The significance of blogging is not the word 'blog' whether used as a verb or a noun, but its role as a harbinger of the game-changing Web-as-platform revolution. In particular, the migration of blogging from the individual toward the enterprise...

This is something that has been simmering below the surface for a while, but needs to come out in the open. There is a knowledge gap in the ColdFusion community and it is only getting wider. There are a lot of what would be considered 'entry-level' or 'junior' developers out there. These people can use a good bit of the database functionality that CF offers, but don't push it much beyond a way to display database tables and insert and update data.

ColdFusion recently took a bit of a jump up to #19 on TIOBE Software's index of most popular programming languages (ww w.tiobe.com/index.htm?tio be_index). I hadn't looked at this index in a while but it's interesting to see what CF is both above and below, and it's also nice to see the nine green up arrows next to it on the chart.

If you thought that 2005 would end quietly in the i-Technology world, think again: it's going to end with a rumpus, a furore, an unprecedented worldwide commotion. Because the Secretary of the US Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley have just written in a joint Letter to Airmen that the USAF is to start 'dominating' cyberspace.

I've been around software for 20 years now. Looking back, I have mixed feelings about the progress we've made. The end results have been amazing, but the process of building software hasn't fundamentally changed since the 80s. In fact, I see us making some of the same mistakes over and over again. One of the common anti-patterns is over-relying on tools and frameworks instead of inventing new programming models.