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Introducing the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee
As chairman of the newly formed Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to announce the first ever steering committee that will lead, guide, advise and mentor the project through its life cycle.
These gentlemen need no introductions. With well known names in the CFML community we have a representative from all walks of our industry. From high performance, to massively scalable, to hosting, to standards, to community leaders, to tools developers, to language experts, we have it all here within this select group.
As part of their introductions, I asked each of them for their vision for CFML and Open BlueDragon. Here are their answers in their own words.
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Andy Allanandy.allan@openbluedragon.org — http://www.fuzzyorange.co.uk/ — interview"My hopes for OS BD? A formalised language would be nice, easier deployment, the opportunity to introduce and educate those foreign to the language (OK, we do this already, but now there is no cost barrier)... ultimately exciting times ahead." |
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Peter Amiripeter.amiri@openbluedragon.org — http://www.adengage.com/ — interviewI have had the privilege to walk into many different environments and analyze, architect, and ultimately code many different projects. I hope to be able to dispel the scalability myth similar to the way we were able to do it at MySpace. |
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Mike Bruntmike.brunt@openbluedragon.org — http://www.alagad.com/go/blog?createdBy=mbrunt — interviewI feel there is a place for a masterful clustering-replication mechanism in the CFML world and in reality Macromedia and Adobe's attempts to do that effectively have never come to fruition, in my opinion ... and hope to be able to do justice to that |
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Sean Corfieldsean.corfield@openbluedragon.org — http://corfield.org/ — interviewI think CFML is mostly a good language but it has a number of inconsistencies and "warts" that I'd like to see addressed. CFML has evolved over the years with no clear focus on language design so we have a legacy of backward compatibility we cannot break, but we have the opportunity to make the language easier to learn and easier to use. |
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Mark Drewmark.drew@openbluedragon.org — http://www.markdrew.co.uk — interviewI am interested in BD becoming an OO project so that the take up in the marketplace and community of CFML increases so that I can finally hire some people! |
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Adam Haskelladam.haskell@openbluedragon.org — http://cfrant.blogspot.com/ — interview"I want the CFML language to stay true to itself and continue to grow in its own manner. Borrowing from other languages is always good as long as CFML stays true to itself, that is a big concern/focus of mine." |
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Jordan Michaelsjordan.michaels@openbluedragon.org — http://www.viviotech.net/ — interviewWe all know about the many benefits of CFML ... but the cost is a mental block for most folks. With an open source version of BD, I believe we can get past that mental block and make inroads where we couldn't before - and that's extremely exciting to me |
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Alan Williamsonalan.williamson@openbluedragon.org — http://alan.blog-city.com/ — interviewThe biggest take up will be the distribution of CF apps; both in terms of hosting and also getting smaller apps up and running without having to haul around a huge and costly commercial engine. More tags/functions and reaching into other languages/platforms (aka mobile). |
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Matt Woodwardmatt.woodward@openbluedragon.org — http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog — interviewI have big hopes for the open source edition of BlueDragon and what it can mean for CFML as a language. I also am a huge proponent of open source software for purely philosophical reasons, and I'd be lying if I said it hasn't caused me to re-evaluate my heavy use of CFML. |
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Andy Wuandy.wu@openbluedragon.org — http://www.andywu.co.uk/ — interviewIt frustrates me that the CFML language is often overlooked just because it can't swim in the open source pool. OpenBD excites me moving forward as we break down preconceived conceptions and show people what really can be done. |
I am very excited at the quality and pace of discussions from the individuals above so far and never before have I have felt so confident about the future of the CFML langauge.
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Comments (2)
With all due respects to the committee...
I'd love to see introductions, since I know very little about most of these people.
Do not worry - i am planning a series of small one-on-one interviews with each of them, so they get an opportunity to talk about themselves and what their visions for the future of CFML is.