One of the features I like most about ColdFusion 8 is the cfdbinfo tag. The cfdbinfo tag allows developers to view database meta information such as tables, columns and data types. Another nice thing about the cfdbinfo tag is that it will work with most RDBMS servers. Each database server, whether it is Oracle, MySql or MS SQL Server, all have different ways of getting this meta information.

The JaxFusion user group meeting is today at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be on the new release of ColdFusion 8. I have a lot of giveaways for this meeting. The meetings are held downtown in the Modis building on the second floor in conference room B. The address is on the website.

The next JaxFusion meeting will be this coming Tuesday, August 7th at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be at Modis building in downtown Jacksonville. We will be going over some of the newest features of ColdFusion 8 which you may or may not heard about. I have a lot of giveaway items for this meeting.

It is official. Adobe has shipped ColdFusion 8. I am really exciting about this release. The next JaxFusion meeting will be going over some of the new features in ColdFusion 8. I am still trying to secure a room for the next JaxFusion meeting. I hope to have another update shortly this week.

I read on Scott Guthrie's blog today about how Microsoft will be showing off a version of IronRuby at the next Mix. There is already a version of Python that runs on .NET through their DLR implementation. He has code samples of IronRuby in his post. One of the exciting things to see is that Microsoft is embracing dynamic scripting languages like Ruby and Python. They are also adding Lambda expressions and dynamic features to C# and VB.NET.

The next JaxFusion User Group meeting should be held on August 7th at the Modis building in downtown Jacksonville. I am still trying to schedule a conference room, but we should still be meeting around August 7th. We will be covering some of the new features in Adobe ColdFusion 8. I found out at the Tampa Code Camp last week that my service provider, Mercury New Media, will be upgrading to ColdFusion 8 once it is released.

I was not able to attend Ben Forta's keynote or CFUnited this year. Part of the keynote this morning was on the new features in ColdFusion 8, but they also went over performance gains in ColdFusion 8. Ben Forta has posted numbers on his blog. Looks like the performance increases will be worth the price upgrade alone.

I bought one of the new MacBook Pros last week. I absolutely love it. I have used a couple of different database engines on the Mac in the past such as MySQL, Sybase, Oracle and more recently Derby. Because the processors in my Mac where based on PowerPC processors, I was never able to run SQL Server with out some type of emulation. Anyone who ever ran Virtual PC on the Mac knows what I am talking about.

Tonight we are having the first JaxFusion meeting at the new location at the Modis building in downtown Jacksonville. The meeting will be on the second floor in conference room A. Tonights meeting will be on how to use ColdFusion with .NET and other Microsoft technologies including Exchange server. Some of these features are new to ColdFusion 8, but others can be used in the current versions of ColdFusion. I have a lot of swag to giveaway at tonights meeting as well.

I just picked up my new MacBook Pro this morning. This is my first Mac based laptop, even though I have owned and worked with Macs since the 1980's. This is also my first Intel based Mac, so I look forward to start playing with the multiple operating system support. I purchased Flex builder earlier this year, and I plan on moving that over from my desktop to my MacBook. I plan on installing ColdFusion and MySQL on it as well.