Claude Englebert

A new initiative for a ColdFusion User Group in The Netherlands is on its way these days.

You can read more about the project here.  Do not hesitate to react, comment and participate.

Scotch on the road is about to start its tour in London on June 1st.  You have no good reason not to attend this meeting so...  join us and have technical sessions by Adam Lehman, Terry Ryan and Serge Jespers from Adobe.

Yes, we are open.  Adobe MAX 2009 website is now online.

Web Development – Winner from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

"Adobe ColdFusion 8 emerged the winner after fighting a neck to neck battle with ASP.NET and Oracle WebCenter. As a Web development framework, ColdFusion competes against a number of technologies, but its advantage lies in its implementation, comprehensiveness, and the fact that it is many things rolled into one - presentation package, programming language, a means to produce and edit images and PDFs and much more."

Question I've heard so many times when meeting ColdFusion shops and users : how and where can I get my team trained on ColdFusion in EMEA ?

First and best way is self training.  And for that Adobe recently released its ColdFusion 8 educationnal curriculum for free.  The ColdFusion 8 project-based curriculum is designed to teach experienced web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion 8.  This curriculum can also be downloaded from the ColdFusionBox.

You can also, if you like reading and if you want to follow the same path as probably 90% of the ColdFusion developers, get Ben Forta's books from your prefered online book reseller.

Another option is to have a trainer to help you get the best out of CF, whether you're a beginner, an intermediate or an advanced user.  The following partners can provide you with customizable training solutions for you and for your collaborators (list is not exhaustive) :

• Fuzzy Orange
• Herrlich & Ramuschkat
• Prisma IT
• Multimedia College
• Academy Class

And of course you should consider all the great resources that the community has available for you online.