It seems lately the world of ColdFusion bloggers has become re-obsessed with the topic of ColdFusion's place in the industry with more rallies to the defense of the ColdFusion community and calls of "ColdFusion is not dead". Honestly this argument has played itself out so much over the years that it is tiresome and generally gets argued amongst people whose opinions are never going to change anyway.

I needed a dummy query for a page I was working on the other day, which caused me to sigh with grief. Everyone knows what a pain creating dummy queries using queryNew()/queryAddRow()/querySetCell() can be, even for a simple query with one row. Thus I decided not to bother and simply used a "real" query with a real datasource and a "select" statement but no "from" clause.

At least a year ago I was asked to create a means of accessing reporting data within Connect (which I think was still transitioning from being Breeze at the time). I posted about it figuring few if any people actually cared to use it. Nonetheless, someone was interested but was hoping to use the API for creating users and meetings which relied on methods I had not yet implemented.

While there is only one new release and one update this week, there were some potentially very significant announcements this week. First, Six Signs has announced plans, driven in part by the recent New Atlanta announcement, to open-source their asset management and CMS tool. Second, I leaked some details on new wiki software being released by Luis Majano and Mark Mandel. Third, Peter Farrell discusses the future of Mach-II and some important new features that will be coming.

As I have done for previous conferences, I am sharing my session schedule for this year's cf.Objective() conference which is coming up quickly - May 1-4 (conference schedule PDF attached). Yes, I am attending my own session and you should too! ;) I am very excited about this year's conference, not just because I am presenting but because I have enjoyed this conference both prior years and this year looks to be better.

In this month's installment of my CFUnited interview series, I speak to prominent ColdFusion blogger, author and presenter and good friend, Peter Bell. Peter is well known for his innovative and often controversial ideas about code generation and design patterns. Peter also runs his own business, SystemsForge, based in New York City.

Three new projects and four updates this week. Nice to see MXNA back after taking the long Easter weekend off. Anyway, here's this week's update.

Three new projects and six updates this week. Enjoy the St. Patrick's day edition of the weekly update (thus the slight green theme in case it isn't obvious...which it isn't). It also happens to be Evacuation Day in Boston, but honestly I had no idea what that was. Thanks to Wikipedia for educating me. Basically it means if I worked for the city I would actually have today off to, purely coincidentally, go drink green beer.

As you likely have already heard, New Atlanta recently announced the upcoming release of an open source version of the J2EE version of their BlueDragon CFML server. This has spawned no shortage of opinions from a wide-range of ColdFusion bloggers and community notables. I have gathered every post I am aware of up to now and summarized them below to get a sense of the mood of the ColdFusion community with regard to this announcement.

One new project and five updates this week. So, this was gonna be the week of MXUnit but BlueDragon went and stole their thunder. Yes, I know about the announcement, obviously, but just a reminder that this list is projects built with CFML. I hope to have more to say about the BD announcement tomorrow.