I finally got my sessions to Jared, and he has posted an updated list. I'm going to be doing an introduction to AOP as well as a session concentrating on using ColdSpring to power your Flex applications. Don't forget, early bird pricing will end April 1st, so you better get on your tickets quick! Honestly, $395 is an absolute steal for the amazing amount of top notch sessions that your going to be getting. Last year cf.

Lately I have been thinking an awful lot about metadata. We have this great metadata object in CF, but I rarely hear anything about it. Funny, even though we use metadata extensively in ColdSpring, I sort of forgot it was there for day to day use. ColdFusion's metadata object is free for the use in almost any way we want, and can provide extremely powerful class or method level annotations. Let's take a quick look at an example so you can see what I'm getting at.

WOW! I can't believe it! I'm actually the quintessential CF Developer, as far as Tim Buntel is concerned! He was a little off on his meme though, so I thought I would update it, make it a little more accurate:Chris, the web developer persona 38 years old Married for 7 years, has a 5.5 year old son named Tommy and a 3 year old named Simon.

Kind of late on this, but in case you missed em, a couple of Cynergy coworkers / Flex super gurus have written some must read flex articles you probably want to check out.First up, Andy Trice did a killer mashup with Yahoo Maps and StrikeIron's census web service. Really cool demo, and of course Andy's blog is pretty much a must read.Andy and Keun Lee also wrote a great article, second in a series on Building RIAs from front to back at Adobe's Dev center.

Happy new year everybody! Or should I just list out my limited readership by name? 2006 was a very crazy year for me, good in a lot of ways, completely crazy in others, so good riddens, but only sort of. I thought that today would be a really good day to sit back and relax, but instead I decided to work on some ColdSpring. Oh well. I'll relax later. So does that mean there's something new to announce? You bet! And you can thank Sean for bugging me, too. ColdSpring now supports the tag!

The concession speech has just ended, and for the first time in many years I can finally again be proud of our political process. Having Santorum for a Senator of the state where I was born and raised has certainly not been something to be proud of, but we can all breath easy and be a little happier. Thanks again PA!

Rock! I simply could not help myself, isn't she a beauty?

In case you haven't heard, Adobe has aquired two great members of our community, Paul Kenney and Adam Way[ne Lehman]. Read about Paul's job with Sean, and Adam's new job as North America's new ColdFusion Specialist (that's a hell of a title Adam!).Best of luck to both of you!

There's a lot of good lists out there, and sure I've got a few wishes, many of which have been said before. But there's one in thing I don't think anyone has mentioned that I really think would be incredibly useful. I would like to see better packaging options in CF 8. We can package up applications along with CF and deploy them as ears, which is great, but I'm more talking for library code. What I would really like to do is just have modelglue or cfcunit as a .

I'm trying to get my travel plans together quick so I can get a decent price on a flight, but even though the discount on rooms is very good, they still don't come cheap! So I'm looking to share a room, any takers?? If you're interested, post a comment, or hit me up on IM (my gmail address is on my resume, check the hire me link). I like to stay up very late and I think I like beer, so take that into account...