Last week, Adam Lehman posted The Modern Age of ColdFusion. You should go read it.  The TL;DR version is that Adam Lehman and Alison Huselid have been shifted to the Flashbuilder team. I've been reading a lot of responses online since that announcement.

The biggest concern I see from people is ColdFusion X is now completely in the hands of the team over in India. If you're not already aware of this, ColdFusion has been primarily developed over there since CF8. Adam and Alison's job was here in the States and now everything is over there and I'm sure from a business standpoint, this makes sense.

A noticeable pattern that I've been reading online:

• Adobe team being in a so-called ivory tower and they never listen to what we want.

Mr. Lehman and I may have always had our differences and were plenty vocal about them on twitter, but the one thing that I will defend Adam on is that he was unapproachable. This couldn't be any further from the truth. The man broadcasted his email once or twice a day on twitter and he responded to the community in a timely fashion. I get that twitter may not have been everyone's method of communication, but how hard is it to ask anyone that's active in the community if they had Adam Lehman's email address?

My only concern with the two positions being shifted? Is that Adam's replacement has still yet to say a peep to the community, but perhaps they're waiting for everything to quiet down.

If I had to ask Adobe for a favor, I would ask that the next product manager continue Adam's tradition of being just as approachable and active in the community as he was. If I had to ask the community for a favor, I would ask that you continue requesting features and reporting issues as you find them.

I'd like to thank Adam Lehman for the time he has put into the community and more importantly, thanks for stopping by Pittsburgh and listening to the little guys for a day.

Just got cfbuilder at my job and co-worker was bitching about the lack of css / html color coding support. I forgot to mention that he has to do something special to get it all to work, so I thought I'd post the solution here.

Open up the preferences panel by going to:

Windows -> Preferences

Then nagivate to:

General -> Editors - File Assocations

'*.css' is actually missing from the list, so click the 'add' button and type: '*.css' and hit ok. Select '*.css' if it isn't already, the bottom window will change. Select 'CF Builder CSS Editor' in the bottom window and click the 'Default' button to the right of it. Do the same for '*.html' and '*.htm'. Again, make sure you select 'CF Builder' in the bottom window first before clicking the default button.

When you're done, hit the 'ok' button at the bottom. Save everything you're working on, close CFBuilder and re-open it. Color stylings for HTML and CSS files should now work.

I mentioned before that I'm on Twitter. I thought I'd mention what tools I use. I use Adobe AIR desktop application called tweetdeck from tweetdeck.com (screenshot). I have 4 columns that I keep track of. First column is the main twitter timeline with all the people in it that I'm following. The 2nd column is the essentially the same as the @mentions (or in this case, @webRat) link on the twitter website. So, anyone that talks directly to me or happens to mention my username, that tweet will show up there. The 3rd column is a simple search on the world "Railo." The 4th is pretty much everything CFML related (search: coldfusion OR cfml OR cfbuilder OR "coldfusion builder" OR cf9 OR cf8 -job -jobs) - I use this column for trying to assist people with regular cfml questions or trolling for haters ripping on cfml.

Until Tweetdeck gets their Android app up to speed, I just use the 'official' twitter app for Android.