I was curious yesterday about which databases were supported by which ColdFusion Data Access Layers (DALs). I went to check on that and before I knew it, I had compiled quite a few comparisons on each.

Perhaps I should back up at this point and explain what I mean by a DAL. I DAL is any application that manages access to data (usually a database). These are often referred to as an ORM. An ORM, however, is one type of DAL (one that maps objects to a database). An ORM is a DAL, but a DAL need not be an ORM.

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As part of a larger project, I need the ability to add a new web site. Part of this process required that I create a web site entry in IIS. This ended up requiring a bit of research, so I thought I would post my results.

The process mostly uses VBScript from Microsoft. I had to find scripts from two or three places on their site and combine them to get the whole thing to work as I wanted.

The big challenge was to make sure that the web site was created, started, and publicly accessible.

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This week saw a great selection of blog entries (even more difficult to choose among than usual) including topics such as CFHTTP, PCI (essential in ecommerce), and free hosting.

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I recently got a "Server is currently unavailable or down for maintenance" every time that I tried to pull up a web page on my local computer. It took me a while to figure out what had happened.

As it turned out, I had installed Railo on my computer and then deleted it (deciding to run the express version instead). Apparently, I must have missed an uninstaller or something.

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This week held a mix of exciting news (Open BD 1.0) and sad news (Adobe layoffs hit ColdFusion product manager, Jason Delmore). Also an odd CF behavior, the CFUnited survey, and free subversion repositories.

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I thought I would have a limited selection of entries to choose from with most American developers of Thursday (Thanksgiving) Friday of this week.

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The big event this week was easily Adobe Max (and the announcement of ColdFusion IDE - Bolt). Even with Max, however, this week still has a great selection of ColdFusion-related blog entries.

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This week had some big news. Firstly, ColdFusion community staple, Steve "Cutter" Blades, just announced the publication of "Learning Ext JS". Congrats, Steve!

In other news, CFUnited registration is open and CF Doc's UKCFUG podcast had their first episode. All this and a great selection of blog entries (including the discover of a new operator in ColdFusion).

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I recently had a need to be able to set the IIS web root from ColdFusion. This is for development on a local machine (where IIS can have only one web root). To do this, I took advantage of the load_iis.bat that my friend Jason Holden created.

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This was a great week for blog entries. In addition to some great posts on topics like wireframing and form usability, we also saw some debates on OO and ORMs.

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