I'm back home again from what I would like to say was, one of the
best cf.Objective()'s
I have ever been to, including the fact that I was incredibly ill for
the last day of the conference. I only managed to catch two sessions in
the afternoon, and otherwise was holed up in my hotel room either fast
asleep, or feeling particularly sorry for myself.
There are many
things I would like to prescribe the incredibly high quality of the
conference to, but the the high calibre of the session presentations
really stands out at the main contributor. I believe that when the
session quality of a conference is so high, the attendees are excited
and motivated by new ideas, which directly translates into fantastic
and thought inspiring hallway conversations, and everything continues
to flow from there.
To make a few particular references to presentations I particularly enjoyed -
Easy and Flexible Validations for Objects - Bob Silverberg
I had not previously taken the time to look at
Bob's
ValidateThis
framework, but let me just say this: It is slick! I was very impressed
by what was possible with very little configuration, and the the
flexibility that was available. My hat is off to Bob for his work with
this validation framework.
Continuous Integration with MXUnit, Ant and Hudson - Marc Esher
Marc
is always a very entertaining presenter, and this presentation was no
exception. I've used Hudson with MXUnit before, but it was still
fantastic to see Marc explain this technology in a very clear and easy
to understand manner. He also gets points in my book for using the
Hudson
Chuck Norris plugin.
Polyglot Programming - Barney Boisvert
If anyone has read
Barney's blog,
they should already know that he's a super smart fellow. This
presentation only solidified this fact, in which Barney dug deep into
the very compelling reasons a developer should potentially look into
developing with multiple languages at a time (something as web
developers we are doing already). Barney covered some really
interesting points about language design, the intent of programming
code and qualifying return on investment in regards to polyglot
programming. All great stuff!
Running ColdFusion on the Amazon EC2 Cloud - Chris Peterson
This
was a session I really wanted to attend, but unfortunately I slept
through due to illness. I wanted to make note of it, as I was told
that
Chris had a completely filled room, and I've been told it was a really interesting presentation all around.
Building Advanced Workflows with ColdSpring - Dan Skaggs
I don't believe I have had the opportunity to see
Dan
speak before this, but this presentation was an eye opener! I came to
this presentation with my 'ColdSpring Lead Developer' hat on to see
what interesting things people were doing with ColdSpring, and came
away with a new found respect for the framework itself, and the
ingenuity that Dan was displaying in his use of it. Dan walked us
through how his company was using ColdSpring to dynamically configure
application workflow and processing - which enables it to be both
incredibly flexible in its implementation and amazingly easy to
maintain.
Bob Silverberg and I also did a two day
Hands on ColdFusion 9 ORM Training
before the conference. Thanks to all our students who attended - we
had a great time teaching the program, and we hope you guys got a lot
out of it. If anyone else is ever interested in taking the training
course, please provide your contact details on the website so we can
contact you at a later date.
All in all, a great conference all around. See you all again next year!
Like
Tyra Banks giving away Vaseline to her entire audience, the attendees of
Bob Silverberg's and I's
ColdFusion 9 ORM Training, that we are running at
cf.Objective(), ever student who attends our training will also get a copy of:
Java Persistence with Hibernate!
You get a book! You get a book! You get a book! Yoouuuuuu get a Booooooooook!!!!
While this is a Java book, and hey, we all write ColdFusion, it is one of
the
books to read on utilising Hibernate within your applications. Reading
this book will give you a huge insight into what ColdFusion is doing
under the covers, which will help out a great deal when building
applications with ColdFusion 9.
So not only do you get some great training from Bob and I, you also get a fantastic reference to take home with you as well!
If that doesn't push you over the edge to
come join us, I don't know what will.
(Ordering now does not provide you with a free set of steak knives, but it will make Bob and I very happy)
I believe it is time for some shameless self promotion!
If you were looking for more information on the
ColdFusion 9 Object Relational Mapping Training that the venerable
Bob Silverberg and I are putting on at
cf.Objective() next April, we have just fleshed out the content section of our site to include a
detailed outline of the topics that we will be covering during the training program.
You'll know Bob from his blogging at
http://www.silverwareconsulting.com/, on a variety of all too clever stuff, including CF9 ORM, Git, Unit Testing, and
ValidateThis - his own open source validation framework. He's also an all-around nice guy
You'll
see that we cover a variety of topics with ColdFusion 9 ORM that will
allow you to hit the ground running once you have completed our
training, and it will be taught in a clear, step by step manner that
will leave you wondering why you ever thought the term "Object
Relational Mapper" sounded so scary and complicated.
So if you
are keen on expanding your skill-set with ColdFusion 9, and
specifically with its integrated ORM, we think this is the course for
you, and we hope to see you at cf.Objective()!
cf.Objective() Preconference Classes
I'm a little behind the times on this blog post - but I am presenting and also teaching a course at
cf.Objective() this year.
I will be presenting 2 sessions at the conference:
Dependency Injection Redefined - ColdSpring 2.0: Narwhal
ColdSpring
2.0, codenamed 'Narwhal', is a project that has been going on a little
'behind the scenes', except for the occasional tweet from either
myself, or
Chris Scott.
In
this presentation, we'll look at some of the motivations behind the
complete rewrite of ColdSpring for the 2.0 version, and some of the new
features that will be available that should make dependency injection
easier, and way more flexible than ever before.
I've had in my
to-do list a reminder to write a long blog post on what is going on
with Narwhal, which I should write at some point soon, so you have a
good idea what to look out for. That being said, Narwhal is taking
shape nicely, and I think is going to be a very powerful addition to
the ColdFusion framework landscape.
Advanced Java & ColdFusion Integration with JavaLoader 1.0
This
talk will focus on the new features of JavaLoader 1.0, and how you can
use them to integrate Java with your ColdFusion platform in some new
and exciting ways. If you are interested in JavaLoader 1.0, check out
this
previous blog post, it gives you a good run down on the new features it brings to the table.
We
will also be investigating some of more common 'gotchas' with Java and
ColdFusion integration, especially around ClassLoader issues, which
should be useful for all involved.
Bob Silverberg and I are also going to be a teaching a 2 day training course, just before cf.Objective():
This
will be as very hands on session, where Bob and I will be going through
building an application using ColdFuson 9's Object Relational Mapper
from beginning to end. This will include many best practices,
discussions as well as theory about how the underlying Hibernate engine
works with ColdFusion. No ORM/Hibernate experience necessary.
More detail on the course can be found on
our website, and also on the
preconference page, where you can also check out all the other fantastic training content.
Don't
forget that the early bird pricing for both conference tickets, and
training finishes on the 29th of January, which is coming up soon!
cf.Objective() is looking to be a great conference. Hope to see you there!
You can
download the full code samples I used in my Rapid OO talk that I gave most recently at
cf.Objective(ANZ) , and previously at
cf.Objective() .
Before people ask, I don't tend to post slides, as they are generally only pictures, and tend to have no context without me talking next to them.
That being said, I'll have a chat with the CFMeetup crew, and see if they would like me to give the presentation there, so there is a recording for posterities sake, and for those who couldn't make those conferences.
I can't believe it was well over a year ago I was sitting around with the steering committee of
cf.Objective() , and the conversation turned to 'What do you think of the idea of doing this conference in Australia?', it feels just like yesterday.
Now we're only
one week away from
cf.Objective(ANZ)!!!
If you haven't already
registered , there are still spots available, so make sure you grab them quick! You don't want to miss out on hanging out with super-top-programmers like
Justin McLean ,
Andrew Muller ,
Dan Wilson ... oh, and did we mention
Ben Forta and
Terry Ryan are coming? (like anyone missed that!).
See you all in a week!
While I am recovering from the Australian
WebDU conference, a few days before that started I got off a plane after the end of the wonderful
cf.Objective() conference.
I have to say, this year's cfObjective() was the best organised out of all the years I have been to. As per usual, the content was stellar, the hotel was lovely, and it was an absolute pleasure to catch up with everyone at the conference. I have to give a big 'congratulations' to Jared, Steven, Jim and the rest of the cf.Objective() crew for putting together such a smooth and professional conference.
I had the pleasure of doing two sessions,
Rapid OO Development with ColdFusion Frameworks, which covered a variety of techniques on how to increase your development speed when building OO models, and I was very happy to see that it seemed to have been very well received. I had one attendee let me know that 'Now I know
why I'm using ColdSpring! I was using it before, but now I know
why', which is an amazing thing to hear as a presenter, that you've managed to create an 'Aha!' moment for someone.
I also did my
Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM, which was a repeat of the session that I did last year. Unfortunately
Ray Camden couldn't make it to do his
Transfer session, so I was called in at the last minute to take his place.
The big news that we announced at cf.Objective(), is that I will now be the lead developer on the
ColdSpring project. Since Chris Scott's major focus these days is the Swiz Flex framework, he decided it was time to pass on the reigns, and since I tend to talk to him regularly about Cold/Spring, have contributed code to ColdSpring , and know about running an Open Source project, he seemed to think I would be a good fit. I'm pretty excited about the opportunity, and have discussed some great ideas with theColdSpring development group, of which Chris is going to stay on as lead architect. I expect we will start off by building the infrastructure around the project, e.g. a centralised wiki, ticket tracker etc, and then move on to some more interesting items.
The obvious question there is, of course, what does this mean for Transfer? (I think I need to start writing down how many times I've been asked if it's 'Dead'. Does anyone actually expect a 'yes' for an answer?), and quite frankly, I don't see this impacting on Transfer much at all, simply because this is going to be code that I would have probably ended up writing on ColdSpring anyway, but it is now a more formalised relationship. When I run into a feature or a bug on an Open Source project, that I want to be implemented, my first natural reaction is to start looking into the code, and writing the feature. This was first exemplified by my contribution toColdSpring of
annotation based pointcuts. There are several aspects of ColdSpring I wanted to improve on, so it was just a natural reaction for me to end up writing code for it.
As stated, the content at cf.Objective() was brilliant as per usual, with my own personal highlights being, Advanced ColdFusion Server Administration (Adam Lehman), Advanced ColdFusion 9 ORM (Terry Ryan) and ColdFusion Portlets (Adam Haskell).
Thinking about the content, I have a little confession to make, that I realised on the way back from cf.Objective() this year. I have a tendency to go to the wrong sessions when at a conference. This may sound like a weird thing, but I realised the last few years I tend to go to sessions that I already know a lot about, just to see if they say something a little bit extra that I can add to my knowledge base. Quite often I end up walking out feeling like I haven't added much to my repertoire. Really what I should be doing is going (mostly) to sessions in which I know
absolutely nothing about, which means I actually get the best return on the my investment in the conference. While it may not be specifically applicable to what I'm currently doing, at the very least it will inspire me to do some interesting new things, and may give me some knowledge that I can then apply at some point in the future. This is a philosophy I plan on applying to all future conferences that I attend.
Finally, I also had the opportunity to be part of a
CFConversations round-table on the second night of the conference.
Brian Meloche,
Andy Powell,
Andy Matthews and I had a really good chat about the conference in general, our thoughts on some of Adobe's upcoming products, various other topics relating to ColdFusion. It was lots of fun to do, and you can download and/or read more about it here.
Again, thanks to all the cf.Objective() crew, and look forward to seeing many of you again at cf.Objective(ANZ).
As per usual, I'm late with my announcement that I will speaking at
cf.Objective() again this year. It is actually really interesting to
see the schedule contain so many sessions that cover OO concepts, and specifically, how to use common tools and development practices to make OO development in a web application context so much easier, better and faster.
This is obviously a real trend in the ColdFusion thoughtscape, with sessions like:
- Introduction to OO Modeling and Design - Brian Kotek
- Taking Code Reuse to a Higher Level - Jeff Chastian
- Building an Object Oriented Model - Bob Silverberg
- RAD OO in Code - Peter Bell
- Atomic Reactor - Mark Drew
- Leveraging Basic Object Oriented Concepts and Design Patterns in ColdFusion - Phill Nacelli
- What to do When OO Fails you in ColdFusion - Brian Meloche
- The Best of Both Worlds: Java Backends with CFML Frontends - Matt Woodward
- Object Relational Mapping with ColdFusion - Jason Delmore
- An Object Oriented Approach to Validations - Bob Silverberg
- Leveraging Enterprise Open-Source Java in ColdFusion - Joe Rinehart
..and of course, my very own
Rapid OO Development with ColdFusion Frameworks.
If you are looking to do, or already are doing Object Oriented development in ColdFusion, this is quite obviously
the place to be!
In my Rapid OO talk, we are going to take a completely manually written OO
model, including persistence to the database, and slowly strip parts of
the code away, replacing them with a combination of ColdFusion
Frameworks and custom generic code, to give you some new tools in your 'OO Development tool-belt', that you can then go away and play with, and hopefully include in your day to day development practices.
Look forward to seeing you all there!
Last year I got the opportunity to have dinner with the steering committee of cf.Objective()
in the United States, and the topic of bringing cf.Objective() over the
Australia was brought up. I was instantly excited by the idea as I had
always had such a wonderful time at cf.Objective() in the US, and
had found it such a marvelous ColdFusion learning experience that I've
been back every year since, and am speaking again this year.
Apparently, I've now been given the title of 'cf.Objective() Vice Instigator - Pacific Operations ', for generally just being that annoying guy in the background going 'so what do we do next?', and harassing people on IM to make sure they show up for teleconferences.
Having
a stack of focused, ColdFusion specific, Enterprise software
development knowledge coming directly into Melbourne is going to be
great for local ColdFusion ecosystem, both for Melbourne, and also for
the Australia and New Zealand region.
Speaking from
experience, simply having a lot of smart minds that do enterprise
ColdFusion development, in the same place, at the same time, talking
ColdFusion, means that all sorts of interesting ideas and opportunities
get discussed, developed, and often worked on in the halls of the
conference.
The conference dates are the 12th and 13th of November, 2009.
We are still in the process of lining up sponsors and speakers, so if you are interested in either, please check out the website for more details and/or sign up for the mailing list, so you can be appraised of further developments.
If you are interested in coming to cf.Objective(ANZ), please sign up for the mailing list as well, so you can stay abreast of the latest and greatest news for the conference.
Oh, and the hotel is gorgeous, you should check out the online video!
I look forward to seeing you all there!
Okay, forgive me one Australia joke ;o).
cf.Objective()
was an absolutley fanstastic conference all around, and I had an
incredible time. Not only were the presentations top notch, but it's
always an incredible pleasure to meet up with the people that I only
tend to see once a year, and I always get a huge burst of inspriation
just being around clever people and sharing various ideas over a drink
or two.
Presentations
I'm not going to go into all of the presentations, but as per usual,
they were all of an incredibly high calibre, and I came out of all of
them learning something new.
Highlights of the conference for me were:
Model-Glue 3: Back to its Roots - Joe Rinehart
This was a really interesting presentation, to see what MG3, code named
Gesture,
had in store for its users. I really like the innovative approach Joe
has taken to enable to framework to generate itself as you develop with
it.
Selling Professional Development at a Hostile Shop - Terrence Ryan
I
now refer to Terrence as 'the master manipulator' ;o). He outlined a
series of personality types that can often occur when working in an
organisation that tends to lean against the utilisation of software
development practices such as frameworks, unit testing, or version
control, and how to encourage them to accept, and even appreciate,
these practices when previously they had shunned them.
His
use of images to illustrate each of his points was also particularly
clever, I never knew that a photo of Bea Arthur wrestling a velociraptor could ever have any sort of context!
Workshop: ColdSpring 1337 - Chris Scott
Honestly,
this was probably my favourite session at cf.Objective(). Chris went
through some really interesting way you can use AbstractFactories and
AOP to really push what is possible to do within ColdSpring. He used a
Flex / ColdSpring / Transfer/ Yahoo Maps mash-up to show this off,
incorporating some nice Transfer powered Flex Remoting, implemented
with some very nice ColdSpring Remote Proxy AOP work (Before people
ask, yes, this will be finished off and released at some point)
Finally, Chris showed off his new Flex framework,
Swiz,
and while I don't even do much (any?) Flex development, I looked at and
just went 'Well, that is a pretty sweet framework'. I'm looking to do
some Flex work in the near future, and I can see me really getting into
Swiz.
Workshop: Advanced Techniques with the ColdBox Framework - Luis Majano
While
I didn't attend most of this presentation (I think I was balled up on a
couch somewhere trying not to drop off to sleep), I dropped in at the
end, so that Luis and I could do a quick announcement of the CodexWiki
Open Source Wiki, which is currently powering
docs.transfer-orm.com. We are opening a private beta for Codex, before we do a full release. If you are interested in being involved, feel free to
drop me an email.
Transfer
One of my favourite things about the conference was running around
giving lots of people Transfer stickers. It gave me a wonderful
opportunity to talk to lots of people about Transfer, and I think I
actually managed to get it so that about one in every third person had
a Transfer sticker on their laptops (Statistics based on no real
analysis)! I passed on a stack of stickers to a few people, so if you
weren't fortunate to get any at cf.Objective(), or couldn't attend, you
may find some people around who still have some to hand out.
I also did two presentations on Transfer, one of of which was a repeat. While the first time I presented
Introduction to Build Applications with Transfer ORM,
didn't quite go according to plan (technical difficulties), people
still seemed to get a lot out of it, which I was very happy about. The
Transfer ORM Caching Mechanics and the repeat of the
Introduction talk went far more smoothly, and got good reviews from the
people that I talked to, which is very pleasing.
ColdFusion 9
The ColdFusion 9 keynote, and BOF was another highlight of the
conference for me, although, I must admit, I didn't hear any feature
requests that really surprised me.
Adobe is further opening up the ColdFusion development process, promising us a Open Bug Tracker, and setting up an Advisory Committee, which is fantastic.
We
got a hinting at a ECMAScript (style?) syntax for ColdFusion
components, which I know is something that people, myself included,
have wanted to a long time. From that, there seemed to be a big push
to be able to write AS3 on the server side. Considering that a lot of
new CF developers seem to be coming from Flex, I think this would be a
really smart move on Adobe's part. Not only does it streamline the
training process for Adobe based Rich Internet Applications, it
provides a solid, single language for Adobe products, which can then
only be expanded.
That being said, it
would be very important that the CFML language also be kept intact,
both for backward compatibility, and for the fact that a tag based
syntax just makes so much sense on the view layer. (Oh, and let's not
forget, some people just like writing CFML ;o) )
People
One of the biggest draw cards for cf.Objective() is the people you get
to hang out with. For me personally, it's the only chance I get per
year for me to actually see a lot of the people that I speak to day in,
day out on-line.
It also gave me a chance to meet and talk to some of the people I've worked remotely with as well, specifically, the
Dinowitzs, who run the great
Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, and the really cool
Alagad crew.
Let's also not forget that I won the Wii,
which was a big surprise! It was very amusing watching multiple people
try and convince me how it wouldn't work in Australia, and that I
should just give it to them, because really 'I didn't need it' ;o).
Let it be known, that a new power cable is on its way in the post, and
soon theWii will be up and running smoothly.
Oh yeah.. and I don't care what you lot say, it's cay-shing, not caaashing. ;o) See you all next year!
Wow. When I started this project
back in 2005
I had no idea it would blossom into what it is now, or that it would
take me 3 full years to turn it into an actual 1.0 release.
It's been a crazy, interesting, frustrating and incredibly rewarding ride, and I plan on continuing it well into the future.
So here I present to you the release candidate of
Transfer 1.0, ready for your
download and consumption !
Some of the major new features include:
- Composite Key Support
- Transaction Support
- Binary Data support
- Configuration includes
- Cascading operations e.g. cascadeSave(), cascadeDelete()
- A huge number of performance improvements
- Public Bug Tracker
- Public Wiki
Please see the
full release notes for more information.
I want to extend a big thanks to all those people who have helped out
with Transfer, with code, testing, documentation, or just giving your
ear as I try and work out a n-th level nested recursive threading
issue, you all are too many to mention, but you know who you are, and
you guys rock!
I'm really happy with the way the Transfer community has grown over the
past few years, recently passing 320 members, and big kudos to you all
for helping me bring Transfer to this 1.0.
In the coming months, the following is the plan for Transfer -
- Transfer Support finalised and advertised.
The details of this have been worked out, expect a blog post on this either during, or shortly after cf.Objective()
- Infrastructure
You will notice there is the new Wiki and Bug Tracker. There will be a
complete rebuild of the Transfer site, to integrate the wiki and the
tracker, and provide the community with more ways to learn and interact.
- Transfer Training
This is the next big thing for Transfer, and I will be starting to write the curriculum after I get back from cf.Objective()
- Transfer Survey
Expect to a see a survey in the upcoming months, to get a feeling for
how the community is using Transfer, and what sort of enhancements they
want for the future.
- Transfer 1.1
Yep, I've already started thinking about a 1.1 release! I think I also
know what new features will be in it, but I won't ruin the surprise.
- Transfer Developer and Training Certification
I've had some recent interest in this, and it is still on the roadmap. Once the training curriculem is finalised, this will be also be developed.
Hopefully that will give you guys something to think about while you play with the 1.0 Release candidate!
As you may have picked up the
occasional teaser, the Transfer documentation has been officially moved to a new Wiki, which can be found at
http://docs.transfer-orm.com.
The old URLs now redirect to this link, and the project page links are also pointing here.
This is one of the new faces of the soon to be released
Transfer 1.0, a large part of which is project infrastructure.
In
the next few months, you will see more and more being built, to help
build the Transfer community, and provide it with the support it needs
to help make Transfer into an even better project than it is now.
As per what is CodexWiki? Well, I guess you'll have to come to
cf.Objective() to find out...
Yesterday I got notified that I will be speaking at cf.Objective()
next year! I am very excited about coming over again and speaking.
Last year was an amazing experience, and it will be great to catch up
with all the people who I only ever get to see face to face once a year.
I'm going to be doing two presentations on Transfer:
'Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM' - A reworking
of my original 'intro' talk, that is going to take a very code centric
walkthrough of setting up and using Transfer ORM.
Transfer ORM Caching Mechanics' - Where we will look at some overall
caching concepts, and have a strong technical discussion on how the
caching in Transfer works, as well as all the configuration options,
and cache manipulation methods that are available.
I have to say, the speaker line up this year looks absolutely amazing.
I'm actually seriously hoping that my speaking schedule doesn't get in
the way of me getting to all the sessions I want to get to!
Big Kudos to Jared, Sean, and everyone else who's been working on the cf.Objective() conference, you guys are doing an incredible job.
I just checked out the
mailing list for
Transfer, and we're currently at 130 people!
Wow!
When I left for
cf.Objective(),
we were at 94, and I was hoping we would soon be at 100... I had a peek
today, and we're actually at 130! That's an increase of 36 people since
cf.Objective() Started!
That's 1.6 people added to the list, per day, since the day cf.Objective() started.
I
can only assume that this as a sign that my presentations were well
received, and have generated some interest in Transfer, which I am very
glad to hear.
(By the way, if anyone has any feedback on those presentations, please
feel free to let me know, I actually get very little in the way of
feedback, so I'm actually all ears)
I'm currently working on the getting the Composite key functionality
off the ground, so things are still moving forward with Transfer, so
expect some news on that in the near future.
Now that things have finally settled down getting back to Australia
(and I finally have a laptop that I can use again), I can put some of
my thoughts down on (virtual) paper on the recent
cf.Objective() conference.
First
of all, let me just say that this conference was the single best
ColdFusion learning experience I have ever had. I don't think I have
learned as much, in such a short period at any other conference,
mailing list, chat room, or
CFUG meeting.
I
have to seriously take my hat off to Jared, Steven and the rest of the
crew that put together this event - the facilities were excellent, the
speakers were phenomenal, and the food was fantastic (those chocolate
cakes!).
When I wasn't busy presenting on
Transfer,
I actually got to run around and sit in on a whole lot of
presentations. Again, these presentations were a level above and
beyond any I have seen elsewhere, so much so, that I can't pick out
specific ones in which I would say 'these are were the highlights for
me', otherwise, I'd just be listing 90% of the sessions I went to.
For
those of you who are still waiting on my presentation slides, please be
patient. I only just got ColdFusion back up and running on my
resurrected laptop, so I've got a little ways to go. Thankfully all
the slides where backed up, and I just need to do some work on the
example application before I can make it available for download.
Coming
from Australia, and actually physically meeting so many of the people
that I talk to online, day in, day out, was an absolute pleasure. A
few of you I had met before, but most of you I have only ever talked to
via text. It is always amazing how much more you get out of simply
physically sitting in the same room as someone and being able to chat
about things, than you can via something like
IRC.
While
the presentations were incredible, I think I probably took more away
from talking to people about ColdFusion at cf.Objective(). The
environment and the people that were around really lent itself to
creating some really interesting discussions about ColdFusion and
various other software development topics. I often woke up at 5:30am
and simply couldn't get to sleep again because I had to get some
thoughts down on paper, or I had to actually start writing some code.
The only complaint I had about the conference was the
complete lack of sleep
I got! I landed in Minneapolis in time for some dinner, having had
about 3 hours sleep, and then promptly got dragged into conversing
about ColdFusion until 2am in the morning. I think I actually worked
out, in over 72 hours of being awake, I had only managed around 11
hours sleep. Of course it was totally not by fault that I was forced
to stay up late drinking and talking geeky things. ;D
Honestly,
however, regardless of what country you reside in, if you are seriously
looking to expand you knowledge of enterprise development, be it
beginner, or advances, cf.Objective() is
the best learning experience you could have. Funds non-withstanding, I will definitely be there next year.
This may seem a little behind the times, but between my HD crashing at
conference, and trying to physically meet as many people as possible
(and have a few drinks too), I didn't blog that at
cf.Objective() I released the new logo and branding for Transfer!
This was designed by
my girlfriend, who, as you can see, can definitely do a far better job than my usual programmer artwork.
As well as this, there is an upcoming
www.transfer-orm.com
project site for Transfer. Currently this just points back to the
compoundtheory project page, but expect to see a Transfer specific
page, with a wiki, coldfusion based trac and all sorts of other
interesting things.
I have yet to write up a full blog post on cf.Objective(), as I only
got back a couple of days ago, and have still been rebuilding my
laptop, so expect that, and presentation slides and example code etc to
come soon!
Phew!
over 24 hours of flying, travelling, waiting for bags, standing queues,
taking my shoes off, putting my shoes on, walking through scanners,
putting bags on conveyor belts, taking bags off conveyor belts.... I'm
finally here.
I have to say, the flights weren't all that bad,
Qantas's new 'on demand' in flight system was pretty good in that I
could pick and choose what TV and movies I wanted to watch for 14 hours.
If you need to reach me, I added myself to the
twitter back channel for
cf.Objective(), so if you add me as a friend, can chat that way. I'll most likely be on IM
most of the time I am here, and worst comes to worst, call the hotel
and ask for me by name - but please no calls before 11am, I'm currently
running on about 3 hour sleep.
Other than that, I should be pretty easy to spot around the place, look for the guy that looks like
this, with a dragon tattoo around his left bicep.
That being said, if anyone wants to catch up during the day on Thursday, please do get in contact.
See you all at the conference!
