I just saw where the Connecticut ColdFusion User Group has their next meeting coming up on Monday and I wanted to comment on the topic of that meeting, Integrating ColdFusion and BlazeDS, which will be presented by Aaron West. I have been fortunate enough to see this presentation by Aaron in person, and let me tell you, you do not want to miss it! Even if you currently have no need for BlazeDS/CF integration, you will want to see this presentation. Aaron does an excellent job of showing just how dead simple this processes is, and it really got the gears in my head turning.

Trust me, when his presentation is over you'll be thinking about all of the cool little apps you can build with this stuff.

There seems to be discrepancies in the various date validations used throughout ColdFusion, or at least I've found one case where it inconsistently considers a value a valid date. It's probably easier to demo what I'm talking about than to try to explain it. Here's an example:

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Ben Forta has done an excellent job (as always!) of explaining the built in ORM support that will come with ColdFusion 9.

I have to admit, I've heard a lot of buzz about Hibernate being added to CF 9, but I wasn't exactly sure what it was. I knew that it gave you a way to connect to a database without having to use cfquery, but that's about the extent of it. I had no idea how to use it or how it would work.

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I hate Spam, which means I love CFFormProtect. One of the first things I did when I set my blog up (4 or 5 months) ago was to make sure CFFormProtect was enabled. A few weeks ago, though, I started seeing some comment Spam getting through. So, I got a Project Honeypot key and an Akismet key (both free) and enabled both of those features in CFFormProtect and that put a stop to it. Since enabling these features, I haven't had any comment Spam. It has been completely shut down, and this is a glorious thing!

I can't, however, say the same for my blog's contact form. It has been getting hammered!

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It's just been announced that at the Adobe ColdFusion User Group Tour in Nashville tonight, a copy of Adobe Master Collection (your choice, Mac or PC) and a copy of Adobe Flex Builder have been added to the prize list! This brings the monetary value of tonight's software giveaways to nearly $7,000!!

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I thought this was pretty interesting. It's actually part of a larger article (which I picked up from cftips.net), but can be read as a "stand alone" as well. It touches on several things such as variable scoping, query "blockfactors", IIf() vs. cfif, query caching, page caching, stored procs vs. cfqueries, cfthread, etc... There's some good little tidbits of info in there.

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The 2009 Adobe ColdFusion User Group Tour is coming to Nashville! It's time to learn about CF 9 and win some cool prizes!

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In a (long) series of comments posted on this ColdFusion tutorial by Matt Gifford, the usual CF vs. PHP argument reared it's ugly head again. When the argument reached the topic of shared hosting costs, I almost spit out my drink when I read this comment:

"You probably won't find a 5 dollar a month hosting option for CF like you can with PHP. But basing your business on a host that charges as much as an imported beer is probably not a good idea."

Who said that? Our very own Jedi Master.

There's been a lot of buzz lately (more than usual) around the various CF Frameworks, and whether some of them are dead or alive and kicking. I've never used any of the frameworks much (although I've recently started getting into ColdSpring). I've tinkered with a few of them, just to see what they're about, but that's pretty much been the extent of it. That's probably about to change.

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That's right, CF gave me an Allaire error today! It's been a while since I've seen one of these. Brings back memories of my good ole' CF 4.0 days.

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