cf.Objective()

I'm at cf.Objecive() right now and so far things look pretty promising for the future of ColdFusion. I'm especially excited about the use of Hibernate, Ehcache, implicit getters and setters, explicit local scope, and full scripting of components. Granted I've known about most of this stuff since Max, but it's refreshing to hear about it again.

Spin Move!

I decided to play around with the ColdFusion/ColdSpring/Spring/Groovy/Hibernate stack again. So far I've got 4 out of 5 working in a very simple test project without too much of a headache. I'm actually pretty surprised how easy it was to hook up Spring to ColdSpring as a parent bean factory. Now I just need to get Hibernate working, which should be interesting since I've never played with it before. I'm pretty excited since I'm thisclose to using transient objects in ColdFusion without worrying about performance.

Transient Objects in ColdFusion

I really want to start using transient objects in ColdFusion, but the performance hit is just not worth it. Hopefully that gets fixed in CF9, otherwise I might have to switch over to Groovy/Java just to enjoy coding again.

Title Attributes in Anchor Tags

Here's a random thought. I wish browsers would automatically add missing title attributes to anchor tags.

<a href="google.com">Google</a> becomes <a href="google.com" title="Google">Google</a>

Also, just to clear up some confusion, it's a title attribute, not a title tag. A <title> tag goes in the document <head> and specifies the title of the entire document.

Getting Real

Just in case anybody hasn't read it yet, I recommend Getting Real by 37Signals.

Their blog is a good read too, especially the design decisions.