Scorpio Recap

Our thanks go out to Tim and Adam for making the trek up to visit us last night for our CFUG meeting, presenting a massive amount of information about the next major release of ColdFusion (coming soon to a server near you!). We can draw the following conclusions from what we saw:

• The product team has been drinking too much caffeine
• Ben, Tim and Adam will have enough frequent flier miles by the end of the roadshow to go to MAX in Japan AND Barcelona first class
• There are enough new features in CF8 to make your eyes fall out...
• ...and so will a meeting that runs almost 3 hours :-)

The best meeting content recap I've seen today was posted by our very own Phil Duba. I won't do my own now - your notes are way better, Phil! Read it if you couldn't attend or couldn't read your own writing. Share it with your boss and say "gimmie a few grand to upgrade when it comes out...or I quit". This release is one worth buying, even if it's only for the performance and server monitoring tools. Absolutely amazing stuff that will make managing your box and tuning your code/JVM that much easier.

This meeting was worth every minute. Congratulations go out to Tim Carrington from Delaware.net for winning the Scorpio equivalent of CF7 Standard when it ships. I think everybody got some sort of goodie to take home with them (including a sweet Adobe messenger bag) which is always a good thing.

Special thanks to:

• Tim Buntel and Adam Lehman for traveling, finding a rental car (minivans aren't just for soccer moms!) and presenting the goods to us
• Terry Ryan, Dan Alig and the Wharton crew for hooking us up with a room yet again. We love Huntsman Hall and appreciate your efforts to find space for us.
• Ed Sullivan from Adobe who is the "man behind the scenes" of the user group program. He's the one who ships us all the goodie boxes and makes sure YOU are well represented at the mothership.

I would also like to mention that the food for all of our recent CFUG meetings has been sponsored by CounterMarch Systems, a Lehigh Valley-based consulting firm specializing in Rich Internet Applications using Adobe tools.

I look forward to seeing most of you again in 3 weeks when we have our next meeting!