My faith in Royal Mail has been restored. At 7:30am this morning my door belt went and was greeted by the post man handing me an Amazon box. I only had 30 minutes before I left for work but it’s a great game! I played a quick Grand Prix and then a quick online game against [...

Fingers crossed, I’ve just had the confirmation of shipping from Amazon - the much anticipated Wii Mario Kart is released tomorrow here in Europe, Japan had it today whilst sorry, across the pond have to wait until the end of the month!

A typical question from a client arose, "who's using CF in the UK?" so a quick Google search using the filetype operator to get a rough idea, revealed some interesting results. It was only a 'rough' search so don't start commenting about the ones hiding the cfm extension etc. I think by far my favourite CF powered site is ReaderSheds.co.uk!!!

so here's the full text of the new ColdFusion 8.0.1 EULA; ...

I thought it's been a while since i posted a proper code blog entry, so here's one. It's based on how i handle updating a database when multiple values for checkboxes have been posted, the same applies for multiple selections too from a drop down box. First off, let's simplify things. Imagine if you will, three tables, users, groups and users_to_groups. - pretty standard type stuff with the users_to_groups table allowing a many to many relationship between the users and the groups.

A while back I blogged about my disappointment with CF8 licensing in virtual machines - my post got a fair amount of attention, i'll leave you to read it for yourself here but it sounds like a change could be coming!

I haven't blogged this yet (having known about it for ages) but these last few days before Christmas will be my last days at The Berkeley Group and after the New Year I will be joining Nik, Adrian, Ade, Josh & others over at Monochrome - so like most I'm crunching through all the Flex resources I can find and really looking forward to moving to pastures new. Nik even put a clause in my contract to present at CFUGs and conferences so i'll be back presenting again after a few years abscence.

A question arose in the Adobe ColdFusion forums as to whether or not CF8 supported named attributes (dbvarname) with CFPROCPARAM. There's been a little confusion regarding using named parameters since CF5 supported them, CF6 dropped them, CF7 didn't include them but then hotfix 7.0.2 added support for them which was then updated 1 day later with support removed.CF8, now using JDBC 3.0 had initial support for dbvarname in early betas but then was removed in the final release.

After Sean learnt something earlier this week it was my turn. After playing around for the first time with the Eclipse CF Wizards I was looking at some of the code it generated in particular the CFCs. In some of the gateways i saw stuff like returntype="myapp.somebean[]" - I'd never seen this syntax before and had always used a returntype of array but turns out i've been missing a treat for returning an array of objects of a certain type!

Note to self - when using xmlsearch() to search xml packets (in this case the response of using http://maps.google.com/maps/geo) which is returned with a namespace defined as; the xmlsearch() would need to include a colon (:),eg Omitting the colon returns no results when a search is performed. It's not a CF bug as Steve Erat points out.