Exciting Changes At ColdFusion Developers Journal
It is with great pleasure that the team at SYS-CON has assembled a new and revitalized ColdFusion Developer's Journal Editorial Board, under the chairmanship of SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan, who also serves in a similar capacity on the ed board of our sister publication, WebDDJ. I am still Editor-in-Chief, but now there's a whole team to help steer the ship.
It's the remit of the Board to ensure that CFDJ publishes what Jeremy describes simply - though based on his 25 years of publishing experience - as "the best possible articles, in the best possible order." In other words we're going back to getting out not only top-quality content, but top-quality content published each month in a timely manner.
We won't be pursuing deep focus issues on a regular basis any longer and, since many of our readers have expressed concern over CFDJ having perhaps an over-emphasis on Flex, there will be a more clear emphasis on CF topics, so that in any given issue there are not more articles discussing Web 2.0 and RIA topics than our developer-readers themselves are comfortable with.
CFDJ is, and has always been, a magazine by and for ColdFusion developers.
So, that all said, here's the information about our Editorial Board. Pretty neat line-up, huh? Welcome guys, and thanks for coming aboard. Between us all we can make CFDJ rock!
CFDJ Editorial Board 2006-7
It's the remit of the Board to ensure that CFDJ publishes what Jeremy describes simply - though based on his 25 years of publishing experience - as "the best possible articles, in the best possible order." In other words we're going back to getting out not only top-quality content, but top-quality content published each month in a timely manner.
We won't be pursuing deep focus issues on a regular basis any longer and, since many of our readers have expressed concern over CFDJ having perhaps an over-emphasis on Flex, there will be a more clear emphasis on CF topics, so that in any given issue there are not more articles discussing Web 2.0 and RIA topics than our developer-readers themselves are comfortable with.
CFDJ is, and has always been, a magazine by and for ColdFusion developers.
So, that all said, here's the information about our Editorial Board. Pretty neat line-up, huh? Welcome guys, and thanks for coming aboard. Between us all we can make CFDJ rock!
CFDJ Editorial Board 2006-7
http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/general/editboard.htm
Publisher: Jeremy Geelan (jeremy @ sys-con dot com)
Editor-in-Chief: Simon Horwith (simon @ horwith dot com)
Editorial Board
- Charlie Arehart (charlie @ carehart dot org)
- Ben Forta (ben @ forta dot com)
- Shlomy Gantz (shlomy @ bluebrick dot com)
- Hal Helms (hal @ halhelms dot com)
- Jeffry Houser (jeff @ farcryfly dot com)
- Doug Hughes (dhughes @ alagad dot com)
- Ed Sullivan (esulliva @ adobe dot com)
- Jeff Peters (jeff @ grokfusebox dot com)
- Brian Rinaldi (brinaldi @ remotesynthesis dot com)
- Robi Sen (robisen @ gmail dot com)
- Matt Woodward (matt @ mattwoodward dot com)
- Brandon Harper (brandon @ gmail dot com)
That said, since yours is one of the email addresses on the list, and you did made the request, I will obviously comply (not that it's really a big deal to me, either way) and have changed them from links to plain text (along with spaces around the '@' sign and replacing the '.' with the word 'dot').
What will this do for the magazine. Some of these people are so busy they skip major speaking engagements for (and I agree, not critical of people with priorities at all) greater responsibilities. Is this so you can split up the tech review or what? Share you management strategy on these people if you would.
Also if you would, we are reading the magazine for content as you said. I love Flex and what it may do to the internet. Yet, the CFDJ is not the appropriate platform to dominate a whole issue to Flex. I am glad to see that you caught that before it became a habit! I could have seen a series of articles or regular column on Flex though. And that might not be a bad idea for the future!
Note: I would like some source of Flex writting... when will you guys be kicking out a Flash Developers Journal? (Flash, Flex, Apollo)?
All of the new editors will have specific obligations including generation of content. I thinks its worth noting though that all the people that Simon has selected have been know for writing and should have no trouble generating and bringing in new and exciting content. Many of them are already contributors of note to CFDJ.
I hope our endeavors come to meet your level of standard and expectation.
Cheers,
Robi Sen
Regarding Flex, in addition to writing the editorial every month, I am personally focussing on a 'Web 2.0 / RIA' column each month... Flex, AJAX, SPRY, whatever. So yes, there should be some good articles coming up that teach our readers about tools and techniques for creating next generation web interfaces. For more focussed content (Flash, Flex, Apollo) we have WDDJ (Web Developers and Designers Journal), formaerly MXDJ, which focusses on those technologies and others... though not necessarily from a CF point of view.
Regarding deadlines, I'm definitely not concerned about getting content from our board members, and we've got people at Sys-Con to handle dealing with that.
"Do we have a photo of Doug Hughes?"
No.
"Let's google him."
Oh, that must be him.
And our survey says "Uh-Uh".
That's not Doug Hughes of Alagad/Reactor fame!!!