Considering the fact that I get to keep an easy eye on the new sign-ups at InstantSpot, I wanted to point out a few ColdFusion bloggers to the CF community that you might have missed but are already putting out some good content. Sam Farmer - Sam is a published CFDJ author and is active around the ColdFusion community. His blog is centered on ColdFusion website: http://samfarmer.instantspot.com rss: http://samfarmer.instantspot.com/blog/rss.

I was recently attempting to broaden my skillset a bit by reading a simple introductory book that is more or less the equivalent of "Java for Dummies".  In a section that talked about conditional logic, it made the statement that you should always remember to add a "break;" at the end of each case within a switch statement or the remaining conditions would be processed in after the matching one.

I have attended the last two CFUnited conferences, but it looks like I will not be attending this year due to staffing issues at my office (they don't want both Aaron and I gone for a week at the same time).  This is a big bummer to me, as I have really enjoyed the heck out of the last two conferences.  It is a *great* place to get some face time with all the bloggers that you read and all the people that you exchange emails, code and ideas with on a regular basis.

I feel like a misguided Kanye West proclaiming "Bill Gates doesn't care about web people!", but seriously... What is it? Why is it so hard to just follow the same standard that other browsers don't seem to have such a hard time with? After my 3rd Internet Explorer specific problem in about 24 hours, I had to share this one since it is very easy to demonstrate, and I am sure that someone will bang their head on it in the future.

I experienced something new with ColdFusion webservices today and I thought I would share.   We have a webservice API to Ryan Everhart and Robert Froehling's project codeShare which allows our users to insert code in their blogs from the blog entry editor which is then nicely formated on their entry. Apparently in early February, they made a change to that webservice in which they added an optional argument to the end of the arguments list.

I often hate to admit how late I came into programming.  I first began writing ColdFusion code about 1999 after a longer-than-I-should-have-had "career" as a club DJ and lighting technician for about the previous 10 years.  I often consider where I would be now if I had started 5 or even 10 years earlier.  Then I remember the parties, the wild nights, and the reckless lifestyle I was able to get away with for so long and suddenly I don't really care anymore!

I just wanted to point out a sharp and very knowledgeable blogger that has hit the ColdFusion community by the name of Rob Wilkerson.  He has only been blogging for a couple of weeks, but has already generated some great entries revolving around ColdFusion, RSS consumption, OSX, DHTML and more.  It looks like he has a lot to share, so hopefully will hit the aggregators soon.   Check out MuseTracks.

Whenever I end up creating some fairly generic little UDF, I usually try to put up here in case some random person somewhere happens to find them useful. Inevitably, I always get *that guy* who gives me grief for doing so and tells me how I should have done it better or how I should have used Xyz() udf instead, but what the heck... here is another one.

Last night we were happy to have Josh Adams join us here in Dallas to present the soon-to-be-released Blue Dragon 7.0.  For those who may not have heard of Blue Dragon, it is an alternative engine to ColdFusion for processing CFML code on your webserver.   Josh is a good evangelist for New Atlanta and did a nice job presenting their product. There are some really compelling features in BD, especially combined with .Net (yes, I just said something nice about .Net).

I have been working on this problem for more hours... OK days... than I will ever admit, so I thought it might be worth throwing it out to see if anyone can help me get past my disconnect on Apache/Tomcat connectors. I have installed ColdFusion MX7 under Tomcat 6.0.9 with no problems. It works great, and I can connect to the admin by hitting http://localhost:8080/cfusion/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm. I have also installed Apache Httpd 2.2.4 with no issues.