Two new releases and seven updates this week. This looks to be an exciting week with cf.Objective() kicking off on Thursday. I am looking forward to giving my presentation on the "Porky Pig" approach to Cairngorm development! Also, some very exciting releases this week with Doug Hughes CFANT and the release candidate of Transfer.
One new project and six updates this week. It is another Patriot's Day in Boston and another marathon and a beautiful day weather-wise, but I spent my morning continuing my frustrating journey into two-way encryption between Flex and CF. Yes, it's about as fun as it sounds. At least there are some interesting updates this week including major updates to Mango Blog and ColdBox.
Eleven new projects and nine updates this week. See what happens, I go on vacation for one week and all hell breaks loose in the world of ColdFusion open-source. I think many of you were releasing new projects purely as a means of punishing me for taking a Monday off. Well, you won't break me! Let me tell you, I am like...like a...like something that doesn't break! See, I told you to
stop worrying about ColdFusion!
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 seems lately the world of ColdFusion bloggers has become re-obsessed with the topic of ColdFusion's place in the industry with more rallies to the defense of the ColdFusion community and calls of "ColdFusion is not dead". Honestly this argument has played itself out so much over the years that it is tiresome and generally gets argued amongst people whose opinions are never going to change anyway. First you have the "ColdFusion Hater" who is generally dead certain of ColdFusion's impending demise despite a general lack of evidence or knowledge about the place of ColdFusion within Adobe and its current state of development (yes, they are hard at work on version 9). Then there is the "ColdFusion True Believer" who argues the exact opposite position though equally uninformed and who seems to believe statements like "ColdFusion rulez" is a convincing argument. Occasionally voices of reason jump into the debate, but since the point is not about reasonable discussion they are quickly drowned out by the flames.
