Clarification and some notes on yesterday's "CFML is dying. Let's drop it off at Dignitas" article

G'day:
I added a coupla things to the "CFML is dying. Let's drop it off at Dignitas" article this morning, after some discussions and more thoughts over night. I'll just summarise them here.

I might not be, but Gavin is...

G'day:
A few days back I got a bit shouty about not being a dead CF installer storage facility: "Things I am not...".

Gavin, who is a much nicer person than I am, has - instead of just complaining about stuff like I do - done something about it, as detailed here: "CFML Server - A Different type of ColdFusion Repo - ColdFusion Installs". Gavin has created an online repository (via copy.com), of old ColdFusion installer files. He's got a range of installs for various versions back to ColdFusion 5, as well as a mix of operating systems and bitness (what's the technical term to describe the concept like "32-bit" or "64-bit"?) of the OS architecture.

Ways to call functions in CFML

G'day:
We've got Brad Wood and David Epler to thank for this article (sorry that Twitter presents information back to front, so start at the bottom and read up. Like one never generally would):

CFML function syntax

Wait for the dust to settle before installing the recent ColdFusion patches

G'day:
Hopefully you're aware that Adobe recently released a patch for ColdFusion versions 9.x and 10.x so that they will now run on Java 7. I had a small whine about the poor timing of this release the other day.

After some discussion I was a peripheral participant in today, my advice is perhaps to not bother installing it yet.