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Full Day of (free) ColdFusion Awesomeness in DC

On Tuesday, October 12, Adobe will be hosting a free full-day event on ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder. Ray Camden (ColdFusion Jedi Master), Sam Farmer (Politico.com) and Terry Ryan (Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist) will provide an overview on ColdFusion 9.01, ColdFusion Builder Extensions and Object-Relational Mapping. Eric Hoffman (FoodSheild) will talk about how ColdFusion improved the way their organization operates along with a few other real-world case studies provided by Adobe and FigLeaf. Following the event, the Capital Area ColdFusion will kick off its inaugural meeting w/ Ray Camden. Snacks and cocktails and beers will be provided during the reception.

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Adobe No Longer Part of OpenCFML

5 months ago: I stepped down from the OpenCFML Advisory Committee amid a bit of drama. Today: I'm sitting with the CF engineering team wading through language enhancement requests for ColdFusion X and I'm reminded of OpenCFML.

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ColdFusion X Research in DC, Atlanta and Dallas

If your company is located in the DC/Baltimore, Atlanta or Dallas/Fort Worth and you can donate a few hours to offer feedback on ColdFusion X, please let me know. Rupesh Kumar, ColdFusion Engineering Manager, and I will be visiting ColdFusion shops to validate our concepts for Link (codename for ColdFusion X).

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ColdFusion Developer Population Survey

There has been a bit of speculation on just how many ColdFusion developers there are in the world today. 3rd-party research companies are saying one thing, while Adobe's internal estimates are saying another. Because this number is critical to the planning for ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder, we'd like to get to the bottom of this discrepancy. If you wouldn't mind, please take 1-2 minutes to complete the following survey. If you do, you will have a 1-100 chance of winning a copy of ColdFusion Builder.

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ColdFusion Builder 2 Research in Washington, DC

If your company is located in the Washington, DC metro area and you can donate a few hours to offer feedback on ColdFusion Builder, please let me know. Vishal Manakame, ColdFusion Project Manager, and I will be visiting local ColdFusion shops to validate our concepts for Storm (codename for ColdFusion Builder 2).

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An Evening with ColdFusion

Next week we will be holding a Special Event at the MDCFUG on June 22nd. Since we'll have a few ColdFusion team members in the Washington, DC area, we wanted to take the time to have an open discussion about the future of ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder. We'll kick off the meeting with an overview of ColdFusion Builder and we'll provide a sneak peek at ColdFusion 9.01. Then we'll open up to a general discussion about the future of both products and talk about the type of features you'd like to see. Just in case free pizza and beer are enough, we'll also be raffling off 2 copies of ColdFusion Builder and a copy of ColdFusion 9 Standard.

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Swiz 1.0 Release Candidate

On Tuesday, May 18th, the [swiz] development team released an RC build for Swiz version 1.0. It marked the culmination of several years of design, development and testing.

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