Calling all ColdFusion Enthusiasts: Go Offline at Adobe MAX!

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Calling all ColdFusion Enthusiasts: Go Offline at Adobe MAX!

As a vibrant, active online Community of ColdFusion developers who largely interact online only, lets get together at Adobe MAX in Vegas to chat and network in person.

Members of the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group can meet at the MAX Community Lounge. If you're not already a member then join us! We could either have a free form networking meeting, or better yet, I'm thinking that we could do a type of speed-networking type of meeting where we'll seat people in two rows (or something similar) and each pair of people will talk for 5 minutes and then we'll all shift seats by one position to speak for 5 minutes with the next person, and so on.

I first saw this speed-networking idea on Alan Williamson's blog entry Do We Still Need Conferences? where Stephen Moretti linked to this site that contains a Google video of how it works: http://www.dott07.com/go/dott-blog

PLEASE INDICATE IN YOUR RSVP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRY SPEED-NETWORKING OR FREE FORM.

The time of 5:30-7:00 pm on Tuesday fits nicely into the conference agenda and doesn't seem to overlap with much else. See the links for the Agenda and the Community Lounge here:

MAX Agenda

Community Lounge

What: Go Offline at Adobe MAX!

When: Tuesday, October 24, 5:30 PM

Where: Community Lounge at Adobe MAX in Vegas

Event Description: The Online ColdFusion Meetup Group goes offline at Adobe MAX!

Learn more and RSVP here: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/5157253/

To visit The Online Coldfusion Meetup Group, go here: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/

posted on 28 September, 2006 at 10:39 AM.
ColdFusion, Events, Meetup | Comments (6)

Comments

Hi Steven!

Thanks for the mention!
The conversation continued here http://nil.checksite.co.uk/index.cfm/2006/9/21/Con... and I'd appreciate anyone and everyone's comments and feedback.

comment by Stephen Moretti, posted at 9/28/06 11:31 AM

wish i could be there...the "speed networking" thing sounds pretty cool.
unfortunately, will be in AZ during MAX (so close, yet so far) for a family event :\

hope it all turns out well. looking forward to next year :)

comment by charlie griefer, posted at 9/28/06 12:38 PM

This is probably not the place to ask this, but I was intrigued with the phrase "ColdFusion Enthusiasts". I'm really not trying to be beligerent in asking this - but what are your reasons for being a CF enthusiast? I've worked with it for a couple of years and it's okay and everything, but there's nothing about it that really enthuses me. I do like the fact that I can build J2EE apps very quickly - that's certainly cool - and that I can tap into the power of Java and J2EE when I need to. But CF itself - it's inherent capabilities and design - don't seen that enthuse worthy to me.

Are CF enthusiasts today people who got excited when it first appeared some years back, when I guess it was ground breaking?

Anyway, I'm genuniely interested in your answer(s) to this.

Paul

comment by Paul, posted at 10/3/06 8:14 AM

Without a doubt, web applications built with ColdFusion are easier and faster to build than webapps built as Java, JSP, and Servlets. ColdFusion is everything JSP 2.0, JSTL, and JSP Expression Language aspires to be, and a lot more. Easy PDF and Flash paper generation, tight integration with Flex 1.x and 2 rich user interfaces, event gateways, easy charting and graphing, rich forms, clustering, an embedded version of the Verity Search Engine which on its own costs tens of thousands of dollars, and more.

There's a large community of developers completely enthusastic about ColdFusion, and a good place to solicit their opinions collectively is the CFTalk mailing list. While this has been a common topic over the years and much can be found in the list archives, try posing your question to the CFTalk list and you're sure to get a feverish response, unless they percieve you as a troll.

CFTalk:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/

CFMX 7 Features:
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/productin...

comment by Steven Erat, posted at 10/3/06 11:21 AM

Steven,

I don't know what bought it to mind, but I was just wondering if the speed meeting ever came off at Max?

Stephen

comment by Stephen Moretti, posted at 1/31/07 11:12 AM

The Community Pit was in chaos that day. It was a focal point in the exhibit hall and swarmed with ColdFusion developers. It turned out as a place of very active discussion, although no speedtalks occurred:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooks-bilson/2794010...

comment by Steven Erat, posted at 1/31/07 11:34 AM

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