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Win Tickets to 360|Flex Indy at Flex Camp Boston
Posted on Nov 13, 2008
Tom and John just announced their next 360|Flex event will be held in Indianapolis on May 18 - 20th, 2009. They have also generously offered a ticket to this event for two lucky attendees of Flex Camp Boston 2008! Flex Camp Boston already has great speakers lined up and we are continuing to fill out our agenda with more details about each session. We are also continuing to get exciting giveaways like this one, so look for more to come. Flex Camp Boston is a full day event for only $30, but hurry because the price will go up to $40 on December 1st and we still expect to sell out again! So, register now!
If you can't wait to see if you are a lucky winner of the 360|Flex event ticket, they plan to open registration following MAX. If I were you, I would keep my eye out as the first set of 100 tickets goes for the low, low price of $199!
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - November 10, 2008
Posted on Nov 10, 2008
Two new projects and three updates this week. The week may have been light on releases but was very heavy on tutorials and announcements. Much of the fuss surrounded Joe Rinehart's discussion on what is or isn't a real ORM (and his belief that ColdFusion doesn't have any real ORMs). It is a fascinating discussion in some respects, though sometimes I think we developers get caught up in semantics (myself included). It makes for fascinating discussions but few solutions (that isn't meant as a criticism, I enjoy a good debate).
Sometimes I wonder if the conversion to Java in ColdFusion MX didn't turn us into the bastard stepchild of Java in some corners. The thing is, solutions generally expand to fill the problems they are designed to solve (sometimes, like in ERP's, they expand to fit problems their solutions create). To make a bad analogy, my lawnmower engine is much smaller and simpler than my car engine but both are still engines and serve the specific needs of the machine they run. Java tends to be used to solve problems that are larger and more complex than ColdFusion, which would mean that solutions in Java are larger and more complex (and that isn't a dig at CF). Sometimes, I think the comparisons are often unwarranted.
Anyway, this turned into a longer intro than I intended. On to this week's posts...
Continue Reading →CFArgument: Object Oriented Programming
Posted on Nov 03, 2008
Peter Bell and I continue our ongoing CFArgument series, this time debating the merits of using object oriented development in ColdFusion (see prior debates about DAO's and IBO's). We also talk a lot of smack as the debate heats up but in the end a poll found that 68 percent of readers think I am focused on the issues while 57 percent think Peter spent more time on negative attacks.
Continue Reading →ColdFusion Open-Source Update - November 3, 2008
Posted on Nov 03, 2008
Two new releases and two updates this week. I have been working hard on this end planning this year's Flex Camp Boston. One thing that surprised me last year is how many people came from out of New England to attend this event. I plan on looking into this more, but considering that December is not peak season for flights to Boston, I found you can come and stay fairly cheaply and get a full day of networking and training in for a few hundred bucks, all told. Considering that we will have some of the same top notch speakers you can find at MAX, I think that's a pretty good deal. Anyway, enough promoting of my event, on to ColdFusion open source...
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