I find it hard to work and be on the IRC at the same time, but NO DOUBT it's probably the best resource I can think of for real-time help with CF!

Posted by: Will B. - Feb 06, 2007 5:12 PM

Wait...you mean sometime we actually talk about ColdFusion?

Posted by: Scott F Stroz - Feb 06, 2007 7:28 PM

Colloquy is a great Mac IRC program - colloquy.info

The #coldfusion channel bot is written in ColdFusion (as an event gateway). It let's you leave messages for people who aren't currently on the channel as well as standard IRC fare like !seen seancorfield and some CF-specific stuff like !fn evaluate and !tag cfabort (looks stuff up in LiveDocs for you).

Posted by: Sean Corfield - Feb 06, 2007 7:59 PM