Welcome to the Boston ColdFusion User Group

The Boston ColdFusion User Group (BCFUG) is an Adobe User Group for Boston area web developers who use or are interested in using Adobe ColdFusion. Meetings are generally held mid-month in the evenings and are always free.

We discuss a variety of topics related to web development presented by well-known community leaders in the field. We also offer many oportunities to network with fellow programmers in your local area. If you're interested in hearing about a particular topic, or you're interested in presenting at or sponsoring an upcoming meeting, please fill out our contact form.

Next Meeting

Gert Franz on Railo
8/11/08 6:00 PM
Sun Life Financial

Railo (www.railo-technologies.com) is a CFML engine that runs on a wide variety of Java servlet engines, and provides a cost-effective, high performance alternative to using Adobe's ColdFusion engine. As you may have heard, at the Scotch on the Rocks ColdFusion conference in Scotland in June, Railo announced that they are partnering with JBoss to convert their software to a completely free, open-source offering.

Ben Forta (Adobe) had some very nice things to say about it on his blog recently.

Gert Franz, CEO of Railo, will visiting to present an overview of Railo, and what the advantages of using Railo are for CFML developers. Hell also be talking about the upcoming open-source conversion of Railo, and what that means for developers. Of course, Gert will have some free versions of the Railo software to hand out, and some other goodies as well.

About the Speaker

Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998, somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system engineer where one of his favorite web projects was for instance www.zinodavidoff.com. He's addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server).