Brian Meloche's Blog I'll blog about ColdFusion, weight loss, podcasting and life with too many pets! :-)

My session is titled: ColdFusion As a Different Kind of "Glue". A lot of people both last night and today asked me exactly what is it I'm going to be talking about. Since it's not listed in the conference guide, I thought I'd try to explain it.

First of all, my topic has nothing to do with Model-Glue, nor does it talk about any framework.

Adobe markets ColdFusion a lot, maybe even mostly, towards intranet development, but that sells ColdFusion short. My talk is about using ColdFusion in large scale, public facing enterprise applications, and specifically, interacting with enterprise systems, such as an ERP, and what you'll need to know should you need to develop an application that needs to interact with such a system. If you don't know what an ERP is, check out this Wikipedia entry. My topic will be at a 10,000 foot level, but I'll talk about some specific lessons learned from the trenches.

I hope if you're at cf.Objective, you'll decide to come to my presentation. I am up against sessions by Mark Mandel, Maxim Porges and Charlie Arehart, so I have tough competition!