I'm happy to say that I arrived safe and sound - and with no delays - in beautiful Washington, D.C. I'm sitting around in my hotel room letting my lunch settle and drinking a gallon of coffee to help make up for my 3AM wake up. I'm very excited about...

I know we are all (well, I am!) getting excited about CFUNITED, but I also want to point out another conference coming up in September, CFDevcon. This will be held in Brighton, England, from September 25-26. I was invited to speak this year, but will not be able to make it. However, there is a darn good list of speakers lined up. Is it just me - or is there quite a bit of ColdFusion-lovin' going on in the conference world?

The first podcast from CFConversations is available now. This edition includes a round table discussion with Brian Meloche, Rick Mason, Adam Haskell, Jeff Coughlin, and Aaron West. In the past, I've had difficulties "getting into" podcasts because I don't drive to work, but I'm going to force myself to slow down a bit and listen.

Matthew writes in with an interesting problem: I'm using a onMissingMethod() to generate all my get/set methods I need, and I have an init() method in my cfc that calls a setDsn(arguments.dsn) and when I run it, it says setDsn() variable is undefined. Now if I change it to this.setDsn(arguments.dsn) then it works, and the onMissingMethod() is fired.

Ok, maybe I'm a bit too geeky, but sometimes I love bugs that take hours of debugging and head scratching to solve. I discovered (and reported to Mark) a simple bug in Transfer.

Today I approved project number 500, yes, 500, for RIAForge. The 500th project was Yet Another ColdFusion CMS by Terrence Ryan. While not the most exciting name, it is the 500th project and Terrence will be getting some nice gifts from Adobe. These g...

Dan the Man asks: s there any advantage to using the CF SEF URL's versus just doing a mod_rewrite in apache? I've used various forms of mod_rewrite in the past, and I prefer not having a period in the middle of the URL, however, I'm wondering if there are any advantages that I'm missing out on. I'm currently using the following for my mod_rewrite: [deletia] This results in "www.website.com/page/url/param" being translated to "www.website.com/page.cfm?id=url/param".

Last night I released an update to Seeker, my ColdFusion Lucene wrapper. A user, Casey, of Dealtree.com, contacted me about a possible speed improvement to help with larger indexes. I tried his suggestion, and now the search API should be a bit quicker. I also added support for pagination (you can get from N to M results) and metadata results (how many matches exist). Lastly, there is an optimize custom tag now as well.

Here is something interesting I just ran into. One of my open bugs at work involve adding a "Loading" graphic to an ajax container. The code in question uses CFDIV and hits up a CFC to load the data. I thought about it this for a second and thought to myself, "Self - doesn't CF8 automatically do loading graphics?" I whipped up a quick test to confirm this: and test3.cfm just did: test 3 When I ran this I plainly saw a loading message and graphic.

TeraTech just blogged about my new session at CFUNITED. I want to clarify the subject matter a bit. My first session is a generic "ColdFusion 8 and Ajax" session. This is heavy on the UI side. It is very difficult to fit this into an hour. When I found that I could take over another hour (after lunch, everyone be sure to eat a lot!) I thought it was an excellent way to cover the stuff I couldn't cover in the first part.