Sean Corfield

CFUN is the national ColdFusion and Web programming conference that Rockville, Maryland-based IT firm TeraTech (www.teratech.com) hosts each June in the DC area. CFUN (www.cfconf.org/cfun-04/) stands for ColdFusion User Network, and based on my trip to CFUN-04 there were plenty of people learning, networking, and having fun doing it! CFUN Day Zero and Some Helium While the conference proper didn't start until June 26, I flew in a day early to catch up with some of the other speakers at the MMUG manager meeting day and the speaker dinner. I spent a lot of the day talking to Matt Liotta about He3 - his company's new ColdFusion editor, based on Eclipse, that debuted in beta form at CFUN. The CFUN "party pack" contained the He3 beta on CD along with many other goodies. So what does He3 offer? A color-coding ColdFusion editor with tag completion - a little rough round the... (more)

The State of the Fusebox Union

The Fusebox Conference (www.cfconf.org/fusebox2004/) is the national Fusebox and Mach-II programming conference that Rockville, MD-based consulting firm TeraTech (www.teratech.com) hosts each fall. Fusebox is a framework with an associated methodology (FliP), which is a way to create Web programs that are easier to maintain and deliver what clients really want rather than what they said they wanted. Fusebox 4.1 I flew overnight from San Francisco and caught the Metro out to Twinbrook which is a short walk to the hotel. Very convenient. Unfortunately, I missed Michael Smith's wel... (more)