Earlier this year I wrote a detailed venue review for CFUnited 2008 helped by the fact I live two blocks from the Washington convention center.  CFUnited 09 will take place at the Lansdowne Resort which is a little over 30 miles from my house, and I've been there only once so I can't give as detailed a review.

I can tell you a few things about it though; its a very nice resort, its isolated so the networking will be great, and the room rate prices are great value (and use a CF powered registration system).  Also, if you fly into Dulles its very easy to get to.  If you liked the North Bethesda location (home of CFUnited 05-07) then you should like the Landsdowne Resort since its a bigger and slightly fancier version.

I submitted two topics for CFUnited 09:

From Eight to Centaur: New Programming Tips and Techniques 
Centaur promises new ways to code ColdFusion applications that represent the biggest changes to the core language since CFMX 6.1.  Ideas floated at the CFUNITED 08 Keynote included creating UDFs and CFCs with cfscript, a New keyword, cffinally and cfcontinue, implicit getters and setters. This session will walk through specific examples of new ways of coding and discuss the pros and cons.

If a scheduled task fails in the woods, does it make a noise?
Scheduled Tasks and Event Gateways can provide a vital cog of applications but what happens when they fail?  This session will look at the monitoring system in place at Interfolio to keep our systems running smoothly.  Previously we used a collection of log file checking and sending emails.  The new system wraps tasks around a monitoring register, has a front end dashboard that shows the current status of each task and will has mechanisms to control the frequency of how many text messages or emails to send when problems occur.

Vote for them to be included:
http://cfunited.com/go/survey/166