One new release and five updates this week as well as a lot of announcements. I made sure to release this update tonight to help calm the markets tomorrow. Your banks may be failing and credit may be disappearing but lest anyone think that the world of ColdFusion open-source is anything but healthy. New Releases and Updates New Project: VICO CRM Initial Release This project by Marius Milosav is a multilingual customer relationship management suite of applications. CFWheels Wheels 0.8.

I am working on a project where a requirement for serializing and deserializing a component came up. This is possible now with ColdFusion 8, since the underlying work was done (by Rakshith) to handle synchronizing sessions across a cluster. Nonetheless, there is no specific serialize or deserialize function for a CFC. Pete Frietag wrote about this as did Rakshith in earlier posts.

This is the first entry in a planned series of discussion between myself and Peter Bell where we will discuss hot topics in the ColdFusion community (thus the label CFArgument). Today's topic is Peter's own iterating business object, which has been the source of some discussion lately.

Two new projects and four updates this week. A very quiet week with only a handful of posts to report on. Perhaps everyone was preparing for the opening of the NFL season. My Dolphins still stink but not as putridly (which would have been an accomplishment). Though with Tom Brady apparently out for the season, the AFC East is guaranteed to be won by team that is, at best, mediocre.

Four new projects and five updates this week. I thought of starting a weekly "Who's Joining BroadChoice" update but I don't know if I have the time to keep up. Apparently Joe is advocating they build everything with his POC of the CFGoto tag for improved performance! I think that is brilliant and can't wait for it to be in ColdFusion 9. New Releases and Updates New Project: CFC_Nuke Initial Release Scott Stewart has started a complete rebuild of prior CF Nuke project.