The illustrious Charlie "CJ" Griefer has found some interesting CF9 artwork. Will this be cover art for the next ColdFusion release? Every time I look at that Ben-Taur image I laugh.....

Sarge just posted that ColdFusion 9 will be called Centaur. Apparently this is late breaking news, and details are still to come, but...... HURRY UP AND POST MORE DETAILS ALREADY!!!!

The Kalender team is hard at work making sure the upcoming release of Kalendar is the best yet. Meanwhile, the Kalendar Design Contest has 2 weeks remaining. Are you a talented designer? Compete and win a copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard for your top design! Are you a mediocre designer, compete anyways! It is much better than watching re-runs of Hee Haw on TV Are you a crappy designer (like me) with a Digg account? Digg the Contest Announcement See, everyone can play along!

Code that is not Thread Safe is sneaky, dangerous and leads to bewildering production errors and strange side effects. As part of my deployment procedure, I run code through an automated code analyzer for improperly scoped variables. Today, while running the analyzer, it flagged this set of code: "Wait just a minute", I said, "There is nothing wrong with that bit of code". Upon closer inspection I noted the 's' and quickly made the correction.

There is a very weird debate going on in the CF-Aussie list about the merits of the ColdFusion function structFind(). StructFind( struct, key ), is an aptly-named native function that fetches the value of the specified key, in the specified struct. If, for some reason, the key does not exist, it throws an error. (The docs are wrong) Why would you ever need this function? One use case would be returning the value a key in a structure that is the result of a function evaluation.

Someone just forwarded an article from Pablo Vos, "10 facts why ColdFusion is better than PHP or ASP". The 10 facts are are compelling reasons why IT managers and executives should prefer ColdFusion over PHP or ASP. In my experience, ColdFusion makes the most sense as an enterprise web application development language. Compatibilities with other languages, integrated libraries and high levels of language functionality all make for the fastest application delivery platform available.

Take a look at this code: I just spent 15 minutes tracing all this code out trying to find out why nothing was returned. The intent of the code is to build a string containing values present in the object. So if a user searches by Category, UserID etc, the search string is maintained. Warning, the error is simpler than you might think. Don't over think it.

Effective immediately, I will be rewriting this blog software in an emerging rich web technologies such as AJAX, Flex or Silverlight. Now if I could just figure out how to query a database using an emerging rich web technologies such as AJAX, Flex or Silverlight...... If you get the reference, give yourself 10 points. If you do not, here is a picture of a funny looking cat.

This needs to be said once in a while. For the good of the children, please turn off Report Execution Times in your CF Administrator. If you are using a framework written in CFCs, or a library of CFCs, or ANYTHING to do with CFCs, Report Execution Times does not return correct information. As a matter of fact, the Report Execution Times feature will bog down your Application, Framework or Page. So turn it off. Seriously. For the good of the children.

ModelGlue Users and especially my MG series users, have a read on Doug Boude's Blog about the The Model-Glue Event Lifecycle. Doug has a lot of other interesting Model Glue related content as well.