Thanks to Michael and Judith Dinowitz, there is a new ColdFusion book on the market, Adobe ColdFusion Anthology, and I'm glad to have had a hand in it.

I've been sitting on this for over a year now it's finally here! The book is an anthology of articles from Fusion Authority magazine. Chapter 11 of the book is my contribution, "You Might Have a Performance Bottleneck If". Written in the mood of Jeff Foxworthy, I outline 12 common problems in web applications (not just CF applications) that can be easily solved by the proper use of a database.

What are you waiting for? Pick up your copy of Adobe ColdFusion Anthology today! :)

The Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group has been working through the book Head First Design Patterns, taking the Java-centric code examples in the chapters and implementing them in ColdFusion to see how they may apply to us as ColdFusion developers. Click here for a continually updated list of presentations.

Keep updated with ColdFusion in the DFW area by following @dfwcfug on Twitter.

The Dallas / Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group is proud to announce that Adobe Evangelist Terry Ryan will be making a special stop in Dallas on March 24th to present ColdFusion Builder, the new eclipse based IDE for developing ColdFusion applications.

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Tonight at the Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting, I'll be continuing our series on design patterns with a presentation on The Template Pattern. The meeting will be begin at 6:30 with a training topic. The main presentation will be presented using Adobe Connect, so you can join us live or view the recording later. Keep updated with ColdFusion in the DFW area by following @dfwcfug on Twitter.

Sorry I've been off the radar for so long, but I've had a heck of a year. I'll be posting a few things shortly, but in the meantime you can take a look at what started out as a blog post and ended up as a published article. My article, "You Might Have a Performance Bottleneck If . . ." has just been published in the latest Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. Yes, you read that correctly. There's a new FAQU and you can read it right now.

I was browsing through some tickets in Jira today when I found a couple of bugs related to tables not displaying correctly in MSIE. When I found an example, it basically looked like a <TR> tag had not been closed correctly. When I viewed the source HTML, imagine how surprised I was to find a <cfif> statement gumming up the works.

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Earlier today, Ray Camden posted a quick ColdFusion-centric solution to showing only the Nth records of a query. His solution is fine, but I wonder how it would perform for large queries on a site under high load. Here's a database-centric solution that pulls back every Nth record, allowing CF to just display the final record set.

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Since I'm so late in covering the rest of my MAX trip, I'll just hit the highlights and link to extended coverage elsewhere.

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The first day of MAX was so very interesting. Even though there were more attendees than last year, the layout of the Moscone West convention center made for a much better experience. The Unconference sessions that ran alongside the official sessions weren't just the icing on the cake. Sometimes they were the cake (not a lie).

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Before MAX even got underway, I spent an afternoon at Adobe HQ with a bunch of other ColdFusion die hards. Apparently, the plethora of ColdFusion sessions available at MAX weren't enough for some of us. Afterwards, beer!

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