Railo Pictures + Debriefing

We had a great presentation by Gert Franz this past Friday at our CFUG. It was incredible to see all the new features of the up and coming Railo 3. Some features that the ColdFusion community have been asking for several years.  I am really excited about the future path of Railo in combination of JBOSS. The future is definitely looking bright. We had a great attendance of 20 + people, we had a great time afterwards when we had our networking dinner at Chilis.  I just want to thank Gert for a great presentation and all the group for their attendance.

Ogus Demirkapi posted some pictures for us in the Flickr stream.

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Railo will be presenting to us this Friday August 1st.

Railo (www.railo-technologies.com) is a CFML engine that runs on a wide variety of Java servlet engines, and provides a cost-effective, high performance alternative to using Adobe's ColdFusion engine. As you may have heard, at the Scotch on the Rocks ColdFusion conference in Scotland in June, Railo announced that they are partnering with JBoss to convert their software to a completely free, open-source offering.

Ben Forta (Adobe) had some very nice things to say about it on his blog recently: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/8/An-Open-Message-To-Gert-Franz-and-Railo.

Gert Franz, CEO of Railo and member of the recently founded CFML advisory committee, will be visiting to present an overview of Railo, and what the advantages of using Railo are for CFML developers. He’ll also be talking about the upcoming open-source conversion of Railo, and what that means for the community and the developers. Of course, Gert will have some free versions of the Railo software to hand out, and some other goodies as well.

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Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998, somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system architect, engineer and DBA where one of his favorite web projects was for instance www.zinodavidoff.com. He's addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). Gert is a father of three and boyfriend of one. He studied Physics in Munich some (many :-)) years ago

CFUG Meeting this Friday: Brian Kotek + Connect URL

Brian Kotek will join in via Connect to talk about a range of ideas and tools. Starting with unit testing with MXUnit and ColdMock, moving through some of his other RIAForge projects like Form Utilities and ColdSpring Utilities, and ending with a general discussion on OOP and ColdSpring if anyone in the audience would like to bounce ideas or concepts around.

This will be more of an open discussion and a walkthrough of using some useful tools.  

The url for this meeting is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r58475944/ So please connect at 7pm Pacific Time.

July 11th Meeting - Brian Kotek

We will have the privilege of having Brian Kotek present to us at our CFUG July 11th via Connect.  He will be presenting on OO techniques, his mock framework, coldspring, code generation and more. So please bring in your thinking caps and lots of fluids. Brian is an incredible software engineer and we will need the extra neurons to capture all of his presentation. So get ready, next friday 11th at 7:00 pm at Cal Poly Pomona. Brian will be sending a primer containing more in depth of what his talk will be and it will be posted here. We will also be releasing the Connect URL by Monday of next week.

So please mark your calendars for next July 11th.

ColdBricks Presentation This Friday + Connect URL

Oscar Arevalo will be presenting on ColdBricks CMS this friday at 7PM Pacific Standard Time.  The connect url for the presentation is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r81631736/

You are more than welcomed to attend virtually and if you are in the area, please stop by.