I'd like to take this, slightly belated1, opportunity both to welcome David Patricola to Jefferson, as well as welcome him back from the dark side2. David has a history of working with ColdFusion, however, in recent years he's been working in the PHP world. Fortunately now we have him back in the CF community.1 David began with us sometime in October, though I'm just starting to get my head back above water now.2 Calling PHP the dark side is not intended as an attack on PHP developers.

Thomas Jefferson University* is currently looking for an Intermediate to Advanced level ColdFusion developer with strong design and layout skills. Flash/Flex skills and knowledge of Contribute a plus.We are a small team that maintains TJU's internet and intranet web presence. In addition we do small to medium sized ColdFusion applications for various departments. For many of our projects we utilize Model-Glue. We provide complete service from design to database work.

During the recent Adobe Developer Week, I somehow found myself in a private session showing off some high end features that are being worked on for ColdFusion 9. Now, I'm sure that those invited all agreed not to disclose any information that was being presented, but since I ended up there uninvited, I thought I'd share what I saw.

I recently found myself in the beta test group for Tunnels of Doom Reboot. My initial thought was that this would be easy. After all, I do write code for a living. I regularly test my code as well as my colleagues' code. I've spent countless hours of my life playing the original; I know it inside and out. How hard could this be?Enter a world of fantasy where your instincts and imagination determine your chances of survival. Your journey is about to begin—Prepare yourself.

There have been a couple of recent posts regarding extending ColdFusion data types using the underlying java APIs.ColdFusion array is actually an implementation of java list (java.util.List). So all the list methods are actually available for Array. CF provides most of the list functionality using Array functions but there are few things possible with java list which you can not do directly with CF functions.

As I'm sure you are already aware, there is a ColdFusion IDE survey out right now.Tired of Dreamweaver/CFEclipse/Homesite/CFStudio/Notepad? Do you wish they did more or there was something better out there altogether? Do you want Adobe to provide it? Help us help you! We want to hear your thoughts about how we can best support you and your development in ColdFusion!Of course I want better tools! Who doesn't? The fact of the matter is that there never will be the perfect IDE for all situations.