I've mentioned before that I'm a big fan of Joel Spolsky. He just "gets" how to run a technology company and treat his Fog Creek employees. Well, he has just set up a new Jobs site that essentially aims to take the annoying marketing and recruiting out of job hunting, while providing high-quality tech listings. Are you tired of vague job listings that ask if you want to work for a "well established, leading online company," but get no more information than that until you talk with a recruiter?

Has Adobe JRun finally gone up to software heaven (if you believe in that sort of stuff) to party with Generator and Spectra? Well, there's no definitive statement from Adobe, but this very quietly posted TechNote about the JRun 4.5 Beta status sure makes it sound that way.

It's been a while since my last post, and one major reason for this is because I have been utterly tearing my hair out trying to figure out why a simple migration from a ColdFusion MX 6.1 instance to a ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 instance simply wasn't working correctly. Hours and hours of time have been spent trying to figure out why client variables weren't be stored correctly when updating their values. During the debugging process, I came across two pretty important bugs in the 7.0.2 release.

I thought I had blogged this before, but I guess not. Did you know that Adobe has RSS Product Notification feeds for every product that they offer? Stay up-to-date on the latest news, including TechNote, hotfix and security patch notifications for your product(s) of choice. Check it out!

OK, so at Damon's request, I'm going to submit my ColdFusion 8, aka Scorpio, wishlist for feedback. Contrary to Jared's sentiments, I think this is the best time for the ColdFusion community to air its multitude of bug/enhancement/feature requests.

I've been spending a bit of personal time digging into Flex 2 development. One thing I've noticed up front is that there's an important distinction between using an Array and an ArrayCollection when coding your applications. This is an important point for ColdFusion developers because, in CF, we only have an Array datatype while most other languages (Java, C#, etc.) have an explicit ArrayCollection class.

I was just perusing through my aggregated blogs and saw that Joe Rinehart has posted an entry on TheServerSide.com entitled IoC, AOP, and Rails-like productivity...in ColdFusion?. In the entry, he notes that "hot" areas of J2EE development such as Spring and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) are available in ColdFusion and, coupled with established frameworks like Model-Glue, can make the lives of J2EE developers much easier.

So I wrote a few posts about my dilemma regarding switching to a Mac for my personal laptop after spending (literally) my whole life on a Windows-based PC, and people were interested in hearing how it worked out, so here goes... The Ordering Experience Simple. Standard. The ordering process was very familiar if you've ever been to and/or ordered from Dell's web site. Choose your desired model, click a few radio buttons to configure your personal specs for the machine, and off you go.

Via Ted Patrick's blog, I saw that Adobe has released the URLs to all the recorded Breeze presentations from Adobe Developer Week. I attended several of them and will try to post up a quick review of each when I get some time to breathe (along with the 85 other topics I've been wanting to post about but haven't had time to). However, I will say right now that most of the presentations were excellent and I'm absolutely in love with Breeze as a conferencing platform. Enjoy.

Scott Langeberg just posted on the flexcoders list that he learned in a Breeze webinar that Adobe Flex 2 is slated to be released on June 28th!