Thinking Outside of the CF Box

Presented By John Paul Ashenfelter

There's a lot going on in the wider world outside of ColdFusion that developers should be aware of. This talk is a whirlwind tour of what's on the leading and _bleeding_ edge of languages, tools, techniques, libraries, and platforms that savvy web developers should be aware of. This dynamic talk will feature up-to-the-minute information, but at the end of 2008 some examples would include: * new web-oriented languages like Erlang, Scala, and Clojure * new development tools such as git, mercurial, and bazaar * new techniques such behavior-driven development * new platforms for deployment and delivery