Have you ever been curious about building CFML applications using the ModelGlue framework but just not had time to sit down and learn it on your own? If your answer is yes, then October 24th is your lucky day my friend. That’s the date for the BFusion half of the BFusion/BFlex conference in Bloomington, IN.
Dan Wilson will be giving an all-day training session on ModelGlue. Dan is the managing director of the ModelGlue project so you’ll be getting training from one of the main folks responsible for the framework. I have the honor of filling the role of teaching assistant for the class and I am really excited about the event.
Cost for BFusion/BFlex is $10 per person per day so it’s nearly as close to free training as you’re going to find. Registration is not open as of this writing, so be sure to watch the BFusion/BFlex site for more details as they become available.
I’m so looking forward to heading out to the 360|iDev conference in Denver in a couple of weeks (Sept 27-30). This will be my first foray in to the world of Apple Development and I’m really excited.
ColdFusion is the technology that puts a roof over my head and is like that best friend that always makes you feel super comfortable. But, in the last few months, I’ve had this nagging urge to dabble in something different. Call it a mid-programmer-life crisis if you want, but sometimes as I sit at my computer working, the thought crosses my mind that I want to do something new again. “Build something in Flex” my fellow Adobe-centric developer friends might say. I’ve worked a little with Flex in the past and really enjoyed it for the most part (and would really love to get to do some more work on larger projects with it) so that doesn’t really count as something new. I thought about learning Ruby on Rails as that seems to be generating a lot of buzz lately. In the end, however, I felt like something REALLY different from what I do on a daily basis was called for.
I decided on trying my hand at iPhone development for two main reasons. One, I had an idea for an application that would actually be useful to someone besides just me. No, it won’t make me the next iPhone App Store millionaire, but it could potentially generate a few bucks a month that I wouldn’t otherwise have. Secondly, I’ve loved my iPhone immensely since I got my first one over 2 years ago so I thought I’d try to build something that might put teensy-tiny stamp on someone else’s iPhone.
I went to the first ever 360Flex conference that Tom and John put on in San Jose, CA back in March of 2007 and, even as a first event, the content and atmosphere was incredible. They’ve learned a bunch since then with several successive events under their belts so I’m expecting this conference to be great as well. I’m especially looking forward to the entire day of “101″ hands-on stuff on Sunday before the main part of the conference kicks off on Monday. I’ve been reading up some on using the Apple development software and watching some of the iPhone development video content that’s available trying to at least start crawling before the “starting gun” goes off at the event and, I must say, it definitely fits the bill of “different”.
So, if you’re interested in iPhone development and haven’t registered, head on over to the site and get your ticket now before the price goes up again.
For the last few months, I’ve had this idea that I wanted to try a linux desktop machine as my main development computer for a while. With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 in April, I decided to put together a machine and give it a try. Unfortunately, I had to wait a while in order to get a large project completed so I’d have time to do the testing an building.
Finally, in July, the project was completed and I ordered a few hundred dollars worth of new gear to update a desktop machine that I had sitting idle and installed Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit. There are a lot of great things about Ubuntu linux and I was very impressed with the performance of the OS on a quad-core processor with a pile of RAM.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t a Mac. Let me explain what I mean by that. Read more…
Registration for CFinNC is now open! CFinNC is a free web development conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina during the weekend of October 17th and 18th with an International line-up of speakers presenting on timely and relevant topics on web development. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the creativity of the planning committee, registration for the event will be free and includes entry to the weekend event and to all presentations.
In order to keep the event free we have removed some hard costs and some benefits you normally get from paid-registration events.
Please be aware of the following:
- You are responsible for paying for lunch for both days. We have enlisted the services of a local caterer and will be providing lunch each day for $10/day. This includes a sandwich, chips and drink. Please bring cash the day of the event! We will not be able to process credit cards!
- Limited Edition, Collectible CFinNC conference t-shirts will be available for purchase for $15 with any proceeds going to offset costs and possibly sponsor a planning committee dinner (if we sell them all).
Lunch and shirt purchase is completely optional. You may indicate if you would like to purchase lunch and/or a t-shirt on the registration form.
For more information, please check the CFinNC website at: http://www.cfinnc.com.
I am super excited to announce that I’ve been selected to present a session at the CF in NC conference in Raleigh, NC in October. This will be my first time presenting to a conference setting and I am really looking forward to the experience. Just last week I gave my first ever technical presentation to the CFMeetup group and got some great feedback.
I’ll be presenting an introduction to dependency injection using the ColdSpring framework titled “Intro to ColdSpring: A solution to a problem you may not know you have”.
I’m also looking forward to meeting face-to-face with a bunch of folks I’ve interacted with digitally over the last few years. Hope to see a bunch of you there!
