Brian Meloche has a post on his blog Promoting CFML Outside of the CFML Community - Results. I’m guessing this went down at CFUnited.

In particular I was interested in the results from the Group 1 discussion “Promoting CFML to New Developers“. There is a ton of good stuff in there but in particular I thought the first suggestion was timely: “Vendor-neutral CFML Evangelism Site”.

Does it make sense for this effort to work with the recently announced “CFML Language Advisory Committee”? It seems like they share some of the same goals and I’d hate to see a duplication in effort.

Is it time for a community driven “CFML” site?

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I had never been to the Lincoln Theatre and was surprised at how tiny it was. It reminded me a lot of the old Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill. The show was sold out and soon the place was packed with a mix of old Zappa fans, young kids and several people their with their son/daughter, mother/father.

The music was loud, and I should have had some plugs with me, but it wasn’t obnoxiously so. The mix was great, no one was overbearing and Dweezil had an awesome tone throughout the whole show. They played a great mix of Frank’s tunes. Dweezil joked at the end that they could keep doing this awhile as they “had plenty of material to choose from”. The played some old stuff, they played some classics and several times near the end they seriously jammed, Dweezil throwing his hands up in the air to tell them to ‘keep it going’ which the band did with ease. Dweezil has some awesome musicians backing him up. Frank’s music is challenging and everyone on stage gave an amazing performance.

Dweezil really shone. He was one of the happiest looking musicians I’ve ever seen on stage. Frequently he would be pulling off these amazing riffs while casually looking over at one of the other musicians with this huge shit eatting grin on his face. He just seemed to be soaking up the energy of his father’s music from his bandmates and the crowd. The crowd was feeding off it as well and at one point a pair of panties even made it up onstage!

They played for almost 3 hours only taking a few breaks to tune or fix something. After the show it was nice to see Dweezil out on stage, talking to fans and signing autographs. Usually after most shows I go to the band scurries off to the bus never to be seen again.

Dweezil mentioned that he hopes to keep this show on the road, sharing Frank’s music with old fans and especially introducing new fans to the music.

I hope he comes back to Raleigh again. I’ll be there.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST… ~ “Packard Goose” (Joe’s Garage)

For more info - including a few good blog posts about the Raleigh show - check out the official Zappa Plays Zappa site.

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The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.

According to my IDE survey the majority of the 400 respondents indicated they would pay up to $500.

• 111 - Free
• 144 - $100
• 126 - $100-500

But one wonders how much better it would have to be before people switched from the free CFEclipse.  And as I’ve said before - now with 4 CFML engines available - a ‘universal’ CFML IDE become even more important.

The Slashdot article leads to a post at DZone where the author discusses his new IDE which looks interesting as well.

UNA Collaborative Edition is a real-time collaborative development environment for software engineers. It lets two or more developers edit the same code, at the same time. It’s similar to pair programming, but better because both developers can contribute productively, whether they’re located across the hall from each other or on different continents.

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• Because it’s always full of top notch content written by the best in the ColdFusion community?
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No!!! Those are all lame reasons! The main reason you should subscribe … is because I’m in it - dorky photograph and everything!

I’d like to thank Judith and Dana who edited my sloppy prose and turned it into something fit for the printed page.

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• Release notes here.

One big one I see - Firefox 3 support!

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We’re already planning the next release and have a huge roadmap that contains plugins like grid, tooltips, menus, colorpickers, autocompletes and much more.

One of my favorite jQuery tools has also been updated.  Karl Swedberg has updated his ‘jQuery bookmarklet‘.  If you have ever found yourself working on a site without jQuery - you can ‘jQuerify’ it using Karl’s bookmarklet.

It’s a nice little tool that allows you to play around with jQuery on a page that doesn’t already have jQuery loaded and see the results immediately.

A great tool to use with Firebug!

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Wow. In a matter of a few days it seems the Open Blue Dragon project has imploded. First Neil Middleton’s post about a comment Vince Bonfanti made. Then Sean Corfield blogged a related post and a day later announces his resignation from the Open Blue Dragon project citing conversations that took place on the Steering Committee mailing list. We’ll probably never really know the full story but it’s a shame that the Open BD project will now probably be ostracized from the CF community.

Open Blue Dragon was always overshadowed by the bad blood that has existed between New Atlanta and Adobe.

Will Railo, with it’s clean history, be able to succeed?

Update: related blog posts:

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