Category: ColdFusion
I've been outed
Angela has outted me... I do indeed now work at lynda.com. My official position is Web Application Architect. So what do I do?
In no particular order (and certainly not exhaustive):
- Maintain existing ASP-driven site
- Fix issues (we don't have any y'know, our site is PERFECT!)
- Develop new applications for the site
- Infiltrate the company with ColdFusion (they will all be assimilated)
I've been working at the LDC (sounds fancier that way) for about 2 months, and I'm enjoying being constantly engaged with new things to work on.
So I'm sorry if my posts have been few and far between. Not only do I have a new job, but I'm getting ready to move cross-country again. I'm heading back to the homeland, Texas... We're due to move in July, and I can't wait :). Here's a sneak peek...
MAX Is Official
That's right, I have confirmed through sources yet to be named (ACE people) that MAX will be this October 22nd to the 26th in sunny Las Vegas. They planned it on my birfday on purpose y'know...
I leave for MIX06 tomorrow in Vegas, so it looks like I'm gonna be a Vegas junky this year...
cf.Objective().Rocks()
I got back from cf.Objective() late Sunday night (or was it Monday morning) and I have to say it was by far the most educational conference I've ever attended. I attended every session I could (a change for me, I usually skip a particular session time when there's just nothing to see). The full list of sessions I attended is:
- CFEclise: An Introduction
- Managing ColdFusion Components with Factories
- AOP with ColdFusion
- ObjectThink
- Mach-II and ColdSpring
- Subversion SCM
- Objects and Persistence
- The Mystic Flex2 Gateway in a Real Application
- Frameworks Roundtable
- ModelManagement with ColdSpring
How's that for a session list?! Every session stretched my brain (my hat was getting pretty snug), and I came away from every single session with new information. Even the ones where I was completely lost by the end (AOP is particularly hard to grasp) I still came away with new information, and as I told Chris Scott later that evening (who gave the AOP presentation) the information he presented was slowly marinating, and I was starting to really understand a lot of what he said, hours later. I have to say that this is probably the only conference I've attended in quite some time where I felt I actually got my money's worth.
So if you're a CF developer looking to step up your game, even if you're not "quite ready" for OO development, I would highly recommend you attend the next cf.Objective() (and harass Jared to put together another one).
So thanks Jared, Sean, Chris (I promise I'll get the AOP, and check out Lem), Paul, Ryan, Simeon, Kurt, the Dinowitz's, and everyone else who made this conference great.
I can't wait until next year!