Damon Cooper's BLOG http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm <br> Adobe ColdFusion 8 has been announced as the winner of the Web Development Tools category of the Dr. Dobbs 18th Annual Jolt Awards. Winners will be featured in the June issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. For the full list of winners, take a look here: <a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/portal/archives/2008/03/jolt_award_winn.html" target="_blank">http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/portal/archives/2008/03/jolt_award_winn.html</a> <div align="center"><img src="http://i.cmpnet.com/joltawards.com/images/jolt_new_logo.gif"></div> As the Director of Engineering for the Adobe ColdFusion engineering and QA teams that built ColdFusion 8, I'm obviously very, very proud of what we accomplished. Thanks to everyone involved in making it such an awesome product, especially our Beta testers, who contributed countless months of testing, feedback, suggestions, ideas and healthy criticism to help make ColdFusion 8 the best release of ColdFusion EVER. The full list of credits for ColdFusion 8 can be found in the ColdFusion 8 Administrator, but I've listed them here as well for all to see. Everyone who worked on ColdFusion 8 be very proud of what they created, and of the tremendous job they did: <b>Engineering Management</b><br> Damon Cooper, Director of Engineering <br> Hemant Khandelwal, Engineering Manager <br> Praveen Gupta, Quality Assurance Manager <br> Kristen Schofield, Senior Program Manager<br> Vishal Manakame, Senior Program Manager <br> <b>Engineering Team </b><br> Ashwin Mathew <br> Awdhesh Kumar <br> Carol Frampton <br> Chandan Kumar <br> Dean Harmon <br> Hareni Venkatramanan <br> Kiran Sakhare <br> M. Prabhakar Shenoy<br> Prayank Swaroop <br> Rakshith N <br> Ramchandra Kulkarni <br> Rupesh Kumar <br> Sanjeev Kumar <br> Tom Jordahl <br> Vijay Shah <br> <b>Quality Assurance Team </b><br> Ahamad Patan <br> Asha K S <br> Bhakti Pingale<br> Bill Sahlas <br> Bob Powell <br> David O'Leary <br> Dipanwita Sarkar <br> Farah Gron <br> Jayesh Viradiya <br> Manju Kiran P Kiran <br> Sandeep Paliwal <br> Steven Erat <br> Tata Sankaram <br> Vamseekrishna Manneboina <br> Vinu Kumar <br> <b>Documentation & Localization Team </b><br> Randy Nielsen, Documentation Manager <br> Anne Sandstrom, Documentation Lead <br> Hal Lichtin <br> Linda Adler <br> Sarah Hage <br> <b>Product Management, Marketing, and Business Team</b><br> Jason Delmore, Senior Product Manager <br> Ben Forta, Product Evangelist <br> Tim Buntel, Senior Product Marketing Manager <br> <b>Engineering Escalation Team</b><br> Ken Smith <br> Swathi Chitteddi <br> Tom Donovan <br> <b>Best of Scorpio 1st Deadline Submitters and Testers Extraordinaire</b><br> Amit Yathirajadasan <br> Andy Sandefer <br> Patrick Steill <br> Randy Drisgill <br> Ray Camden <br> Sam Farmer <br> Terrence Ryan <br> Todd Sharp <br> Nick Walters <br> Congrats all! Now we need to figure out what to do with the award trophy.... Damon http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8A53DB4A-4E22-1671-5B7475918B9AD591 2008-03-07T12:38:00-04:00 ColdFusion