Objective Bias

That's right -- I did it. I made the move to Railo. My original plan was to wait for the open source version 3.1 to be released. But after playing with Railo 3 for a while and testing my sites on my local development box, I've been nothing but impressed with its performance and how my CF8 sites "just work" on Railo. So I called up my host, Viviotech, set up a new Linux VPS, installed Railo 3 (Community Edition), migrated the sites from my former CF8-powered VPS (which include this blog and a couple of other sites) and shut that one down.

What can I say? Gert Franz, Michael Streit and co have done an amazing job with Railo. I upgraded my blog to the latest version of Mango, which is Railo-compatible, and my ColdBox sites are just screaming along. And I definitely can't complain about the fact that my hosting costs have been reduced to less than half of what they used to be. Also, any newcomers to Railo should join the Railo_Talk group on Yahoo Railo Google Group. The Railo guys are very responsive in helping people out.

Many thanks to Gert and Co. I'm really looking forward to Railo 3.1!

Like others before me, I decided to take the Are You OO-Ready? quiz at HalHelms.com. I have to say that I surprised myself by getting a 72.9% (35 out of 48 correct). That's not too shabby considering that I'm a (mostly) self-taught CFML programmer who just got into the whole OOP thing a little more than a year or so ago. Anyone think that maybe Hal should offer me a scholarship to one of his classes in Sarasota?