Matt Woodward’s posterous

Matt Woodward’s posterous

Matthew Woodward  //  * CFML, Grails, and Java Developer
* Principal IT Specialist, US Senate
* Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member
* All-Around Geek

Aug 19 / 2:06pm

Get Your Hands Dirty at BFusion/BFlex

BFusion/BFlex is coming up on September 11 and 12, 2010 in lovely Bloomington, IN. You need to be there, and here's why.

  • $30 for one day or $45 for both days is one of the best deals you'll find in the conference world. (No, I'm not missing a zero at the end of those prices!)
  • BFusion/BFlex is all hands on, all the time. This isn't a passive event by any stretch. You come armed with your laptop and you get to learn from the best people in the business.
  • Multiple all-day classes in both CFML and Flex are available. On the CFML side you can learn Mach-II from the great minds behind it (namely Peter Farrell and Kurt Wiersma), you can learn CFML from scratch from the great Adobe instructor Matt Boles, if you're a programmer already but want to learn CFML you have none other than Simon Free at your disposal, and if you're an open source junkie like me or just want to learn more about the free CFML engines, I'm giving an all-day in-depth class on that.
  • Great for all skill levels, from pure beginner up to advanced developers. There's literally something here for everyone so you don't have an excuse not to come. Just check the BFusion and BFlex schedules and tell me you don't see something interesting!
  • It's a nice intimate environment where you can corner speakers or other attendees and get whatever help you need.
  • Indiana University is a great venue with great facilities. Power and Internet for all!
  • Bloomington is a great town with tons to do.

I've been invovled with BFlex/BFusion since the first year and it's one of my favorite conferences. I'm particularly excited this year to be able to help people delve into the open source CFML engines, so I hope to see lots of you there.

Great training, great price, great location, and great people. What are you waiting for? GO REGISTER NOW!

Filed under  //  BFusion   CFML   ColdFusion   Conferences   Flex   Free Software   Open BlueDragon   Open Source   Railo  

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Nov 6 / 3:35pm

Photos of Me from BFusion

Bob Flynn was kind enough to send me (well, Wave me) some photos of me giving my presentation at from BFusion (which was great as always!). I particularly like the one where it looks like I'm singing opera. ;-)

           
Click here to download:
Photos_of_Me_from_BFusion.zip (339 KB)

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Oct 24 / 12:15pm

My Open CFML Presentation from BFusion 2009

Here's a PDF of my "Building and Deploying CFML on an Open Source Stack" presentation from BFusion 2009. The VirtualBox VM we used in the session is available here (2.9 GB zip file), and the user/password on the VM is "floss" (without the quotes) for both. The VM includes:

  • Ubuntu 9.04
  • Java 1.6.0 Update 16
  • MySQL 5
  • Apache
  • Tomcat 6.0.20
  • OpenBD (WAR and pre-deployed)
  • Eclipse with CFEclipse and Subclipse
  • A ColdTonica WAR to practice deployment

The one thing we didn't get to in my session is connecting Apache to Tomcat, but that's simple enough so give me a shout if you have trouble with that.

What we did get to (that I'm glad we did) is monitoring Tomcat and OpenBD with VisualVM, and a lot of people (based on the reaction) seemed not to be aware of that tool.

Once again this is a GREAT conference (I'd be lying if I said Ben Nadel's portion of the keynote didn't get me a little teary eyed) with great technical content and day-long training sessions. If you aren't here this year, get here next year!

Filed under  //  BFusion   Conferences   Free Software   Java   Open BlueDragon   Open Source   Tomcat  

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