A sneak peak at the future of ColdFusion
Ben “ColdFusion” Forta is coming to the UK and Belgium to give you a sneak peak at the future of ColdFusion.
This is your chance to find out more about Centaur and Bolt on April 21st in London and April 22nd in Brussels. Registration is free but required and seats are limited!
ColdFusion rocks! Come see for yourself at SOTR.
Yes… I know… It may be a little bit strange to read this on my PHP driven WordPress blog but hear me out for a second. I used to be like many of you. I used to think that ColdFusion could not even touch the capabilities of PHP and I’m sure many of you still think that. But have you really seen the power of ColdFusion up close and personal? Have you downloaded the developer version and played with it for a while? Well, I did and it blew me away. I always find it so amazing to see that CF can do the same task in only a fraction of the code needed in other languages.
You really have to see it and/or play with it before you can really appreciate the power of ColdFusion. Scotch On The Rocks, the ColdFusion conference, is giving you the opportunity to do just that. They’re going to try and reach out to the non-CFMLers and see if they can’t offer them a little incentive to give CFML a go. They’re offering 10 tickets for each location to JSP/PHP/.NET/Rails developers to come along and see what all the fuss is, for absolutely zero cost.
Come and see the power of ColdFusion yourself!
PS: I am now working on a super-secret project powered by ColdFusion. So yes… I do use ColdFusion these days!
Free ColdFusion workshops throughout Europe
If you have any doubts, let me make this clear: ColdFusion is alive and kicking! Together with a number of European partners, Adobe is organizing a series of free workshops throughout Europe. If you want to find out more about what’s new in the latest version of ColdFusion or how to build ColdFusion-powered RIAs, go ahead and register for this event.
- Cologne, January 20th
- Amsterdam, January 22nd
- Brussels (NL), January 27th
- Brussels (FR), January 28th
- Paris, February 3rd
- London, February 5th
For more info and links to the registration forms, check out Andrew Shorten’s blog.
ColdFusion is alive and kicking in Belgium
I can’t keep count of how many times people have asked me if ColdFusion was dead and the answer is pretty simple: “Hell no!”. Actually, ColdFusion 9 is currently in active development and from what I’ve seen and heard, it’s going to kick some serious behind!
In Belgium, ColdFusion is powering some seriously big and high-traffic sites (like Kinepolis, Immoweb and ZDNet to name a few) and so it’s great to see that the Belgian ColdFusion user group is now being rebooted. Their first meeting is on September 29th at 2pm in Brussels. Fellow platform evangelist Adam Lehman is going to talk about CF and LiveCycle DataServices, monitoring and system alerts and will also let you in on the ColdFusion 9 (codenamed Centaur) roadmap.
More info on their Facebook event page or via http://www.cfforum.eu/ (currently only in French though).
Learn about ColdFusion 8 in your backyard (free eseminars)
I have to be honest with you guys. I have only recently started playing with ColdFusion 8 but I am rapidly falling in love with it. CF really does dramatically/extremely increase your productivity. The amount of code you have to write to do pretty complex things is amazingly small compared to other server-side code.
If you haven’t had a chance to dive in to CF8 yet, Kristen Schofield (ColdFusion product marketing manager) just published a list of free webinars starting on July 8th. This is a great opportunity for you to find out more about ColdFusion 8′s new features and powerful capabilities.
CMS done right with ColdFusion
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Can you tell I’m really excited? I was just reading up on today’s blog posts and came across a post that talks about something called “ColdBricks”.
Oscar Arevalo writes:
ColdBricks is a free and open source content management system specially tailored for highly modular websites like portals and dashboards. The current version runs on ColdFusion 7, 8 and Railo 2
I was immediately curious to see it in action. The ColdBricks website has a fully working live demo and I am totally impressed! This is a great piece of programming and it’s free and completely open source. Go ahead and try it yourself! I am sure you’ll be as pleasantly surprised as I am. This really is a serious competitor for the Drupals and Joomlas out there and it runs on ColdFusion ;-)
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