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A few people have asked me to post my presentations, and I should have done so anyway straight after the conferences, but of course, since I did three presentations + a Mystery Theatre at cfobjective and four presentations at Scotch on the Road I have been falling behind normal work and blog postings.

So, here for your delectation are all the presentations for you to download... (apart from the Mystery Theatre 3000 since that has a naughty picture in it)

• Atomic Reactor: or how I stopped worrying and love the ORM
• ColdSpring: Better Living through configuration
• Which Framework? ColdBox, Mach-ii and Model Glue compared
• Whats Railo 3.1 Open Source?
• Railo in the Cloud
• ModelGlue and You

Liz has posted up a nice big menu of choices for presentation topics at CFUnited 2009. Go cast your vote for the ones you like (I am not going to hint that Atomic Reactor and Model Glue and you are my presentations and they will be a LOT of Fun!... oh.. I just mentioned it! Ooops!)

But I was going to ask the reading public the this: Would you be interested in Model Glue/Reactor/ColdSpring training on the day before? Yes, I mean ME running the training! Dont be scared, it will be fun! (that's what Todd said)

Is one day enough? Maybe you would like a bit more? Or another topic? What would you like to be trained on by me? 

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!

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!

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

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

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!

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

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!

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!