Monthly Archives: June 2006

I didn’t get a change to blog about day two on day two, so here it is, a few hours late.

Joe Rinehart presented on the MVC design pattern and talked at length about how it works and such. very informative. Plus a little peak at Model Glue 2, which looks great!

Sandy Clark gave a presentation on positioning in CSS, I’m a little more into CSS because of it, so that’s a plus. My last endeavor with CSS ended poorly. I think I’ll try it again. She did a great job covering positioning, I’m sure she could fill an entire day on the topic.

After lunch (it was a little better than day one) I went to Hal Helms, er Simon Horwith‘s (Hal couldn’t make it I guess) presentation on design patterns, and anti patterns. Guess I have some reading to do on the subject.

The final presentation of the day was Tom Link‘s Flex 2.0 Event model. Quite interesting. I’ve played a bit with Flex 1.5 and 2.0s events. so the presentation was building on what I knew which was nice. Also helped to confirm to myself what I knew and recalled about the event system. Did learn a lot of new things about it too though.

All in all a really great conference so far, great seminars, great folks, some of us could stand to be a bit less nerdy, but hey! Who am I to judge?

The ColdFusion Celebration last night was fun, free beer is always fun.

It’s a wrap!

To start, it looked like a lovely day outside. We got here last saturday, 4 days early, to sight see and such. rained each day, 100% humidity, 80 degree temps. Pretty sucky.

OK onto CFUnited.

As I mentioned, the keynote was good. Ben had some great little sneak peaks of CFMX 8, "SCORPIO" and Tim Buntel is back in the hiz ouse. I’ve never met him or dealt with him, but it sounds like he’s where he needs to be. Allaire sucked at it, Macromedia sucked at it, hopefully Tim will keep Adobe from sucking at it!

The first session I hit was the "managing CFCs with factories", by Sean Corfield. I know there’s still 2 days left, but as yet, this was the best preso I’ve seen. Not only was it cool to see him present in person, but the topic was eye opening, and I’m not new to CFCs or anything.

After that I hit up a great presentation by Joey Coleman about managing and growing your personal brand, In the "this isn’t tech" category, Joey’s rocked. It was incredibly informative!

Lunch was lunch.

After lunch I hit up the CF/Flex integration seminar. it was weak. No offense to Laura and Nahuel, but the presentation was bland, boring and nothing at all different from what we’ve seen at any CFUG meeting.

Nate Nelsons talk on the undocumented features of CFMX was pretty good, I left 30 minutes in, mainly because as interesting as they were, they weren’t anything I was interested in.

The final part of the night was the mixer event.
nerds are nerds, if people weren’t squirrelled away with their laptop sitting all alone, they were engaged in conversations with co-workers. I bailed after 30 minutes and one Heineken.

Or is it that day two is half way here?

Sitting at lunch at CFUnited. I can’t think of a better solution for food for big conferences, but danwhiches are just weak sauce IMO. Coulda been worse, they could have been pre made. At any rate, I had two protien bars. I’m healthy like that. :)

the welcome and keynote were nice. Scorpio sounds impressive. As iff more reason was needed to go to MAX… I got stuck sitting next to two java programmers. Not sure why they were here, but I’m guessing FLEX. Didn’t have the feel of a CF’er, you can just tell. They didn’t have it.

I ended up missing out on the coding kitchen, CF/Flex hands on. I didn’t bring the Dell with me, and wehn i walked in I realized it was coding kitching, because attendees would be writing code. Bummer. Thought about dashing up for the Dell, but it jsut wasn’t worth it. It worked out well. Sean Corfeilds preso on CFCs and Coldspring was very interesting, and Joey Coleman’s talk was very good. Those who missed it, missed out.

Of course today it’s more or less sunny out, hasn’t rained since this morning. I’m trapped indoors. Go figure. My first time to the nations capital and it’s the 200 year storm. crikey!!

More later.

Nicole IM’ed me a link to a little writing (poetry) contest on a blog. Kinda a round a bout link through. we have no kids and this site is for moms who home school (which I’m even against, but that’s neither here nor there). At any rate her IM to me was, "just something to keep you writing." Man, my wife rocks!

I don’t know if the blogger meant for Haiku to count or not I’m not submitting it to the site, but Haiku is what I do. I like the simplicity, I really like that there’s no meter, just plain and simple format. I love format. Hate Meter. Not that it sucks, I just can’t do it. Tom writes some truly inspired poetry, I don’t.

Without Further Adieu, my "I am from"

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