Mike Steele has updated CFEasyMock to add strict and nice mocks, making this a 1.0 release. If you are doing unit testing and haven't yet checked out this framework, you really should download it and see just what it can do for you.

Adam Lehman just posted a summary of the fixes and change in the brand new ColdFusion updater. Foremost for many is official Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard support! Also general 64-bit support (Vista, Win2k3, XP, Leopard, RH 5, Suse 10, Solaris 9 / 10). Minor enhancements (depending on your position): Allows attributeCollection to be mixed with regular tags and allows additional attributes - useful working across multiple tags AJAX upgrades to FCKEditor 2.5, YUI 2.3, ExtJS 1.1.1, Spry 1.

Alan Williamson just announced that the BlueDragon open source project has an official name: Open BlueDragon, or OpenBD for short. The steering committee has also created a public mailing list for discussing all things related to the project.

The ColdFusion Weekly podcast has a public calendar of upcoming interviews and topics. You can subscribe via iCal to that link and have it show up in your calendar. Alternative formats are HTML and basic XML.

As a fan of unit testing, I was interested to hear about a new mock object generator project appearing in the CF world. I've been using Brian Kotek's ColdMock for a while and I really like how easy it makes it to test CFCs that depend on several other CFCs - because you can create "mock" versions of those CFCs on the fly that return specific values.

Joe Rinehart just let me know today that his Model-Glue session will no longer be about Model-Glue 2 (Unity) but will instead be the first full public showing of Model-Glue 3, codenamed "Gesture". The session will cover the history and philosophy of Model-Glue and show how the new release "will make it easier then ever to employ architectural concepts like MVC and Implicit Invocation in your ColdFusion applications".

Andrew Powell - Enterprise Class MVC with ColdFusion and Java - Saturday 11:25am We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of enterprise development is that entire subsystems tend to built entirely in Java. Software teams that serve the enterprise often build large, complex systems using Spring and Hibernate. How do you go about using ColdFusion with such systems?

Over the next few weeks, I'll be blogging about upcoming sessions at cf.Objective() 2008 that will go beyond what's in the session abstract on the website so that you can make more informed decisions about which sessions to attend - or maybe even make the decision to register for the conference!

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If you're thinking of signing up for CFUNITED 2008, you might want to do so before the end of the month. The price right now for the 4 day conference is $999. After March 31st, that goes up to $1099 so you can save yourself $100 by registering by Monday!