ColdFusion Developer in Australia

If you are like the muse you keep your eye on the log files in the /runtime/logs/ directory. There's some good information in there if you care to poke around. You might notice one item that appears in the *.events.log from time to time - usually in a long list of similar errors.

Yesterday I had to (once again) ping Tom Jordahl for help in figuring out exactly what to pass to a particular funky Web Service. And of course, Tom had the answer for me, as he always does. But this time he went a step further and blogged about Using WSDL2Java to figure out CFML arguments to a Web Service.

We're hosting a new series of ColdFusion Webinars in July, 4 sessions in all of 4 different topics. ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager Kristen Schofield has posted details, and you can register online.

The last week or so I've had the pleasure of working deeply with http://jquery.com/,jQuery. And I mean that, it's been a pleasure. Once you get used to the 'style' of how it works, it makes sense and has a consistent coding experience. I've worked mainly with the core and the ui.jquery libraries, with fileupload thrown in. In the mix is also , and they have all played together nicely (so far!

I recently noticed a large of odd messages in my coldfusion-event.log. They all looked something like so: 06/26 14:47:27 error Cannot create cookie: domain = .riaforge.org This error was not on the RIAForge box but my own personal server (this machine). I asked about this on a listserv and got a lot of good responses, but it seems like the final answer is this: Reserved Names for Cookies I'm sharing this in case others run into it as well. When I say "large", I mean quite a bit.

OK, so the sleep-deprived minds behind InstantSpot hit the wrong switch this morning, and suddenly on AXNA, coldfusionbloggers.com, and God knows what else, I was being credited with a lot of blog entries that I never wrote. The issue was resolved almost immediately, however, the posts are probably going to continue to show up on the aggregators until they age off. Sorry for the feed spam everyone! EDIT: Here is a little more detail for those that were asking - Bottom line...

If you haven't had a chance to dig into ColdFusion 8 yet, a great way to get overviews of the features and benefits is through our free eseminar series which is starting up again in July. You can register for eseminars here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=506273&loc=en_us We have a good line up of sessions including: What's New in ColdFusion 8 Tuesday, July 8, 2008 10:00 A.M. PDT Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:00 A.M.

Andy asks: This is probably a stupid question but I can't seem to get this to work. I'm using a ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm and I thought that I would be able to return something from the form's submit handler page using my callback function. I can't seem to get this to work.