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7BOF: 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
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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
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ties in with #2
I don't think just one web site is the key... but the better web sites should work together by linking each other. I like the German attitude that products shouldn't "compare" to each other. If a product is good then it doesn't need to dump on alternatives to show it's significance. That approach shows a lack of confidence in one's own product. Each product ought to be able to sell itself on it's advantages.
My only gripe with RIAforge has even been that exact point - ie. by creating a forge site for the adobe community - and thus making that the site of choice, we are insulating CF from the rest of the world somewhat.
http://wiki.openid.net/Libraries
Where is the ColdFusion resource for oAuth?
http://oauth.net/code/
I meant very definitely that we should build those apps ON THOSE SITES so that folks seeing them there would see them being done in CFML. Everyone in the group agreed with the value of that approach. I think Matt (who was taking notes) may have added the RIAFORGE point as someone else spoke it. He was having to type pretty furiously.
That leads to a second important point about the list: these points were not "a strategy" but rather they were a summation of the brainstorming that the team did. I mean, yes, Brian had asked each group to come up with a strategy (picking the top 2 ideas as voted by each group), but again Matt went ahead and wrote more (nothing wrong with that, as long as the intent is understood.)
I am overdue for more posts on the Promoting CF BOF, and I plan to get to it ASAP. Right now, my focus is on a couple of projects at work, and that leaves little bandwidth for much else, but I WILL get back to it in the next week or so.