I recently updated to Firefox 3 and so far I am loving it. One of the essential tools to anyone in my position is Firebug. I installed the new beat 1.2 and I just could not get it to open. The installation was fine but every time I try to open firebug nothing would happen. This is actually a problem with ColdFire that I had installed. If you are having a similar problem just remove ColdFire and it should work fine.

Probably not but I am apart of the new CFConverstations podcast. I am no episode 2 but that is no reason to pick up the podcast. The podcast has some really good content and 3 of the first 4 episodes were done right from CFUnited. There were some issues with audio because it was everyone huddled around a mic but Brian is doing is best to clean up the issues. I know some of the interviews Brian has lined up for the future and all I can say is stay tuned for great things to come.

Have you ever wanted to find out if an array is a single dimension or a double(matrix). There is a handy method in the coldfusion.runtime.Array class for doing just that. The following will output 2.

I have been having a lot of fun lately digging around the internals of the Adobe CF Server. With my new found knowledge I thought I would dig around structures. So how can you find out what the implementation of a structure is? Well first off you need to find out the name of the class and to do this it gets pretty tricky. //class class = myStruct.getClass(); writeOutput("Class: " & class & ""); Looking at this we can tell the class for the struct is coldfusion.runtime.

I am sorry If I am telling folks stuff they already know but I am having tons of fun digging around. So have you ever needed a quick way to see whats going on in every scope? I think I have written debug functions before that dump out a bunch of scopes like application, session and CGI. Well if you want a quick way to see what is living in every scope there is actually a very easy solution. I am on ColdFusion 8.0.1 by the way.

Every since watching Elliott Sprehn's presentation on the "Internals of the Adobe CF Server" presentation at CFUnited I have become a curious hunter. Today I was playing around with the page context and I found a cool little gem. So everyone has probably needed a random number at some time for whatever reason and you have probably turned to the built in ColdFusion function randRange. While this works great and I am not certain and this is just a guess but I would think that uses java.util.

There are two major features I have yet to talk about and I have saved the best for last. First we are going to talk about the new AIR Integration. The more and more Flex/AIR code I start writing I see places where tighter integration would definitely help adoption rates. ColdFusion is the perfect back end for AIR applications and AIR is an ideal client for ColdFusion.

In my last article we looked at some things that Adobe is doing to further the advancement of ColdFusion. In this article I want to take a sneak peak at the next version of ColdFusion (CF 9) currently code named Centaur. First we are going to look at a series of language enhancements that will help build a better ColdFusion. The first is to fill in the gaps with cfscript. One of the ideas behind this is the ability to write your components just using cfscript.

The CFUnited Keynote usually gives a good insight into the future of ColdFusion and this year was no different. What a great way to kick off the event so lets get right into what was talked about. Ben started off at 9:00 AM talking about the state of ColdFusion today. With no actual numbers to report he did say that sales are superb and that the numbers are the best they have ever been for Adobe. That right there should just let any doubters know that CF is not going anywhere.

I am going to post a bunch of stuff about my experience and all of the presentations I attended but I thought I would start with a general wrap up of the conference. This was my first conference so I really don't have much to compare it to. That being said CFUnited was a big hit for me. It was really great meeting so many people from the community that I either talk to and / or look up to.