Kevin Yank from Site­Point is a nice bloke. He arranged for all the booze at the Web Direc­tions clos­ing party, and even promised to send me a Site­Point “eat sleep code” t-shirt cos he didn’t have any left to give away… hint, hint, you haven’t for­got­ten have you Kevin?

Any­way, after the con­fer­ence Kevin put two and two together and realised the nutso chick try­ing to scam free beer from him at WD was the same per­son who wrote a rather scathing arti­cle on Cold­Fu­sion Inte­grated Report­ing in the Fusion Author­ity Quar­terly Update (about which he had plenty of praise). For any­one not yet fol­low­ing, that’s me. Kevin had planned to write a fol­lowup arti­cle inves­ti­gat­ing the state of Cold­Fu­sion after get­ting some crit­i­cism for a state­ment made in an ear­lier arti­cle, that Cold­Fu­sion was “stag­nant”. Notably, our own Ben Forta had chal­lenged that state­ment, caus­ing Kevin to take another look around.

The lat­est Site­Point newslet­ter con­tains his find­ings. He’s not really revers­ing his ear­lier opin­ion, but it seems he does see some light at the end of the tun­nel and admits that Cold­Fu­sion is suited to some peo­ple more than oth­ers. He also quotes me using a rather colour­ful idiom to describe CF Report­ing that I may not have, had I realised he was gonna cut and paste directly.

Of course, this hasn’t impacted my high opin­ion of Cold­Fu­sion one bit, prob­lems with report­ing notwith­stand­ing. And I’m still see­ing lots of busy coders around town. We’re still on the upswing, baby…