For anyone who uses CFML OpenBD 1.1 was released.

I've used both ColdFusion (Adobe) and BlueDragon (NewAtlanta) in my years of using CFML... for those who don't know, OpenBD in an open sourced release of BlueDragon.

Interesting times if you're using CFML (or thinking of it) because the old argument about cost has been thrown out the door with the open source releases of Railo and OpenBD.

New functionality of note (for me) in this OpenBD 1.1 release is cfvideoplayer, although the recent "tweaking" of OpenBD by Vince Bonfanti to run on Google's cloud is pretty darn neat.

Some great news in the CFML world.

Railo has officially released their CFML server as OpenSource.

I've used Railo a bit... mostly to develop. I'm strongly considering switching this server to Railo...

Like their site says, Railo is fast, feature-rich and syntax compliant.

I loved their "express version" as it allowed me to very quickly download a zip file, extract it and fire up the server... no install, no configurations... other then setting up a datasource... perfect for development. The express version made it very easy for me to want to get my hands dirty with Railo.

Railo runs very well with the more popular ColdFusion frameworks.. also runs the Sava CMS.

And now, like I said, I'm thinking it's time to start using it. Full time.

 The last couple of weeks, after the christmas holidays, I went from finishing a bunch of stuff and getting a little bit "slacker" in terms of how much work I have... to now having work lined up for the next little while.

In the past 2 weeks I've had to upgrade software on a couple of servers... PHP, MySQL.. updates... I got to install and learn about APC for the first time.

I also got to work with Magento for the first time. Magento is an Ecommerce platform. Coded in PHP and using the Zend framework. This has prompted me to try to learn a bit more about PHP. Code it a bit more and I'm gonna learn "how it runs" just a tad more.

I've also got a project where I have to merge 2 existing ColdFusion apps... one using Model-Glue and the other a "home grown" kind of framework. These 2 apps then have to be merged into an existing intranet using another "home grown" framework.... user rights... etc.... should be a bit of a challenge in how it's supposed to work.

Then there's a couple of smaller ColdFusion projects.. which should be pretty straight forward.

And last but not least is something I've been trying to develop for quite some time... which I'm going to upgrade. A re-write. It's a ColdFusion app. The upgrade will use ColdBox or Model-Glue for the administrative section. Most likely keeping it's MySQL 5 DB in the backend.

Possibilities for a couple of things in near future too..... so, I will likely be busy.

Et vous??

Found this on a couple of blogs.

ColdFusion, which is often mentioned as being dead or dying is anything but...

CF was ranked among favorite app servers.

2 blog posts I found mentioned it:
Gary Gilbert's blog
Monochrome blog (John Beynon)

 And.. here's the article which mentions it....

I just found this and wanted to post.

Charlie Arehart has created CF411 which are tools and resources for CF (ColdFusion) developers. Over 700 tools/resources in over 100 categories.

Quite abit to consider on this site to help out with your (or mine) ColdFusion projects.

This is a very extensive list.... I was impressed to see all the stuff Charlie has listed. Good stuff!

So if anyone reading this may be working on some CF projects (or other langs) this site may just be of use to you.

http://www.carehart.org/cf411/

It really hasn't been released that long, and already there are some great resources/configs available.

Here's the VMWare image using CentOS 5.1.

I still haven't gotten around to it..... but I'm gonna install this to mess around with....

I promise...

I found this blog entry on how to get OpenBD up and going on Tomcat.

I still haven't gotten around to trying out OpenBD, although I've been meaning to!!

(Check it out!)