11 Jun 00:14 Saw this interesting article on Slashdot - Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools. Will Adobe ever release an updated IDE for ColdFusion? And if they do - would anyone buy it? The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source [... 9 Jun 00:32 An Open Message To Gert Franz And Railo Wow. In a matter of a few days it seems the Open Blue Dragon project has imploded. First Neil Middleton’s post about a comment Vince Bonfanti made. Then Sean Corfield blogged a related post and a day later announces his resignation from the Open [... 6 Jun 02:49 So Railo is going open-source. While I think this is a ‘good thing’ I am beginning to wonder how we as a CFML community are going to keep up? While Open Blue Dragon has their steering committee I’m wondering if we don’t need something similar for CFML in general… What is going to be considered the [... 24 Apr 11:07 When we last left our Savvy saga we were facing installation. Again the great documentation made installation a breeze and sums up the steps required nicely: Savvy CM installation is very easy. There are no installation programs to be run on the server, instead you copy your files to the web server, modify the includes.cfm file [... 21 Apr 23:23 Busy week this week for Triangle Area ColdFusion users!! Tuesday (April 22nd): Doug Hughes, President of Alagad Inc. presents on Patterns and Techniques for Data Persistence and Access at our local ColdFusion User Group (more details on the TACFUG site) Friday (April 25th): The first Triangle area CFLunch!! ColdFusion invades the Sunset Grille in [... 17 Apr 02:44 A few weeks ago Dan Wilson and I met for lunch to swap some Flex books (thanks Dan!) and we both commented how we rarely get out of the office. So I thought it might be fun to have a casual ‘geek’ lunch once a month or so just to: Get out of the [... 9 Apr 23:40 I saw this post on Mike Henke’s blog… ColdFusion is dead (yet again) and of course I had to go read it. Mike’s take was it was just another “CF is dead” rant. But I clicked through and read the original post The State Of ColdFusion and have to agree with many of [... 9 Apr 22:00 Ray Camden kindly gave me access so I could setup a survey using his Soundings Survey application (it rocks!). I’ve copied the original questions from the Adobe survey and added a few John Farrar sent me after some discussions on this open Aptana support ticket. Once we collect some data I’ll publish the results on [... 9 Apr 02:13 Alan has a list of the OpenBD (Open BlueDragon) Steering Committee on his blog: Andy Allan, Peter Amiri, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Mark Drew, Adam Haskell, Jordan Michaels, Alan Williamson, Matt Woodward and Andy Wu LOTS of good names on there and some really nice quotes but obviously I’m going to have to step up and volunteer [... 8 Apr 02:56 We are exploring using Flex more (goodbye Powerbuilder!) here at work. We are also doing more and more testing and hope to eventually implement continuous integration. I've seen a few tools to unit test Flex but I'm curious how you test Flex at the application level? For our web applications we are currently using [... | 