You know it's been a while since I had one of those days where I truly had a great time writing code. Could be all the Java I've been working on these days, or maybe a few other reasons, but I've been feeling a little bogged down lately and it sure was nice to have a fun time coding again. So why was yesterday so nice you may ask? Well I'm back to some contracting work that I was working on last year on a well designed system written in ColdFusion, for one thing.

I just ran into an issue with rebuilding a mysql database for development, moving the database from a windows server to a linux one. By default windows mysql converts tables names to lowercase, when I imported the database onto my linux server all the filenames for the tables are also of course going to be lowercase. Unfortunately all of the app's queries refer to the tables with camel-case, probably the intention in the first place.

Ok, so maybe 'fun' isn't the right word, but I have to say that I though it was pretty damn cool the first time I swapped out a pointcut for a regex one (yesterday)! Incase you're already wondering what the heck I'm blabbering on about, currently ColdSpring has a pretty simplistic pointcut model, you can only really define them as globs, strings which can contain the '*' wild-card. Simple, yes, but in that simplicity lies tremendous power, which is what I find so fascinating about AOP in the first places.

I just got back from a nice long ride to clear my head and shake out few neural passageways that seemed to have somehow become clogged with alcohol and lack of sleep, so I figured I would share my thoughts on the festivities of the past week. CFUnited was fantastic and I had a really, really good time, maybe even too good, I’m TIRED! As far as sessions go, I think my 2 favorites were Adam Wayne Lehman (aka. Adam Way)’s talk on security and Dave’s talk on ColdSpring. OK, I know it sounds very partial, right?

Well, cfunited is actually 2 days away, but I'm driving down tomorrow to meet Paul K and Adam L (sounds like spy names or something) in Bethesda. I'm speaking at DoS on tuesday, and it's Adam's birthday, so I think the cfunited festivities should start a little early! I'm definitely looking forward to a really fun week, there's a lot of great sessions, and lots of really smart people to hang out with and try to leach some brain power off of!

Check out this completely nutty video from Joe Rinehart demoing the new ModelGlue Unity. It's completely insane!For those of you who don't yet know, Unity is a wonderful marriage of the ModelGlue, ColdSpring and Reactor frameworks, which WILL change a huge amount of the landscape for many ColdFusion developers. Enjoy, and thanks Joe!

Well, I think it looks like I'm a little late to the party, because blogger SUCKS and I couldn't log into my own freakin' blog all day, but...I'm extremely happy to announce the availability of ColdSpring 1.0 RC1! It's a bit overdue, and of course there will probably be a small wait for the final release, but things seem to be very stable at this point. So please, download the latest and provide some feedback to the list!

Perfect timing! I just read this post on Sean's blog, about some of the pitfalls of building Flex front ends for existing Mach II apps and started to write a comment, but it got too long. So I figured I'd just post it. I'm currently working on a big conversion of an application from a very evil and horrible framework to ModelGlue/Spring and Flex 2. This one's Java, but really that's circumstantial at this point, everything is pertinent to CF.

OK, I liked the idea of Sean posting his all time top played album, so here's a few lists of my own. I was looking at the top play counts for all my music in iTunes, and they're kind of skewed, I think because of the way I listen to music. I'm a big fan of shuffle. But here's some interesting (maybe) things:Last 5 albums played (because today I didn't shuffle!)Mastodon - Leviathan, the saviors of the new Metal? Perhaps, but I doubt it...

It's 8:45, Saturday morning and I'm about to leave on a 3 day motorbike trip with my pops. 30 W through southeast PA to Gettysburg, where we'll drive around the civil war battlefields and have lunch. Then 15 S to Frederick MD and on to 340 S/W. We maybe will take a break in Harper's Ferry National Park, then we drive to Front Royal, the top of Shenandoah National Park, where we'll pick up Skyline Drive and go about 1/3 the way to Luray.