Ryan Hartwich

I last attended CFUnited in 2003 when it was called CFUN-03 and it was a far smaller, less professional conference. At the time, there were around 300-350 attendees and the conference was just passing the point in which it felt like a small, developer-organized affair. This year, it has grown to approximately 900 people and feels very much like a corporate conference. TeraTech, a ColdFusion consulting and training firm based in the Washington, DC, suburbs, is the organizer of the conference and a long-time sponsor of the Maryland ColdFusion User Group. TeraTech dedicates two full-time staff members to organizing the conference and, based on what I see, they are obviously working hard to put on a good show. As a whole, the conference was well organized. With over 60 speakers over four days, this is the leading ColdFusion conference worldwide. Adobe is a large sponsor... (more)