This year's CFUnited was an eye-opener in many ways. Presentation-wise, there were some valuable insights into other frameworks and methodologies. The stuff I learned outside the presentations was equally valuable; there's nothing like getting to chat with people who's work you use every day, and to give/get real-time feedback.
I use MySQL. I love MySQL. According to a great deal of feedback I've received re: Meld Forums being MySQL only, I seem to be in the minority (at least in the former). So, in making Meld Forums MS SQL-friendly, I made the startling, depressing discovery that MS SQL *doesn't* *have* *LIMIT* functionality. You can use TOP to get the first X rows of a query, but you cannot specify a start position.
Ever get one of those "if only it could do this" urges when usings somebody else's program, and suddenly you are rebuilding the entire thing? I have, and because I like to tinker it usually leads to trouble.
In this case the application was Brian Rinaldi's Illudium cfcgenerator tool, a most excellent tool for converting your database tables into and MVC framework.
An interesting perspective raised in ColdFusion Panel last week (https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p34336028/) is that the introduction of Railo, an open-source engine that supports the bulk of the ColdFusion language (as well as introducing alternate features), will perhaps fragment the CF community.
For the record I strongly disagree with this sentiment, though I admit I understand where the statement draws from.
Well, CFUnited is over. It was my first time there, and my first conference in a couple of years. As usual, it was as unique and interesting an experience as I've come to expect from these types of gatherings, perhaps more so this year because I had a mix of scheduled encounters and unexpected surprises. Also as usual, I got as much out of the convention outside of the presentations as I did inside.
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