I'm writing some quick code samples for my presentation tonight and accidentally discovered a neat trick in Eclipse. I went to add a new folder for try/catch demos. I named the folder, literally, try/catch. I had meant to do trycatch of course. So wh...

I love to beat up on the cffeed tag. I mean I'm happy it was added to the language, but out of all the features in CF8, this one seemed to be the most flakey. Just look at the blog entries: CFFEED and Date Values Ask a Jedi: Handling RSS feeds with custom data CFFEED Fixes in 8.0.1 Fun little feed parsing issue to watch out for - new lines!

Tomorrow I'll be doing two presentations. The first meeting is CFC 201 for the ColdFusion Online Meetup. This will be at 11AM CST. The Connect URL is http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/. This is basically a tips/tricks/suggestions/etc presentation for components, but I'll be skipping over all (well most) of the syntax stuff. My next presentation is to the Orange County CFUG and will be at 9PM CST. I'll be talking about error handling in ColdFusion, and touching a bit on the cfqueryparam issue.

Jose asks: I just got started using cfdiv an the other AJAX related tags and I have a question about passing params in the bind attribute. I have the following test code: <cfinput name="EmployeeID" type="hidden" value="#variables.EmployeeID#" /> <cfgrid name="goals" format="html" striperows="yes" bind="cfc:ab.model.goals.goalsGateway.

Just a quick note to remind folks about the ColdFusion Unconference coming to MAX 2008. I've filled a few more slots in the last week but I'm still looking for additional speakers. Oh, and I just now added the Uber Panel on Wednesday at 10:30 AM. This is a panel discussion with some relatively unknown people. I've never heard of Sean Corfield, Charlie Arehart, Joe Rinehart, Adam Lehman, Jason Delmore, and Raymond Camden.

On another listserv (sorry, can't say where, would have to kill you), a user brought up an interesting problem. He was using CFGRID (the Ajax variety) and had bound it to a CFC. No big deal, right? Well his API was somewhat complex. How complex? His method took 61 different arguments. Now frankly I think that is a bit too much (like Paris Hilton doing political ads too much), but it's what he needs and he wants it to work. The problem he is running into though is the size of the URL.

Su asks: I am trying to use CFCHART to create bar graphs. I need to specifically format them to match to a predefined sized width of bars. Is there a way to control the width of bars produced by the CFchart? Thanks for any help.

If you have followed me this week on twitter, you saw me mention that I was working on quite a few new technologies this week. This has easily been a week of both pure joy and pain. Over the past 5 days I worked with: Flex (pretty familiar with ...

John from Cincinnati (no, not really) asks: I have a question, as I am learning cfcs, and I am wondering is there a difference between cfcs and a UDF? From my understanding a cfc is a function that does something you want,and is something that you can call, and therefore use in other projects. Such as, have a date function that you can from other CF pages. Is this what a UDF is too? I don't seem to understand how the two are different, but I think that they must be.

Just a quick note to say that my interview with the CFConversations team (Brian Meloche and Adam Haskell) has just been released: CFConversations 12, Interview 7 - Ray Camden - 08/14/08 As a reminder - the podcasting support you see on the CFCo...