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! ;) )

*drum roll* Paul Kukiel is going to CFUnited as the winner of our competition with the following entry: Huge news Microsoft , Google and Apple to use CFML, Railo the engine of choice: http://bit.ly/17Yj7s Congratulations Paul! Our runners-up all get a T shirt of their choice from the Railo T shirt store (@mangoblog, @maestrofjp, @russplaysguitar, @jeffglad, @aarongreenlee and @JasonPDean)

Here's the list of seven finalists in our CFUnited ticket competition:

• Tuesday 21st - @paulkukiel
  Huge news Microsoft, Google and Apple to use CFML, Railo the engine of choice: http://bit.ly/17Yj7s
• Monday 20th - @mangoblog
  OMG! Railo and Mango kissing in a tree!
• Sunday 19th - @maestrofjp
  A CFML engine in a smokey room; A smell of beer & cheap code; For a smile they can share the night; It goes on & on & on & on
• Saturday 18th - @russplaysguitar
  Railo: It has nothing to do with El Chupacabra.
• Friday 17th - @jeffglad
  a video metaphor for how I did CF before and After Railo - http://bit.ly/136EYx Enjoy!
• Thursday 16th - @aarongreenlee
  Dynamik gewinnt. Está ganando impulso. Momentum est de plus en plus. Momentum získává. Le cose si stanno guadagnando.
• Wednesday 15th - @JasonPDean
  I left my wife for Railo OS
  (and an honorable mention to somber_angel for "My husband left me for Railo OS")

• We'll randomly select one of the seven and DM them on Twitter to confirm that they can actually use the ticket (i.e., that they plan to book flights and hotel to attend the conference on our ticket!).
• You must be following @railo in order to receive the DM!
• If the first draw says "no", they'll get a T shirt and we'll draw again, until we find a willing winner!
• The other finalists will get a T shirt.
• Our intent is that the ticket go to one of the finalists, to actually attend CFUnited, rather than have anyone trade/sell their ticket so that someone who made the effort to enter the competition reaps the benefit.

Railo is giving away a ticket for CFUnited 2009 to one lucky winner in a Twitter-based competition held over the next seven days. Six runners-up will get a "Got Railo?" T shirt of their choice.

For a chance to win, all you have to do is Tweet something cool or witty about Railo!

Competition Rules:

• Entries must use the #cfunited-railo hash tag to identify them.
• The competition is open Wednesday July 15th (tomorrow) thru Tuesday 21st (seven days).
• The Railo team will pick what we think is the coolest / funniest Tweet each day.
• When the competition closes, the pick from each day will go into a hat and the CFUnited ticket winner will be chosen by random selection. The remaining six picks will get a T shirt of their choice from our store.
• You may enter as many times as you want each day (but we will pick a different entrant each day).
• We will contact the winners by DM on Twitter so you must follow @railo to be notified!

We will Tweet each day's pick once we have made a selection (our goal is to make each day's selection the following day) and we will blog all the winners within a day or two of the competition closing.

Good luck!

On Thursday evening, after the first full day of sessions at cf.Objective(), Brian Meloche interviewed Gert, Mark, Peter and Sean for his CFCconversations podcast. Brian made sure to ask us some of those hard questions that I know have been coming up in the community around Railo's intentions. I hope you enjoy this relatively short podcast (42 minutes) and I hope it answers some of the questions you may have about our new organizations in the UK and the US. If you have questions and you're here at cf.Objective(), come along to our Birds of a Feather session at 3pm in the Nicollet C room where Gert, Peter and myself will open ourselves up to Q & A from the community!