I have gotten several requests for Oracle support in DataMgr. Now it is finally here as part of DataMgr 2.2 Alpha 3.

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This week had a really great selection of entries. I had to eliminate some entries that I thought everyone should read in order to get down to five. Be sure to read the comments, often they are just as valuable as the entry.

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I use cf_sebForm for all of my contact forms. Form spam is a constant problem for those forms. So, I set up a generic way to do filtering in those forms and wrote both cf_sebForm and SpamFilter.cfc to follow the same guidelines.

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I decided to use FullAsAGoog this week. As advertised, much higher signal to noise ratio. Still, I think I will use Adobe Feeds (nee MXNA) as well next week to make sure I don't miss anything. Don't forget, new Hot Fix for ColdFusion (thanks Todd Sharp).

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BlogCFC does a good job of preventing spam, but I sometimes get comment spam that I think SpamFilter.cfc could prevent. I decided to see how easily I could implement it on BlogCFC.

It turns out that it is pretty easy. I had to add a few lines to Application.cfm and addcomment.cfm. The drawback here is that I will have to repeat this process when I upgrade BlogCFC, but it is pretty painless.

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I have been using SpamFilter.cfc to prevent form spam for nine months now with great success (and no user impact). Other than some new spam definitions (including one in this build), I haven't made any changes in a while - no bugs or problems to be fixed.

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Another week where great posts had to be sacrificed to get down to the limit of five entries. As a bonus, however, a selection of posts about cf.Objective() including some passionate discussions about the future of ColdFusion. See why you don't want to miss cf.Objective() next year!

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CF.Objective was great again this year. I learned a lot and met a lot of great people. I learned so much when I went last year that I didn't think I could possibly learn as much this year, but I think I even learned more. The classes were great, but the casual conversations were at least as good.

So many people helped me and I want to give them all a shout-out here. I actually wrote a draft of this entry including that, but it looked like the worst kind of name-dropping.

So I will just say a general thank you for all of the people who took the time to give me advice, show me cool projects, and question my processes. Even if I didn't seem affected at the time, it has all had an impact and I feel like I learned a lot from everyone.

I actually had to skip the last two classes of the conference because I felt like my brain was full and I couldn't learn any more.

It is really exciting to think about all of the ways that I can take advantage of everything that I learned this conference.

I am excited take advantage of everything I learned at this conference and I hope to keep in better touch with the people I talked to at this conference than I did last time. If you talked to me at the conference, I would love to keep in touch, so don't hesitate to drop me a line.

P.S. - Ben Nadel has the best entry to capture the feeling of being at Cf.Objective. I couldn't have said it half as well!