One new release and five updates this week as well as a lot of announcements. I made sure to release this update tonight to help calm the markets tomorrow. Your banks may be failing and credit may be disappearing but lest anyone think that the world of ColdFusion open-source is anything but healthy.

No new releases and three updates this week in the world of ColdFusion open-source...but let's get to why you are really here: yes, I noticed the lowly Dolphins beat the Patriots yesterday. I'd say this was the first sign of the apocalypse but there are a few things to consider: a) the Pats didn't have Brady or Mulroney; b) the Pats always seem to play down to the Dolphins level (see 2006); c) I promised my first-born to some fellow named Rumpelstiltskin.

Peter Bell and I have posted the second in our ongoing CFArgument series, this time we debate whether DAOs are a waste of time. You can probably guess which angle I took. Anyway, as we will be alternating who gets the full post each week, this was Peter's turn, so catch the full post over at his blog. If you missed the last one on the Iterating Business Object, you can find it here.

On another note, if anyone has suggestions for topics you would like to see Peter and I debate, feel free to let us know.

I am working on a project where a requirement for serializing and deserializing a component came up. This is possible now with ColdFusion 8, since the underlying work was done (by Rakhsith) to handle synchronizing sessions across a cluster. Nonetheless, there is no specific serialize or deserialize function for a CFC. This post offers the code for two methods to serialize and deserialize a cfc.

One new project and eight updates this week including the long awaited update to ColdSpring. On a more pressing topic, are the Miami Dolphins the worst football team to ever play the game, even worse than the Dolphins of last year. The Miami Herald says of this last game, "This wasn't just ugly and embarrassing. This was ugly and embarrassing by the standards set by the lowly Miami Dolphins of 2007." Based on the score, they were being kind. Oh, you came here for ColdFusion open source? Fine...