Promoting CFML Outside of the CFML Community - Results

Posted At : June 23, 2008 11:25 PM | Posted By : Brian Meloche
Related Categories: ColdFusion, Conferences, Speaking
It was incredible what came out of my Promoting CFML Outside of the CFML Community session Friday evening. We think some of these ideas are a call to action for the CF developer community.

Group 1 - Promoting CFML to New Developers

Team Consisted of:

  • John Farrar
  • Rick Mason
  • Dana Tierney
  • Ezra Parker
  • Jeff Coughlin
  • Brian Swartzfager

You can ready the summary at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcdhg6m6_27dnzqx5gs

Group 2 - Promoting CFML to PHP Developers

Team Consisted of:

  • Adam Tuttle
  • Timothy Farrar
  • Seth Bienek
  • Dee Sadler
  • Ken Auenson
  • Chris Hough
  • Adam Howitt - adamhowitt@gmail.com

You can read the summary at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcdhg6m6_26frtdsbv8

There is also all of the raw ideas that came out of the session. Expect blog entries from the teams which show those in more detail.

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While I think it's great that you're brainstorming how you can convert PHP developers to CF, perhaps the best initial direction to take is to find developers who have already made the move and ask them what were the compelling motivations behind their move?

I made the move from PHP to CF just over a year ago, and whilst the move was dictated by a new job I do actually prefer CF. Bearing in mind that I was using PHP4 some of the USPs that I can think of for CF over PHP are:

* APPLICATION scope (onStart, persistence of variables etc.)
* XML handling is far nicer
* easy consumption/creation of webservices
# Posted By James Marshall | 6/24/08 4:29 AM
I would strongly suggest that this be tied in with the proposed CFML steering committee (or whatever they are calling it). It would be a shame to duplicate any effort and it seems like they share the same goal - promote/standardize CFML.

Maybe it's time for a generic CFML site?
# Posted By Jim Priest | 6/24/08 7:11 AM
@Jim: We're already in discussion and initial planning on both fronts.

@James: We welcome the feedback.
# Posted By Brian Meloche | 6/24/08 7:50 AM
How about promoting CFML to Javascript guys as a server side platform? Especially if you use CFScript, it's not a hard jump to go from Javascript to Coldfusion.
# Posted By Dan Sorensen | 6/24/08 8:12 AM
Dan,

Just to be clear, we went after two targets, but would go after more than just new and PHP developers if a site is created a site like the one we are proposing. So yes, JavaScript developers would be included.
# Posted By Brian Meloche | 6/24/08 9:32 AM
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