I don't know what got in the water this week, but the selection of blog entries was amazing. It was really hard to pick just five.
The easiest pick, however, was Charlie Arehart's entry on CF411. Although this is really a renaming of existing resources, it is still a tremendously valuable resource for any ColdFusion programmer.
Like a bolt from the sky, forces have converged to alert me of sebtags incompatibility with ColdFusion 8.0.1. As CodeCop runs on sebtags, that meant that CodeCop wouldn't work on ColdFusion 8.0.1 either.
Fortunately, the problem was easy to fix. While I was at it, I wrapped up a few other small bug fixes and enhancements for sebtags and put it all together as sebtags 1.0 RC2.
I also updated CodeCop to use the newest version of the custom tags, giving it a version of 1.0.1.2.
So, everything should run now on ColdFusion 8.0.1.
Sorry for any trouble.
Yesterday was Labor Day here in the states, hence this post on Tuesday. Google has announced Google Chrome, a new browser. It looks interesting.
A good friend of mine has recently been educating me on the advantages of Functional Programming. As part of that, he has demonstrated some pretty nifty examples of LINQ in C#. When I first heard about LINQ, I wasn't impressed. Having seen his examples of using LINQ for Functional Programming, however, I now see the advantage.
The consequence of this is that I now find it ugly to have to do loops just to get a subset of data. I want to just be able to describe the data that I want.
Last week I read two books that combined to convince me that I need to start really pushing usability testing.
I have been encouraging clients to do this for some time now, but in the small voice "it might be a good idea, if you have the budget" way. Needless to say, that hasn't gotten any traction. I believed in it, but I didn't believe in it.
No major news this week, but a varied selection of great blog entries of use to any CF developer.
Another week of great entries - very hard to whittle it down to five this week.
It has been interesting to see the results of the recent series of SQL injection attacks. I have been using <cfqueryparam> for all dynamic data for years, so I wasn't worried about the SQL injection. Still, even for sites with <cfqueryparam>, error email messages remain a problem.
Although I have gotten some errors from some sites, none from my newer sites. The reason is that earlier steps I have taken prevent errors from invalid URL variables.
This week saw more news about SQL Injection attacks as well as some discussion about making sure you can get work in the future.
