Articles, Announcements, Presentations and More : Remote Synthesis

Articles, Announcements, Presentations and More

Posted on Jan 26, 2010

So, I have been horribly lax in blogging this year so far. Besides my weekly open source update, I really haven't added much - at least on this blog. Outside of the blog though, I have been keeping insanely busy with side projects (including my ADC article which launched yesterday) all within the community - some I can talk about right now some I'll talk more about later. Here's a summary of some items I have neglected to post about but really should have.

Editor of Fusion Authority Online
I think having an 3rd party site that publishes "peer reviewed"/edited content is important for our community. Blogs are great but sometimes the best articles and ideas need the refining that can come from having your ideas reviewed and your message cleaned up. This is one of the reasons I agreed to be the online editor for Fusion Authority Online (see the announcement here) and why I am encouraging people to write for us. I also have contributed a couple articles of my own including:

Track Chair/Speaker for CFUnited
Last year's CFUnited was awesome and, in particular, the Flex track was an enormous improvement in large part thanks to Andrew Powell's work on that. This year, Andy cannot serve as track chair and I have agreed to take over this track. You can still submit topics, so please do!

In addition to being track chair, I am speaking on ColdFusion Builder extensions in my sessions currently titled "Building Self-Updating ColdFusion Builder Extensions" (see the announcement here).

Presentation to the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group
Charlie Arehart was kind enough to host me for the first time as a speaker for his Online Coldfusion Meetup Group. I presented my "Introduction to ColdSpring" session and you can find the recording on the group's site.

More...
There is so much stuff I can hardly keep track to be honest and some of it is still in the planning stages. I am tech editing a couple of books that I am excited about. I have another article coming for the Adobe Edge. I am working on the side with Shannon Hicks on Pintley. I am helping out on some other events I can't speak of yet. If anything, 2010 is shaping up to be a year of some great stuff but I am certainly going to have to bust my butt to get it all done.