Ben mentioned sftp support at BACFUG (along with a ton of other stuff) so I'm happy about that.

I started work a while back on an event gateway / command-line rig which I'll make available (eventually). It allows you to write Unix-style shell scripts in CFML or cfscript. I have a working prototype but it needs a lot of work before it's ready even for alpha testers!

The CAR stuff... well, I filed an ER and Damon thought it was a good idea but there's no time for it in Scorpio.

So that leaves the missing method handler. Don't want to write all those getters and setters but still want that style of encapsulation? Write a handler that catches calls to undefined getXXX() and setXXX() methods and implements them dynamically. Want to do ColdSpring-style AOP without a lot of code generation or complexity? Write a simple proxy CFC with a handler that intercepts the methods calls and performs the necessary "advice".

What would it look like? Imagine you could define a function called onMissingMethod() in your CFC, that takes two arguments: the missingMethodName and a struct containing the missingMethodArguments. Now your CFC can respond to any method call and behave appropriately.

Ruby and Smalltalk both have this feature and, combined with the dynamic type system in those languages, it allows for some powerful, expressive code.

I'm very pleased to see two of my top four wish list features make it into Scorpio!

And, yes, I did ask (and receive) permission before I blogged this!