Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

After the summer hiatus which is essentially the conference season, the UKCFUG is back! And its better than ever!
We have got a new site up, in blog format so you can easily subscribe to news of meetings and other events. There is also an awesome meeting planned for the 6th of November.

We are testing the waters with a new format, we have a new segment at each meeting called "CF Docs" (like CF Doctors, gettit?) in which you can ask the panel of myself, Niklas Richardson, Neil Middleton and Big Mad Kev any CF based questions (and some Flex ones!). 

Hopefully if no technical issues happen we shall be recording the segment and turn it into a podcast, something like a "Gardener's Question Time" for CF. 

So whether you are planning on attending or will catch up via the podcast, send us your questions via email and we shall read them out. The email for the questions is or leave a comment here or on the UK CFUG website. 

Neil will also be giving us a preview of his Adobe MAX Conference talk "Structuring your development team and getting the work done" which should be awesome! 

So whether you can make it on the 6th, or just want some answers to your questions, get registered on the UKCFUG website! 

It's going to be a great season!

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!

Do you need someone to present at your CFUG? Well, I have been doing a lot of presentations lately, which can be seen over in my Presentations page, which means I have a lot of content I can present on. If you have a specific topic (including CFEclipse of course!) Why not email me with your proposal and I shall see what I can do. I am based in London, England so unless there is a nice budget to fly me out, I can also do remote presentations using Adobe Connect. I am available in the evenings mostly so let me know if you ever need an extra presenter at your CFUG or company.

As I am sure anyone that has gone to one of my CFEclipse presentations would know, I also happen to be to co-manager of the UK CFUG Over the coming months, I want to fill up a schedule of speakers, myself included on a variety of topics, and I would really welcome suggestions from the community, especially those in the UK (and more so those that are able to attend our London based CFUG meetins) for topics that you would like to hear more about. I can do most of these presentations (well, depending what they are of course!) and also very much welcome other speakers. So, if you have a suggestion, let me know!

Tonight's UKCFUG meeting will be presented by Railo, a CFML rendering engine which has some nice benefits for all. Come and check out the Railo funkyness! (now Gert can tell me WHY he is still using CF Studio!)

I am doing a presentation for the Auckland (that's New Zealand!) CFUG on Thursday this week about CFEclipse. If you are interested in getting started using the CFEclipse plugin for Eclipse, this is the presentation for you! Unfortunately I wont be there in person (maybe next time guys!) but it will be in one of these new fangled Adobe Connect rooms, which means you can join if you head to : http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/cfeclipse/ The time for the meeting is 6am GMT, 6pm NZ time, 1am EST, 10pm PST and a whole lot of other times around the world (go on, figure it out!) For those safely tucked up in bed at that time, I am pretty sure they will be recording the presentation so you don't have to be up at some ungodly hour!

Tonight we are heading out for some bevvies with Andy Allan over at Waterloo Station, just a quick reminder to you lazy people that never make it ;) More info here

Before I forget, Andy Allan is back down in town, the man behind the upcoming Scotch on the Rocks! We are meeting up for a few drinkies over in Waterloo station, so come on over and join us! More info at the UKCFUG website

The UK ColdFusion User Group has setup a mailing list over at Google Groups so that UK based CF Developers can keep in touch and participate more in ideas about meetings and resources (such as training, jobs etc) We shall be doing some more announcements about upcoming meetings, but in the meantime you can do two things:

1. Join the mailing list
2. Come and join us for a beer tonight!

See you there!

I just wanted to remind everyone that we are having the London cf_drinks meetup tomorrow! See related posts for more info!