2007 has been an exiting year for me because of many changes in my life. The ColdFusion 8 launch was very exiting and has been successful for Adobe. I wish I had more time to devote to the JaxFusion user group this year to cover all of the new features.

I also started a new job working as a technical consultant. I did that to get more hands on experience using the BI features in SQL Server 2005. I also have had the opportunity to work with Microsoft Sharepoint and .NET this year. It has been great to learn new things related to these other products.

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe new year.

I read on Scott Guthrie's blog today about how Microsoft will be showing off a version of IronRuby at the next Mix. There is already a version of Python that runs on .NET through their DLR implementation. He has code samples of IronRuby in his post.

One of the exciting things to see is that Microsoft is embracing dynamic scripting languages like Ruby and Python. They are also adding Lambda expressions and dynamic features to C# and VB.NET.

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Tonight we are having the first JaxFusion meeting at the new location at the Modis building in downtown Jacksonville. The meeting will be on the second floor in conference room A.

Tonights meeting will be on how to use ColdFusion with .NET and other Microsoft technologies including Exchange server. Some of these features are new to ColdFusion 8, but others can be used in the current versions of ColdFusion. I have a lot of swag to giveaway at tonights meeting as well.

The next JaxFusion meeting has been announced. The meeting will be held at the new location at the Modis building in downtown Jacksonville.

The topic this time will be covering integrating .NET with ColdFusion. There are a lot of new features coming in ColdFusion 8, but it is possible to integrate older versions of ColdFusion and .NET. The presentation will cover the differences between the different versions of ColdFusion and BlueDragon.NET.

If you live in the Jacksonville area, come on out.

Lets analyze the facts. Is ColdFusion Dead?

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This paragraph is taken from a Computerworld article today that I saw on DIGG.

Apple ran throught this about ten years ago with the Apple is dead, and Mac is Dead. Of course now Apple is stronger than they have ever been. As far as I am concerned this is another example of tech journalism going down hill.

It is also an example of Adobe not doing its job in marketing ColdFusion.

Look for more about this on my blog.

There are a number of dynamic languages that are already supported by .NET, such as Iron Python and JavaScript, but according to this article at eWeek, Microsoft has made this easier to do with a dynamic language runtime. The article inteviews Jim Hugunin and John Lam of Microsoft about the language support.

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I upgraded my blog to BlogCFC 5.6. I have been using BlogCFC 3 before this, and I wanted to get up to speed with the latest version. If you have been thinking about getting some blogging software, I would highly recommend downloading Blog CFC.

Vince Bonfanti of New Atlanta will be presenting the next version of BlueDragon tonight at 6:30. The meeting will be held at Vurv Technology in Jacksonville. You can find meeting details here.

Vince Bonfanti will be presenting the next version of BlueDragon at the JaxFusion user group. The next meeting will be at Vurv Technology in Jacksonville at 6:30 PM on Tuesday March 6th.

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I am pleased to annouce that Vince Bonfanti is coming to present the next version of BlueDragon at the March meeting for the JaxFusion user group. Vince Bonfanti is president and co-founder of New Atlanta Communications. We look forward to seeing him at the March meeting.