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Positioning ColdFusion in the Marketplace (Hal Helms CFObjective Keynote Summary)
Posted on Mar 16, 2006
For previous CFObjective presentation summaries, go here and here.
Hal started by explaining that prospective buyers of any product tend to identify brands by a single words or concepts (we went through some examples...and I likely missed some details here). So, what is ColdFusion's position? "Easy" was brought up, and Hal addressed this by saying that to many IT managers easy means making my developers' lives easy, which may or may not be a priority, especially if they feel there is some risk involved in the choice. Plus, fads tend to take over and it is a rare manager that will oppose the opinion of his peers (because such a position comes with a certain level of risk). It is the common wisdom right now that Java and C# hold the position of strength in enterprise application development.
CFObjective Session Summaries Continued: Duck Typing
Posted on Mar 14, 2006
For additional summaries please refer to yesterday's post. Oh, and just a reminder, these are summaries and represent the opinion of the presenter (unless I note otherwise) - just wanted to get this out of the way since some might take issue with portions of Hal's presentation.
MySpace Moving to ASP?
Posted on Mar 14, 2006
A post on Digg claims to have found a beta page that shows that MySpace is moving to ASP. Now I couldn't view any of the links, which appears to be because I don't have an account (and I am not going to get one), but the "proof" here seems dubious at best. First, if MySpace is running BlueDragon .net, they could in theory develop pages in either language and they should interact - at least that is my understanding of the main selling point for BlueDragon. Second, IMO Digg has become as agenda-driven and ignorant as most of its counterparts. Check the comments that talk of "slow crappy ColdFusion". Most of the comments diss ColdFusion with no knowledge that they are running BlueDragon in the first place (you see the old CF doesn't scale red herring as usual - ugh) . It degenerates into the old PHP vs. CF vs. ASP debate that leads absolutely nowhere...besides, whether MySpace is or isn't moving off of BlueDragon seems wholly irrelavent to the debate. Can we finally settle on the fact that each of these languages have there place?
YACFOP - Yet Another CFObjective Post
Posted on Mar 13, 2006
I got back from CFObjective() last night. This being my first CF conference, I have nothing to compare it against, but I very much enjoyed it. In fact it makes a great first conference IMHO because it was small enough to truly meet people. On that topic, I met quite a few (Sean Corfield, Matt Woodward, Peter Farrell, Ryan Guill, Peter Bell among many others). Alot has been blogged already (especially the new Flex beta and RDS plugin for CFEclipse in "wotay eeksway"), but I wanted to give an thousand-foot overview of some of the sessions that I attended for your benefit and my own (most have or will have more information at the respective presenter's site). I will spread these out in several posts with about two per post.
ColdFusion Position in Cambridge, MA (Telecommute ok)
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
This job posting was sent to me by Jeff Takle: