Next CFUG meeting August 8th!
I want to get the word out as early as possible, because we've got a great one lined up for August 8th at 5:30. I am pleased to welcome Gert Franz, CEO of Railo and member of the new CFML advisory board. If you have not yet had a chance to take a look at Railo, I would strongly suggest coming, August 8th is a Friday, so plan early! Here's a little background about Gert and Railo.
Railo (www.railo-technologies.com) is a CFML engine that runs on a wide variety of Java servlet engines, and provides a cost-effective, high performance alternative to using Adobe's ColdFusion engine. As you may have heard, at the Scotch on the Rocks ColdFusion conference in Scotland in June, Railo announced that they are partnering with JBoss to convert their software to a completely free, open-source offering.
Ben Forta (Adobe) had some very nice things to say about it on his blog recently: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/8/An-Open-Message-To-Gert-Franz-and-Railo.
Gert Franz, CEO of Railo and member of the recently founded CFML advisory committee, will be visiting to present an overview of Railo, and what the advantages of using Railo are for CFML developers. He'll also be talking about the upcoming open-source conversion of Railo, and what that means for the community and the developers. Of course, Gert will have some free versions of the Railo software to hand out, and some other goodies as well.
Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998, somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system architect, engineer and DBA where one of his favorite web projects was for instance www.zinodavidoff.com. He's addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). Gert is a father of three and boyfriend of one. He studied Physics in Munich some (many :-)) years ago.
We'll be meeting at Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Room JMHH G50.
See you there!
I know it is tough to get a date everyone likes, but for us South Jersey people Fridays are nasty having to deal with shore traffic on Rt. 42. I will have to take a pass on this one.
Is it possible to have some one video tape this session and put is up on the web for those who will not be able to attend. I beleve it would be a very popular item on the web. All the CFML community would enjoy it.
It would have been nice if you had a Connect session going for the rest of us to watch in on :)
