Live from A Wee Dram of Scotch

I just finished presenting my "Better living through configuration" presentation at A Wee Dram of Scotch in London. Its a great presentation so far with Adam Lehman and Claude from Adobe kicking off the proceedings and showing the (possible) Hibernate features in Centaur (or the "Eagerly Awaited next version of ColdFusion"). 

The rest of the day should be really interesting, and currently Peter Bell is telling us about RAD OO.

This is the smallest conference I have been to, and I think its great, there are only about 70 people in the same room and its only one day... a great way to really meet other developers (rather than the immense scale of other conferences)

If the wireless picks up, I shall try and post some more today, if not I shall give you a breakdown (after the hangover ) tomorrow!

In the meantime, here is my presentation and code for you to play with!

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 7:40 AM - Categories: scotch on the rocks | coldfusion | coldspring | presentations | CFConferences

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

Presentation: FreshAir @ Scotch on the Rocks 2008

For those of you who attended my FreshAir presentation at Scotch on the Rocks, firstly, an apology about the wireless. My presentation was going swimmingly until I hit a problem with the firewall that stopped "json" requests to twitter, which meant that you couldn't see the listing coming through! I have posted my code here for you to have a look at as well as the presentation itself so you can work your way through it. Let me know what you think! And I hope at least, problems notwithstanding, that you enjoyed the presentation and found it useful! Unzip the sample code and use Eclipse's/Aptana Studio's "Import... -> Existing Projects" feature to get it going. Attachments:

• FreshAir 2008 Presentation
• sotr_air sample code

1 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 7:08 AM - Categories: scotch on the rocks | presentations | AIR

ColdSpring: Better living through configuration presentation

As promised, I wanted to share my "ColdSpring: Better Living through Configuration" presentation materials. I am not including the source code, since its very simple and its covered in the presentation itself (and if you work through it, you will get a better understanding!) Attachment: ColdSpringScotch2008.pdf

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 6:56 AM - Categories: scotch on the rocks | coldfusion | coldspring | presentations

The Scotch is dead, Long live the Scotch!

Another year over at Scotch on the Rocks and what a hell of a conference it was! A great line up of speakers, and lots of kudos to Andy Allan for sorting out the travel and accommodation for us speakers. He even managed to pull in speakers all the way from the US, such as Scott Stroz, Joe Rinehart, Dough Hughes, Charlie Arehart, Sean "The Real one" Corfield and Matt Woodward. Not to mention speakers from afar a field as Australia! What a turn up! It has been a fantastic conference, with the great support of the Adobe ColdFusion team, and a bit thanks has to go to Kristen Schofield for upgrading the version of ColdFusion given away at the raffle from Standard to Enterprise! I could gush for hours about the Adobe team, and interestingly in the BOF a lot of feedback was given to the features that developers want in the "anticipated next version" of ColdFusion, this time, mainly about the language itself rather than other features of the server. Of course, I should not fail to mention the great time I had hanging out with Gert Franz from Railo. His fantastic teaming up with Luc (sorry, didnt catch the last name!) from Jboss.org to announce the Open Sourcing and teaming up of Railo and Red Hat. Now *THAT* is the way to open source a project! I think everyone at the conference will join me in thanking the organizers for such a wonderful event!

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 6:18 PM - Categories: scotch on the rocks | coldfusion | presentations

CFEclipse Reloaded presentation now online

I have put up my CFEclipse Reloaded presentation online for your viewing pleasure under my Presentations. It includes a lot of information on how to edit your frameworks explorer as well as how to fix the language dictionaries if you find errors. You can check it out there as well as my other presentations or you can download it directly

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 11:19 AM - Categories: cfObjective | cfeclipse | coldfusion | presentations

Presenting ColdSpring at cfObjective today!

Sean mentioned last night, due to Hal Helms being unable to come to cfObjective because of health reasons a few sessions have been flipped about but like one of those slidey puzzles where you are trying to get those squares in order to make a picture of a butterfly, there is still a slot missing. I shall try to fill in that slot with a introductory presentation into ColdSpring called "ColdSpring: Better living through configuration". Since its a last minute change, I am hoping *some* people will turn up! I actually enjoy doing this presentation so it should be a laugh if anything!

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 8:13 AM - Categories: cfObjective | coldfusion | coldspring | presentations | CFConferences