So a lot of you may be wondering what has happened on this site?? Well that is justified.

I've been really busy of late and I'm sorry to have lost a little focus on this. I've been setting up my business and it's taken a lot of time from my day.

I now want to put some time aside to get this site back up and running and for what I would like some feed back.

What you would like to get from this site - who we should interview, should we get the podcasts back, are screen casts better etc?

Please add your comments below or reply via twitter @cfFrameworks

Mark Drew has been working on a new cfEclipse plugin for a couple of months and on him unveiling it at cf.objective his has released it to the public.

The plugin in is one of the best things i've seen, it allows you to graphically navigate thorough your framework as well as allowing you to add/edit and delete your framework from a plugin window.

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We have some great news. The people at Adobe, namely Ed Sullivan, have been kind enough to give us the status of a user group.

What does this mean to you

Well due to the fact that we will have access to Adobes excellent Connect software we can bring you richer interviews, workshops and much more.

We have a couple of workshops lined up already, one being with Mark Mandel and the other with Peter Bell, so watch this space. (Please get in touch if you want to present one)

Again I would like to thank Adobe and Ed for their support.

I would also like to thank Kola and Dan for their continued support.

You can now listen to (and Digg) our podcasts over on the Digg.com website.

Click here to view them

IsaacDealey on the onTap framework - http://www.cfframeworks.com/media/podcast/IsaacDealey.mp3

In this episode of the cfframeworks podcast we have an interview with Isaac Dealey of the onTap framework.

This is a great interview with a fun guy, one which I think everyone should listen to, there is so much more in the onTap framework than perhaps people are aware of. Isaac talks about how the onTap framework came about. Its elegant plugin architecture and some of the more novel features it provides.

Isaac inherited an interest in programming from his father who worked on various iterations of DOS, among other things. He started with ColdFusion 3.0 at MCI/WorldCom in the midst of their merger. When they finalized the merger his job vanished but he enjoyed working with ColdFusion so much that he couldn't put it down. Since then he's worked with ASP, tinkered with Perl and XML, and appropriated some DHTML DOM and Macromedia Flash MX skills, although ColdFusion remains his first love. Isaac's strengths lie in application architecture, modular/reusable coding practices, object orientation, and "content management"--whatever that is.

Isaac was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. There's a statue there of his great-great grandfather, George Bannerman Dealey, former editor and one-time owner of the Dallas Morning News, on "the grassy knoll" where President Kennedy was shot. His other interests include philosophy, history, anthropology, polyamory, intentional communities, theology, new age metaphysics, music, art and to some extent politics. He used to be an avid sci-fi fan, collect comic books, and play pencil and paper role-playing games. He's also a big fan of Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, and a lot of one-hit wonders from the '80s.

onTap 

A powerful framework for developing ColdFusion applications, featuring many enhancements to the CFML language for database access, display, application branding and asset management. Free for commercial use under a BSD style license.

http://www.fusiontap.com/

Contact Isaac

ontap@fusiontap.com

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Following on from Sean Corfields example I've created a feed for coldfusion framewoks on twitter. You can add yourself now!

Don't know what twitter is?

A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!

Not being able to make it to the conference this year was a bit of a bummer as it sounded like a great conference and with great food - well Sean Corfield said so anyway ;)

It an attempt to virtually attend the conference here is a list of some notes taken, please add any links i've not added below in the comments.

Adam Fortuna gives his view on:
Coldspring Powered Fusebox Applications by Adam Lehman
Advanced Fusebox 5: Extending the Language of Fusebox, by Sean Corfield
Interface Driven Architecture, by Hal Helms
Smart Frameworks: Utalizing Rich Metadata and Code Generation, by Elliott Sprehn
Model-Glue 2: Built to Last, by Joe Rinehart

Raymond Camden gives his view on:
Designing Framework-Agnostic Models with CFCs - Brian Kotek
Leveraging ColdSpring To Make Better Applications - Kurt Wiersma
Intro to Object Factories - Rob Gonda
CFCs ARE the Framework, by Steve Nelson
Introduction to Fusebox 5, by Adam Lehman

Kevin Roche gives his view on:
John Paul Ashenfelter - Rails for the Ruby-Impaired
Brian Kotek - Designing Framework-Agnostic Models with CFCs
Kurt Wiersma - Leveraging ColdSpring To Make Better Applications
Joe Rinehart - Make AJAX Easy with Model-Glue
Chris Scott - Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming with ColdSpring
Peter Bell - Application Generation - Beyond Scaffolding
Steve Nelson - CFCs ARE the Framework
Chip Temm - Model driven development and code generation
Matthew Woodward - Building Sustainable Software with Frameworks

ColdFusion Weekly Version 2.04 - February 5, 2007 - Frameworks Conference Roundup Edition

Brian's Blog: Frameworks Presentation and Code Available

Steve's Experimental CFC Framework: labs.webapper.net/projects/CFCFramework/index.cfm

Peter Bells talk:Application Generation: A Successful Talk . . . What's next?

Happy New Year from cfframeworks.com!

It has been a bit quiet over the past few weeks on cfframeworks, but we're back and we kick off this year with a series of interviews with figures from the ColdFusion community who are are involved in and are known for their work within ColdFusion frameworks.

This week we have an interview with Brian Rinaldi. Brian is the manager of the Boston CFUG and is also an Adobe Community Expert.

Brian can usually be found blogging on Remote Synthesis (http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog/) where he also maintains a list of ColdFusion open source projects including many of the popular ColdFusion frameworks.

Brian has used a number of ColdFusion frameworks including: ColdSpring, Transfer ORM, Reactor,Model Glue and Mach-II

In this interview Brian talks about Mach-II,ColdSpring and Transfer and also the difficulty of transitioning from procedural to Object Orientated programming. He discusses how he started off developing an OO application how he gradually began to see problems that frameworks such as ColdSpring and Transfer solved.

This was our first (raw and unscripted) interview and there is a bit of a noticeable delay as it is conducted transatlantic. I'm sure we'll get better with practice. This interview runs to just over 35 minutes.

Finally if you're involved in the support, maintenance or development of any of the existing or even a new ColdFusion frameworks - we would love to interview you too. Drop us a line.

Interview with Brian Rinaldi

The cfframeworks team.