A friend was searching through some legacy code when he found this absolute beauty (names changed to protect the guilty): Wow where do I begin explaining whats wrong with this code? Actually I think it speaks for itself.

Liz and company are looking for folks to complete a quick survey about the future of the CFUnited conference. I've been to the last 2 conferences and I think of all the CF conferences I'm keeping this one on my must attend list. I am a bit concerned that some folks have expressed interest in moving the conference outside of the metro DC area. Last year was the first time the conference was held in the city (as far as I know) and I absolutely loved being in the heart of everything.

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I had a request via IM for a more complete example of doing validation within a form submission. I threw together a quick example here to better explain my thought process. Please remember I'm new to jQuery so what I'm doing might not be an example of best practices. Feel free to suggest an alternative. So essentially I need to capture the submit event of my form.

Over the last few weeks since CFUnited I've been in the labs refactoring, re-tooling and reworking SlideSix.com based on some conversations and feedback from a few of my friends as well as some general research on some existing presentation sharing communities. The result of that work is now live and I'm really excited about how things turned out.

My buddy Josh has planned the first ever RIAdventure Cruise for Feb 9-13, 2009. As I'm quoted on the official site, I think this is an awesome idea. I always leave conferences wishing I had more time to network with my peers and this cruise will give the opportunity to have some fun and relax with all of your developer friends. The price is fantastic. I'm not sure if I will be attending or not but I'm sure it will be a great time. Nice work throwing this together Josh!

What do I mean by contact list importer? Well, join any 'social network' nowadays and you'll likely be presented with a utility to allow you to invite your friends to that network by importing your contact list from GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc. These utilities are pretty nice, but if you think about it the code behind them is pretty powerful.

To expand a bit on my last post I wanted to brainstorm on some more potential enhancements for CF 9's potential Hibernate integration. Specifically I'd like to propose the ability to define validations within an object. I know some folks cringe when it comes to this topic, but check out my pseudo code below. I think what I propose could really work, and greatly simplify validation while still being powerful (with potential custom validations).

With commentary by yours truly... I wanted to point everyone to a short series of blog posts by Dan Vega where he discusses the future potential features of ColdFusion as shown by Adam Lehman and Ben Forta at CFUnited 2008. The Future of ColdFusion Part 1 The Future of ColdFusion Part 2 The Future of ColdFusion Part 3 Part 3 discusses the Hibernate integration that Adam demo'd during the keynote. I'm particularly intrigued by the prospect of this.

I'm abusing the blog a bit here by asking a question, but are there any folks with experience integrating OpenOffice with CF out there? I'm really looking for a basic quick start guide for getting started. What do I need installed on the server? I did some quick tests last night but couldn't even get past creating the bootstrap object to connect to OO. In my first attempt tried using JavaLoader to load up the OO jars, but got an 'no office executable found' exception.