JAN 26
2010
A month or two ago I noticed a twitter friend of mine, and respected designer, Dee Sadler talking about a new conference she was planning. She's based in Kansas City, and having found out how active their development and design user groups are, I was intrigued. This Designer/Developer workflow conference sounded awesome. It wasn't just for developers, they wanted to target designers as well. Having started my career as a designer I decided to submit a topic. I just found out that I was accepted to speak! I'll be presenting a workflow topic covering how to build AIR applications with jQuery and ColdFusion. If you're in the midwest and you're looking to learn a wide range of topics, come check it out.
JAN 6
2010
I just found out that I'll be speaking again this year at cf.Objective(), the premier Enterprise level ColdFusion developers conference, the week of April 22-24 . I'll be presenting on "What's New in Adobe AIR 2.0" and reviewing many of the new features Adobe will be putting out with AIR 2.0, code-named Athena. Functionality like support for the detection of mass storage devices, advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets, support for native code integration, new APIs for access to raw microphone data, and global error handling. Its gonna be great!
JAN 5
2010
Way back in May, at cf.Objective(), I met a great guy named Sid. He shared with me that he was involved in the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group way out in the country of California. Sid told me that he was impressed with my jQuery presentation and asked if I would be interested in speaking to BACFUG. Fast forward 7 months and it seems that they've finally been forced to make good on their offer and let me speak. I'm sure it's because Sean Corfield can't be bothered to make the drive into the Adobe offices, but who am I to complain. (yes, I'm just kidding).
NOV 2
2009
It's been a week since BFlex and I'm just now getting the chance to post all of my materials from my Drag and Drop Image Manager session. If you came to my session and didn't have a chance to grab the zip file containing all of the collateral, or if you weren't able to come to BFlex this year, then here's your chance. Download the zip file here.
SEP 20
2009
Wow...I'm humbled...I just found out this week that I've been accepted to speak at BFlex this year October 24th and 25th. If you haven't heard of this conference, then shame on you. It's an intense two day weekend in America's heartland, Indiana University. The first day, a Saturday, features multiple tracks of tasty ColdFusion goodness covering beginning through advanced topics. The second day is much the same approach, but for Flex instead.
SEP 8
2009
Tonight's presentation to the Nashville Flash Platform User Group was Exploring the AIR API: For Flex Developers, and it went quite well. In attendance were some of Nashville's finest, including Matthew Wallace, Scott Gordon, Boaz Reynolds, Dan Skaggs, and more. All total there were about 12 or 13 people there to see me completely wing my way through coverage of the AIR API for Flex developers. I was eloquent, and poetic, and went for 30 minutes longer than I had planned. But all in all, I think people enjoyed the session and, I hope, walked away with a desire to write desktop apps using the AIR framework.
SEP 4
2009
Registration for CFinNC is now open! CFinNC is a free web development conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina during the weekend of October 17th and 18th with an International line-up of speakers presenting on timely and relevant topics on web development. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the creativity of the planning committee, registration for the event will be free and includes entry to the weekend event and to all presentations.
AUG 26
2009
My October just got a little more interesting this year! I was just accepted to speak at the ColdFusion Community's newest Conference, CFinNC. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, CFinNC is a conference focused on "bringing the awesomeness of the Adobe platform to developers everywhere".
AUG 20
2009
I'm a big fan of Adobe AIR. You might know this about me. My primary means of creating AIR applications uses HTML and JavaScript (it's just what I'm most familiar with). I've been wanting to get more into Flex lately and so I offered to speak at the Nashville Flash Platform User Group (what a mouthful) so that I could use it as an excuse to learn the Flex side of things.
AUG 12
2009
I pitched, I prepared, I traveled, and I presented. My first CFUnited session was presented in what I would consider a successful manner. There were about 2 dozen people there to hear me present on jQuery & AIR. I covered creating a new Aptana AIR project, designing the interface in Adobe Fireworks, coding up the CSS, HTML, and jQuery in Aptana, and finally the ColdFusion component in CFEclipse. Most of the attendees also stuck around to discuss packaging and exporting of AIR apps.
AUG 9
2009
The time has come. Developers all over the world begin their preparations for travel to our nation's capitol for a veritable summit of ColdFusion, and web related topics. Men and women will arrive in Washington D.C. by plane, by bus, by car, and will converge on the Landsowne Resort for 4 days of intense learning, networking, and fun at CFUnited 2009.
MAY 28
2009
I'll be presenting to the Nashville CFUG tonight. The session is titled "jQuery and AIR: Desktop Design for the Front End Developer".
MAY 19
2009
I'd like to start off by saying thanks to everyone who came out for my session on jQuery and AIR on Saturday morning. I had a great time presenting, and I hope that you learned something from me. As promised, here's a link to download all of the presentation files, as well as my slide deck.
APR 23
2009
I just confirmed with JJ Merrick, the co-CFUG group leader, that I'll be presenting my cf.Objective() session for the Nashville CFUG on April 30th. The session is titled "jQuery & AIR: Desktop Design for the Front End Developer". Here's an outline of what I'll be covering:
JAN 4
2009
This was a presentation I gave to the Nashville ColdFusion User Group (NCFUG) on August 22, 2007. It was meant to be a broad overview of CSS, xHTML, and how you can use them to develop semantically valid websites.
