http://cfinnc.com

CFinNC is a coldfusion, flex and air conference that will be at the college of textiles. Registration is free and topics will range from beginner, intermediate and advanced. There will be some hands on sessions in coldfusion and flex so if you have never developed in these languages it will be a great place to learn.

I have never attended a conference like this before but it should be a great networking opportunity. There will be a lot of developers coming from across the country and it will be great way to learn more about these technologies.

9/21/2009 9:02:54 PM

as a (thankfully) former coldfusion developer...BAH

flex was pretty cool, though

9/21/2009 9:45:31 PM

I'll be there; some good speakers will be coming and some cool guys are getting the whole deal together. I've been in the wings on some of it. I'm hoping to get in on a few Flex sessions myself.
What'd you move on to, quag?

9/21/2009 10:20:57 PM

I went to the macromedia web world in San Francisco back in the day. That was a lot of fun And well worth the money. I might be interested in this.

9/21/2009 10:42:31 PM

I went to a ColdFusion conference in DC when I was doing more ColdFusion development. Even though I'm not doing as much ColdFusion now, it had a bunch of good presentations on general web development and programing strategies.

9/22/2009 9:48:35 AM

fuck everything adobe on the web. Go silverlight or go home.

9/22/2009 9:54:33 AM

as a .NET guy, i'm inclined to turn my nose up at CF, Flex and Air, but honestly I'm glad they exist - it gives MS some incentive to pay attention and keep innovating

9/22/2009 10:00:00 AM

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"ColdFusion & SharePoint: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together!"

9/22/2009 10:08:28 AM

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"fuck everything adobe & apple on the web. Go silverlight Microsoft or go home."

9/22/2009 10:17:21 AM

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"fuck everything adobe & apple & microsoft on the web. Go silverlight Microsoft open standards or go home."

9/22/2009 10:19:13 AM

In all seriousness though; screw ColdFusion.

9/22/2009 11:53:53 AM

Yes, there is a lot of disdain toward CF out there, you are not the only ones. I have been using it now over 8 years and have grown fond of it. I would be interested in the reason behind people not liking CF.

The conference will include speakers not just from Adobe but other developers who have been using it for quite some time. So it is an option out there for web development.

There is also Railo and Open BlueDragon as open source CFML engines so you don't have to have an Adobe CF server to run a CF site.

9/22/2009 3:02:51 PM

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"I would be interested in the reason behind people not liking CF."

Have you ever used anything else?

9/22/2009 7:29:41 PM

I currently support PHP sites on my free time and I have gone to a couple of Sharepoint conferences. My stronger skillset is in CF.

9/22/2009 7:34:11 PM

ugh, i cringe when i have to work with CF

9/22/2009 11:10:49 PM

how come? there's a lot of bashing on CF but nobody's saying why really

9/22/2009 11:19:16 PM

^ first and foremost, it's EXPENSIVE for no real gain

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"What'd you move on to, quag?"

LAMP

[Edited on September 23, 2009 at 8:00 AM. Reason : instead of windows/oracle/cf]

9/23/2009 7:59:40 AM

nice..

bigTHEW did mention Railo and Open BlueDragon, which are both free FWIW.
There's certainly no doubt that Adobe's enterprise license will kill the wallet (I happen to be quite adamant about staying away from Adobe as much as possible, mostly because of the price points, with exception to CF and a few other products). The gain/loss is arguable all day, I'll give you that... then you end up in user preference land.

LAMP and all flavors of it are great. Beautiful thing is I develop CF in OS X.. so at least for most of the time I get to stay away from Windows. Also, CF works with several DB's, not just Oracle.
Technically you could run Railo/MySQL/OS X (and I think that Railo has a Linux distro, but I'm not entirely certain here).

[Edited on September 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM. Reason : ]

9/23/2009 12:36:59 PM