A friend just sent me a question regarding YUI (Yahoo's Ajax library) and JSON. Apparently YUI wants a JSON format (for query data) that ColdFusion can't handle automatically. He assumed this meant he couldn't speak directly to a CFC. That isn't the case. Don't forget that along with returnFormat=json, you can do use both plain and XML. So if you want to spit out the JSON format that Yahoo will like, you would need to create the string yourself, and use returnFormat=plain in the URL.

I just released Galleon 2.2, which has a feature that folks have been asking for since 1.0. Users can now edit their own posts. This is thanks to Todd Rafferty. He did all the work for it and I just had to mod a line or two. My main objection to the ability for folks to edit messages was because I was worried folks would use it for abuse, but Todd added an automatic 'message edited' type when a user edits a message. Anyway, enjoy.

For about two weeks now RIAForge has had a few stability issues. It was down again this morning, but is back up now. Please continue to email me when you see it done. I just wanted to warn folks about it. As I'm traveling in a day or so, I may not h...

Time for yet another quick Model-Glue 3 example. This time I wanted to show off formats. In the past, if you wanted to have multiple views of the same type of data, you had to build multiple events. So for example, one page may display a list of all the starships in your fleet in HTML format. If you wanted the same query in JSON, then you would build another event to handle that request. Model-Glue 3 makes this a heck of a lot simpler. The views XML entity now supports a format attribute.

So - if you tried to attend my presentation tonight, you saw it was a complete and utter failure. Whenever Connect opened, all I saw was a blank white screen. I connected to my PC via RDP, went to the meeting, and confirmed it was working fine there,...

A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to come back to the site and rebuild it using Spry or JQuery. Not because I wasn't happy with the CF8 Ajax stuff, but because a) it's fun to totally rebuild your own sites and b) I wanted to learn more about jQuery. I also know that the site had a big footprint. YSlow was reporting around 600k of stuff which is a bit much.

Walter asks: I was wondering if you can help, I am trying to get my feet wet with Spry and CF, you have many blog posts that refer to this but I wanted to know if you can point me in (or have an example) of a : Add / List / Amend / Delete solution using Spry and CF, to a database. I have searched and cannot find help on this. I have managed to get CF and Spry to work, but just reading XML files, and am having a lot of trouble, getting Spry, ColdFusion and Database to play nicely.

I just released Galleon 2.1. The major change in this release is Oracle support from James Holmes. I did not document this in the Install instructions as I'm hoping a few Oracle folks out there (poor souls I'm sure) can give it a quick try. I also fixed a deletion bug. Oracle folks - please do not use the unsupported folder. Oracle support is completely baked in.

Doug Hughes posted a good article today on SES URLs within the new version of Model-Glue: SES Urls in Model-Glue 3 Please pay attention to what he says about ColdSpring and configuration of the Model-Glue application.

So I've been thinking about this for quite some time now, and I figured today was as good as any other day to blog it. This may be a rather morbid blog post, but I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one here who has thought about what I'm about to ...