CFUnited - Keynote - Release Date??
Posts this week may seem a little scattered since I may be blogging directly from the sessions at CFUnited.
Tim Buntel and Ben Forta are presenting the keynote. Obviously the major topic and theme is ColdFusion 8. Keynote theme in particular is 8 reasons you need CF8.
Reason 1: Making applications is even easier:
- Eclipse plug-ins and wizards
- Server monitor
Reason 2: Have confidence in your production applications.
- Server monitor & API
- Multiple instances
- Stable & backwards compatible (Ben says 8 is "the most" backwards compatible version yet)
Reason 3: It runs in more places
- VMWare
- Mac Tel
- 64 bit Solaris
- JBoss
Reason 4: Your users will be happier
- Flex and Ajax
- Reporting
- PDF applications (PDF forms, manage, secure, merge, etc)
- On-demand presentations
- Images
Reason 5: It's nice and secure
- Multiple Admin accounts
- Multiple configurable RDS accounts
- Strong encryption
Reason 6: CFML evolution
- JavaScript operators
- Argument collections
- CFC interfaces
- File handling functions
- Array and structure collection
- CFC serialization
Reason 7: Plays well with others
- .NET
- Exchange server
- RSS & ATOM
- LC DS ES
- Flash Media Server
Reason 8: It's fast. Really, really fast
- Overall server performance
- CFCs
- Ooops...they went to the next slide...
Over 2.4 million lines of real-world customer applications were analyzed to help improve performance. Hundreds of tweaks and changes were made to tags/functions. For example, structure manipulation is twice as fast as CF 6. List manipulation 3-4 times fast. CFC Creation is almost 25 times faster then 7. Out of the box CF 6 & 7 code runs faster on 8. Applications can run even faster when using features like cfthread.
Finally they wrapped with a release date announcement...which was....very very soon.
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