The aggregators are filled with hundreds of posts extolling the virtues of CF.Objective. I wanted to live blog some of the sessions but I decided against it. Why? You may ask? Initially, I didn't have wifi service and while Paul and Baz sorted that out, I just didn't want to divide my attention between the awesome content and correcting my terribly typed notes. There was too much to learn! Even being a little sleep deprived, I didn't miss a single time slot.

Sometimes I read too fast. I remember reading a post on Scorpio by Sean Corfield. I just don't remember the part about the ColdFusion Ajax Wizards for Eclipse. Here is the section of the post that caught my eye on the second reading: Next up was what is proving to be my favorite: AJAX integration. Ben said that Scorpio's AJAX features fall broadly into three categories: making CFC invocation easy, controls & widgets, application wizards.

I have everything ready for my trip to Minneapolis. I am looking forward to seeing everyone again. You can find me on the twitter channel and once I hit the ground in MN, I'll have the tweets directed to my phone. Should be a great conference, if you happen to be there, stop over and say hi!

I read through the comments on Ben Forta's blog about CF and Exchange Integration. I spit coffee on my keyboard when I read this little series: Ben, I have seen people with PHP make it work? Couldn't we just apply whatever concepts they use and translate it to coldfusion? # Posted By Scott | 4/2/07 9:18 AM Scott, you mean do it the hard way? Nah, wait until you see what we've been cooking up!

I am in the market for an online payment processor. Thus far, I've narrowed it down to two options, PayPal and Google Checkout. This is for a small project I've been working on. I don't expect a ton of revenue and would prefer a solution that doesn't need to be monitored nor babysat. It would be most helpful if the setup was as simple as possible because this is a small project and if processing payments means a few weeks work, the project becomes fairly useless.

As part of some consulting work, I had to extract documents out of a large zip file. The zip file contained thousands of documents and EACH individual document resided in a directory structure nested 6 to 11 other directories deep. Doing this by hand would be tedious and boring. Also, the individual files were named with punctuation, spaces and other annoying bits. I wanted to clean those up as well. I spent a few minutes hacking together a ColdFusion script to do the work for me.

Toby Tremayne has put forth some code as to how Bender will generate AS objects and connect to Transfer. This is an early first pass and there will undoubtedly be changes, but I am pleased to see he has pushed this stone forward. In Transfer, your business objects, their properties and relationships to other business objects are configured in Transfer.xml. Bender takes advantage of this 'single source' for object properties/relationships by consuming the Transfer.

I've seen more than once, a person asking on a mailing list about a more 'OO' way to solve a problem. Often, this comes with the expectation of less lines of code to write. Certainly, as programmers paid to provide solutions, not lines of code, we want to deliver a tight and concise code base, however, OO is not about reducing the lines of code it takes to solve a problem. Encapsulating a problem requires MORE code initially.

Newly released on Vince B's blog, BlueDragon.net 7 pricing. For a long time, the Blue Dragon product had the reputation as being the "Cheaper" cousin of ColdFusion, but no longer. I don't currently have pricing for Scorpio in front of me, but it seems as if BlueDragon now has the reputation for being the "More Expensive" cousin of ColdFusion. I, for one, appreciate New Atlanta in the CFML engine marketplace.

I am registered for the cf.Objective() conference! I REALLY REALLY wanted to go last year. My plans were derailed by deadlines at work. Not wanting to miss two in a row, I registered early. Now, I have no excuses. Minnesota in May is a nice time. Really, it is. After a nice long Jersey winter, I can say how grateful I am the conference is in May, rather than December. If you are on the fence about attending, have a look at the sessions. Should be an action packed conference for sure.