cf.Objective() 2008: Friday Keynote

Jared Rypka-Hauer gave an intro with some interesting facts about cf.Objective(). This is the 3rd year for the conference. There are 30% more people here this year! 50% are new attendees from prior years.

Next up was Jason Delmore. His opinion is that cf.Objective() has become the premier "advanced" ColdFusion conference. There are 6 Adobe people in attendance. It has been a great year for ColdFusion. They have gotten tons of press coverage. CF is up 11 places in the Tiobe index (Just checked. It's in the top 20). 8.01 was a pretty good update. Lot's little gems. Like, more flexible use of AttributeCollection, nested struct and array notation, 64 bit support, etc. So, you owe it to yourself to check out the 8.01 release if you haven't.

Centaur, the next version of ColdFusion, is well under way. Jason put up a slide about being more "open" with ColdFusion. However, at this point someone fainted (from excitement?). So, we really didn't get the whole speal about this new open-ness...