I've finally looked into Last.fm which has been flying around the blogsphere(could that be any more web 2.0 speak) for a while. Whats cool about it: Well I work from home so most of the time I need to fill in the silence which is usually a mix of iTunes and Radio 1 but there is only so much you can listen to.

Adding the YouTube vid to my last post caused a little bit of any issue. Mainly the <embed> and <object> tags were replaced with <InvalidTag>. Thinking that Ray had turned into an evil Jedi master and prevented users using these tags I did a quick global find through the BlogCFC code. That left me scratching my head as I couldn't find any reference to it at all so I did what we all do....I went straight to Google.

Onto part 3 of this rough beginners tutorial. By now you should of read part 1 and part 2 and this is the final part of me explaining Dependency Injection. This doesn't mean that come the end of this post you'll now know everything. But you'll know the basics, and be able to walk away and understand a little more of how and where to use ColdSpring.

I'm working on a small personal project at the moment and didnt want to pay out on hosting which i've just realised has been a bad idea! Why? because I cannot use get & set profileString. Now this isn't usually a problem as I never use them but Galleon does to read the ini file. Luckily the solution has been easy to resolve. In the galleon.cfc I edited the getSetting() method and for now hard coded in the struct.

First off let me caveat this post by saying that I am no an OO guru, if you are looking for a more indepth look at DI, IOC, Constructors, setters/getter etc then you should really check out sites like Peter Bells site, Application Generation. Ok, I am going to make this first post small (I know, I know boring chat first code later) and just give a little background in preparation for the next part which will be the code (I promise). This post also isn't for the total beginner to Coldspring.

As i'm preparing to type this post what I'm about to says is so obvious its annoying. When you are using the <cfxml> tag you cannot have xml tags that begin with "cf" as Coldfusion tries to parse them. For example: my data Would fail with something like "A tag starting with 'CF' has been detected. This tag is not supported by this version of ColdFusion. Please verify your typo and try again. Unknown tag: cftest.

We know there are at least 200 over you because we all saw you are the CFDevCon :o) Andy Allan is asking, "UK CF developers, where are you?" on his blog, which I've left a little comment on. This also prompted me to post this just to raise awareness! So if you are a developer and don't usually leave a comment, post to a list do so now!

Well if you haven't got yourself a ticket yet to the CFDevCon one day event, do it! It's going to be the first of many to come hopefully, and we need to give it support so all the best events dont just happen state side - mainly cause I get jealous :o) I started my journey this morning at 5:45am and no i'm not mad and sleeping in a tent outside to be first in line (hmnmmm note to self....

I am in the middle of moving a lot of my datasources over to the updated Connector/J (JDBC) One error I have seen a lot in my development enviorment is Error Executing Database Query. Cannot convert value '0000-00-00 00:00:00' from column xxxx to TIMESTAMP. This is caused by Java as it cannot handle zero dates ('0000-00-00 00:00:00'), it trys to do anything it can with them but convert them to the original date :o).

WooHoo! I've finally got myself a ticket to my first CF conference, the CFDevCon. My ticket is booked along with my room in the Fairfield Hotel for the 9th November 2006. It looks like it should be a good day with some of the topics covering API's, BlueDragon, CFEclipse and Fusebox. Also quite excited about the footnote on the site saying Starting from 2007 we are planning some much larger conferences covering other technologies such a ASP.NET, Web Services, XML, AJAX, web 2.