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and what i'm interested in.

I put this together almost immediately after CF9 was released but even before then I had some people contact me to ask how CF9 runs on both Windows 7 and Windows server 2008.

Answer?

It works fine on both.

If you have ever tried to install ColdFusion 7/8 on Windows Vista after Service pack 1, Windows 7 or Windows server 2008 with IIS at one stage you have undoubtedly come across this:

"HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found
The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration.
If the page is a script, ad a handler. If the files should be downloaded, add a MIME map."



Well with CF9 and Windows Server 2008 your going to get the same issue. It's actually an easy fix and almost identical to the Windows 7 / Vista solution just visually a little different here is a walk through of the installation. Note this is CF9 64 bit on Windows Server 2008 64bit and just in case you missed it 64bit is now available in ColdFusion standard:


High Quality video click here.



BTW this will also work for CF8.

Oh and if your trying to run CF9 32 bit on Windows server 2008 64bit again don't forget 64 bit is part of standard.

Ubuntu 9.04 is now an officially supports Operating system for ColdFusion 9.

This is great news. Ubuntu is a great operating system with really upto date repositories ( I just did apt-get upgrade last night and java 1.6.16 is now in the standard repos ).

Although I have been running CF8 on Ubuntu and Debian without issues in the past I think is a good move for Adobe to officially support Ubuntu. There are probably many of us out there that are not running OSX or Windows as our development machines and perhaps even fewer that use OSX and Windows as a server or are at least considering linux as either a server operating system or a desktop enviroment.

I put together a how-to for Installing ColdFusion 9 ( Standard ) on Ubuntu 9.04 and hooking it into apache. I submitted the tutorial to http://www.howtoforge.com and was publish over the weekend. My guide does not go into setting up virtual hosts and presumes every sites will be a cf site but it does walk through the install process step by step.

The guide will work on Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and server and should be the same for earlier versions of both Ubuntu and Debian.  The guide uses 32 versions of both CF9 and Ubuntu but its the same for 64 bit.

Here is the guide on HowToForge

With Max over and the release of CF9 perhaps now more then ever is a great time to request some time to attend one of the upcoming ColdFusion / Flex conferences.

RIA unleashed is a 1 day conference in Boston and is only $50 to attend and if you contact @remotesynth on Twitter he might even give you a discount code ( I did ).
RIA Unleashed 2009 Boston November 13th
http://www.riaunleashed.com/

If Boston is too far you might also consider CFinNC:
North Carolina ColdFusion / Flex / Air Conference - Oct 17-18, 2009
http://cfinnc.com

CFinNC is totally free yes free!


There is also CF Objective ANZ coming up in November.  If your in Australia this should be a great conference and perhaps one of the first large ColdFusion conference to happen in Melbourne ( my home town ).  Unfortunately I wont be back home for this conference but if your considering it I recommend Melbourne as it's a wonderful safe and modern city.
http://www.cfobjective.com.au/go/home


Any one of these conferences would be a great resource especially with ColdFusion 9 now out and I'm lucky I at least get to goto one of them.

Any more I'm unaware of?

.....Update! 

3 more I'm still after some badges for the 1 in comments:

BFusion
ColdFusion — October 24, 2009
Flex — October 25, 2009
Bloomington, Indiana
http://bflex.info/




Scotch on the Road Europe;
Munich, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels and London
Oct 19 - 29
http://www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk
Price: Free




Here is a larger list by Charlie Areheart
http://www.carehart.org/cf411/#cfconf

Well you probably already know but ColdFusion 9 is now officially released!

This is perhaps the most significant release of ColdFusion especially since all the trends we have been seeing recently are pointing to a strong increase in ColdFusion development. Full script support and hibernate ORM are probably 2 of the best new features ( among many others ).

My boss is traveling at the moment but I look forward to purchasing ColdFusion at work and being able to take advantage of the new features ( yay 64bit standard ).

Twitter is going crazy with ColdFusion tweets ( see the top ColdFusion tweetters here :
http://www.tweettrail.com/search/ColdFusion ) so I assume that will help spread the love.

Well done Adobe!

Quick Update...

This is really huge news and its really going to save alot of money and frustrations. CF9 has new EULA's read more about it from Terrance Ryan