Three new projects and four updates this week. Not only was this a relatively busy week of releases, but it was a week filled with controversy and interesting discussions. There was the ongoing Sys-Con debacle that has not only made the Flex and Flash community realize what we ColdFusion folks knew long ago (i.e Sys-Con is disgusting) but also seems to have made Sys-Con join the world of the delusional and insane. On the ColdFusion side, Sean Corfield stirred the pot and brought up a lot of healthy discussion about open-source and community.

One new project and five updates this week. A somewhat light week this week in the world of ColdFusion open source. So, get caught up and go enjoy March Madness...which, by the way, isn't that much fun since, for the most part, the winners have been the favorites.

This week Peter and I discuss the usefulness of learning the popular Object Relational Mapping (ORM) solutions for ColdFusion. There are a small group of solutions with Transfer being the most widely known but which also include Reactor and DataFaucet. Indeed, it has already been announced that ColdFusion 9 (Centaur) will include Hibernate integration.

Two new releases and three updates released this week. You may have noticed something different about this week's post. You are quite observant; I did indeed write this on a shiny new MacBook Pro. Thanks, yes, it is quite nice though I am not entirely used to the new mouse and keep right clicking when I mean to click and drag. This post has a shiny new unibody construction...yeah, it sounds fancy but the post isn't any more informative however.

Peter and I jump into the middle of the debate started by Neil Middleton with his recent post that directs ColdFusion developers to go out and learn a new language. In the end, the discussion centers around whether there is any particular reason ColdFusion developers should be singled out for this and also whether there is inherently more value in learning new languages as in general skill building. As you might have guessed, I won the debate, though not without going into six overtimes first. You can catch the post on Peter's blog this time around.