Hi everyone. We've been busy. Sorry about the multiple blog entries. The homepage has been converted so that attendees and those at home can easily view what is going on for the conference. Enjoy!
CFUnited Blog
"Bring your CF application to Desktop with AIR" will now be presented by Simon Free from Nylon Technology.
John Grubbs "Ins and Outs of Virtual Servers" is canceled and replaced by Josh Adams ".NET Integration in Adobe® ColdFusion® 8"
The Day 3 Keynote is now going to be a Demo Durby, presented by Multiple Speakers giving a brief presentation of a really cool site or application. Amongst the list are the following:
Luis Majano - CodexWiki
Nate Papovich - Seefusion 5 on Air
Tom de Manicor - svnSync
Dan Wilson -
Mark Drew - Railo
Adam Howitt - WalkJogRun.net
Sam Farmer - Interfolio.com
John Farrar - jQuery UI
Andrew Schwabe -
We are excited to have Railo at CFUnited this year. They will be partially exhibiting near the Intergral booth. We also plan to give them a BOF session. More details soon. This news is so new it isn't posted anywhere because we are a little busy at the moment.
Railo Technologies GmbH, founded 2006 is located in Bern, Switzerland.
The Railo CFML engine project was started in 2002 and was built for the purpose of creating a high performance CFML engine which transforms pages written in CFML into executable Java Bytecode.
After months of programming, we were able to release the first version of Railo Alpha 1 back in November 2004. After a few further alpha releases and a couple of beta releases we launched Railo 1.0 in June 2006. The latest and fastest release of Railo, version 2.0 was launched on August 25th 2007. Railo 3.0 will be launched in August 2008.
On Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh this year we announced that we will completely open source Railo 3.1 and host it on the community portal jboss.org. Partnering with JBoss allows us to gain access to a complete new market and a huge community of potential contributors for the CFML engine.
Railo Technologies has several customers that already use their CFML engine. Just to name a few:
- Apple Inc.
- IDG Communications Inc.
- Spiegel Germany
- Radio Television Luxembourg (RTL media)
- Peta
- Warner Bros.
- Swiss Tourism
and many more.
Last week Liz asked attendees a few questions about what they were looking forward to at CFUnited. Here are what some of you had to say...
What are you looking forward to most?
"Being surrounded by thousands of other CFML developers. I love the sense of community I get from attending CFUnited. This year will be my second (consecutive) in attendance, and I've already made plans to meet a few community folks I've been talking with on Twitter for a while now. CFUnited is also the only formal CF training I get every year, and it's great to see what everyone is up to and learn some tips and tricks to improve my own code. This year, I'm particularly hoping to pick up some new ColdSpring tricks from Mark Drew's Better Living Through Configuration presentation, as well as improve my OO approach by attending Peter Bell's RAD OO presentation. Most of all, though, I'm pumped to see what new stuff Joe Rinehart will be presenting on Model-Glue 3." - A. Tuttle
"I think I would have to say the chance to actually interact firsthand with people in the community that I truly admire and learn from." - S. Wing
Which speaker will most likely end up on your camera?
"At MAX it was Joe Rinehart, in london it was Chaz Chumely and Shlomy Gantz, in 2006 CFUnited it was Ben Forta, in 2007 CFUnited is was Nate Nelson and Simon Horwith, so this year I bet I'll have Ray Camden, Mark Drew, and probably some of the guys from Webapper." - L. Frederick
"As many as can fit in my camera, which means it will cover atleast all from the sessions I attend. I am eager to attend the ColdBox session by Luis Majano at the very minimum." - R. Narula
"I don't take many pictures and not a big fan of photography but if there is one possibility it might be Mark Drew after visiting the Tattoo place." - A. Haskell
"Ray Camden/Ben Forta" - L. Smith
What do you plan to do outside conference time?
"Since this will also be a mini vacation, I will be checking out some of the museums, galleries and hang around the bar (I understand this is where the best networking happens). I have also scheduled a photography workshop, with E. David Luria, where we will photograph the monuments at night when they're lit up." - M. Harman
"Well at cfObjective, I seemed to spend most of it watching the geek shows I had missed (Lost and BSG) during the conference. ;) At this one I'll probably spend most of my time at the bar since that's where all the best conversations are." - R. Camden
Fill in the blank: I will mainly be around the ______ booth.
"It will be Adobe and no points for guessing the reason :-). I would also make sure to pay my visit to the Fusion Authority booth, still have the
"I will mainly be around the Savvy Software booth as Joshua is a WoWer like me and I need to bug him for level 40+ tips." - R. Camden
Do you have a new project you are working on and will reveal it at CFUnited?f
"Yes I do - but as it is a work related project - it will get revealed back home after CFUNITED." - S. Wing
"Actually, I do have a project that about 10 people are working on right now. Hopefully all will be revealed and attendees will love it." - L. Frederick
I know this is cruel to post so late. Raymond Camden agreed to cover his topic for a second hour on Wednesday at 1:30pm. It will be a continuation from his Ajax and CF topic. Includes Spry and other stuff. We will post on the schedule as soon as we have a moment.
If Raymond agrees, he will be able to record his presentation via Connect for those who may miss this presentations. As well as all speakers. -Liz
The Wednesday 6/18/2008 evening event will be located in Hall B at 6:30pm - 8:30pm. We will be serving drinks and hors d'oeuvres. This is a chance to chat with our sponsors and see awesome new demos.
Also, feel free to show off a cool application to other attendees at the Internet cafe. Don't forget to share. :-)
Christian Ready will be at the Media Booth doing podcast interviews with attendees and speakers.
Barnes & Noble is setting up a book signing with some of your favorite authors.
We will hand out some goodies too.
Don't miss out on this great networking experience. Afterward, we have Birds of Feather sessions upstairs and back at the hotel. Create your own BOF on the CFUnited Wiki too for other time slots.
We have a handful of presentations posted.
1. Go to CFUnited.com
2. Login with your user name and password
3. Click on "Topics" in the nav bar
4. Scroll down and some presentations have links that will take you to a PDF.
We plan to post more presentations as speakers complete them. Other presenters will not be posting their materials until they speak due to time sensitive material and new announcements.
Thank you for your patience!
We're excited to announce that presentations from every year of CFUnited are now available for download for everyone after login.
This means that if you attended 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008, you can download all the presentations.
Enjoy! - Elliott
If you have not read the Attendee Packet yet, please do so before preparing for your departure.
CFUnited Podcast: Sean Corfield - AJAX Integration With ColdFusion 8
Hosted by Christian Ready
AJAX is one of the most talked about "new" technologies of recent years but the reality so far has been that writing dynamic, cross-browser applications that leverage JavaScript is a complex, labor-intensive process. Find out how Scorpio will change that reality by providing AJAX functionality built right into our favorite language!
Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343311
