The 2009 Community Achievement Awards were announced today at CFUnited, and the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series won in the Best Book category. Here is the full slide deck of nominees and awards .
During the CFUnited keynote this morning, we announced plans to support ColdFusion 9 in cloud computing deployments. Not a lot of details were given, and pricing was not discussed, but this is what we did say: The current CPU based ColdFusion licensing, including no restriction on instances or...
I am in the ballroom at the Landsdowne resort, venue for CFUnited 2009 . I hung out at the resort bar briefly last night, it was great to see so many familiar faces, many of whom I meet only once a year. Opening keynote starts in about an our, making this the perfect time to tweak our presentation.
I am about to leave for the Greater D.C. area for CFUnited 2009 . I'll be presenting tomorrow morning's opening keynote session, with assistance from Adam Lehman and Terry Ryan. And, for those of you who think you know all there is to know about CF9, well, we have a very significant announcement...
As in previous years, I have managed to obtain MAX discount codes. But, unlike in previous years, this year they are not open ended (they expire August 31st) and I have fewer of them. So, if you want to go to MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, and need a little help with the registration fee, read on: My...
Scotch On The Rocks Europe is now officially a go, and registration is now open. Locations are: October 19: Munich October 21: Zurich October 23: Milan October 26: Amsterdam October 27: Brussels October 29: London
Terry Ryan has announced a Twitter ColdFusion Trivia Friday game on Friday, August 7th. Prizes include the ever popular ColdFusion Rocks t-shirt, and limited edition CF8 scotch glasses.
URL shorteners (like TinyURL, or bit.ly, or tr.im) are used to shorten URLs (duh!) so that you can post or e-mail or tweet smaller more manageable URLs instead of longer ones. SitePoint is running an article by Kay Smoljak entitled Get Shorty: Trim the Fat with ColdFusion in which Kay shows you how...
Serge Jespers demoed a series of augmented reality apps at the DevSummit in Bangalore, including one that got quite a laugh from the audience. SQL Server Usergroup Belgium has posted Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Augmented Reality Experience , and of course it is powered by Flash. Actually, this is not...
The AIR team has announced the release of AIR 1.5.2. Changes and fixes are listed in the release notes .