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About Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes is a veteran programmer who founded Alagad after briefly flirting with a career in computer animation. Doug has a strong record of achievement with large, complex web applications. His ability to learn and apply new technologies and techniques has helped Doug become one of the web application development industry’s most highly regarded experts.

Doug’s current focus at Alagad is leading an application development team dedicated to helping organizations improve operational efficiency and performance. This commitment to client success has helped Alagad achieve record growth. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and user groups, Doug also regularly contributes to several well-known open source projects. In addition, his articles have been featured in numerous technical publications.

Using Ant to Deploy ColdFusion Applications

Ant is a fantastic tool for deploying applications. It's widely used in the Java world, but is under utilized by ColdFusion developers. What can it do? Pretty much all the tedious steps you currently do when manually deploying applications! In this presentation I'll give an overview of Ant's capabilities and limitations.  I'll also demonstrate CFAnt, an open source and extensible suite of Ant tasks that implement all of the features of the ColdFusion admin API!