Australia now has a Railo Community Manager

...and it is me.

I have been a long time of CFML and over the last four years an ever increasing fan of Railo. This blog went live on Railo 15 October 2007. Gert Franz spent a lot of time with emails and Skye calls helping me set up my web server and we have been chatting about CFML and Railo ever since.

So last Thursday I get another call from him to discuss Railo AU, which I keep bugging him, and recently Peter Bell, about all the time. But this time he asks me if I would like to join the Railo Team and  be the Community Manager for Australia (and APAC). I felt very honoured to be offered this voluntary role and immediately accepted.

So if there is anything you would like to know or need assistance with I can be contacted at andrew @ getrailo . org

2 comments - Posted by AJ Mercer at 8:42 PM - Categories: Railo | CFML

ColdFusion Query of Query tips and tricks

1 comments - Posted by AJ Mercer at 8:00 PM - Categories: Railo | ColdFusion | CFML

I am speaking at webDU 2010

0 comments - Posted by AJ Mercer at 9:42 AM - Categories: Railo | ColdFusion | CFML

In search of the Holy Grails of web development

0 comments - Posted by AJ Mercer at 5:56 PM - Categories: Grails | Railo | CFML

Lite Application Frameworks for ColdFusion

Recently there seems to have been some backlash against monolithic application for ColdFusion - they are too hard to learn, there require to much effort to set them up ...But probably the works criticism of all, is they take the fun out of ColdFusion development.

In reply to this, a number of 'lite' application frameworks have sprung up. For Example

• Barney Boisvert's FB3Lite
• Sean Corfield's Framework One
• Brian Meloche's LightFront

So I was wondering,

• how good are these frameworks?
• can they hold there own again the big Frameworks?
• and are they really easier to pick up and run with?

I was also wonder how the authors of the 'Lite' frameworks feel about

• the framework used as a learning tool / stepping stone to a 'real' framework
• they are for 'Hobbyists', not 'Real developers'

And in the future, will the authors feel the need to implement requests for developers that will turn the 'lite' framework into monolithic application?

Posted by AJ Mercer at 10:38 AM - Categories: Railo | ColdFusion | CFML

Sign up for a piece of the CF.Objective(ANZ) action

The cf.objective(anz) committee have been working around the clock over multiple timezone and international banking laws and are now ready to accept your registration for CF.Objective(ANZ) 2009 in Melbourne, AU on November 12-13. Get in before October 12 for early bird price of $769

The conference speakers and program has been locked in and many Sponsors are getting behind this event.

Posted by AJ Mercer at 9:33 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | CFML

A CFML framework for the rest of us - Reclaimed

After taking a look at FW/1 I posed a blog tittled 'A CFML framework for the rest of us'. Shortly afterwards, I got a comment (slightly tongue in cheek) from Chris Peters say that was ColdFusion on Wheels catch phrase / slogan.

I have not looked a cfwheels for a long time; about when the ownership changed hands and I think it may have had some issues with Railo (v2). So I downloaded and installed on Railo 3.1 and got the welcome page up :-) That motivated me to look at the excellent cfwheels documentation and do through the examples. The tutorials are very basic, but give you a good understanding of the philosophy behind cfwheels (which is based on Ruby on Rails).

I also took the opputunity to take a look at Russ Johnson's CMS built on cfwheels call Splash CMS. So far all I can say, besided saying it looks great, is that it does run on Railo 3.1; which will be no surprise to those that know Russ. I am hoping this will be a good project for me to dig into and see how to build applications with cfwheels and will blog about it shortly.

0 comments - Posted by AJ Mercer at 9:00 AM - Categories: Railo | ColdFusion | CFML