Vince Bonfanti hosted a Birds of a Feather session this evening where he officially unveiled the Open BlueDragon project.

Hosted via Andy Powell: cf.Objective() FlickrStream.

Brian Meloche has posted more details about his presentation as it didn't make it into the conference booklet. He's talking about using ColdFusion for technology integration and, based on the reception my talk about "enterprise integration" got a few years back, this should be a very well-received talk. Brian definitely knows his stuff in this area and has real-world experience to share.

Nic Tunney's massively popular session, An Intelligent Approach to OOP in CF Architecture, will be repeated on Sunday in the SU4A slot. Nic's colleague Samer Sadek will be presenting this repeat as Nic has to leave early. We knew early on that Nic's talk was popular enough to repeat but had not been able to confirm a stand-in speaker to present it on Sunday. Thank you Samer for stepping up! This repeat replaces the planned repeat of Hal's Introduction to OO Modeling talk.

Mark Drew will be presenting an Introduction to ColdSpring on Saturday in the SA5A slot at 2:40pm as Hal Helms is unable to attend the conference. Thank you Mark for volunteering at the last minute - and we're all hoping Hal feels better soon.

There are two networks accessible in the meeting rooms. Please join the guest access network and do not switch back and forth to the meeting room network - the hotel DHCP system doesn't release leases very quickly so it is slowing down because it's accruing so many clients duplicated across both networks.

If you haven't already seen Ray Camden's blog, he has joined Broadchoice as our VP of Software Development and we're very excited to have Ray as part of our team! Ray and I have been working together on the new Broadchoice platform for the last few months, initially both as consultants. We both feel Broadchoice is doing something unique, something special and that this is a great move for both of us - and ultimately for a lot of developers out there. Watch this space!

Hal Helms hasn't been feeling too well and will not be arriving at cf.Objective() until some time on Friday. This means we'll be swapping his session (FR1A) with Dan Wilson's Saturday session (SA5A - Refactoring). We have swapped these two sessions on the website schedule as well as in the online scheduler. Please visit the online scheduler to reconfirm your schedule if you were planning to attend either of these sessions.

The latest software update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 adds Java 1.6.0_05 but does not change your default setup. See this tech note for more details. I haven't yet switched to Java 6 as my default JRE but I will shortly. Happy to hear any early feedback from folks.

Mark Mandel just published the release notes for the upcoming 1.0 Release Candidate of Transfer. You can see just how busy he's been lately. The 1.0 RC should be available any day now - in time for cf.Objective() 2008 where Mark will give an introduction to developing applications using Transfer as well as an advanced talk on the caching machinery in Transfer.