Adam Lehman is unwell, but getting better

On Friday night, Adam had an accident and broke is arm and leg as he was hit by a car in Regent Street, London. I accompanied him to the hospital in the ambulance that night and got it all sorted. It was simply an accident and even though the driver was just under the alcohol limit, the police are not taking action (as far as I know).

He is currently in a hospital in London where he has already had surgery on his leg and will be having surgery on his arm (maybe) later today. Hopefully he will be out in a week or two.

Even through this, he has managed to  Twitter and update his status. So he is doing OK, if a little out of it due to the pain killers.

I am sure we all are sending him our support.

7 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 11:01 AM - Categories: personal | coldfusion | adobe

An A.C.E. up my sleeve?

Well not really, since I can't call it that, but since it has been posted on the Adobe website I can finally admit that I am an Adobe Community Expert! With that in mind, I guess I better return to my regularly scheduled blog postings about ColdFusion, CFEclipse et-al! I am currently writing a couple of articles that you should hopefully see soon enough in some well known community publications (there I have said it, I have to do it now!) as well as delving deeper into big applications using Model-Glue and changes to Reactor to make it more fun to work with! So, hello world :)

4 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 11:58 AM - Categories: cfeclipse | coldfusion | adobe

My CFUnited presentations available on Adobe Connect

During the CFUnited 2008 Conference in DC, most speakers were able to record their presentations onto Adobe Connect. This is a great feature for most presentation styles (of course not all, since you might want to have a discussion, rather than a presentation), rather than just filming the speaker. Here are the Adobe Connect presentations that have been posted so far:

• CFEclipse reloaded: http://partners.adobe.acrobat.com/p69604765/
• Coldspring: Better living through configuration http://partners.adobe.acrobat.com/p37989763/

You can see the other presentations posted here and here Let me know what you think!

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 6:07 AM - Categories: cfunited | cfeclipse | coldfusion | coldspring | presentations | adobe | CFConferences

Adobe MAX Debrief and Goodies gallore at the UKCFUG

Tomorrow (Wednesday 31st October), we will be having a great little get together at the UK ColdFusion User Group. Kev and I will be going over what we learned and saw at this years Adobe MAX Europe conference in Barcelona. Spaces are really limited and its at our new venue in Picadilly Circus (actually, its my office!) Register today and there will be some great bits and pieces to win!

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 10:57 AM - Categories: coldfusion | max | ukcfug | adobe | CFConferences

Missed CFEclipse at MAX?

If you missed my CFEclipse presentation at Adobe MAX Barcelona, João Fernandes has been kind enough to post up a video of my whole presentation! You can check it out here: http://www.onflexwithcf.org/index.cfm/2007/10/20/Using-Eclipse-for-ColdFusion-Development--Videos I had some problems getting the debugger working, and I realised later that it was simply that I named my project wrong and should have set up the mappings. Hope you enjoy it!

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 3:34 PM - Categories: coldfusion | eclipse | max | presentations | adobe | CFConferences

Mark to the MAX!

It has been a while since I blogged, basically I have been so busy I forget to breathe sometimes. Anyway, the good news is that I am heading to Adobe MAX Europe in Barcelona on Sunday! I think this is going to be an awesome conference, one that I am very much looking forward to, especially since I am a MAX virgin! Apart from trying to attend as many presentations as possible on Flex and AJAX, I shall (surprise! surprise!) also be a speaker! My presentation is on using Eclipse for ColdFusion development, which is a slightly different take on my usual presentation (ok, ok, you caught me, I will be mentioning CFEclipse) as it will cover a lot more ground that I usually do! One of the important decisions that I have left now is whether I shall be doing the presentation in English or in Spanish, not sure what the rule is here? When in Rome?...

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 10:20 AM - Categories: cfeclipse | coldfusion | max | presentations | adobe | ajax | CFConferences

Eclipse, ColdFusion and Mark Drew, Synchronised?

A little twitter message from Kev got me thinking about something totally unrelated really, but it might explain a few things. Let me fill you in with a few facts first:

• Eclipse just released version 3.3. Last year, at the same time, they released 3.2 and the year before that 3.1
• Adobe's ColdFusion going to be 12 years old tomorrow (10th of July)
• I am going to be 33 on the 11th of July

Take all these facts together and you start seeing a pattern! I share (nearly) a birthday with a technology I love. I work on CFEclipse which is built on the Eclipse platform, which releases a version for the last 3 years that matches my age, within two weeks of my birthday, hmm... this is real synchronicity at work here don't you think? Anyway, Happy (Early) Birthday ColdFusion, may Adobe keep releasing great software for many years to come! (just as a thought exercise, do you think they will release CF tomorrow???)

7 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 10:32 AM - Categories: cfeclipse | personal | coldfusion | eclipse | adobe