Introduction to Railo over at PacktPub

Spotted today on twitter, a great article: Introduction to Railo Open Source by  Andrew Schwabe on http://www.packtpub.com/

It's great to see the community writing articles that spread the word about Railo far out into other communities, which surely spreads what CFML developer's have known all along that CFML and Railo just gets things done! 

1 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 5:44 PM - Categories: railo | cfml | getrailo

See you at CeBit!

The Railo Team will be at CeBit in Hanover, Germany this year (2nd to 6th of March),  myself and Gert Franz will be joining our partners Contens and Intergral at their stand.

This is the first time that I am heading to CeBit but unfortnuately I shall only be there on the Thursday 4th of March so come say hello!

The stand will be located at hall 6 stand J32

See you there!

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 7:00 PM - Categories: railo | getrailo | cebit

Seeking ColdFusion and CFML UK based contractors

So this is a bit of a fishing post (at least I am being honest!)

In the next few months Railo Technologies will be working on a number of projects and we are  looking to build up a good list of contractors that can work on these projects with us.

I am not posting details of specific jobs of course, but you should have a variety of skills round CFML and CFML development, such as frameworks, ORM techniques, code optimisation and  load testing etc.

Please, read carefully now, I am not looking for agents, I am sure you have wonderful contractors and reasonable rates and make coffee to die for but please do NOT contact me.

So, if you are contracting at the moment, or will be looking for contracts in the UK and Europe over the next few months send me an email with your CV, letting me know which areas you enjoy/are good at/ both/ want to get into etc.

IF YOU ARE NOT AN AGENT, email me over at mark at getrailo dot com

Finally, as previously mentioned, I shall be treating emails from agents with the contempt they deserve, so don't ruin your day eh?

7 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 4:50 PM - Categories: cfml | railo | coldfusion | jobs | getrailo

Railo in a Software as a Service environment

Straker, the makers of ShadoCMS and Zoom Flex have put up a great blog posting regarding using Railo in a Software as a Service environment.

They cover four areas such as Scalability, Security, Cost and Updates and even though it shows the Railo Server as a winner it is a overally fairly balanced article from the point of view of their requirements

Check out the full blog post on the Straker Blog

1 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 3:42 PM - Categories: cloud | railo | getrailo

Free Railo hosting available from Alurium

In case you didn't already know, alurium.com are providing a 60 day free trial of Railo hosting.

You can of course, later upgrade to various packages, but if you want to see how Railo performs on a production site, without having to stump up the cash yourself, this is a great offer.

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15 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 12:09 PM - Categories: railo | getrailo

Fun with mappings and resources: Part 3 DB Resources

In my last post I wrote about using RAM as a nice resource to render things from. For this post I shall go through doing a quick demo of the database resource.

That's right. You can use a database exacly like you would a file system.

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5 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 10:20 AM - Categories: railo | getrailo