Kristen Schofield's Blog

Analysts at Gartner Praise CF

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:47:00 -0400

Mark Driver recently published a Gartner analyst note on ColdFusion which recommends that agencies and companies continue their investment in CF, as it has a strong future with Adobe and is continuing to grow its market. The ColdFusion note / rep... [More]

Free ColdFusion Curriculum Now Available from Adobe

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:20:00 -0400

In the fall we made CF freely available for teaching & learning purposes through our free edu offer. To complement that offer, we now have free curriculum for your use. [More]

Cloud Computing & You

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:40:00 -0400

I've heard some inclings that CFers may be interested in cloud deployments for their applications. I'd like to understand a bit more about your plans. Please help by filling out a very short survey on cloud computing (2-10 questions) Click Here to...

ColdFusion eSeminars

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:22:00 -0400

For those of you who haven't yet taken a look at ColdFusion 8 or want to learn more about it yourselves or for your colleagues, we have a bunch upcoming that you can register for now: Upgrading Seamlessly to Adobe ColdFusion 8 ? Wednesday, Jan... [More]

Boston University Social Networking Site via ColdFusion

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:55:00 -0400

Boston University's IT team recently built a Facebook-like site for their business school... a la ColdFusion with just one CF developer in 9 weeks. Mass High Tech published an article on it. Quick excerpt: "The system was developed by one pro... [More]

Be Your Own Ben Forta - MAX Slide Deck Posted

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:29:00 -0400

At MAX I did a session called "Be Your Own Ben Forta" - dubbed that title to denote the goal which was to illustrate how developers and CF fans can promote CF back at their homesteads. I walked through the various items in the CF Evangelism Kit and: [More]

CF Evangelism Kit now has Competitive Comparison and Hardcopy option

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:15:00 -0400

For those of you at MAX, you likely saw the hard copy printed evanglism kits. If you want more or any for that matter, to put on people's desks at work (your CTO for example) or to use as reference, you can order printed copies for free here: http://... [More]

New ColdFusion IDE - BOLT announced at MAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:24:00 -0400

Finally I can talk about this out loud. We announced just minutes ago in the day 2 key note at MAX that the CF team at Adobe is hard at work on an Eclipse based IDE for ColdFusion development, codenamed Bolt. The codename Bolt comes from some nos... [More]

Centaur Logo Contest Winner

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:19:00 -0400

I'm pleased to announce that the ColdFusion development team has voted on the Centaur logo artwork you submitted and the winner is... [More]

CFML BOF at MAX

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:00:00 -0400

Mark from Vertabase is running a CFML language BOF at MAX and would like input on it. You can do so here.

Ben Forta for President?

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:53:00 -0400

Voters unhappy with the candidate options are coming in droves to vote BEN in. Watch this and vote for Ben!

ColdFusion 8 Tag Posters Available Now

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:00:00 -0400

For ColdFusion 8 customers, you can now register your CF 8 license here and recieve a free CF8 tag poster. [More]

Devoted Father and Engineer Struggling with Autism

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:57:00 -0400

I came across this posting and would like to help get the word out for Isaac Dealey. Isaac is a long time, advanced CF developer who has extra challenges in meeting his career objectives due to his struggle with autism. [More]

Be Your Own Ben Forta - My session at MAX

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:02:00 -0400

For those of you wanting to learn more about the Evangelism Kit and other tools, you can at MAX at my session somewhat craftily titled "Be Your Own Ben Forta". This will be in the US and in Milan. We added this session recently so if you registered w... [More]

ColdFusion Training

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:04:00 -0400

Figleaf just announce that their own administering ColdFusion 8 instructor-led course has gone gold. [More]