Five new projects and two updates in ColdFusion open source this week. CFUnited, which begins tonight, completes what has been a crazy month for me and seen me criss-crossing the country for various trips. Nonetheless, this should be both fun and exciting and I expect many announcements to come (I personally recall Liz Frederick, Adam Lehman and Ray Camden have each hinted they have some announcements via Twitter). I, personally, have 2 sessions at CFUnited including an intro to Flex for CF developers and another about building ColdFusion Builder extensions. Anyway, for those of you who are attending, be sure to stop me and say hello.

Six new projects and seven updates in ColdFusion open source this week. Clearly this was a busy week. I think open source developers must have heard about my vacation next week and wanted to make sure I didn't forget about them whilst sunbathing in Miami or playing slots in Vegas. Perhaps it has more to do with the final CFUnited being right around the corner...nah, it's definitely about my vacation.

Two new projects and six updates this week in ColdFusion open source. This update actually covers more than a week (again) but I think the warm summer weather hasn't been conducive to open source coding. Nonetheless, I expect to hear some announcements coming before this year's CFUnited, which you probably heard by now will be the last one ever. There's still time to register, so if you can attend, you should! While you're at it, don't miss the early bird rate for RIA Unleashed 2010!

It struck me the other day that I have greatly missed contributing to open-source projects on a more significant scale than I have managed lately. Part of what hit me was that, while I felt that I had learned a lot from a technical knowledge standpoint in the past couple years, I hadn't grown as a developer as much as I'd hoped and I think a good chunk of that can be attributed to the change in the nature of my personal open-source contributions. It turns out that while you can read books and develop projects at your particular place of work, there is no substitute, in my opinion, for contributing to some of the community open source projects in terms of what they can teach you. Let me explain.

Five new releases and six updates this week (or so) in ColdFusion open source. I am sitting in the jury pool as I write this - what fun! It's been a busy week, clearly, in ColdFusion open source but also personally as I have been busy getting speakers, sponsors and workshops confirmed for RIA Unleashed : Boston 2010. I'm really excited about this year with the two day format including a day of hands-on training (each day can be purchased independently). If you are into ColdFusion (which, by reading this, I assume you are), you'll want to catch speakers including Raymond Camden, Adam Lehman, Terry Ryan, Simon Free, Marc Esher and more. Oh, and if you do Flex or AIR there will be tons for you too...sorry to ramble on, just excited, but enough about my conference...