WHEN: Thursday, January 29, 6:00pm US EST (UTC/GMT-5) (What time is that for you? See http://www.timeanddat... which shows the time as US EST and you can choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone.)

MEETING URL: http://experts.acroba...
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.col...

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our 6pm talk on Thursday Jan 29 will be Gert Franz presenting, "Railo Open Source".

TOPIC DESCRIPTION:

There has been a lot of buzz about Railo, and not too many people know the details. You might know it is a "CFML engine", "free and open source", but that's about it. So, "Why Railo"?

Some answers:

• Using virtual file systems
  
• Different configurations on a single instance
  
• Highly compatible, every major framework runs on Railo
  
• Video conversions with the Tag CFVIDEO
  
• Display videos with the tag CFVIDEOPLAYER
  
• All this much faster than other engines (even with debugging turned on!)
  
• Amazon EC2 deployment
  
• Open Source
  
• Read more about it here: http://www.railo-tech...
  

Many people may have first heard about Railo when Ben Forta had some glowing things to say about it, recently.
http://www.forta.com/...
So, the question is: can it help you when marketing your CF based services to cost conscious clients?

SPEAKER:

Gert is one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Gert is CEO of Railo Technologies and one of his favorite web projects was for www.zinodavidoff.com. He is addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). He is the father of three and boyfriend of one and as far as he can remember, he studied astrophysics in Munich some years ago.

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