This plugin has been a long time in the making. It's something I knew from the outset that I would want in Mango, but after getting my feet wet by writing a few other small plugins, I knew I could do it. I made it as simple as I could, but there are still a couple of things you will need to know; one of which is that you might need to modify your theme to broadcast a new event in a couple of places.

A couple of days ago I used Rays code for tracking hurricane distance from your local zip code to add tracking of Hurricane Hanna to my family blog. Then my father in law was kind enough to point out that it was wrong. Way wrong! It was reporting distances of over 3,000 miles, when we're really less than 300 miles from it.

Last year I got my first ColdFusion certification, just in time for a new version of CF to come out and make me feel like I was behind again. Since the test is only $150, I figure I might as well upgrade to a CF8 certification. I've heard rumors that thanks to Ray, the CF8 exam is much tougher than the CF7 exam. And since it's going to be harder, and I really don't want to lose the "Advanced" level, I'm going to prepare pretty hard.

If you're like me you leave error reporting emails on for most of the sites that you build, so that wherever possible you are alerted to potential problems — like the recent wave of SQL Injection attacks — before the website owner (your client) knows they're being attacked, and hopefully, before an attack is successful. Of course, you're a responsible coder and you're logging and reporting errors, and then hunting down and eradicating the buggy code… right?