BFusion

My CFFree Session Presentations From BFusion

Posted on by Matt Woodward
Yesterday I had the great opportunity to spend an entire day covering the free software CFML engines at BFusion in Bloomington, IN, assisted by Adam Haskell (thanks Adam!). It was fantastic to be able to do a deep dive into building and deploying CFML applications on a free software stack, and I got a lot of good feedback from the attendees.

If you couldn’t attend and are interested, the Ubuntu VM we used in the course is available on Dropbox (3.8GB).

Here are the presentation slides on Google Docs–make sure to go down to “Action” at the bottom of the screen and select “Show Speaker Notes” because otherwise the slides don’t make a lot of sense. 😉
  • Session 1
    • Introduction to Free Software and Open Source
    • Introduction to Free CFML Engines
  • Session 2
    • Installing Open BlueDragon and Railo
    • Configuring Apache and Tomcat
  • Session 3
    • Exploring OpenBD and Railo
    • Enhancements in OpenBD and Railo
    • Deploying Applications
  • Session 4
    • Using the OpenBD Debugger
    • Extending OpenBD and Railo
    • Monitoring Your Applications With VisualVM and Lambda Probe
    • CFML on Google App Engine

Thanks to the attendees for participating in what I hope was a useful and informative session. Whether or not you were at BFusion, feel free to email me with any questions you have about anything related to free/open source CFML.

Get Your Hands Dirty at BFusion/BFlex

Posted on by Matt Woodward

BFusion/BFlex is coming up on September 11 and 12, 2010 in lovely Bloomington, IN. You need to be there, and here’s why.

  • $30 for one day or $45 for both days is one of the best deals you’ll find in the conference world. (No, I’m not missing a zero at the end of those prices!)
  • BFusion/BFlex is all hands on, all the time. This isn’t a passive event by any stretch. You come armed with your laptop and you get to learn from the best people in the business.
  • Multiple all-day classes in both CFML and Flex are available. On the CFML side you can learn Mach-II from the great minds behind it (namely Peter Farrell and Kurt Wiersma), you can learn CFML from scratch from the great Adobe instructor Matt Boles, if you’re a programmer already but want to learn CFML you have none other than Simon Free at your disposal, and if you’re an open source junkie like me or just want to learn more about the free CFML engines, I’m giving an all-day in-depth class on that.
  • Great for all skill levels, from pure beginner up to advanced developers. There’s literally something here for everyone so you don’t have an excuse not to come. Just check the BFusion and BFlex schedules and tell me you don’t see something interesting!
  • It’s a nice intimate environment where you can corner speakers or other attendees and get whatever help you need.
  • Indiana University is a great venue with great facilities. Power and Internet for all!
  • Bloomington is a great town with tons to do.

I’ve been invovled with BFlex/BFusion since the first year and it’s one of my favorite conferences. I’m particularly excited this year to be able to help people delve into the open source CFML engines, so I hope to see lots of you there.

Great training, great price, great location, and great people. What are you waiting for? GO REGISTER NOW!

My Open CFML Presentation from BFusion 2009

Posted on by Matt Woodward

Here’s a PDF of my “Building and Deploying CFML on an Open Source Stack” presentation from BFusion 2009. The VirtualBox VM we used in the session is available here (2.9 GB zip file), and the user/password on the VM is “floss” (without the quotes) for both. The VM includes:

  • Ubuntu 9.04

  • Java 1.6.0 Update 16

  • MySQL 5

  • Apache

  • Tomcat 6.0.20

  • OpenBD (WAR and pre-deployed)

  • Eclipse with CFEclipse and Subclipse

  • A ColdTonica WAR to practice deployment

The one thing we didn’t get to in my session is connecting Apache to Tomcat, but that’s simple enough so give me a shout if you have trouble with that.

What we did get to (that I’m glad we did) is monitoring Tomcat and OpenBD with VisualVM, and a lot of people (based on the reaction) seemed not to be aware of that tool.

Once again this is a GREAT conference (I’d be lying if I said Ben Nadel’s portion of the keynote didn’t get me a little teary eyed) with great technical content and day-long training sessions. If you aren’t here this year, get here next year!