I have mentioned previously that I have help with these episodes. The interviewer this time is another Brian, Brian Swartzfager, who you may recognize from the ColdFusion Weekly roundtable episodes, as well as CFConversations Episode 3.

This was recorded using a handheld recorder. The quality is quite good, but it might sound a tad more "AM radio" like than some of our other episodes.

Enjoy!

Run time: 16:54

http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/7/5/006_Michael_Smith

With episode 5, we begin releasing episodes in a new format: Interviews.

In this episode, I sit down with Liz Frederick and Nafisa Sabu of Teratech. We discuss putting on conferences as big as CFUnited, their thoughts on the CF developer community, their backgrounds, and open source CFML.

This was recorded using a Flip Video camera behind the booth on day 2 at CFUnited. The audio quality is surprisingly good, but you will hear some background noise from both the conference and the street.

Enjoy!

Run time: 19:59

Here's the link!

On this podcast:

• Brian Meloche
• Rick Mason
• John Farrar
• Dana Tierney
• Ken Auenson
• Chris Hough
• Seth Bienek
• Timothy Farrar
• Adam Tuttle
• Adam Haskell

Most of this episode focuses around the ideas that came out of the Promoting CFML Outside of the CFML Community session Friday evening, mentioned in the previous post. We think some of these ideas are a call to action for the CF developer community.

We hope you'll find this long podcast worthwhile!

Time: 1:37:27

www.cfconversations.com

We've released episode 2 and 3 since we've been at CFUnited. The audio quality... well, we're still learning, and we don't have all the equipment we need, but I think the audio quality is listenable and the content is great.

In addition to the first three episodes, we've also recorded more interviews that we'll be releasing over the coming weeks, and are continuing to do so.

This has been a great adventure so far, and thanks for taking it with me!

I had some microphone problems, but the recording still came out great!

You can't yet find it by searching in iTunes, but it's there. Here's the link:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283289378

It's 1:16:37.

I'd appreciate it if you could blog it up. The feed hasn't been added to Feed Squirrel, Adobe Feeds, ColdFusion Bloggers or Full as a Goog yet. I've submitted to all of them... but nothing yet.

This podcast is called CFConversations. Much like ColdFusion Weekly has been in recent months, the format will be a combination of interviews and roundtable discussions.

The first episode should be released this weekend, and it will be a roundtable discussion.

We're planning to do several roundtables during CFUNITED on the first three days of the conference. We're also going to line up a bunch of interviews during the conference, and we'll release them gradually, over the next several weeks and months.

This effort is not just mine. A group of people will be working on the podcast with me.

This is not ColdFusion Weekly doing a name change. This is a new podcast, and Matt and Peter are well aware of the effort and give it their seal of approval. In fact, I'm hoping they'll both be able to be guests on the new podcast.

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!

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