While working on a very cool update to my object oriented validation framework for ColdFusion I discovered that my last update introduced an error. This error caused the online demo to not report certain server side validation failures and also had repercussions for the required server side validation type. So, if you visited the demo page and thought, "What's up with this guy? This thing doesn't work at all!

I've been meaning to follow up on my How I Use Transfer series, as I've made a few changes to the way I write my ColdFusion code since that series was written. One of the biggest changes was to encapsulate all database access in my Gateway components. Now I say biggest not because it took a lot of time and effort to make the change, in fact the opposite is true. I say biggest simply because it represented a significant shift in the way I'm designing my model.

I'm excited to say that the Google group that I set up as a discussion forum for my object oriented validation framework for ColdFusion has received its first post. And it was a doozy. Some really great ideas, and I, in my usual fashion, posted a response of an appropriate length ;-) So I'd like to invite anyone interested in becoming part of the conversation, or interested in just listening in, to join the group.