Ben Laube

This week’s ColdBox Connection will be our first hosted by a ColdBox Community Member! The ColdBox Team is stepping back give Ben Laube an opportunity to help remind us of the basics as he presents “Introduction to ColdBox”.

If you have been thinking about getting started with ColdBox and wanted to know the easiest way to get started this presentation is for you. Ben will start without any CFML engine installed and take us from Installation to Application in about twenty minutes. This presentation will focus on getting started with ColdBox 3.0 and Railo Express Edition.

Join us Thursday July 21 at 10AM PDT / 1PM EDT to learn how to get started with ColdBox. Connection information can be found here: http://www.coldbox.org/media/connection

By Aaron Greenlee

There’s no better way to learn how to get the most out of Mura CMS. And at only $99 dollars per person for both days, it’s an incredible value! Check out the list of great presentations.

Day 1: Thursday, August 25th

Featured Speakers

Sean Schroeder and Matt Levine of Blue River/Mura CMS

Gert Franz and Sean Corfield of Railo Technologies

Greg Moser and Sumit Verna of Slatwall eCommerce

And many more…

Here is the link: http://www.muracon.com/

Have you ever wanted to add new sites to your Railo setup without having to mess with adding the new site to Tomcat, restarting, and then making sure everything was working? Well, now you can! The Railo Installer Patch Level 1 (pl1) release of Railo 3.2.2.000 – now in BETA – includes the option to install the VHost Copier along with Railo. The VHost Copier was written by Railo Team Member Paul Klinkenberg and automates the process of copying a new site configuration from Apache or IIS into Tomcat. No need to modify the server.xml file yourself, and no need to cause server down time with a Tomcat restart.

Read the full article here.

How to find us: Full Sail University Campus in Building 3B room 113.

What: Special Event: Gert Fraz of Railo Technologies — From Switzerland to Tampa
When: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:00 PM

Where: GCA Technology Services
3031 North Rocky Point Drive West Suite 450
Tampa, FL 33607

This is a special meeting of the Central Florida Web Developers User Group and we hope you will be able to attend. Gert lives in Switzerland and won’t be coming back to Tampa in the foreseeable future. This meeting will be held in Tampa and online.

From start-ups to fortune 500 enterprises developers are constantly pushing to make sure every dollar and every hour are invested in meaningful feature development that differentiates your application from the completion and contributes revenue to the bottom line. As these Web applications grow in complexity, diversity and expressiveness in pursuit of these goals the technology selected to power your business becomes increasingly important. On Tuesday May 10th please join us for a special discussion with Gert Fraz the CEO of Railo Technologies to learn more about how Railo—the open source CFML engine—can power your Web applications.

What is Railo?

Railo is an open source JBoss project that provides a website scripting framework that runs on Java and obeys the CFML markup definition.

Why would you want to use Railo?

Railo is a powerful and high performance web framework that allows developers to use a dynamic and mature language that leverages the JVM.

What is Railo Technologies?

Founded in 2003, Railo Technologies produces the open source website scripting framework Railo. Additionally, Railo Technologies provides consulting, support, training and custom development for this high performance open source CFML engine.  Railo Technologies is based in Switzerland with offices in the UK and USA.

What problems can Railo help me solve?

While the answer to this question can be best answered during the meeting it is important to understand how Railo can help you create optimized, high performance applications that are high availability (clustered) and easy to scale in a traditional iron server environment or the cloud. Railo is trusted by many, many companies to power mission-critical business applications including: Apple, Intel, Amtrack, Sony and more.

Did you say Railo can scale and has great performance?

Yes. Come see how seven servers can support 14 billion requests a month—that’s seven servers using only 1 virtual CPU and 1GB of ram each—while running a dynamic language on the JVM.

Agenda

• 6:30pm – Doors open
• 6:30pm – 7:00pm : Networking and Food
• 7:00pm – 8:00pm : Discussion/Presentation (online and in-person)
• 8:00pm – 8:30pm : Open Q&A / Networking
• 8:30pm – Doors close

Not in Tampa, Florida? Join us Online!

You can join us online! Around 7pm we will begin a Adobe Connect Session using the following URL: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/r1eq356eer7/
About our speaker

Gert was born in 1967 and has lived in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched later to IT as a profession and worked for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst.

Since 2003 Gert has been involved in the Railo project and has lead the company since 2006. He is a father of three and boyfriend of one.

Check it out!

JUDCon is an event By Developers, For Developers. Presentations will include a range of deep technical dives into JBoss Community projects and related technical topics of developer interest.

Get more information and register for the event here.

It’s fun and full of tips.

Check it out here: http://solowebstartup.com/want-to-build-a-startup-with-cfml-heres-how

I got back to Orlando this morning

The good part of the trip was that I got to meet in person two icons from the ColdFusion group CFBrasil, FelipeMX and João Felipe. We had lunch at a typical Brazilian restaurant in Ipanema, “Brasileirinho”, and discussed the possibility of having Gert Franz (Railo) talking to universities and schools in the near future. They are young, full of talent, excellent programmers and are willing to help the CFML growth in Brazil with implementation of Railo open source.

If you’re interested in diving into the free software CFML engines,  learning more about the free software movement, and interacting with the most progressive thinkers in the CFML community, OpenCF Summit is for you!

You may register for the conference here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/137534

http://blog.opencfsummit.org/opencf-summit-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt