March 13, 2010
Just noticed this in the hotel and travel tips for CFUnited 2010:
$179 room rate special ends Monday 3/15/10 - tell your ColdFusion and Flex friends so they don't miss out! Last year the hotel sold out of rooms...If you're attending CFUnited, you definitely want to stay at the Lansdowne if you possibly can - it's an awesome hotel/resort! - so make sure you don't miss the special room rate (or, worse, miss the room block completely if they sell out like last year!).
March 12, 2010
Today the CFUnited team published the full list of topics for CFUnited 2010 and I'm pretty impressed! In past year's I've grumbled that I've found it a bit hard to fill my schedule but there's a lot of variety this year and a lot of new and exciting topics. The changes to the process for picking submissions has clearly paid dividends. At a quick glance, I saw about 30 sessions that I'd happily attend so I'm looking forward to the scheduler being updated so I can start to plan my days!
March 1, 2010
After a bit of radio silence, Scotch on the Rocks is back with a bang this year and it's coming up soon, just a month after cf.Objective()! Scotch hits TigerTiger in London on May 24th and 25th. A limited number of Super Early Bird tickets were available and they're already gone so you'll want to buy your tickets fast to get in on the action! And action there will be with the speakers currently (mostly) under movie hero pseudonyms and the first few topics announced. I guessed one of the speakers' secret identities and Andy said I'd won an Irn Bru (I love Irn Bru!) but I don't know whether he's offering prizes in general :) He let me know some of the other speakers and their topics - kick ass stuff, so don't miss Scotch this year!
February 25, 2010
Next week, some of the Railo team will be at CeBIT in Hannover, the world's foremost tradeshow for the digital industry. This is a great opportunity for us to expose more people to CFML!
Gert and Mark will be there, on the CONTENS CMS booth, along with Intergral. You can read more about Railo at CeBIT on the Railo site. That news release explains how you can get a free ticket to visit the booth and learn about Railo, Intergral and CONTENS can do for you!
February 21, 2010
The first Culmulative Hot Fix has been released for ColdFusion 9 bringing a number of useful bug fixes for cfscript as well as a couple of other important fixes. The Tech Note doesn't list 80717 as fixed - you can't declare a function called default in cfscript - although that is marked closed in the bug database. That one is of special interest to me because FW/1's out-of-the-box convention is to use 'default' for the default item in a section and it meant you couldn't write FW/1 controllers in cfscript on CF9, unless you changed the default item.
Since I haven't yet installed CF9 on my new desktop, I can't test the CHF out yet. I'll probably get to it this week but if anyone can confirm either way before then, please add a comment here!
February 18, 2010
I'm very pleased that two of my submissions for CFUnited 2010 have been accepted:
- FW/1 - The Invisible Framework
- ColdFusion and the Open Source Landscape
You can now install a plugin to Mura that lets you easily add FW/1 applications into Mura. See the Mura blog for more details!
February 16, 2010
February 17th sees me presenting FW/1 live and in person with free pizza, beer and soda! What more could you want?
Barring technical difficulties, it will be broadcast and recorded via Connect - details on the BACFUG website.
Please RSVP so they can estimate pizza and beer (and get you on the security list).
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