On January 18th, Mike Nimer, Jeff Tapper, Josh Berling, Shashank Tiwari and I will be presenting at Flex Camp Chicago. After a morning keynote from Bob Tierney, we will begin a full day of flex sessions.
You can read more at http://www.flexcampchicago.com/, but don't wait too long to register. We only have room for about 100 attendees and the spots are going very quickly.
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Last night, Ben Forta continued his whirlwind tour of Scorpio, the code name for Adobe's ColdFusion 8 software, this time in the beautiful environs of downtown Chicago. The talk was extremely illuminating, for a number of reasons.
First, the people in the CCCFUG lived up to their rep by grilling Mr. Forta about every feature he demoed. When nearly an hour had passed in the presentation, and he was still on slide two, Ben asked if we could hold off on some questions until he got to the next slide. That request was greeted with more questions, which, to his credit, Ben answered. He was willing to answer any question we had, while throwing t-shirts into the audience to those that asked.
Second, if you have never seen Ben speak, it is a sight to behold. I don't think I have experienced that much raw information in such a short period of time. He covered an immense array of information in just under three hours, which was partly comprised of the following:
1) The new CFIMAGE tag
2) Argument Collections
3) Implicit array creation
4) A great demo on AJAX integration
5) A CF Debugger in Eclipse
6) ...
Wait, what?
