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...
I am posting this from the convention center auditorium, where a large crew has assembled to fine-tune tomorrow's keynote session. One big change this year, the keynote is not the first session of the day, it's been pushed back to 10:30 (I suspect that the allure of nearby Bourbon Street had...
I am in New Orleans, posting this from the back of a taxi, almost there ...
I'm on my way to MAX, in DTW waiting for my flight down to New Orleans. I am hoping that the flight is less evenful than last years.
Have you ever needed a reminder for your next MAX session (the time or room)? Have you ever needed quick access to your daily MAX session schedule? I know I have, I even once showed up late to a BOF I was supposed to moderate. Ouch! If you've ever been in the same boat you'll love this one. A...
How appropriate! The official New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau site at http://www.neworleanscvb.com/ is powered by ColdFusion.
convertDotNetDataSet() is an invaluable ColdFusion UDF that, as its name suggests, converts a .NET data set to something ColdFusion can easily consume. Details at http://clearsoftware.net/client/convertDotNetDataset.cfm. Thanks to Ryan Hartwich for bringing this one to my attention.