Just a quick note to let folks know that, while I did post session summaries to my blog, I have written my overall review of cf.Objective for Fusion Authority. You can find my cf.Objective() Wrap-up here.

Two new releases and four updates this week (and a ton of presentation notes from cf.Objective()). Speaking of cf.Objective(), it was awesome, as expected, but more on that later. Unfortunately, I have to pass on the sad news to all the open-source developers that I will no longer be releasing updates or maintaining the open-source list.

Mark Mandel covers the theory of caching and what problems it solves and then discusses, in detail, how Transfer addresses caching. The main problem, obviously, is that some aspects of your code can be "expensive" such as retrieving large datasets from the database or converting large data sets into components. Caching addresses this by storing information on disk or in memory so as not to have to repeat the expensive portion of the code.

The latest issue of the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update debuted at cf.Objective() and it includes my article "Getting to Know Mr. Wizard." This article shows how-to-use and reviews each of the ColdFusion Eclipse Wizards, including the Flex Wizard, the Ajax Wizard, the CFC Wizard and the Value Object Wizard. Unfortunately, my reviews are not flattering. I'll leave it at that for now and you can read the article for more detail. Please feel free to share any feedback by commenting on this post.

I am here scoping out a topic near and dear to my heart, code generation (also to make sure Brian doesn't forget Illudium ;). Thankfully he did not forget.

This is the first in a series of posts covering the sessions I am attending at this year's cf.Objective() conference. The first is by Kurt Wiersma covering best practices on setting up a local development environment.

Two new releases and seven updates this week. This looks to be an exciting week with cf.Objective() kicking off on Thursday. I am looking forward to giving my presentation on the "Porky Pig" approach to Cairngorm development! Also, some very exciting releases this week with Doug Hughes CFANT and the release candidate of Transfer.

One new project and six updates this week. It is another Patriot's Day in Boston and another marathon and a beautiful day weather-wise, but I spent my morning continuing my frustrating journey into two-way encryption between Flex and CF. Yes, it's about as fun as it sounds. At least there are some interesting updates this week including major updates to Mango Blog and ColdBox.

Eleven new projects and nine updates this week. See what happens, I go on vacation for one week and all hell breaks loose in the world of ColdFusion open-source. I think many of you were releasing new projects purely as a means of punishing me for taking a Monday off. Well, you won't break me! Let me tell you, I am like...like a...like something that doesn't break! See, I told you to stop worrying about ColdFusion!

I have been putting off a new build of my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator for months, but no longer (because a bug fix forced me to). First of all, some thank you's. This release *finally* officially includes the Informix datasource support donated by Gareth Edwards and PostgreSQL support thanks to Brian Ghidinelli. Also thanks to Tom Chiverton for finding a relatively minor and silly but important bug.