Nick Tong of CFFrameworks.com - http://cfframeworks.com/blog/ started a ColdFusion Frameworks podcast in January, but I just found it earlier this week. I have been catching up with the podcast, and it's a wonderful interview-type of podcast. I highly suggest checking it out if you are a ColdFusion developer!
This is my third Frameworks, although the first two were back when the only Framework featured was Fusebox (2001 and 2002). I'm looking forward to what is sure to be an eventful couple of days.
The flight and subway ride here were uneventful, but I almost didn't make my flight... thanks to the airport security check, which took 45 minutes. I had to run... imagine a 350+ pound man running at full tilt through the airport!!! And, to boot, my gate was literally the farthest gate to get to... but I made it. Barely... but I made it. This hotel is very nice. The rooms are nice. I registered already. Things start at 8... so I'll be getting to bed in a minute.
Some of the presentations on Thursday I am going to try to make include:
I'm not sure when we'll upgrade at the office. Since it's been a long while between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1, I suspect we'll upgrade sooner, rather than later. I'd welcome getting comments from people that have upgraded and tell me whether it's been easy or if there have been any gotchas.
Kudos to Peter and Matt for giving birth to their new baby! :-)
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you a lot about the project. What I can say is that it's a B2B website that is designed to replace our existing site, and also has drop shipper functionality, so that we can sell products for other companies. It also completely ties into our mainframe systems for order processing and fulfillment. It's written entirely in Mach-ii, rewritten from the ground up, and is almost entirely OO (one legacy sub application was not entirely converted, but the rest of them were).
It's been a learning experience, that was not always smooth. In fact, there were times when it was quite bumpy. However, it has taught us a lot and the lessons learned are helping us redesign and streamline our development process.
There will be a lot more going on with this project. We have to make a few changes in version 2, and begin to port over other aspects of the business to the new site, but version 1.0 is out the door!
