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2010-08-26 :: Jim Priest // Code
Packt Open Source Awards

Check out Packt’s 2010 Open Source Awards!  Submit your votes in popular categories: Open Source CMS …  hmmm… what great open source ColdFusion based CMS do I know about… oh yeah – Mura CMS! Hall of Fame CMS Most Promising Open Source Project Open Source E-Commerce Applications Open Source JavaScript Libraries Open Source Graphics Software [...]

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2010-06-30 :: Jim Priest // Code
Open Source CFML Conference – 2011

Just saw this on Twitter… OpenCF Summit is a community gathering focused exclusively on promoting free and open source software in the CFML community. If you’re interested in getting into the free software CFML engines, enhancing CFML engines through plugins or outright hacking, and socializing with people doing cutting-edge things with CFML, this is the [...]

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2008-06-10 :: Jim Priest // Code
Open-source Killing Commercial Tools (IDE)

Saw this interesting article on Slashdot – Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools. Will Adobe ever release an updated IDE for ColdFusion?  And if they do – would anyone buy it? The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source [...]

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2008-04-17 :: Jim Priest // Code
CMFL IDE Survey – Initial Results

The ‘Open’ CFML Survey has been up for about a week. As promised here is the first round of results: Total Number of Survey Results 371 First Result 4/09/08 1:35 AM Last Result 4/16/08 6:45 PM Results are available in both PDF and Excel: PDF: cfml-ide-report-041708 Excel: cfml-ide-report-041708 Both these are just a dump of [...]

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2008-04-10 :: Jim Priest // Code
Beating Free Software

I thought this was an interesting read: We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here from Coding Horror. It won’t be easy for commercial software or subscription websites. If past history is any indication, beating the free alternatives is going to get progressively more difficult every year. Thought it was very relevant with all the [...]

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