Here comes The ArgumentCollection! That's the Broadchoice engineering team blog we've been hinting at over the last few days. If you subscribe to ColdFusionBloggers, you'll already be getting the new feed. We'll try to get it on AXNA shortly. So what does it mean for me, Joe, Brian, Ray and Nico in terms of our personal blogs?

We're finally able to announce our latest new hire: Brian Kotek! Like Joe, Brian was also part of our Global Developer Meetup and, as Joe hints on his blog Brian also survived our somewhat unusual interview process :) Brian is a great contributor to many online discussions about OO and I'm really looking forward to working alongside him as we all learn from each other on the team.

I have not been blogging as much as I'd like recently. The truth is that right now I'm working on a bunch of things I can't talk about. We announced that we'd hired Ray Camden, Nicolas Lierman and Joe Rinehart but we can't announce who else we've hired yet (next week, I promise!) and obviously we can't talk about who we're going after next (we're still expanding). We're planning our next generation services (products) we can't talk much about that.

Joe Rinehart! I'm very excited about Joe joining Broadchoice as Systems Architect. I've always enjoyed interacting with Joe on software design and development issues (and socially) so I'm very happy that I can now do that on a daily basis! Joe's blog post talks about why he joined and what he'll be doing. By the end of his first day on the job, he'd already produced a thought-provoking document on the analytics system that he'll be building with Nicolas (Lierman) and our database specialist, Robert Xiong.

Although we've been relatively quiet since the announcement at CFUNITED, I wanted to let folks know that the CFML Advisory Committee are working away in the background. After that announcement, Ben Forta posted his thoughts on the committee but there haven't been any other public utterances about the committee by its members. We're working on a number of things. We're drafting a document that will outline what cfscript features, tags and functions we believe to be "core CFML language".

In case you can't stand another month without a conference - or you're "down under" and want something local instead of constantly commuting halfway round the world - you should check out Web on the Piste 2008 which offers a great selection of RIA-focused talks over two days in August, which is mid-winter in New Zealand so you can get in some snowboarding while you're there (or skiing if you're that way inclined - weirdo!).

Intermediate Uses of CFCs - Nolan Erck 7/16/08 6:30 PM for networking; 7:00 PM for the main event; pizza sponsored by Internet Media Inc! Adobe San Francisco - Kojak Nolan Erck returns with part two of his series on ColdFusion Components (part one was our April talk). If you're ready for the next step in learning OO with CF, this talk's for you!

I'm working with Ray on some new features of the Broadchoice Web Platform and I'm building out some decorator methods to provide additional navigation across the object graph (essentially reverse navigation across many-to-many relationships).

I'm a bit late with this (I went to Vegas for a friend's 25th wedding anniversary party - an off-topic blog post on that later). MXUnit, currently the best unit testing framework for ColdFusion, just hit the big 1.0 release milestone. As folks know, I've been a big fan of unit testing for quite a while and used to advocate Paul Kenney's cfcUnit at every opportunity.

Joshua Cyr is organizing a networking RIA-related cruise in the Bahamas. The idea is to have all the networking and social benefits of a conference without actually having sessions. The five-day cruise leaves Miami on February 9th, 2009 and full-board rooms start at $345. Great idea Joshua!