I have been putting off a new build of my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator for months, but no longer (because a bug fix forced me to). First of all, some thank you's. This release *finally* officially includes the Informix datasource support donated by Gareth Edwards and PostgreSQL support thanks to Brian Ghidinelli. Also thanks to Tom Chiverton for finding a relatively minor and silly but important bug.

As many of you know, Adobe released a Hot Fix for ColdFusion that fixed a very important security issue whereby public methods were available as remote. It turns out that this caused me to overlook the admin password method being incorrectly set to access="public". Of course, if you weren't running ColdFusion 8 or you implemented the Hot Fix, Illudium would stop working. Well, its fixed.

You can download the update at the google code site.

On another note, I am looking into opening up the development of the next version of Illudium. I need folks with database expertise (I only have MS SQL and MySQL) and/or Flex. I have a lot of the back-end code ready but there is quite a bit more to do. If you are interested feel free to let me know by emailing or commenting.

It appears that things have been busy down under in between vegemite sandwiches. Through a super-secret source who chooses not to be identified but goes by the handle "neurotic", I have discovered some interesting information regarding the imminent release of Transfer 1.0 and a possible new ColdFusion open-source wiki based on Transfer and ColdBox. The information is at the yet-to-be-announced Transfer documentation site. While many of the pages don't yet appear to be written, I expect that to change soon. In particular I am hoping to find a sneak peak of the Transfer 1.0 release notes.

More interestingly, given the lack of specifics in regards to 1.0, is that the site appears to run on a new ColdFusion wiki software called CodexWiki. I have inferred that it is written in ColdBox and Transfer because of the "powered by ColdBox" logo in the lower-left of the page and the stunningly beautiful "powered by Transfer" box on the lower-right corner of the page. I know you must indeed be impressed by my powers of deduction, but my source has confirmed that this is true and that the software will be released as open-source, which in layman's terms means the "source" will be "open" (and not they have given up on the product).

Five new projects and two updates this week (and like 1,000 tutorial and presentation posts). Here I am in New Hampshire on vacation with the family and yet I am posting my weekly updates. Thus is my devotion to the ColdFusion community that not StoryLand nor Mt. Washington can stand in its way.

So, let's review for a second. In this series, we have gone from doing basic objects with composition and no framework and on to using ColdSpring and finally using both ColdSpring and Transfer, all the while utilizing code generated by my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator. In this example we are going to take a step back, of sorts, to our ColdSpring example. We will examine how, using the same back-end code we created in step 2, we can connect our application to a Flex user-interface with only a simple change to our ColdSpring configuration. As you will see this is much easier than it may sound.

A busy week with four new projects and five updates. I hereby dub this the week of the tutorial with ten tutorial(ish) posts this week. In case you are wondering, I do in fact have the authority to dub weeks - its a provision my lobbyist had written into the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Ok...'nuff foolin'...