yet another coldfusion blog

First, let me start off by saying I try not to write more than one "editorial" blog a month, simply because I find them distracting and less helpful than say, an actual tutorial or development experience. Being at CFUnited, however, has not only cast some illumination on perceptions (and perhaps misconceptions) I've had, but also those of people I've met. The particular one that triggers this is the "you're a Railo guy, right?" question that was directed my way last night. "No, I'm a CF guy" was my reply.

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What makes you a good ColdFusion programmer? This is a question that came up recently over a couple of beers with some CF developers I really respect. This is something I always get pretty passionate and defensive about. Our talk evolved from a discussion on the CF Community in general, and being at CFUnited right now it seemed really important to talk about.

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It's been about a week since I attended the Mura CMS training seminars, and my brain is still numb from all the new stuff packed into it.  I only managed to catch the "Back-End Developer" portion of the series (there is also an admin/user and front end development seminar), but after my experience I'll definitely be following up with those two sessions as well.  The developer session was presented by Matt Levine, chief architect and developer of the Mura CMS.

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