What's an "unconference"? Imagine a technical conference without strict rules and timetables, a more free format, more interaction than sessions, lots of presenters discussing topics of their choosing, casual seating arrangements ... you get the idea. And MAX North America this year will host 4...
Luis Majano has announced that he has partnered with two other companies to offer ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars - 16+ hours of intensive hands-on training.
CFML has come a long way in over a decade. Over the years the language has evolved, sometimes gradually and thoughtfully, other times less so, but evolved it has. And Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe have, understandably, been the primary stewards of the language, fueling that evolution based on customer...
Charlie Griefer has written an article for Packt Publishing entitled ColdFusion 8-Enhancements You May Have Missed . Lots of nice little goodies in this one.
This morning, during the CFUnited keynote, we announced that ColdFusion would be made freely available for educational use (including students and faculty). The program is modeled on the Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro for Education program, and will use similar distribution and similar eligibility and...
I am in hiding in my hotel room here in Washington, D.C., working on tomorrow's CFUnited opening keynote. If you're attending, don't be late. We have a couple of really important and exciting announcements to make, and some really cool demos too (assuming we can actually get them working by then)....
In recent years the U.K. has become home to an impressive array of ColdFusion related events and conferences, and among the list is CFDevCon 2008 in Brighton, England,on September 25th and 26th. I am not going to be able to attend this one myself, but seeing the agenda and speaker lineup I wish I...
cflib.org has long been one of the premier ColdFusion resources, a vast collection of all sorts of user contributed CFML user defined functions. And Ray Camden has just relaunched cflib.org with a new sleek look, and a great and snappy UI.
Last year we introduced dedicated ColdFusion account managers in the U.S., and they have been so successful that we've been working on doing the same for other regions. And Europe is at the top of that list. In fact, last year, at MAX in Barcelona, we hosted a ColdFusion BOF, and the lack of local...
Last week Gert Franz, CEO of Railo, announced that Railo 3.1 will be open sourced, that the new LPGL2 licensed project will be hosted at JBoss.org, and that the JBoss community will be contributing to the enhancement of core functionality. I've known Gert for a long time. We first met in Zurich...