cf.Objective() ended yesterday and I have to say that it was an amazing experience. I have never been so overwhelmed by info and yet excited about it all at the same time. The sessions and the speakers were outstanding, the accommodations were good, and the camaraderie was the best around. I got to meet many of my favorite bloggers, meet some of the super-talented experts in the field, and make some new friends. I really had a great time and I can hardly wait until next year.

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Well day 1 is over and it was great!

I spent the entire day at the conference and I was able to hear some great presentations and mingle with some really knowledgeable and friendly people.

As I said yesterday, Kurt Wiersma's Local Dev Presentation was great. It showed me a few things about setting up multiple CF environments about which I was not previously aware.

I then went to John Paul Ashenfelter's Agile boot camp and it was incredible. I'm not sure I have ever crammed in that much learning in so little time. I am already sold on Agile Development, and I am definitely going to try to put some of the practices into my personal projects.

I finished the day with Mark Drew's Dreamweaver CFEclipse Reloaded presentation (those brits are a funny bunch). He showed a great many tips and tricks and advanced features of CFeclipse. If you are using CFEclipse, you should attend this session.

I am still trying to sort out my schedule for today. We'll see how that goes.

So far cf.Objective() has been awesome. I spent Wednesday and Thursday in Mach-II training with Kurt, Matt and Peter. That was great. I have been looking at the CF frameworks for a while, but I have been unable to hit the ground running becasue I could not get over the hump of learning how the control interacted with the model. Well, Team Mach-II really helped clear those things up for me and helped make much of this OO stuff just "click" with me.

Today begins the breakout sessions of the conference. The Adobe keynote was OK. Someone had a medical issue during the keynote, I hope he is OK. I'm not sure what happened, and since it is none of my business I am not going to inquire, I just really hope he is OK.

Kurt Wiersma is presenting on setting up a local production environment this morning. Really a great presentation. Some great resources on Source Code Control, Web Server setup and Multi-instance CF installs.

Sean Corfield says I need to get ready for cf.Objective(). Well, when Sean talks...

So I am getting ready for the several hands on sessions at cf.Objective(). Additionally, I am getting ready for the pre-conference Mach-II training with Matt, Peter and Kurt.

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Well with Schedule and Priority changes, I have changed my cf.Objective() schedule.

May 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:
   Opening Keynote (Adobe)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM:
   Setting up a Solid Level Local Development Environment (Kurt Wiersma)
11:25 AM - 12:25 PM:
   An Intelligent Approach to OOP in CF Architecture (Nic Tunney)
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM:
   Workshop: Agile Bootcamp: What CF Developers Need To Know (John Paul Ashenfelter)
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM:
   Model-Glue 3: Back to its Roots (Joe Rinehart)

May 3
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:
   Leveraging Basic Design Patterns in ColdFusion (Phill Nacelli)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM:
   Using ANT - Make Your Development Life More Productive (Peter Ferrell)
11:25 AM - 12:25 PM:
   Testing with cfcUnit (John Mason)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM:
   Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM (Mark Mandel)
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM:
   Refactoring in Coldfusion: from Procedural to OO (Dan Wilson)
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM:
   Application and Database Security (Daryl Banttari)
5:20 PM - 6:20 PM:
   MVC for You and Me (Joe Rinehart)
7:30 PM - 8:25 PM:
   BOF: Source Code Control (TBD)
8:30 PM - 9:25 PM:
   BOF: ColdFusion 9 Feature Brainstorm (Jason Delmore / Adam Lehman)
9:30 PM - 10:25 PM:
   BOF: Automation & Ant (Peter Farrell)

May 4
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:
   Prototyping Applications in Flex (Scott Stroz)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM:
   CFEclipse Reloaded (Mark Drew)
11:25 AM - 12:30 PM:
   Leveraging Code Generation to Jumpstart Your Development (Brian Kotek)
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM:
   Workshop: Advanced Techniques With The ColdBox Framework (Luis Majano)

I am so excited about cf.Objective() 2008. This is my first ColdFusion conference and I am giddy like a little girl. I have tentatively hammered out my schedule. There are a few presentations that I really am going to regret missing, but hopefully they will be recorded and made available after the conference.

I used Joe Rinehart's cf.Objective() scheduling tool (which is awesome!!) and made my schedule. If you have any interest :)

May 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:
   Opening Keynote (Adobe)
10:15 AM - 12:25 PM:
   Workshop: Flex 3 for ColdFusion Developers (Mike Nimer)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM:
   Enterprise Development With Mach-II: Modules, Plugins, and Filters (Matt Woodward)
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM:
   Introduction to Model-Glue (Raymond Camden)
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM:
   Model-Glue 3: Back to its Roots (Joe Rinehart)

May 3
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:
   Leveraging Basic Design Patterns in ColdFusion (Phill Nacelli)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM:
   Patterns and Techniques for Data Persistence and Access (Doug Hughes)
11:25 AM - 12:25 PM:
   Testing with cfcUnit (John Mason)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM:
   Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM (Mark Mandel)
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM:
   Refactoring in Coldfusion: from Procedural to OO (Dan Wilson)
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM:
   Application and Database Security (Daryl Banttari)
5:20 PM - 6:20 PM:
   Introduction to the Spry Framework (Raymond Camden)
7:30 PM - 8:25 PM:
   BOF: Source Code Control (TBD)
8:30 PM - 9:25 PM:
   BOF: ColdFusion 9 Feature Brainstorm (Jason Delmore / Adam Lehman)
9:30 PM - 10:25 PM:
   BOF: Frameworks (Various)

May 4
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:
   CFEclipse Reloaded (Mark Drew)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM:
   Using ANT - Make Your Development Life More Productive (Peter Farrell)
11:25 AM - 12:30 PM:
   Leveraging Code Generation to Jumpstart Your Development (Brian Kotek)
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM:
   Workshop: Advanced Techniques With The ColdBox Framework (Luis Majano)