I went to bed at about 1:00 am local time, slept on and off for a few hours, then got bored and got up at about 5:00 am. I'm going to need lots of caffeine today. I just finished my keynote segments in the opening session of MAX here in Taipei. Kenneth Lau, Greater China Country Manager, made...
I am sitting in my hotel room, and the building just started shaking, well, more like rocking to and fro. At first I thought that I was just tired and imagining it, but nope, this is real, it's an earthquake. Nothing on the news here yet, well, nothing that I can understand. A quake hit Japan (1000...
It's almost midnight in Taiwan, 11:00 am back home. I spent the last two hours with the Macromedia China team going over the keynote, sessions, and press plans. I need to crash, more to follow ...
I am sitting on a plane (747-400, the most awe inspiring commercial jet ever created, look at one head on, there is a majesty to its size and shape that is beyond compare), about to take off for Taipei, an 18 hour flight (with a short stop in Osaka). I'll get there Monday evening local time, just...
Several of you have e-mailed me to ask for the code used in my "ColdFusion Done Right" session (I assume it is the hangman game that you want). I have posted the entire ZIP file online, you can download it from http://www.forta.com/misc/WD201H_CFDoneRight_BenForta.zip.
The 3rd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" has just been released in Romanian by Teora. Information on this book, and a link to the new Romanian edition, are at http://forta.com/books/0672325675/. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at...
I'm sitting in New Orleans International Airport, waiting for my flight back home. I did not blog as much as I had intended to, these past few days were hectic and intense. I presented 7 90 minute hands-on sessions, took part in the Day 1 general session keynote, moderated a BOF, attended more...
Last night I moderated the "Meet the ColdFusion Engineers" BOF (BOF="Birds of a Feather", for the uninitiated), a panel discussion allowing MAX attendees to pick the brains of the ColdFusion team (engineers, QA staff, business decision makers, marketing folks, and more). Attendance started off a...
Half way through Day 1, grabbing a moment to post a quick entry. Last night MAX invaded Bourbon Street. I'll post pics shortly, um, maybe. :-) The general session this morning was a hit. Tim Buntel (formerly of "Good Morning Developer") and I introduced ColdFusion Blackstone. Tim built an online...
Lots of you have sat through our conference general session keynotes before, but I'd bet that few of you have any idea of just what is involved in a creating production like these. And the word production is no exaggeration, really. The general session is created and managed like the live...