The recording of my BACFUG presentation on Subversion is now available on Charlie Arehart's User Group Television website. With post-talk demos, it's an hour and a half - the slide-based preso is the first hour. Big thanx to the University of Santa Clara for sponsoring pizza tonight - sponsorship is very important to BACFUG since it means we don't go home hungry from a meeting! Thanx to my co-manager Sid Maestre for securing sponsorship tonight.

I'll be reprising my Wee Dram talk for BACFUG this week: By now you've heard a dozen times that source code control is good for you. Perhaps you're already reaping the benefits of tracking code changes in a separate system that is nicely backed up. You've heard about tags and branches - most talks touch on them - but you haven't really figured out how to leverage these features to improve your life.

Liz Frederick and her awesome team are evolving out of TeraTech into their own brand and company. As Liz says in the announcement on the CFUNITED blog "We create a clear brand for each event that's easy to understand and we work to unite the community around its purpose." and she goes on to say "Of course CFUnited is still our top priority and I believe 2009 is going to reflect the preferences and the needs of the attendees like never before.

The preso I gave on Monday at the Devon CFUG and which I'll be giving in about an hour at the TVCFUG has been posted to the PRESOS section on my blog. It's a PDF with slides and notes since there are quite a few notes on this preso and it'll make it easier to follow. John Whish (Devon CFUG) has a version of all the slides (with builds but no notes) which was how I presented it on Monday because my laptop wouldn't drive the projector (first time ever!) and I had to present from John's laptop.

And so onto the afternoon's sessions... Mike Brunt's "High Availability" session covered the concepts of clustering and the pros and cons of JRun clustering (he prefers hardware load balancing so you get web servers in the mix rather than just app servers). He was happy to go off on audience-driven tangents about memory monitoring (e.g., the JRun logging options) and hand out general wisdom about clustering and performance based on his (extensive) experience over the years.

Adam Lehman kicked off the day with some upbeat news about ColdFusion 8 (about 75,000 new developers since 2007!) and then covered potential features for Centaur. I'll blog more about this later. Next up was Mark Drew, covering ColdSpring. A great introduction to basic ColdSpring then on to AOP and remote proxies.

Tonight's recording of Seth Duffey presenting Image Manipulation with ColdFusion 8 is now available on Charlie Arehart's UGTV. Updated: the code samples shown in the presentation are available from Seth's website.

This has been mentioned in a few places but I figured it was worth spreading the news as much as possible. Adobe has a series of ColdFusion eSeminars: ColdFusion-powered Rich Internet Applications - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:00 A.M. PDT Beyond HTML: Using Ajax, PDF, and More to Create Engaging Applications with ColdFusion 8 - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:00 A.M.

Get the ColdFusion evangelist's kit from Kristen Schofield! It's about time Adobe provided us with this sort of ammunition.

A few weeks ago I mentioned that Jeff Peters' new Fusebox book was available. I noticed today that Marcos Placona has published Niall O'Doherty's review of the book so if you were holding off, waiting to hear what someone else thinks of the book, now's your chance to read about the book and decide.