Brian Meloche's Blog: BOF: Promoting ColdFusion to non-ColdFusion Developers

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BOF: Promoting ColdFusion to non-ColdFusion Developers

Posted By: Brian Meloche; Posted At : October 7, 2007 1:23 AM

Related Categories: ColdFusion, MAX

Here is the strategy that the non-ColdFusion developers group came up with during the Birds of a Feather I hosted at MAX called "Promoting ColdFusion Outside of the ColdFusion Community".

Build demo apps

look at Yahoo! UI stuff, integration with Amazon.com web services, etc.--anything that shows how you do things in Java, PHP, .NET, etc.--we should duplicate this in CF

we as a community should take this on
put this on RIAForge

show CF integration capabilities

ease of integration with Java, .NET, Exchange

be aware of holes in this area

promote popular application types (blogging, bulletin boards, etc.) written in CF
promote CF 8 code snippet server running on Adobe's servers
place to host demo apps--free hosting from HostMySite.com?

Need single place to point people to get going with CF

gotcfm.com
promote blog aggregators--MXNA, FeedSquirrel, cfbloggers.org
promote user groups

Create place that responds to common objections and myths

ties in with #2

Thanks to the group that came up with this strategy! The team included, among others, fellow CFUG managers Charlie Arehart, Matt Woodward and Rob Munn. I didn't keep notes on who was in what group, so if you participated in this group or any of the others, thank you so much!!!