ColdFusion 9 Research Next Week in Los Angeles, CA
Jason Delmore (Product Manager), Manju Kiran (Senior Engineer) and I will be in Los Angeles, CA next week conducting our final round of customer research for Centaur. This is our 5th and final week of customer research visits since we began last April. If you are not familiar with the Synchronous Development process, it's pretty straight forward. In a nutshell, we've been visiting customers and showing them what we're planning to build into Centaur. Based on feedback, we refactor rinse and repeat. It's a very agile approach to requirements gathering and really helps us mold our release. This process is used throughout Adobe for nearly all of our products so upper management places a good amount of faith in the results.
One of our meetings in Los Angeles fell through today and we're looking for another ColdFusion shop to visit. We'll be in town next Tuesday and Wednesday (July 8-9). If your office is in or around LA and you'd like to get a preview (and give us your feedback) of ColdFusion 9, please drop me a line.
3 comments - Posted by Adrock at 1:51 PM - Categories:
Railo Partners with JBoss.org to Open-Source CFML
Breaking news coming out of Scotch on the Rocks 2008. Railo, an alternative CFML engine, just announced their intent to open source their product in partnership with Redhat/JBoss
16 comments - Posted by Adrock at 8:51 AM - Categories: ColdFusion
cfDrinks in London – (Scotch on the Rocks dress-rehearsal)
The aptly named Big Mad Kev (Kevin McCabe) is rounding up Developers in the London for drinks and discussion (Monday, June 2 2008). It's pretty much a pre-party for Scotch on the Rocks. If you can't make it Scotch this year, come join us at the pub so we can try and change your mind. If are lucky enough to be going to Scotch, think of this as practice. ;-)
4 comments - Posted by Adrock at 3:50 PM - Categories: ColdFusion
Management, Operations, Developers & Open Source
Brian posed an interesting but familiar question with his blog post titled "Does ColdFusion's Cost Inhibit Its Development?". On the surface I thought this post was going to be an argument for making ColdFusion free, but he's crafty… it's really about open source development. Brian argues that, because Adobe sells software it's somehow misguided about what's best for the product. That rather than listen exclusively to developers, we're too focused on pleasing Managers, who in the end… write the checks. A valid argument, but far from the truth.
38 comments - Posted by Adrock at 5:28 AM - Categories: ColdFusion
ColdFusion 8 Wins Codie Award For Best Web Services Solution
SIIA just announced the winners of the 23rd annual Codie awards and ColdFusion 8 was honored to take home the award for Best Web Services Solution. I'm ecstatic to share this with the community who deserves a lot of the credit. After all, nearly every feature of ColdFusion 8 was driven by community input. Thanks for all the wishlist submissions, blog posts debating featrures and beta testers. Finally, thanks for continuing to build the cutting edge applications that push the boundaries of the web with ColdFusion.
7 comments - Posted by Adrock at 1:01 PM - Categories: ColdFusion
ColdFusion Demos v. 2
took some time to clean up my demos and packaged them up into an archive. I’ve shared a lot of these before one-on-one so you may already have a CF8Demo.zip lying around. I’m considering this rev version 2. "These demos are hot. Hot like fire!"
15 comments - Posted by Adrock at 2:06 PM - Categories: ColdFusion
cf.Objective() in Australia and Europe?
During our post-conference meeting it's been mentioned that cf.objective might expand overseas to Australia and Europe. I couldn't agree more and I really hope that manifests. They definitely have mine and Adobe's support. I'm curious to see if there is much interest. If you are in AU or EU, make some noise and let us know.
18 comments - Posted by Adrock at 10:34 AM - Categories: ColdFusion
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