coldfusion 8 - enhancements you may have missed

a few weeks back, i was approached by packt publishing and asked if i'd be interested in writing an article for their article network. their original request was about arrays in cf8, but i asked if we could flesh it out a bit and cover some of the other enhancements that cf8 brought to the table. they were very accommodating and gave me quite a bit of leeway.

what's really exciting about this to me is that, i believe this is the first coldfusion-related article on their article network. and they approached me. it wasn't as if i (or anybody else in the community) approached them and convinced them to accept an article on coldfusion. they wanted a coldfusion-related article. hopefully it'll be the first of many, as every little bit of exposure helps dispel the FUD that still pops up today regarding coldfusion.

i'll also point out that packt is planning on releasing a CF 8 book, the coldfusion 8 developer tutorial, written by john farrar. very nice to see a publisher getting behind coldfusion, and i'm thrilled to be contributing even a small part to that.

please feel free to check out the article and let me know what you think. in addition to feedback on the article, i'd love to hear some ideas for other topics that you think might be of interest.