One of the nice aspects of the "Professional Open Source Sofware" business model is that you can be very flexible for your customers. The Railo server has a roadmap of core features and downloadable extensions - some free, some paid - but our roadmap can easily be influenced by our customers.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009a/0624.html

Marc Funaro kicked off quite a heated debate on his blog lately by raging against people pushing object-oriented programing/design and how his attempt to follow their advice nearly led to the collapse of his business.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0609.html

Lately, the committee has been looking at proposals to extend CFSCRIPT so that components can be written entirely in CFSCRIPT instead of requiring tags.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009a/0527.html

One of the great things about free open source software (FOSS) is that you can use it without it costing you a penny and you can modify the software to suit your needs and, depending on the license, even bundle it as part of a commercial product you may develop.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/0506.html

The last week has seen some big announcements in the CF world! On March 31st, Gert announced the open source release of Railo, the next day Mark Drew announced he has joined Railo as CEO of the new Railo UK and then this week Peter Bell announced that he has also joined Railo and will be heading up the new Railo US operation.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0422.html

Ben Nadel had a bit of a "crisis of faith" last week over his ability to learn OOP the "right" way. He's highlighted a problem most people have coming to OO these days: in their search for the One True Way(tm), they are overwhelmed and can feel like failures.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0406.html

There are other hosting providers out there that talk nonstop about SaaS. But only Rackspace delivers the infrastructure, nonstop support, uptime, services and SaaS expertise that you and your customers rely on day in and day out. And that's why thousands of businesses rely on us to make on-demand application delivery flexible, reliable and easy.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0402.html

Luis Majano is offering a one day ColdBox training course on May 13th in the Hyatt (the cf.Objective() hotel). Cost $449. If you've already registered for cf.Objective() and want to add this training day, contact Cathy at Best Meetings (cathy at bestmeetings dot com).

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0324.html

Save $130 with cf.Objective() Early Bird. cf.Objective() 2009 early bird pricing ends on March 16th and the price will go up by $130 after that. 3-day registration is currently $549. 2-day registration is $499.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0311.html

A lot of people have asked about OpenBD being represented on the CFML Advisory Committee since the original announcement at CFUNITED 2008. I'm pleased to announce that today Matt Woodward joined the committee, representing the OpenBD CFML engine.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0223.html

A year ago, I challenged the community to evangelize ColdFusion and convert new developers from other technologies. It was part of a blog post that examined and rebuffed several common arguments that often arise within the community as to why ColdFusion is not more popular.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0203.html

As folks know, I'm a big advocate of automated testing in general and unit testing in particular. I've gradually become a big fan of Test-Driven Development (TDD) where you write tests first and then write the code to satisfy the tests.

http://www.coldfusionpronews.com/2009/0114.html