The nights are getting shorter, the back-to-school circulars are beginning to appear, and there’s absolutely nothing on television in the evenings. It must be almost football time. And where there’s football, there’s a special group of statistical geeks vying for fantasy glory. I’m please to present the 2010 Fantasy Football Digital Creatives League.
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It’s time to stow the laptop, pack a book, and hit the road. This June 5th through 7th we move Vox Pop to the eastern side of the rockies to a little elevated place known as Denver. On the agenda: the business of freelancers and mobile development with ColdFusion. Will you join us?
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ColdFusion remains the most developer friendly way to create scalable, data-driven applications. But after you’ve retrieved those complex queries how do you make them beautiful? What business indicators should be emphasized? Where is the line between revelatory and rubbish design?
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The time since my election as Salt Lake ColdFusion User Group manager has gone incredibly fast. Elected in April, 2005, I’ve since helped host some incredible, in-person, talks (Sean Corfield, Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz), put on a killer local conference (2008′s RIA Dev Shed), and continued the proud service to local developers since the group’s founding in 1999. Helping evangelize ColdFusion as leader for nearly half of its lifetime could only be described a labor of love.
However, the time has come for me to step down as manager. Internally, the Adobe User Group program is going through some challenges. Simultaneously, I find the success of my own company, Vox Pop Design, requiring an increasingly larger amount of my time. Further, after more than four years it is time for someone with a fresh perspective to take things to a new, reinvigorated, level.
Certainly, this does not signal a disillusionment with CFML. I remain convinced that CFML is the best choice for Rapid Application Development. The emergence of OpenBD and Railo gives ColdFusion developers incredible new options. Finally, ColdFusion’s continued vital role in Flex and the newly announced ColdFusion services mean that the next leader is guaranteed to have lots of exciting topics to cover.
There is no scheduled meeting for the month of July. On August 12th I’ll hold nominations for both assistant manager and manager (manager will be first as to allow those interested in being manager but not receiving enough votes to re-apply for assistant manager). I’ll ask for those interested to speak up, give a paragraph or two as to why they want the position and what they hope to accomplish, and then we’ll do paper ballots to determine a winner.
Again, it has been a privilege being your ColdFusion User Group Leader. You have taught me so much and I can’t wait to see where the next manager is able to take things!
Perhaps its because I live within earshot of a major raceway. Or maybe its the recent passing of Pontiac into purchasing purgatory. For whatever reason, this spring at the Salt Lake ColdFusion User’s Group meeting we’ll be talking about racing performance. Specifically, how do you benchmark the performance of a CFML server engine and who (Adobe ColdFusion, Open BlueDragon, or Railo Open Source) comes out ahead?
Things get started at 4:30pm, Wednesday, May 13th at MasterControl (see website for details). Hope to see you there!
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