Waiting for ColdFusion 8

ColdFusion 8 beta is available. The new version offers some very usefull improvements like Step through code debugging in a new Eclipse plug-in debugger and Image creation and manipulation with more than 50 new CFML tags and functions. Next to that they offer better performance, a new tag suporting threading and the introduction of javascript syntax like ++, > and = (in stead of ) For more improvements view the specs

Fusebox 5 released

Why should you upgrade! Actually why not, Fusebox 5 is backward compatible, so you don't have to make any changes. For me Fusebox 5 has some advantages.

• Nesting of and is possible.
• You can use to include a template from a different circuit.
• Performance has improved (completely build as cfc)

Read about fusebox at http://www.fusebox.org/

Good to know:

• Reparse your fusebox.xml using &fusebox.password=dummy&fusebox.load=true
• Fusebox.org has been restyled recently

Coldfuion interface to mapserver

Siber Solutions offers an CF interface to the Mapscript API via the SWIG / Java API. Now you can ask things like createMap. But also manipulte the layers (setLayerData) in the mapfile the way you want them (in stead of using %var%-variables in the url-request).

Read more at the mapserver wiki

Or download instantly at http://www.sibern.com.au/index.cfm/spid/1_8.cfm

Notice that the latest mapserver is compiled for java 1.5, ColdFusion needs java 1.4.

drag & drop <li> lists

I bet you always wanted to re-arrange your -internet-map-layers (or pages in a cms) using drag and drop like in arcview. Recently introduced dhtml features allow you to do it. Both Dojo and script.aculo.us offer a script which can re-order <ul><li> items using drag and drop.

look at the demo at http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SortableListsDemo

WMS flash viewer

National Aerospace Laboratory The Netherlands has build a WMS-flash viewer. Check it out at
http://nlr-gis.nlr.nl/beeldblad. Some nice examples of several wms-services worldwide have been provided. You can also download the viewer and implement it on your own services.