The last week or so I've had the pleasure of working deeply with http://jquery.com/,jQuery. And I mean that, it's been a pleasure. Once you get used to the 'style' of how it works, it makes sense and has a consistent coding experience. I've worked mainly with the core and the ui.jquery libraries, with fileupload thrown in. In the mix is also , and they have all played together nicely (so far!

Tonight we had the honor of http://www.coldfusionjedi.com,Ray Camden staying up till 1am his time to present to us @ 6pm NZ time. The meeting was the http://www.cfug.org.nz,NZ ColdFusion UG June meeting, and the topic was CF8 Ajax Goodness After a couple of technical issues (involving screen issues and incorrect Connect meeting rooms on my part...*cough*) we got the meeting under way. Ray, as always, gave a great presentation which promoted good discussion in the group afterwards.

I while ago I logged a bug for the first time with in ColdFusion 8. http://www.harrisfamily.net.nz/devblog/index.cfm/2007/10/17/cfpresentation-and-attributeCollection-issue,Here is the entry about it. While looking over the 8.0.1 release notes I decide to check... and yes, at the top of page 15, bug number 70594 has been addressed! Thank you!

Just noticed this on a mailing list: http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=303,Transfer 1.0 Release Candidate - Out Now! Well done Mark! Mark presented to the NZCFUG last year on TransferORM. I'll be downloading Transfer 1.0 soon to have take it for a spin!

I was working with a CFC today and ColdFusion threw this error at me: can't load a null There was no more information than that... I'm not sure why is this error happens, but I did work what is causing it... If you define a function that has an argument that has a default that is a variable or function with the same name as any of the arguments, this error is thrown. You don't even need to call the function, you just need to define it. Create a .cfm or .

Last Thursday at the http://www.cfug.org.nz,NZ CFUG group we tried something new. For the first time we watched a recording of a Connect meeting and had discussion about it once it finished. After voting by the CFUG members for the topic, "Practical Code Generation" by Peter Bell was chosen. About this Presentation (taken from http://www.carehart.

Rupesh Kumar (a member of the ColdFusion engineering team) has just blogged about surveys for input on the next version of ColdFusion! Go here - http://coldfused.blogspot.com/2008/01/adobe-coldfusion-survey.html to find the surveys and give the CF team some good ideas on the next version of CF!

Just noticed the other day that on the http://www.msn.co.nz/ home page there are some ColdFusion links (under the "News Headlines") From there, the links go to http://msn.nzherald.co.nz Great use of ColdFusion, keep up the good work APN!