ColdFusion 8.0 cumulative hot fix 2 is available. It fixes a good amount of bugs, including the ones that were already fixed in CHF 1.
As always – this is a new piece of software, so make sure you actually have to fix one of those issues in your apps if you want to install [...]

Very nice – IBM Developerworks have published an article from Jim Priest on the CFEclipse ColdFusion plugin for Eclipse.
Besides an introduction tutorial on installation, Eclipse terminology and the CFEclipse views, the article also covers debugging with CF 8 in Eclipse as well as deployment using the FTP Synchronization of Aptana.
Excellent article Jim, and awesome to [...]

I’m just working on a some sort of a timezone related piece of functionality and while doing some investigation towards all the timezones in OZ and NZ and the dates when they switch between DST and Standard Time, I came across a very odd purple bubble called WCT = Western Central Time.

Does anyone know WCT [...]

Just in case you live in OZ and haven’t heard about the upcoming CFCamps:
CFCAMP dates and venues:
* Sydney – 20th November, at Rydges World Square
* Brisbane – 21st November, at BCEC
* Melbourne – 22nd November, at Crown Promanade
* Perth – 27th November, at Hyatt Regency
It’s free, but make sure you register online: http://cfcamp.eventbrite.com/
Full agenda details [...]

O’Reilly has a series of so called “Short Cuts”, PDF e-books that introduce new technologies or major updates of those in a brief, compact way. Introduction to Flex 2.0 by Roger Braunstein is such a “Short Cuts” title and comprises 88 pages full of valuable information for the upcoming Flex developer
The author bascially [...]

I’m currently working through my inbox and find all those interesting stuff I’ve thought “I need to blog about that”…:)
Here’s another one: Prayank has presented on unit testing with Flex and FlexUnit. It’s already a while ago but still available, have a look! Sourcecode download is here.

I’ve come across that because a customer of mine wanted to have a nice error page displayed in case of having to restart ColdFusion or any other woe with the underlying JRun.
You can configure that particular type of error page in the HTTP server connector and it’s fairly straight forward for Apache as it’s [...]