Review: The City & The City
I've mentioned my admiration for author China Mieville before. I think he is the best writer alive today. I've yet to read a book of his that wasn't both well written and incredibly fascinating. It's been a while since his last book so I was pleasantly surprised when I heard about his latest novel, "The City & The City." At its heart, "The City & The City" is a typical detective/murder mystery novel. The protagonist, Tyador Borlu, is a detective in the city of Beszel. Beszel is somewhere in Eastern Europe and isn't doing so great economically. Its sister city, Ul Qoma, however, is prospering. Tyador is tasked with investigating a murder of a young woman and soon finds himself embroiled in

Framework One
Back in July Sean Corfield released a new framework: Framework One, or FW/1. Sean has a nice blog entry talking about why he created it. The basic gist is that Sean was looking to create something simpler and more direct than the frameworks in use in our community today. I've been a fan of Model-Glue for a long time. I've played with other frameworks, ColdBox most recently, but I've never been as satisfied or as happy as I am when I use Model-Glue. This holiday week I thought I'd check out FW/1, and w

Looking for (mainly) non-American testers for RIAForge
A few months back Mark Mandel wrote me about an odd issue he was having with RIAForge. Every time he tried to visit the site he got an empty page. Not a ColdFusion error, but an empty page. I wasn't aware of any possible thing it could be, so I wasn't able to do anything. A few weeks back I got another email from a user who was in a similar situation. This user was also outside America (although in Switzerland, a bit far away from Australia) so I began to think it may be some kind of network security system at the host level. I checked with the host - but they said nothing like that was in place. To make things even more interesting - it isn't just a R

Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a quick note to say Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it. I want to thank all my readers here. Your questions, your comments, even your arguments, help make this a better blog. Thanks!

Quick Tip - Treating a ColdFusion Query like a Structure
I've mentioned this before, but as it came across today on my forums, I thought it wouldn't hurt to write up a quick example. ColdFusion queries are pretty easy to work with. You have multiple options for looping over them and can easily address the data when using a cfoutput: [More]