After reading a post by Ben Nadel, it occurred to me that I should write up my technique of getting new autogenerated primary key values back from the database. It's very common for database designers to use columns that generate a unique, artificial primary key value for every row inserted into a database table.

Ready to move your Macs to Leopard, but waiting for CF support? There's a beta opening now. See Kristen Shofield's Blog for more information.

I've been having a lot of UI freezes lately on my MacBook Pro. The system will lock up for 20-30 seconds, with mouse movement, but no responses to clicks or the keyboard. I'm suspecting that this is something to do with CF 8 and/or Eclipse on Apple's Java 1.5 JVM. The freezes happen most often when one or the other of these applications are running. Things seem a whole lot better when I roll back to Java 1.4, but CFEclipse stops working. I've also found references to running CF 8 on Java 1.6.