The cf.Objective() conference is always an opportunity for me to learn from some of the smartest people in the CFML community. This year was no exception, and I'm grateful to the conference content committee for again inviting me to speak. Attached to this post is a PDF of the slides used in my presentation "Level Up Your Web Apps with Amazon Web ...

I always enjoy the UBTech conference. It's an interesting mix of instructional technologists, faculty, administrative deans, and senior IT staff. The sessions are diverse as well, and I always learn quite a bit. I presented the latest version of my "Spielberg, Not Shakespeare" talk at the conference. Additionally, the team at Sonic Foundry did a r...

First off, a huge thanks the entire Ortus Solutions team for hosting the very fun Into the Box conference. Though small in total size, the conference had a lot of really good, higher level sessions about CFML and Web apps in general. The Ortus team really is making great tools for the CFML community. Attached to this post are a copy of the slides ...

The *Box team at Ortus Solutions are an amazing group of people who have done a ton of work to make the CFML community stronger and better over the past few years. I'm excited that I'll be speaking at their annual conference -- Into the Box! Anyone who's seen me talk in the past couple of years knows that I'm a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS...

This year's ColdFusion Summit conference was the best one yet. With a lot of new attendees (and people new to ColdFusion!), there was a great attitude and the sessions, overall, were very good. The customer showcase track, in which I spoke, was a great addition to the conference, and one I hope Adobe continues in future years. Attached to this pos...

This year's ColdFusion Summit features a new track of sessions focused on customer success/showcase stories, which I think is a great addition to the program. I've always enjoyed when technical conferences have real people come out and talk about how they solved problems with a specific technology — problems and all. I don't care a whit for s...

I really enjoyed presenting at dev.Objective() again this year. In spite of a projector disaster at the beginning of the session, I thought the talk went surprisingly well. The audience asked a lot of great attendance, and I was thankful that so many people showed up and waited patiently for the projector issues to get resolved. The slides from my...

I'm a lucky developer and educator. Each year, I'm invited to speak at a number of web development, CFML, and educational conferences. I'm making my fifth speaking appearance at dev.Objective() this year, and I can't wait to get back to Minneapolis. I love the town, and, more importantly, I love the conference. I'm always challenged by what I learn...

In addition to the ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas, Adobe has this year decided to hold a one-day, government (well, DC-area) specific conference. The Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit is on March 9, 2016 in Washington, DC. I'm one of three non-Adobe employees who has been asked to speak at the conference, so I'm both excited and thankful to the Ad...

This year's ColdFusion Summit had the biggest attendance of any ColdFusion Summit thus far, and was another good conference in a year of pretty darn good conferences. Although my session on using Amazon Web Services from ColdFusion was scheduled in the last slot of the last day, I had a great turnout with an enthusiastic response and some great que...

I'm really happy to speak again at this year's Adobe ColdFusion Summit. My talk next Tuesday is titled "Expand Your ColdFusion App Power with Amazon Web Services." People who know me know that I'm all about AWS and the awesome power that their ever-expanding suite of services provides. I'm also about ColdFusion and how incredibly easy it makes app ...

Attached to this post are my slides for the presentation I gave at UBTech 2015 today: "From Shakespeare to Spielberg: Designing for the YouTube Generation When Flipping the Classroom." This presentation, like so many others that I've given, was the culmination of a lot of hard work and a lot of good learning in the process. I posted this on Twitte...

First let me thank everyone who came to my session at dev.Objective() on "Node without Servers: Event-Driven Computing with AWS Lambda." A lot of really great questions were asked and I had (another) great experience presenting at the conference. Attached to this post is a PDF of my slides from the presentation. The code shown in the presentation ...

I plan on putting in a speaking proposal for the 2015 Adobe ColdFusion Summit. I enjoy the conference a lot, and was privileged to have spoken at the first two Summits. For the first two Summits, I spoke about running ColdFusion on AWS (Amazon Web Services), and, to some degree, integrating AWS into CF, primarily focusing on Adobe's out-of-the-bo...

I'm very lucky to be speaking at dev.Objective() again this year. It's an awesome conference, especially as it has evolved from cf.Objective() into something more broadly appealing to Web application development professionals while still retaining a lot of its ColdFusion roots. This year, my talk is "Node Without Servers: Event-Driven Computing wi...

cf.Objective() has long been a great ColdFusion conference, and one of my personal favorite speaking engagements. The organizers of cf.Objective() changed the conference name to dev.Objective() this year to better match the nature of talks given at the conference and to target a wider audience for the great content presented there. The call for sp...

Thanks to everyone who turned out for my presentation on using Amazon Web Services in ColdFusion 11 at the Adobe CF Summit in Las Vegas. Attached to this post are my slides. If you have any questions about using AWS (with or without ColdFusion), feel free to get in touch with me and I'm happy to share what I know!

This year's Adobe ColdFusion Summit is only two weeks away (yikes!) and I have been given the great opportunity to speak at the Summit again this year. Last year's inaugural summit was a really impressive event that was fully sold-out. I speak at my fair share of conferences, and while I do appreciate the four, five, or seven track variety of confe...

Another great NCDevCon happened this weekend in Raleigh. I really enjoy this conference — it's incredibly well-run — and look forward to returning next year. Thank you again to everyone who attended my session and for all the great questions during the session. Here are the resources from my presentation "Start Using Amazon Web Service...

I'm really honored to be speaking at this year's NCDevCon. This will be my fourth year in a row as a speaker at the conference, and I'm excited to be returning to Raleigh for what I expect to be another great conference. Why do I love NCDevCon? It's cheap. For the quality, variety, and number of sessions, this conference is a steal. Equivalent ...

I was asked to speak again this year at UBTech. It's an interesting educational technology conference with a pretty diverse audience of faculty, instructional staff and senior-level administrators. I always get a lot out of the conference, and this year was no different. Attached to this post is a PDF version of the slides from my presentation "Un...