A one-day CFML event in London to fill the gap left by CFDevCon. Thursday 25th, September 2008. Adobe keynote, talks by Mark Drew, Peter Bell, Mike Brunt, myself and Andrew Shorten. And raffles (of course - since this event is organized by the makers of Scotch on the Rocks!). Price? A ten quid cash donation on the door which will get you two free drinks and a discount on Scotch on the Rocks 2009.

Unfortunately, CFDevCon has collapsed due to lack of funds. I felt they were ambitious trying to plan yet another CFML conference in England after we'd already had CFUNITED Europe and Scotch on the Rocks, and so close to Flash on the Beach (and another web dev conference just before?) and then MAX Europe in Milan shortly after. Hopefully they'll be back next year with a better date.

Yes, it's true! If you head over to Bloomington, IN for the weekend of September 6th & 7th, you can get free training in advanced ColdFusion from Peter Farrell, Dan Wilson, Elliott Sprehn, Adam Haskell, Mike Brunt and Kurt Wiersma as well as advanced Flex & AIR from Mike Labriola, Zach Stepek, Simon Free, Kevin Schmidt and Aaron West! That's a smokin' deal courtesy of BFusion & BFlex '08.

Adobe has just published an article by Mike Brunt on High Availability that introduces you to the concepts involved in clustering and shows you how to set up ColdFusion Enterprise with two instances in a cluster using the Enterprise Manager in the ColdFusion Administrator.

Our original speaker had a schedule conflict and our backup speaker just pulled out so there will be no BACFUG meeting tonight. Sorry. We'll be back in September with Seth Duffey and image manipulation.

After many months of discussions and planning, we are finally able to announce that Adam Haskell, Lead Architect at The Kroger Co., is taking over development of the Fusebox core files from me, effective immediately. As the announcement on the Fusebox website states, my work commitments have gradually taken me further and further away from Fusebox over the last year. Although I managed to get Fusebox 5.

Since I have a fairly large body of very smart readers, I figured I could ask you a question and have you help me for a change :) I have a bunch of data in a database encrypted via ColdFusion and I need to figure out the exact Java equivalent so that I can encrypt / decrypt across application boundaries. The ColdFusion code uses encrypt() / decrypt() with DESEDE and a hex encoding. I know the key value (duh!) but I can't figure out the exact same Java equivalent code. Anyone know?

In case you haven't already heard, after the retirement of Matt and Peter's "cfweekly" podcast, Brian Meloche launched a new podcast called CFConversations. It alternates between roundtable discussions and interview format episodes and has already hit its eleventh episode! This is the fifth roundtable format episode and I was fortunate enough to be part of the discussion. The CFConversations blog entry covers the content in more detail than I want to go into here.

You know the one I mean. It's been doing the rounds lately. This morning I checked my webmaster mailbox and found hundreds of error messages from my blog. Normally, I only get one or two a day due to URL hackery attempts so something was clearly up. Yup, that SQL injection attack had been tried on my blog. Fortunately, the code uses cfqueryparam in all of the queries (it's an old version of BlogCFC but Ray has always been really good about this!

The local User Group Managers have created an attendee information site that provides suggestions for transport, tourism and eating out, as well as offering a forum and a suggestion box! Feel free to browse around and, if you want to participate in the forums or ideas exchange, register as a user on the site (it's free of course!). The site is powered by the Broadchoice Collaboration Platform and runs on Adobe ColdFusion (despite the lack of .cfm in the URLs).