Charlie Arehart's UGTV site has many of the CFUNITED Connect recordings listed and the CFUNITED blog just listed a whole bunch more recordings including my Saturday repeat of Event-Driven Programming and Elliott Sprehn's amazing session on the internals of the Adobe ColdFusion server.

Here's the link to the PDF of my CFUNITED presentation (644Kb) on event-driven programming in ColdFusion. I can't post the code (sorry) but will be working on new examples shortly.

This was my busy day as far as sessions went. The day started with a repeat of my event-driven programming talk (which went a bit better this time) then Hal Helms "Object Oriented Best Practices". I'd heard most of it before (from Hal) but he's always an entertaining and thought-provoking speaker. My favorite quote was "There is no lack of help on the Internet if you want to write bad OO.

A client I have been working with just released their first open source project: a multicolumn dropdown menu plugin for jQuery. Their use case is to allow users to easily navigate complex hierarchical menus of options either via the mouse or via the keyboard. I had nothing to do with this project but given my recent interest in jQuery, I felt it was worth blogging about. I think it really shows the power and simplicity of jQuery.

I skipped the morning sessions (and lunch, eating with Ray and a few others at Teaism, south of the hotel - thank you Simon Horwith for the suggestion!). I wanted to hit Manju's 64-bit talk but wasn't back in time and had planned to hit Jeff Peters' "Square Pegs, Round Holes" talk but it turned out to be much more introductory than the track ("ADV") indicated. The one session of the day I intended was Elliott Sprehn's "Internals of the Adobe CF Server" which was absolutely incredible!

Working backwards... I already blogged the Adobe keynote at Scotch on the Rocks but wanted to cover some of the sessions and the overall feel of the conference. As I said before, it had a nice, relaxed feel to it and Andy Allan, Big Mad Kev and Stephen Moretti did a great job creating a conference that felt like a bunch of developers simply sharing their experiences and their wisdom. It was a really enjoyable three days with some fascinating sessions in an incredible location.

I dragged my carcass out of bed extra early for a "technology managers" breakfast that TeraTech were organizing prior to the keynote. 7:30am. Such an uncivilized time. The "breakfast" was a few croissants and some fruit and juices and a thinly veiled pitch from TeraTech for their services. Luckily only a handful of managers actually wasted their time attending. Next was TeraTech's opening "keynote". It's always the most painful thirty minutes of CFUNITED.

I finally have a brief window to start blogging about what I've been up to for the last few months so I thought I'd start with today and work backwards. Since the first session was at 8:15am and there were only two sessions before the HostMySite keynote, I slept in and went over to the Convention Center for lunch. Sandwiches and the usual lack of sodas and coffee (more on that below). Then it was my Event-Driven Programming talk at 1:30pm.

Mark Drew and Sandy Clark are swapping sessions on Saturday. Mark Drew's CFEclipse Reloaded talk will now be at 4pm in room 152B. Sandy Clark's Accessibility and Rich Internet Applications talk will be at 9:45am in room 140A.

Sandy Clark is taking over Nic Tunney's slot today at 4pm and will be doing her accessibility talk (in the absence Nic's slides).