I have been working behind the scenes for the past month or two to secure the support necessary to host another Flex Camp Boston this year. Thanks to the generous support of both Adobe and my employer, Universal Mind, I can now definitively say that Flex Camp Boston 2008 is a go. We don't have a ton of information yet, as we work on cost, speakers and sessions, but be sure to save the date, December 12, 2008 at Bentley College in Waltham from 8 to 5pm!

No new releases and three updates this week in the world of ColdFusion open-source...but let's get to why you are really here: yes, I noticed the lowly Dolphins beat the Patriots yesterday. I'd say this was the first sign of the apocalypse but there are a few things to consider: a) the Pats didn't have Brady or Mulroney; b) the Pats always seem to play down to the Dolphins level (see 2006); c) I promised my first-born to some fellow named Rumpelstiltskin. New Releases and Updates cfUniForm cfUniForm v2.

Peter Bell and I have posted the second in our ongoing CFArgument series, this time we debate whether DAOs are a waste of time. You can probably guess which angle I took. Anyway, as we will be alternating who gets the full post each week, this was Peter's turn, so catch the full post over at his blog. If you missed the last one on the Iterating Business Object, you can find it here.On another note, if anyone has suggestions for topics you would like to see Peter and I debate, feel free to let us know.

One new project and eight updates this week including the long awaited update to ColdSpring. On a more pressing topic, are the Miami Dolphins the worst football team to ever play the game, even worse than the Dolphins of last year. The Miami Herald says of this last game, "This wasn't just ugly and embarrassing. This was ugly and embarrassing by the standards set by the lowly Miami Dolphins of 2007." Based on the score, they were being kind. Oh, you came here for ColdFusion open source? Fine...

It's nice to be back in the world of ColdFusion at work, if temporarily. I am working on an idea for a Flex project where I am toying with using both ColdSpring and Transfer. For reasons I won't get into here, I wanted to try creating a generic base DAO that could handle all my CRUD via Transfer. This DAO would handle creating the Transfer object, populating it and inserting, updating or deleting it.

4 new projects and 12 updates this week...or actually two weeks. I took last week off as I was away on vacation in lovely Hershey, PA, with my family. This left me with a lot to cover this week, so let's get to it. New Releases and Updates New Project: CFCache Initial Release This project by Nick Sollecito does partial page caching. New Project: CFjqAjax Initial Release Michael Sprague released this project that replicates CFWindow, CFTooltip and CFGrid with alternatives built with JQuery.

Here's what appeared to be a simple problem, which in the end had a simple solution though with a long path to find it (thanks to Zoe Bloch for pointing me in the right direction). Basically, I needed my TextArea's to maintain the visibility of the text selection even when a user clicks on something else. Under normal circumstances, the selection remains, but isn't visible unless the TextArea has focus.

Returning to my ongoing series of reviews of applications for the iPod Touch, today we will look at a handful of free applications. As with most free applications, none has enough depth to warrant a review of its own. There are enough free applications in the App Store to fill youriPod but are they worthwhile and do they work as well on an iPod Touch (versus an iPhone). This post will look at Twittelator (a Twitter client), Facebook and two games, PegJump and Cannon Challenge.