Matt Woodward’s posterous

Matt Woodward’s posterous

Matthew Woodward  //  * CFML, Grails, and Java Developer
* Principal IT Specialist, US Senate
* Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member
* All-Around Geek

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Aug 1 / 1:56pm

My CFFree Presentation from Dallas TechFest

by Matthew Woodward

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Dallas TechFest was last Friday and although I was sad to be missing the final CFUnited, TechFest was a blast. It was incredibly refreshing to see 400+ CFML, PHP, .NET, Java, and Flex people all in the same place at the same time for some geek cross-pollination. This doesn't happen nearly enough so thanks to all the organizers of the event, all the great speakers, and to Dave Shuck for inviting me to speak.

The talk I gave was entitled "CFFree: Building and Deploying CFML Applications on a Free Software Stack." This was a 90-minute introduction to developing, deploying, testing, and monitoring CFML applications using Tomcat, Open BlueDragon, Railo, and a plethora of other free software applications and tools.

If you didn't make Dallas TechFest this year and are interested in this topic you're in luck! I gave everyone who attended my session a VirtualBox VM that has all the free CFML goodness installed on Ubuntu 10.04, and you can download the VM from my Dropbox (2.5 GB).

You can also check out the presentation slides above (view or download PDF). My apologies that the speaker notes get cut off in the PDF version, but I created the presentation in Google Docs and as far as I can tell there's no way to control the font size of the speaker notes in the PDF. You can also view the presentation directly in Google Docs; just make sure to click "Actions" at the bottom then "Show Speaker Notes" to view the speaker notes since the slides alone don't tell you all that much.

As always if you grab the VM or read through the presentation and have any questions about any of this feel free to contact me. I'm considering doing a couple of screencasts on this topic because due to time constraints I had to breeze over some of the configuration details, not to mention some of the free software goodness I didn't get to show at all.

If you want to learn more about free CFML in person, next up on the calendar is a full day hands-on session that Adam Haskell and I will be doing at BFusion in September, and then of course three full days at OpenCF Summit in February 2011. Hope to see you at one or both of these events!

Filed under  //  CFML   Conferences   Free Software   Open BlueDragon   Open Source   Presentations  

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May 17 / 10:00am

CFMeetup this Thursday! "Living in the Cloud: CFML Apps on Google App Engine"

by Matthew Woodward

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday May 20 will be "Living in the Cloud: CFML Apps on Google App Engine", with Matt Woodward & Peter Farrell.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

If you want to take advantage of the power of cloud computing but want to focus on applications instead of server infrastructure, you owe it to yourself to check out Google App Engine. Google App Engine lets you deploy applications to Google's infrastructure with the push of a button, and the best part is that for many applications it's entirely free of cost.

In this presentation we'll discuss both the benefits and downsides of living in the cloud, outline how Google App Engine differs from other cloud solutions, and demonstrate how to build and deploy a simple CFML application to Google App Engine using Open BlueDragon, which is the only CFML engine compatible with Google App Engine.

If you're interested in running your CFML applications in the cloud come get in on the ground floor, because with a few simple tips and tricks, it's all clear skies.

via meetup.com

Peter Farrell and I will be doing our OpenBD on Google App Engine presentation from cf.Objective() on the CFMeetup this Thursday at noon Eastern. See you there!

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Apr 15 / 6:54am

Pecha Kucha BOF at cf.Objective()

by Matthew Woodward

It's a fantastic year for cf.Objective() all around, but one of the things I'm most excited about is participating in the Pecha Kucha BOF that Bob Silverberg organized. This gives 9 speakers each 20 slides, auto-advancing every 20 seconds, for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk about something that interests them, tech or otherwise.

Thanks to Bob for organizing this. I think it's a fantastic addition to an already great conference. If you're going to be at cf.Objective(), you won't want to miss it.

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