I Miss ColdFusion 8 Beta

Why?

Well because they had a bug tracker, I could submit a bug and find the status of that bug. This is a great and powerful feature that instills confidence that a reported bug has even been seen.

What we have now is a wish form, where you can send through a bug or wish, but you never know what has happened with it after that. Every hot fix that comes out you check the release notes hoping that your bug made it, and if it didn't you wonder, did they get it?

The bug I'm referring to is the &nbsp; placed in every tab of <cflayout making it hard to place content at the top of tabs. Now compared to the bugs that were fixed in this first hot fix, it's probably not significant and I'm really happy that they have released a hot-fix so quickly, great job.

It's the unknown factor that I am uneasy with. There may be a good reason why there isn't a bug tracking system like in the beta where you can track your bug, see if QA has verified it and perhaps see which release or hotfix it might be fixed in, but I really can't think of any negatives for that. And they have the program already, it was in the beta system.

CFWACK Delayed but Almost Here!

I have pre-ordered all 3 books of the CFWACK through Amazon, and thought I would share that I got an email from them saying that the

ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Had been delayed. The new estimated arrival was: 09/25/2007 - 10/03/2007

Which isn't that far off, it looks like the books will not be released at the same time, not much time between them however, I thought this might be the case and ordered mine to ship separately so that I can get each book as quickly as possible.

I kind of skim these books these days, but I buy every release for the office, new developers and existing developers always get great value from them. I actually learnt to program ColdFusion reading this book around 2001 and can highly recommend them.

If you read Blog posts (and you do if you are reading this) then you will be glad to know that both Ben Forta and Ray Camden are the main authors on this book so expect high quality content.

Here is what Amazon tells me for the books

Volume 1: Getting Started
September 25, 2007 - October 3, 2007

Volume 2: Application Development
October 18, 2007 - October 26, 2007

Volume 3: Advanced Application Development
November 10, 2007 - November 19, 2007

ColdFusion Color Coding Released

I said I would release the modified version of the color coding for ColdFusion code when I was happy with it and here it is.

Thanks to Steve Onnis who fixed a problem with one of the regular expressions and added in a missing one.

See Demo and Code