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Its a Wrap, CFUnited 08

CFUnited

CFUnited this year was a fantastic conference, here are some of my thoughts in random order:

  • Adobe Keynote.  Considering this was a non release year the keynote was very exciting from the educational license to the language enhancements to the AIR integration.  (In comparison the 06 keynote about Connect integration left many flat.) Others have provided way better summaries, the main thing I took away was the commitment of Adobe to making CF better.
  • It was great to meet and talk to so many other developers.  Both those in the blogsphere, where putting a face to a blog was great, and those without blogs.  I had many interesting conversations about programming and other topics as well!  It was also a real treat to talk to members of the Adobe CF team (even if my attempts to get them to spill the beans on other new features consistantly failed -- Rupesh you are  too sharp for me ;))
  • Great sessions.  I took something out of every session I went to and many where excellent.
  • The location.  The wireless was great, there was enough room in each session that there was no need to reserve spaces ahead of time and enough room to get around.  I like the airiness of the convention center.  Lunch was good on Wednesday, poor on Thursday and excellent on Friday.
  • Speaking for the first time.  I found this a little more nerve racking in the build up than I was expecting (take the advice and speak to a user group or two first) , still once I got going I really enjoyed it and hopefully those attending my sessions got something out of it.

Many thanks to Liz, Elliott and Nafisa and everyone else at Teratech for all their hard work on CFUnited and I'll see you next year!

Peter Bell said:
 
Hey Sam, Great to meet you in person!
 
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samfarmer said:
 
Great to meet you too and thanks for the book recommendation.
 
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