I keep forgetting to do this. Sorry :(
I have given three presentations so far this year, and I will have 2 or three more et before the end of the year. Here are the slides for the first three in both Keynote and PDF formats.
Tomorrow night at the Twin Cities CFUG meeting, Kurt Wiersma and I will each be presenting one of our cf.Objective() presentations. I think we each have three presentations to give at cf.O(). This is your opportunity to see two of the six early (or at all if you are not going to the conference for some bizarre reason). :)
We had a great response to our contest to give away a seat at our "Building Secure CFML Applications" training at cf.Objective() next month. A total of 42 entries.
Would you like to win a seat at the "Building Secure CFML Applications" pre-conference training at cf.Objective()?
In case you don't know, Pete Freitag and I are offering a full-day training on writing secure applications with CFML at cf.Objective() 2010 in Minneapolis. The training will be on Wednesday the 21st of April, 2010 (which is the day before cf.O() starts).
We are going to give away one seat at this training.
In April I will be presenting a lot of things at cf.Objective(). Here is a short list:
We will start with an application that is full of vulnerabilities and we are going to hack that applications. We are actually going to deploy real attacks against the application to see how it works. We'll even use some hacker tools to automate attacks. By doing this we can better learn how to think like a hacker, which better enables us to code while thinking "how could this be exploited?".
I hope everyone is aware of the cf.Objective() conference that takes place in Minneapolis/St. Paul every year. In case you are not, you should know that it is an absolutely AMAZING event.
cf.Objective() is touted as "The World's Only Enterprise Engineering Conference for ColdFusion Developers". I have been to two cf.Objective() conferences so far, and this year will be my third. I am very excited about it.
Two years ago, there was a two-day pre-conference training session held on the Mach-II framework. It was a very successful training (I believe they sold out every seat), but beyond that, it was a fantastic training. I attended it, and I loved it. I learned a lot. Last year they had ColdBox training prior to the conference. I did not attend that one, but I hear it was also great.
This year, the organizers of cf.Objective() are trying the pre-conference training again, but with more training sessions. This year there will be six!
I received word last week that two of the topic proposals I submitted to the cf.Objective() planning committee were accepted. I am very excited and honored by this. It's nice to know that people think what I have to say is worth while.
You may have guessed that I will be talking about security, since that seems to be what I enjoy talking about most. But this year will be a little different.
At cf.Objective() this last week, one of the topics of discussion after Samer Sadek's excellent Adobe AIR presentation was about cross-domain restrictions in Adobe AIR applications written with JavaScript. I do not know if this discussion is relevant with AIR applications written with Flex.
As many may know, and if you don't you should read up on this, most browsers implement a "same-origin" policy on JavaScript run within the browser. This means that JavaScript is free to use any resource available from within the domain that it is running, but it cannot use remote resources.
I don't know about you, but I am REALLY excited about cf.Objective(). I only get to go to one conference a year, at cf.O() is it! I went last year, for the first time, and it was incredible. The sessions were fantastic, the networking was unparalleled, and the people there were so much fun to talk to and learn from.
I am anticipating that this year will be even better. Last year, I did not know anyone in the community. There were only one or two people there that I knew before the conference began, but that changed quickly. This year, it will be like getting back together with old friends.
This year I will be more involved with the conference, I have one presentation, and I will be "hosting" (if that is the right word) one Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session along with Bill Shelton. I am really looking forward to both.
One of the best times I had during last year's cf.Objective() conference was when a large group of us went to see Iron Man.
This year, Troy Pullis (The manager of the Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group) is organizing an outing to see the new Star Trek movie at the IMAX Theater at the MN Zoo. I think this is a great idea and I have already signed up.
It will be next Thursday Night @ 9:00, I plan on driving so I will be more than happy to take up to 5 people out there with me, so hit me up if you want a ride.
Here are the details: http://www.webdh.com/startrek/
