CFConversations 38, Roundtable 14 - Post-CFUnited 2009: Wrap-up, Withdrawal & Fallout

Recorded on Thursday, August 20th, this episode is a post-CFUnited 2009 "wrap-up fallout" roundtable, where we review the conference as a whole, "post-conference withdrawal and fallout" of things that both happened and what didn't happen during the conference.

On this roundtable, we have:

• Brian Meloche (Host)
• Adam Haskell
• Dan Wilson
• John Farrar
• Mark Mandel (who had to leave about 45 minutes into the podcast)

If not mistaken, aside from the last roundtable (which I split into two episodes), this is the longest episode published so far! I could have split this one in two, but I've decided that it has to reach two hours to be split. And, besides, it took me long enough to edit this one, and splitting it would have meant even longer delays.

During this episode, we discuss whether or not CFUnited 2009 was the best ever, the venue, some of the highlights from the conference, including the day 2 keynote (where my friend Todd Sharp's SlideSix was prominently mentioned), the day 1 keynote, as Dan tells us about the 4CFF.org foundation (he's on the board), the CFML Advisory Committee, and memorable sessions from the conference.

We also talk about some of the things that happened on the periphery of CFUnited. We ask Adam about the Fusebox fork to FuseNG. We talk about Model-Glue 3.0, Railo 3.1.1 coming out and going out of beta, and Mach-ii 1.8 beta.

We also talk about what I call "Post-conference fallout & withdrawal", especially the "fallout" portion of that. We talk about several speakers cancelling last minute, the most prominent of them being Hal Helms. We talk about his last minute cancellation, and his training offer, and offer some other suggestions, like doing a ColdFusion Meetup and giving his slides to Liz so they can be put on CFUnited's website.

Lastly, we talk about upcoming conferences, such as CFObjective ANZ, CF in NC, bFusion/bFlex, RIA Unleashed, and MAX.

Here are some links to things mentioned in the episode (in no particular order, and please add any not mentioned here in the comments):

• Jeff Coughlin's review of CFUnited
• SlideSix
• 4CFF.org Foundation
• The CFML Advisory Committee
• ColdFusion 9
• ColdFusion Builder
• CFObjective ANZ
• JBoss' display of Railo on the home page
• Railo's announcement
• Railo's presentation at CFUnited
• Model-Glue 3.0 final release announcement
• Mach-ii 1.8 beta announcement
• What's New in Mach-ii 1.8
• Adam's open letter to the Fusebox community
• Adam's announcement about the FuseNG fork of the Fusebox framework
• FuseNG website
• FuseNG's Guiding Principle
• Michael Smith's announcement re: Adam and the FuseNG fork
• Hal Helms' cancellation post
• Hal's training offer
• ColdFusion Meetup
• The CF in NC conference
• bFusion/bFlex Conference
• RIA Unleashed
• Adobe MAX

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