Well, Sunday night I went to see Journey and Def Leppard with Jenn and a group of friends (Todd, Monica, Eric, Krista and some neighbors of Todd & Monica.) Jeff Scott Soto was singing for Journey in replacement for Steve Augeri (the current lead singer), as Steve is suffering from a throat infection. If you've never heard Augeri sing, if you close your eyes, you would indeed think it was Steve Perry singing. Augeri was an excellent choice to take over the reigns.
Anyway, I was pretty excited to hear Soto sing for Journey. I've been a fan of Soto's since his early work with Yngwie Malmsteen (I love his vocals on I'll See The Light Tonight.) Overall Jeff did an excellent job, but they definitely seem to alter the set to match his vocals. My only disappointment was that he didn't even try to sing any of the songs Steve Perry sang in falsetto (Open Arms, Faithfully, Who's Crying Now.) Those were the songs that I thought might bring Jeff some trouble, but I wanted to hear him sing them, as I've never really heard Jeff attempt to sing anything in that style (not saying he hasn't done it, I've just never heard it if he has.)
To my surprise Deen Castronovo (the drummer) sang those three songs. While he doesn't have the impact of either Steve (but who really does,) I was really shocked out how well he sang those songs. I never had any idea Deen had those kind of pipes. I've always considered him a kick ass drummer, just never knew he could sing like that.
Damon Cooper has blog Rupesh Kumar's latest CFTHREAD Proof of Concept (POC).
Rupesh is an Adobe "scientist" (a cool word for CF Developer Engineer.) He was very active in listening to feedback from the original version of the code that was released. I, along with a few other developers, were in active discussions with him over issues with the first release. Thanks to Rupesh's hard work, he's addressed the issues that were discussed.
The biggest changes are the addition of being able to pass attributes to the CFTHREAD tag (which allows you to pass in variables who's values can't change,) threads having their own unique scope (so that variables outside the thread aren't negative affective,) and the addition of the thread.OUTPUT and thread.ERROR variables.