So, I love Coldfusion but I'm starting to get mildly irked by the bum rap CF gets as an RAD platform for web applications. Not by those of us on this list, of course (we know better), but by the "Web 2.0 crowd" at large. I've played with Rails in my off-time and find it quite interesting, but I'll still take CF any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
A friend, Jake, whom some of you know previously from Blogfusion is now head of a Rails shop (http://biggu.com) and one of their marketing projects is to do a monthly "casual application" using Rails (example: http://www.biggu.com/category/egorcast/ ). Their apps can be anything but the premise is that they can be developed using Rails in less than a week by developers in their off-time. Mostly the apps they are doing are mash-ups using other web app API's to string something cool and unique together. While we have a bunch of great resources out there, IMHO, much of the really neat stuff with CF is being done " behind the firewall" which the public doesn't get to see. GotCFM is a great start but I'm noodling on something else to amp up the public "cool-factor" and wanted to see if there were any takers out there who would be interested. Here's my thoughts: 1) Set up a site ( franken-fusion as a domain maybe?) that would showcase a once a month "Casual Application" done exclusively in Coldfusion (no Flex for now, so as not to muddy the focus but a smidgen of Java might be OK) 2) A different app would be developed once a month, using free time, by changing teams of 2-4 developers from varying backgrounds, but probably organized by development style and preferences (i.e. - OO vs. procedural, Fusebox vs. MG:U, etc.). Organizing by Geography or CFUG might be an option as well. 3) The teams get to decide everything about the project so that it fits their interests and they get to have some fun while doing it instead of it just being a drain on their time. 4) I would volunteer to host SVN, Trac, and the live projects/sites on my servers for the time being, unless someone else (RIAForge maybe?) wants to do it. Alternately project teams could host their own project and just use the main site as a front to link back to the project site. 5) I would also volunteer to co-develop on some off the projects. 6) Projects could be open-source, encrypted, closed-source or a combination depending on what the project team decides. This would allow developers to use their internal code libraries they might not want shared - meaning more "cool" in less time. There's no ego attached to this on my end, so I won't be offended if a more visible and prolific member of the community like Ben, Ray, Sean Corfield, or John Paul Ashenfelter want to spearhead it or think differently. Like I said, I've been kicking this around in my head for a few weeks and I wanted to throw the idea out there to gauge the level of interest. Discuss. :-) -Jon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278380 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
