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With so much great content at CFCamp, I'm having a hard time deciding between sessions! This is my best guess as to where you'll be able to find me.

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Munich, recovering from jet lag. That can only mean one thing: CF Camp is back, and I was picked as one of the speakers. :)

Into The Box 2023 wrapped up a couple weeks ago. And as always, it was a great conference!

Into The Box 2023 starts tomorrow! After a flight that included several delay, I finally arrived at the hotel a few minutes ago. As per usual, there is a ton of great content this year; deciding which sessions to attend is like the techie equivalent of Sophie’s Choice! Here’s my best guess as to where you can find me:

It's official...next week I'll be speaking at Into The Box in Houston!

The 2023 CF Summit East Conference wrapped up yesterday — it was a fun, albeit short, trip. I’m already on a flight back hope; sadly no time for tourist things on this trip (tho my sushi dinner with Minh Vo yesterday was fantastic so I’ll take that as a win).

Greetings from the Chicago Airport! I'm currently waiting on my flight that's been delayed several times. This place becomes even more of a zoo every time I'm here. Anyway, assuming they find a way to get me to DC before morning (cross your fingers!), I'll be speaking at the CF Summit East tomorrow.

Conference season is here again!  And I'll be kicking it off by speaking at Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2023 in Washington DC!

We're looking for a CFML Developer to help with a new project. It should be pretty steady work for at least the next 3 months, possibly longer if all goes well.

Are you taking the ColdBox Master Class on CFCasts? Some folks were asking where to find the Vandelay Forum app that I used in the video training.

CFML developers that still say "I don't know how to use ColdBox", your excuses are now officially invalid. ;) The ColdBox Master Class video training series that I produced for Ortus Solutions is FREE for the rest of the year!

The Adobe CF Summit 2022 is done! I'm down in the hotel lobby waiting for my ride to the airport which means it's officially time to work on my conference recap! Honestly I can't think of any reason that this conference wasn't a huge success for everyone involved. I saw no clunker sessions, no tech issues, overall a very smoothly run event!

Sometimes I take notes during the conference sessions. And to my surprise people are actually reading them. :) Here's everything I jotted down during the Adobe CF Summit 2022 presentations. Enjoy.

FYI for anyone attending the Adobe CF Summit this week, there's been a small schedule change. I'll be giving my talk "Web Components and CFML" on Monday at 2:45. Some of the material says Ray Camden (or somebody else that Ray was pinch-hitting for, I don't who) was going to speak in this time slot; that's now out of date.

Hotel confirmation is in hand, plane ticket has been booked, it’s official…I’m going to the Adobe ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas! Much like Into The Box earlier this month, the CF Summit is a must-attend event for anyone looking to stay up on CFML development practices. And the agenda includes enough content for non-CFML developers, that I’d also encourage Engineering Managers and other techies to attend. (Really, this is true of most tech content — a lot of it is easily applicable to different environments.) Not registered yet? You can sign up at this link.

Into The Box 2022 is a wrap! My first in-person conference since this pandemic madness began two years ago. While the attendance level was a bit smaller (but expected) I think the event was a big success overall.

(Before we get into the recap…a brief reminder: this is not a ColdBox-specific conference! While yes there are many sessions related to ColdBox, I count at least 10 sessions, some of the workshops, and most of the pre-conference virtual sessions that have nothing to do with ColdBox. Seriously, if you’re a CFML developer of any kind, this conference will add value to your development experience.)

(In my best comedian voice) so, the pandemic…am I right?! Next week I’m flying out to Texas for my first in-person conference in WAY too long! I’ll be giving 2 talks at one of my favorite events: Into The Box in Houston Texas!

Slides are done, code is written, demos are working. It's official: I'm speaking at Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2022! This is a FREE week-long virtual conference, featuring a bunch of amazing presenters covering not just ColdFusion specific talks but also things like Alpine.js, CI/CD pipelines, Amazon S3 and much more!