My first arti­cle in print has been pub­lished! The Fusion Author­ity Quar­terly Update is now avail­able – lucky CFUNITED atten­dees receive a copy in their con­fer­ence bags, but other peo­ple will need to either buy online or sub­scribe to get their hands on a copy.

So what’s my arti­cle about? My love-hate rela­tion­ship with Cold­Fu­sion Report­ing, of course! As well as my report­ing rant, there’s arti­cles on other new fea­tures of Cold­Fu­sion 7 – includ­ing Application.cfc by Ray Cam­den, Flash Forms by Matt Wood­ward, and the Asyn­chro­nous Gate­way by Doug Boude.

I’ve just been lis­ten­ing to the Cold­Fu­sion Weekly pod­cast (thanks to Andrew Mer­cer for the tip) dur­ing which Michael and Judith Dinowitz and Dee Sadler (who did the lay­out) talk about the jour­nal. They men­tion the rig­or­ous edit­ing process that went into it, and I can vouch for the fact that every last sen­tence was crit­i­cally exam­ined. Judith and Dina Hess, the assis­tant edi­tor, did a fan­tas­tic job of mak­ing sure the arti­cles were of the high­est qual­ity, and many thanks are due to both of them for mak­ing my arti­cle far bet­ter than it could have ever been with­out them. Judith in par­tic­u­lar is a tire­less edi­tor who seemed to be online with advice and sup­port at all times of the day and night.

I’m biased, but it’s well worth check­ing out!