Railo is a Silver sponsor of the last ever CFUnited which is kicking off officially tomorrow (July 28th). Gert Franz, Mark Drew, Sean Corfield and the elusive Peter Bell can be found at the Railo booth this year. So, please drop by with any questions you have or just say hello to the team! In addition to the booth, Gert Franz will be presenting on Railo 4.0 - What's next? and Sean Corfield has two presentation available this year, one on ColdFusion and The Open Source Landscape and FW/1 - The Invisible Framework. (Fork FW/1 on Github today!)

If you're looking for fast paced CFUnited news / topics and random thoughts, might want to tune into Twitter.

Came across some sad news on twitter, but 2010 is apparently the last CFUnited conference. If you haven't already registered, please do it now to take advantage of the early bird special. Don't forget to use "RAICUST" as your promo code for an additional discount.

With the upcoming conferences you have the great opportunity to meet the guys from Railo. So who is going to be where?

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People already know how well Railo does at running existing CFML code. In this contest we will challenge you to look into some of the cool Railo only features to see what you could code in just 4kb (about 100 lines of code) using Railo. We'll post/comment on all submissions, and the winner gets a free ticket to cf.Objective(). Email your entries to contact@getrailo.com before April 1st (anywhere in the world) for a chance to win!

• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2009/11/26/Release-notes-Railo-312
• http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/documentation/new-in-railo-31/
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/9/Railo-30-released--Features-part-1
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/10/Railo-30-released--Features-part-2
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/30/Railo-30-released--Features-part-III--Multimedia
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/10/10/Railo-30-released--Features-part-IV--Task-manager-Remote-synchronization
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/3/Extension-Manager
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/31/S3-with-Railo
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/28/Railo-Rewrite
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/19/Creating-Railo-archives
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2007/12/17/New-stuff-in-the-latest-releases--Part-II
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2007/11/21/New-stuff-in-the-latest-releases
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2007/1/9/Railo-Features-Part-V
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2007/1/8/Railo-Features-Part-IV
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/21/Railo-Features-Part-III
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/20/Railo-features-Part-II
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/19/New-features-introduced-with-Railo
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/15/Railo-archives
• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/Features

Some additional ideas, Maybe someone wants to write a new cool debugging template:

• http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/8/Debugging-with-Railo

Update: Being programmers, we prefer more details. A question of white space came up on the mailing list. Gert's response was, "The compiled class needs to be within 4K." Hope this helps someone considering this challenge for an awesome conference ticket.

I am happy to say that at this year's CeBIT in Hannover, Germany we are joining the stand of our partners Contens and Intergral.
We are very proud that both Contens and Intergral are increasingly relying on Railo as a CFML engine. If you like to visit us, we have many new things we can show you and we might even help you with some problems. If you need any assistance from the best Railo programmers come see us in hall 6 stand J32. On one of the days Mark Drew will be there as well.

We're looking forward to seeing you in Hannover in 2 March! If you want to meet us there either contact us or fill out the form on the contens homepage.

Read the full press release by Contens.

Just a reminder that speaker selection for CFUnited 2010 started and that if you have a CFML topic that you think should be discussed and you're want to try your hand at presenting, you should submit your here ( http://callforspeakers.cfconf.org/ ). If there's any interest in presenting Railo related topics (ehcache caching, clustering, etc), by all means, let us know so we can assist you.

If you haven't been to cfunited before, I highly recommend it. I went to the 2009 conference (Thanks again Railo!) and it was great. Met a lot of people, talked a lot about CFML, jQuery and AIR. I dare say there was a lot of CFML developers interested in jQuery tracks. If you think jQuery is being discussed way too much in the cfml community (is that possible?) and you're a fan of dojo and whatnot, YOU SHOULD BE PRESENTING. Topics like this are awesome because they're relevant and they expose CFML developers to another framework that they might possibly look into / work with.

If you are considering going to CFUnited, do yourself a favor, take a laptop. If you don't have one, beg, steal or borrow. There are a few hands on development track, but most of it is presentation and you should be trying out new code or brainstorming while you're there. The whole place is a big fountain of ideas. I have seen people assisting with debugging other people's code in the hallways, etc.

Plus, If you're working on something cool now, you have a chance to present that 'something' at CFUnited's demo mania - they let anyone get up and present interesting stuff on their project. Slidesix's desktop app, Fusiondox and John Mason's Merlin project were presented among others. Even Raymond Camden had a cfml maze demonstration that from his blog. So, big or small ideas, feel free to share with the CFML community!

I posted Gert Franz's 2009 CFUnited Railo Presentation to Slidesix.com. I would embed it here, but this version of BlogCFC doesn't like the object tag. :) It's important to note that Gert posted the road map (around slide 42) for 3.2 and beyond in the presentation. If you prefer the PDF instead, you can find that here.

Update: Link fixed and let's test the embed:

A big thank you to everyone that stopped by the Railo booth and the presentation! It was great meeting everyone. Everyone at Railo Technologies was pleased at how much interest there was in Railo at CFUnited and we look forward to CFUnited 2010!

If there are any additional questions regarding Railo, by all means, either drop by our very active mailing list or contact us via blog or email!

We're proud to announce that Railo 3.1 final is available. If you're running Railo 3.1 beta, you can upgrade via the server context with a push of a button!

Check out the What's new, download it, or suggest features

We're in full swing at CFUnited, so if you're here, please stop by the Railo booth and introduce yourself!

p.s. You'll have to excuse any typos as typing on a german keyboard is funky. ;)

Well, July is coming to an end. Not sure about the rest of you, but I'm glad. It's been a long month. :) August is due up any moment now and CFUnited is just around the corner with less than 12 days to go. If you're not able to make it to CFUnited, you'll probably find Twitter to be the best place to keep up with all the news that's coming out. If you don't actually want to create a Twitter account, you can still keep tabs by going to: http://twitter.com/#search?q=CFUnited & http://twitter.com/#search?q=Railo.

If you do create a Twitter account, be sure to follow CFUnited, Railo, Gert Franz (CEO), Mark Drew (CEO, UK), Peter Bell (CEO, US), Sean Corfield (CTO, US) and Myself (Volunteer Community Manager). You should also keep an eye on Paul Kukiel, our CFUnited Ticket Winner and make sure he's putting his hard earned ticket to good use! ( No Pressure Paul! ;) )