Hola, been awhile since I posted on my blog.  Been a bit busy ;)

At any rate, got a quick question on the advantages of Ruby On Rails... vs. say using Coldfusion?   Any takers on enlightening on why I would move over to RoR if I already know and use CF?

A small team in my Company are trying to get AIR approved as a Company standard for Rich Desktop Applications.  We already have Flex 2 & 3 approved, but would like to go one step further and start developing AIR apps for internal uses.  One thing we are needing is a list of Best Practices for Deployment and Security.  Was curious if anyone could share some information on best practices you have came across during your experiences? 

Just post them here so everyone can see them and leverage it!

Thanks in advance!
Josh

I ran into a very odd issue this week with Coldfusion 7. I have an application that I have had up and running for a couple years and I made some database changes, CFquery (DAO) changes. Since I use Illudium-PU 37 Generator for most of my Bean, DAO, Gateway, & services I automatically get the benefit of being reminded about cfqueryparam (Thanks Brian). Unfortunately this time around I didnt regen the files, I simply went in and made a couple modifications since I only added like two columns to the table.

Well all went well for like a week, than all of a sudden I started getting this crazy error. I kept getting a message saying "Invalid Parameter Binding(s)" and it wasnt even the new columns I just added, it was something else entirely.

I did some digging in my cfdump of the cfcatch error message, I discovered that for some odd reason Coldfusion was converting a bit into a integer even though both my bean, ActionScript Value Object and the cfqueryparam were all set to a boolean value / cf_sql_bit. So when flex sent over the data to CF all was well, but when it sent the data to the DAO.cfc to do a save/update into the database the cfqueryparam was sometimes doing it right and sometimes doing it wrong, it was really -- really hard to duplicate the error message, but here is what it the message was returning in the cfcatch...

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Just thought I would help spread the word that you can watch a majority of the 360|Flex Sessions on AMP (Adobe Media Player).  I just finished watching the Mate preso and it was great.  I imagine the rest are awesome as well I just need to squeeze some time out to finish them ;)

To grab the feed you need to subscribe to the 360|Flex channel in AMP:

1. Install AMP
2. Click "My Favorites" menu at the top.
3. Click "Add RSS Feed" at the bottom.
4. Paste: http://sessions.onflex.org/1733261879.xml

Cairngorm officially went open source a couple weeks ago, I started following the blog post by Alistair McLeod and Steven Webster when I heard the announcement.  A couple things are happening based on my readings, which I have linked at the bottom of the post (I suggest reading them in order). 

First off, this anouncement to me means that Cairngorm is not dead, it is very much alive and the Adobe Consulting team are working to come up with a strategy and execution plan to make it better with the help of the community (hence the open source piece).  I think this is great, it demonstrates Adobe's committment to the project. 

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