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Heartland Developers Conference 2010

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The Heartland Developers Conference (HDC) is an annual software design and development retreat held in Omaha, NE.  Each year over 500 attendees from all over the country come to network, learn, and enhance their professional design and engineering skills under one roof.  HDC features 3 days of jam packed content including workshops, hands-on labs, single topic sessions, and plenty of opportunities to connect with the community.

September 8, 2010 - September 10, 2010 at Omaha, Nebraska, USA

BFusion/BFlex 2010

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Two days of hands on training in ColdFusion and Flex. 

September 10, 2010 - September 12, 2010 at Bloomington, IN, USA

FITC Mobile 2010

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From Flash to Motion Design, FLEX to AIR, Mobile and more, FITC events each stand as unique and exciting experiences that inspire, educate and challenge. We have also collaborated on dozens of other projects widening our scope and allowing us to bring you the best events out there when it comes to content, networking and of course great parties!

September 17, 2010 - September 19, 2010 at Toronto, ON, Canada

This is my little piece of the web.

I am a Platform Evangelist for Adobe. I am currently well versed in ColdFusion, AIR, and Flex. I am also looking to increase Adobe Platform technologies presence in the classroom.

If you wish to know more about me check out my bio.

Recent Blog Entries

Students: Joint Adobe/Motorola Event in San Francisco
On September 16th, Adobe and Motorola are hosting a mobile Flash meetup. They're looking for designers and developers, student or otherwise to come and maybe show off some of their work. There will be networking, pizza, beer, and froyo. (As well as Froyo.)   Date/Time: Thurs. Sept. 16, 2010, …
ColdFusion from a Console
I've been working on a little proof of concept idea and wanted to see if other people liked it and perhaps wanted to see it go further. I've heard a couple of calls for command line ColdFusion. I wanted to see if it could be done. My first experiment was trying to use AIR new native processes …
Students: Flash Jobs Pay
One of the best ways to get a jump start on paying off those student loans is getting a good paying job after college. (Duh, you all know that.) One of the best ways to get a head start into that good paying job is to find fields or subfields where demand for spots outweighs available workers. …
AIR Launchpad
Greg Wilson announced yesterday the release of Adobe AIR Launchpad . These days, I get inundated with new projects, releases, plugins and helpers, so it's hard to catch my eye. However, let me say, if you are interested in AIR development, you need to take a look at AIR Launchpad . There are …
New ADAA Gallery
Adobe awards students who do cool stuff with art and technology. Those awards are called the Adobe Design Achievement Awards . From the site: The Adobe ® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The …
Injecting JavaScript to the foot of a ColdFusion Page
A question came up on Twitter today: hard to do "JavaScript at the bottom" in CFML with MVC frameworks... wish we have a tag. Thought? #coldfusion A great question, this is the answer in Adobe ColdFusion. Use the request scope. This is one of those random places where request scope is actually …
Apptacular ColdFusion Builder Extension - Reigning in Relationships
Apptacular is great at aggressively mapping out relationships.  This is good, when trying to build a quick admin interface for your applications. However when you get working on "real" applications, this aggressive relationship building can bite you. This video will take you through, not just …
BFusion/BFlex 2010
BFusion and BFlex are right around the corner. I'll be there to give the BFusion keynote and talk about superfast application building using Apptacular. I believe my colleague Paul Trani will also be there, and is giving the BFlex keynote. And with such a killer lineup , Bloomington, Indiana …