The Archives
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03.27.08SixSigns announces free open source Enterprise Media Asset ManagementSixSigns is announcing today that we have plans to release our Enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) as a free open source edition (based on ColdFusion). Our MAM system has been previously deployed as a licensed system and is currently in use by over 70 organizations. Our plan has always been to release the system as a open source solution, but it only made sense since New Atlanta's announcement of releasing BlueDragon as open source last week. As said, we are still in the planning of the open source edition, but here is a summary: The MAM system will be released under the ...
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03.19.08CFML goes mobile with Blue Dragon Open SourceWow, I think this post is very good and big news to the CF community. On top of last weeks announcement that the Blue Dragon J2EE Edition will go open source, today Alan Williamson posted that with iJetty together with Google Android would allow to run the Blue Dragon on top of your mobile phone. According to Alan: "This basically means, that we will be able to produce a version of BlueDragon that will be able to utilise this platform and to cut a long story short, your CFML apps are now mobile!" I think next to Adobe AIR, this is the ...
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01.05.08Ruby cream of the top developer shouts outThere is quite a stirring going on the the Rails community since one of the upfront developers talks honestly about things that his bothered with. It is a long read, but actually quite a good one for anybody. If you read it you can learn how to avoid some pitfalls yourselves. As of January 2nd 2008 he added some more to the page. I especially like this part; "In my dealings with the Rails community I’ve encountered some world class asswipes, and I’m sure they think the exact same thing about me. For a long time I couldn’t place why these weird ...
