Thoughts on MAX and Bolt - What a Week!

Posted At : November 19, 2008 8:52 PM | Posted By : Jason Delmore
Related Categories: ColdFusion

On MAX

First, I need to really express appreciation to Ted Patrick and the Adobe MAX team. This year's conference has just been simply outstanding. Hopefully those of you that participated feel the same.

Ray Camden also deserves many thanks for managing the "ColdFusion Unconference". Great job Ray! Thanks to everyone else that participated and helped make the Unconference such a great success.

I also have to say, I think this year's MAX had a ton of really cool technology advances. I am truly impressed.

On Bolt

I also have to say that for the first time ever, I was concerned about the response from the community around an announcement. It's not that I have never been apprehensive or have never been worried that we may not deliver "the message" in the right way. This was a very different beast. "Bolt, the Codename for the Upcoming ColdFusion IDE" has been a dream of ours for a long-time, and something we have been working towards for at least the past three years. I was very anxious during the keynote, hoping that the reaction would be what we were looking for. Yesterday and today have been just a breath of fresh air. I can't tell you how many people stopped me to say how happy they were that we are working on a tool specifically for them. During the unconference, we asked if people were excited about Bolt, and I was pleasantly surprised to get a unanimous "yes". It is a weight off my shoulders to have this information out there. How many companies launch a new product built for a product they are not serious about? The answer: none. Hopefully this sends the message that Adobe is truly serious about ColdFusion.

I encourage everyone to check out the latest info about Bolt and apply for the Bolt Prerelease Program!

As a bit of a teaser... here is a screenshot of our internal build of Bolt. :)


Note: This is an internal build, some humor is involved! Don't take anything here as official information about how the IDE will look. This is just to get you all wanting more!

P.S. Check out the information about Centaur too! And apply for the Centaur Prerelease Program while you are at it!

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johans's Gravatar I posted this on Ben Forta's site earlier:

Bolt sounds great - I hope that it solves the Eclipse problem with saving files with a UTF-8 BOM. If not please make put in a request to ensure Centaur use UTF-8 as the complier default - really why should anything else be the default. Adding cfprocessingdirective to everything is just plain ugly.
# Posted By johans | 11/20/08 1:18 AM
Mark Drew's Gravatar the issue with UTF and Bom is from the underlying Eclipse platform. The best people to ask to fix this is the Eclipse team.
# Posted By Mark Drew | 11/20/08 2:35 AM
johans's Gravatar Writing a BOM when saving UTF-8 is an Eclipse issue but as I understand it the BOM in a UTF-8 file is optional according to the spec (think I read that on Paul Hasting's blog somewhere).

What I am proposing is that it becomes a non-issue by having CF9 (Centaur) treat templates as UTF-8 by default. Everything is UTF-8 these days (or should be).
# Posted By johans | 11/20/08 8:49 PM
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