ColdFusion 11: if Adobe haven't quite sapped yer will to live yet...

... could you do me a quick favour?

G'day:
A while back I raised this ticket with Adobe: 'List member functions should all be prefixed with "list"'; it's kinda self explanatory, but the gist is they'd implemented list member functions (good), but changed the names of the member functions to no-longer match their headless function counterparts. So the member function version of listAppend() was just append(); listEach() was just each().

I figured this was of dubious merit as it muddied what was a list-oriented member function and what was simply a string-oriented one (.append() could just as easily do a string-append as opposed to a list-append), and this notion got a lot of support: "Survey results: lists in CFML, and the naming of list member functions".

Credit where it's due, Adobe marked it to fix, and indeed "fixed" it before release of ColdFusion 11. So now we have myList.listAppend(), myList.listFind(), etc. But we still have myList.changeDelims(), myList.each() and a few others haven't got their list prefixes.

I duly raised another bug to cover this, yesterday: "listChangeDelims() member function missing".

Today Rupesh simply closed this ticket as "Closed/Withdrawn/NotABug", offering this insight:

delimiter is meaningful only for list and therefore there is no ambiguity on this. That is the reason the list methods dont need any separate qualification.
list.changeDelims() is better than list.listChangeDelims()
Same is the case for map, each and filter methods. They apply only for collection and I don't see any ambiguity there.

Honestly? Sigh.

CFML: I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?

G'day:
This is for Brad and Christopher and Mark.

ColdFusion 11: "Select ColdFusion Server Profile"

G'day:
I'm just getting rid of the ColdFusion 11 beta on my machine, and installing the release version. Straight away there's an intriguing new feature that wasn't in the beta:  "Select ColdFusion Server Profile":

ColdFusion 10: be prepared, Adobe is removing the downloads

G'day:
Amongst the (fairly muted) hubbub around ColdFusion 11 shipping today ("Announcing the launch of ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion Builder 3"), Adobe slipped some bad news into the mix as well. In a few weeks they will be removing the ColdFusion 10 downloads from their site:

Availability of installers for CF10 and CFB 2.0.1
ColdFusion 10 installers and ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 installers will only be available for download on adobe.com for a limited time – till the 14th of May, 2014. If you need these installers for later use, then please download them before the 14th of May, 2014.

ColdFusion 11: it should go without saying...

G'day:
I don't believe ColdFusion 11 is production-ready yet: the beta was too short, and - speaking for myself - I'm still finding bugs every time I decide to try something (not "every time I look for bugs" but "every time I try one of the new features, just to see how it works"). And not inconsequential bugs.

So I was out by a fortnight: ColdFusion 11 ships

G'day:
I originally guessed that CF11 would be released on May 12: "ColdFusion 11 release date confirmed to be no later than...", but I was wrong. It's just been released: "Announcing the launch for ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion Builder 3".

I've not much else to add on that topic, other than to say I don't think it's ready: it needed another round of beta.

It'll be interesting to see how many of the bugs I've raised in it have been fixed. I'll start looking into that this evening.

Anyway, there you go. That's the "breaking news".

--
Adam

"ColdFusion today is a uniquely irrelevant product"

G'day:
Some of my elves put me onto this (no, I do not really have elves, but the person probably doesn't want to be identified as the person bringing this to my attention).

Here's a video presentation by Gojko Adžić entitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flexible Scope", which is about - at least in part - on how to plan a software road map. That in itself is moderately interesting. I have not watched the whole lot, as the streaming quality for me is very choppy, and it's a bit frustrating to watch/listen to.

But what is fascinating is that he's chosen Adobe ColdFusion's roadmap, and their general approach to software releases as the model "how not to" situation.