Russ Johnson announced a new project weeks ago, but it was a rather quiet introduction to a new website ( http://workingwithcfml.com/ ) for promoting CFML Development. I was actually waiting for something to be resolved before I made mention of it. Russ dm'ed me on Twitter and mentioned that he made updates to the site over the weekend. I think it's an awesome idea, a great way to find some people to follow regardless if it's RSS / Twitter, etc.

I have three suggestions for Russ:

• You now have a great collection of RSS feeds. Make it easy for new cfml developers and create a OPML file somewhere that someone can import and grab them all.
• You now have a great collection of twitter names. Make it easy for new cfml developers and create a single page listing twitter name with first name and last name, so we can continue building a great twitter community.
• Integrate with other CFML projects. Slidesix.com is a great example. You already started discussions with Mr. Sharp, now start one with Ray Camden or provide a link to Riaforge if the person states they have open source projects available, etc. More importantly, if you find a CFML Website that doesn't provide an API and you think they should, pester them.

• http://learncf.com/
• http://cflib.org/
• http://riaforge.org/
• http://gotcfm.com/

Russ Johnson wrote on 09/09/09 6:49 PM

Thanks for helping to spread the word Todd!

I am currently working on allowing users to add their riaforgeid to their profile which will in-turn pull a list of their projects from RiaForge and display them with their profile.

The Twitter page idea is great! I will look at adding that one as well.

As far as the OPML, I havent given much thought to that. Mainly since coldfusionbloggers.org has such a thorough OPML feed. I may shoot Ray an email and see if I may "re-distribute" his OPML feed from that site.

Thanks again!

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