CF_BlogPicks March 10, 2008
The big news this week is ColdFusion 8 winning a Jolt award and IE8 rendering rules.
The big news this week is ColdFusion 8 winning a Jolt award and IE8 rendering rules.
No doubt about it, the release of Flex 3 and especially of Adobe AIR 1.0 dominated the news this week. As such, I have a bonus 5 posts about AIR in addition to my five normal picks (with no AIR).
This week was a little easier to pick than others. Though the week had plenty of great entries (and a few on new quirks in cfquery that I was really sad to leave out), the following five are really entries that every CF developer should read.
In the discussions this week, Grails and SimpleDB. I have also seen lots of entries on SVN and ANT lately. All of them good, but they often get beat out by other entries. I will have to find a way to give them the focus they deserve.
This week brought several good blog entries including discussions of the pros and cons of downgrading the JVM.
This week was the most difficult week for me so far. I decided early on to only pick five blog entries every week. I usually find at least 7 blog entries that I think every developer should read. This week, it was no less than a dozen (from more than 50 nominees).
This week saw a major discussion on the future of IE8 and compatibility and the launch of Inside RIA.
This week saw one major news announce and two entries each from two of the community's more prolific bloggers.
I found several discussions on the same topic this week. So, this time I am grouping some blog entries by topic. The top link is what I would consider the main primary entry on the topic, followed by a few picks on that topic.
This is my first post in what I hope will be a ongoing series. In my discussion with other developers, I have often found that they miss blog posts that I think every ColdFusion programmer should see. The reason seems pretty clear: With so much blog traffic, it takes too much time to read through all of the traffic.