For those of you who might not know A Wee Dram is a Scotish euphemism for a single shot of malt Scotch Or in the case of ColdFusion developers its a single one day shot conference being held in the wake of CFDevcon being cancelled on Thursday 25h September. Check out more at http://aweedram.com For even more information check out http://inner-rhythm.co.uk/blog/index.

A bit on an intro to this. If I haven't mentioned I use Tweetdeck as my Twitter client which allows you to have a search panel. Mine is updated with my criteria of "ColdFusion". This is brilliant as it helping come across new CF users that maybe aren't so vocal/known in the community (by me anyway) First off I came across a high-level, but comprehensive primer into ColdFusion: http://www.slideshare.

Adam Lehman (Platform Evangelist at Adobe ) twittered We've got The Awesome Power of a Fully-Operational Mothership behind Centaur (ColdFusion 9). Adobe Execs gave our specs the green light! This got me thinking about CF9 and new features which I wanted to see so I submitted my first one today. While there though it got me thinking that maybe not all people know about this.

Query of a Query functionality was introduced in ColdFusion 5 and it gives the developer the ability to re-query a returned recordset. While it does implement the core set of SQL SELECT commands the one bit of functionality I miss is MySQL's Limit function (I miss this in ANY relational database thats not MySQL as it makes paginiation a doddle).

Peter Boughton has been spending some time creating a comparison chart(wiki) for the ColdFusion engines out there. The new site is at http://www.cfml-engines.info and of course as a wiki you are welcomed to update where applicable.

I've been looking at accessing the Gmail contact data via their API. This is the first draft of my findings and is no way the finished solution but it does what it says on the tin and returns the email address's from a users Gmail account contacts. Its actually quite simple to and we're going to do this in 2 CFM pages. We are going to be using the AuthSub method of registration There are three levels of registration: Unregistered: Application is not recognized by Google.

ColdSpring is just indispensable when developing any size app but as a part of its Inversion of Control, or IoC it does a lot more. When developing a project with a framework I usually have a need to have remote access to my model. One of the usual methods is to still go through the framework itself. The reason is that you've got ColdSpring (in most cases) handling all the injections and its just easier to keep it one place.

ColdSpring is just indispensable when developing any size app but as a part of its Inversion of Control, or IoC it does a lot more. When developing a project with a framework I usually have a need to have remote access to my model. One of the usual methods is to still go through the framework itself. The reason is that you've got ColdSpring (in most cases) handling all the injections and its just easier to keep it one place.

Another week has passed and I still haven't gotten back into the swing of blogging and keeping up-to-date. I've also just realised that I am way behind on the ColdFusion Weekly podcasts, D'oh. But the biggest news I missed out on is the free open source BlueDragon edition. This should change the landscape for ColdFusion, and also giving no-one the excuse of CF being "to expensive". Now if we could start knocking out cheap hosting options like PHP has then CF will have an even stronger future.

I've been working with CFGrids recently especially the HTML format. One recent issue I had was the ability to dynamically hide a column once the grid has been loaded. Luckily the Ext's framework that sits underneath is full of hidden gems in ways you can add extra functionality and ColdFusion provides ColdFusion.Grid.