As previously announced, ColdBox is in the midst of a transition from an Open Source Software project to a Professional Open Source Software project. It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce yet another step in this transition: a new strategic partnership between Ortus Solutions, Corp and Rachel Queen Services Group, LLC, which will oversee ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars and curriculum development.

ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars will provide 16+ hours of intense, hands-on training featuring:

• 2-Day Introduction to ColdBox and ColdBox Platform Development (ColdBox Platform 101) or
• 2-Day Advanced ColdBox Techniques and Application Development (ColdBox Platform 201)
• Official Training Seminar Workbook + Goodies.
• Limited Seating will be available, providing a more intimate learning atmosphere (10-15 people max)
• Regional Training Seminars (off-site, schedule TBA)
• Private Training Seminars (on-site)

The first ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminar set to cover Introduction to ColdBox and ColdBox Platform Development will be held in Dallas, Texas, and is tentatively scheduled for October 11-12, 2008. To reserve your seat and/or seats for your development team, please contact us at training@coldboxframework.com. Please be sure to let us know how many seats you would like to reserve, as seats are limited!

The first 24 hours are over, but the downloads continue to pour in. At press time, the official counter shows that the current rate is approximately 5,500 downloads per minute, and the total number of downloads is roughly 8.8 million. [ars technica]

Jane Barratt, former managing director at Euro and WPP consultant, just joined Sapient to run the interactive practice in NY. I had the pleasure to meet Jane in Miami a couple of weeks ago and am psyched by the direction Sapient is taking in the interactive domain; and this is only the beginning.

After more than 18 months of development and a slew of releases (including five alphas, five betas and three Release Candidates), the wait for Mozilla's Firefox 3 is over.

The Firefox 3 release aims to improve the Web experience for the browser's 170 million users while expanding market share even further, coming as it does months ahead of the next major release from Microsoft, Internet Explorer 8 (IE). Tons of tabbing, bookmarking, memory, security, and well, 15,000 improvements...

Mozilla conducted an application-specific test that compared relative performance on Google's Gmail service. Beltzner said Firefox 3 proved to be four times faster than Firefox 2 and seven times quicker than IE 7.

Memory usage also improved substantially in Firefox 3. Many users had complained about Firefox 2's memory-hogging tendencies, especially when multiple tabs remained open throughout the course of a day.

With today's release, Mozilla isn't just aiming to change its browser. It's also aiming to enter the Guinness Book of Records. Mozzilla is aiming for 5 million downloads, though there is some controversy here as the Adobe Flash Player has exceeded 10 million daily downloads in many occasions.

• [via engadget]
• It's a teensy bit thicker.
  
• A SIM ejector comes in the box, at last.
• There's no dock included, just a USB power adapter.
• On AT&T unlimited iPhone 3G data plans for consumers will be available for $30 a month, on top of voice plans starting at $39.99 a month. Unlimited 3G data for business users will be $45 a month, on top of voice.
• Apple's new MobileMe service will be coming with the iPhone 2.0 software, bringing push email and contacts for all.

After god knows how many years, web archive says Fed 06, and first blog post Jun 05, I finally decided to change (or even have) the design for my blog.

I always said content's first, so after 500 posts I finally got to it. I kept it simple and minimalistic. Let me know what you think, or if you find any problems. I upgraded to BlogCFC 5.9.003, implemented table-less div layouts, and carefully maintained SEO urls, keywords, descriptions, so hopefully I won't see any drops.

Thanks goes to Tom de Manincor for making it happen, and Bryan Stanley for the design and implementation.