Railo is a Silver sponsor of the last ever CFUnited which is kicking off officially tomorrow (July 28th). Gert Franz, Mark Drew, Sean Corfield and the elusive Peter Bell can be found at the Railo booth this year. So, please drop by with any questions you have or just say hello to the team! In addition to the booth, Gert Franz will be presenting on Railo 4.0 - What's next? and Sean Corfield has two presentation available this year, one on ColdFusion and The Open Source Landscape and FW/1 - The Invisible Framework. (Fork FW/1 on Github today!)

If you're looking for fast paced CFUnited news / topics and random thoughts, might want to tune into Twitter.

Following up with yesterday's post, there's one more gem in that old Railo documentation. Again, this has been around since Railo 2.0. We're going to make a new, yet similar example.

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I was digging around in the old Railo 2.0 documentation and I came across this little gem about magic functions (getters/setters). I thought I'd take a minute to update the documentation a little bit since things have changed as we can no longer rely on this scope since it is publicly accessible.

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The team has been attempting to dust off ye ol' wiki. Mark Drew recently added a Tips & Tricks section on the wiki.

Came across some sad news on twitter, but 2010 is apparently the last CFUnited conference. If you haven't already registered, please do it now to take advantage of the early bird special. Don't forget to use "RAICUST" as your promo code for an additional discount.

In a previous blog post, I mentioned that createObject() has a 3rd / 4th argument negates the need to use Javaloader. Some questions have come up on the Railo mailing list and I thought I'd attach 2 working examples (barcode_samples.zip). One is using the Barbeque library found on Sourceforge, the other is using Google's zxing library. Remember, with a little creativity and expanding these samples, this type of code can be baked into Railo natively (e.g.: <cfbarcode>) today by placing the code in special directories (Functions / Tags).

Special thanks to Leigh's (cfsearching) excellent blog for some example legwork in barcode generation.

I'd like to welcome AJ Mercer for stepping up and taking the role of the Australian/APAC Community Manager. I've updated the Team Bio with his information and you can read about his acceptance on his blog.

Are you next? :)

Railo Team has a mantra that if functionality moves to the "core" language of CFML, then what was once a paid plugin / extension would then become free. With that, this is the announcement that the Railo Amazon S3 plugin is currently available as a free extension now and it will be part of the core in one of the next patch bleeding edge releases.

Update: Gert just linked on twitter an old tutorial on how to use the Amazon S3 plugin in Railo.

If you're into downloading and testing bleeding edge, Micha let me know that .013 dropped. If you're superstitious, don't worry... I was reassured that .014 will be available by the time SOTR is here. In this build, there are a lot of new functions:

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The Railo Team has published a roadmap outlining enhancements in version 3.2 and further. As always, if there's something you'd like to see you should continue to use Railo.uservoice.com and post bugs in JIRA. If there are any questions, please post a comment or discuss issues in the Railo mailing list.