CFConversations 20 is part 2 of a two part series on controller frameworks.

• Brian Meloche (moderator)
• Adam Haskell (representing Fusebox)
• Ray Camden (representing Model-Glue)
• Chris Peters (representing ColdFusion on Wheels)
• Mark Mandel, of Transfer fame, but Transfer is an ORM framework, not a controller framework, so he wasn't representing it. On controller frameworks, Mark is framework agnostic.
• Nick Kwiatkowski, who is anti-framework.

Both episode 19 (part 1) and 20 were well received by those that have listened to them so far. The plan is to do more framework roundtables over the next few months, focusing over ORM/data, dependency injection and testing frameworks.

I'm sorry that I haven't been blogging much on here lately. CFConversations has been taking a considerable amount of time lately, and some issues on this blog caused me not to blog here for a while. I'm also planning to make some major changes with my blog. I had hoped to do them before MAX, but it looks like they'll take place Thanksgiving week instead.

I thought I'd give a brief recap of the last several CFConversations episodes prior to MAX, since I hadn't blogged about them here.

Episode 19 was the first of a two-part series on controller frameworks, with:

• Brian Meloche (moderator)
• Kurt Wiersma (representing Mach-ii)
• Russ Johnson (representing ColdBox)
• John Farrar (representing SOS and Co-op)
• Isaac Dealey (representing onTap)
• Rick Mason (uses a simpler, homegrown framework)

CFConversations Episode 18 was a little different than what we've had in the past.

This episode featured "Man on the Street" interviews from bFusion & bFlex, two day event held in September at Indiana University, organized by Bob Flynn and the Indiana Multimedia User Group.

Thanks to Bob, this episode featured selected "Man on the Street" interviews from the event. I also want to give thanks to Heather Warnsman, a member of Bob's user group, and Keith Danielson, manager of the Indiana University Flash User Group, who conducted these interviews.

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Run time: 20:25

CFConversations Episode 17 features the last of our interviews from CFUnited.

On day three, Brian Swartzfager sat down with Joshua Cyr, Principal Developer at Savvy Software, the makers of Savvy CMS, and manager of the Seacoast ColdFusion and Flex Group. In this interview, Joshua talks about Savvy, selling a CMS and ColdFusion at the same time, Adobe's direction with ColdFusion, conferences, and frameworks.

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Run Time: 20:33

CFConversations Episode 16 was our first with an Adobe person in the hot seat! On day four of CFUnited, I sat down with Josh Adams. Josh is a Systems Engineer with Adobe, specializing in ColdFusion. Before that, Josh worked in a similar position at New Atlanta and, before that, was the Atlanta CFUG manager. During this interview, we talk about working for Adobe, his time at New Atlanta, user groups (a passion Josh and I both share), open source CFML and the initiatives surrounding CF9.

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Run time: 30:12