Appearances – Page 2

Southern California User Group Tour

I’m heading to Southern California in two weeks to do a miniature User Group tour. I’ll be talking about development for the BlackBerry PlayBook using Adobe tools. I’ll also cover ColdFusion as a Mobile Backend. If you’re in Southern California, and close to one of these meetings I invite you to stop in.

Tuesday February 1st
San Diego
Hosted by SDADUG and SdFug
Time:
6:00PM to 8:00 PM
Location:
The Art Institute of California // San Diego
7650 Mission Valley Rd.
San Diego, CA

Wednesday February 2nd
Los Angeles
Hosted by LACFUG
Time:
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Location:
TollFreeForwarding.com
5959 W. Century Blvd
Suite 1108
Los Angeles, CA

Thursday February 3rd
Pomona
Hosted by IECFUG
Time:
6:15pm – 9:00pm
Location:
5-16 of building 98C
(the C/L/A building)
Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA

Links for AIGA/Raleigh

I’m giving an information session on Flash Catalyst to educators and students at the AIGA Raleigh event: New Contexts / New Practices. I wanted to post all of the go to links in one place for attendees, instead of making them copy a whole bunch of them off of my slide deck.

So here they are:

Lanyrd – Awesome Idea

Lanyrd.com launched last week. It’s a site that basically tracks conference information via twitter. So you use your twitter credentials and sign up for various conferences as an interested party, an attendee, a speaker, or an organizer. Lanyrd.com then presents this information about conferences along with hash tags and other information.

That’s what it does today. In the future there are plans to do real-time tracking of conferences, posting of materials, etc., etc. They also have some features around book and speaker promotion. The future stuff sounds interesting, but the present features are what really got me. How many times have you been to a conference only to find out that people who you talk to all the time on Twitter were there and you missed them because you didn’t see that they were there until the conference was in full swing? This single-handedly sells Lanyrd to me.

Here are are some upcoming conferences I’m going to/tracking so you can see what I mean:

Definitely check Lanyrd.com out. And if you’re going to any conferences, participate. If you find me at a conference due to Lanyrd, I’ll buy you a beer.

BFusion/BFlex 2010

BFusion and BFlex are right around the corner.

I’ll be there to give the BFusion keynote and talk about superfast application building using Apptacular.

I believe my colleague Paul Trani will also be there, and is giving the BFlex keynote.

And with such a killer lineup, Bloomington, Indiana will be the place to be this September 11 and 12th.

Adobe at the Heartland Developers Conference 2010

I’m happy to say I’ll be at the Heartland Developers Conference in Omaha Nebraska this year.

I’ll be talking about ColdFusion, and how it can power truly rapid RIAs. In order to explain the whole workflow, I’ll be touching on ORM, scripting, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 and Flash Builder.

Additionally, two other Adobeans will be making the trip, Paul Trani and Kevin Hoyt. Here’s our lineup:

Closing Keynote Day 2: Developing for Android with Flash (Kevin Hoyt)
Blowing Minds in a Flash (Kevin Hoyt)
Design Fundamentals for Developers (Paul Trani)
ColdFusion as a Backend for RAD RIA (Terry Ryan)

So hope to see everyone in Omaha this September 8-10.

ColdFusion European Tour

After Scotch on the Rocks, Ray Camden, Ben Nadel, Claude Englebert , Alison Huselid and myself are going to tour around Europe, spreading the ColdFusion goodness to the continent. I for one can’t wait.

Here’s our schedule:

Brussels – May 26, 7PM
Adobe Belgium – Culliganlaan 2F, Diegem
More Info

Amsterdam – May 27, 5.30PM
Adobe Systems Benelux B.V. – Europlaza, Hoogoorddreef 54a, Amsterdam
More Info

Munich – May 28, 5.30PM (Ben Nadel, Terry Ryan)
Adobe Systems, Georg-Brauchle-Ring 58, 80992 München
More Info

Zurich – May 28, 18PM (Ray Camden, Alison Huselid)
Technopark, Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich
More Info

In Philly Again!

Once again, it is my pleasure to present to the hometown crowd here in Philly.

I’ll be presenting to an uber collection of Philadelphia area Adobe groups:

I’ll be presenting on what’s new in the Flex 4, Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst releases. I hope to see you all there:

Wednesday, April 28th @ 6:30pm

Wharton’s Jon M. Huntsman Hall Room
Room G65
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

SEPTA: Trolley to 36th or 37th street stations

Parking: Closest: 38th & Walnut

ColdFusion Builder Tour – LA Area

This week I’m doing two stops on the ColdFusion Builder User Group tour. Both are in the LA area.

I’ll be stopping by the The Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group meeting on April 7th at 7:00PM on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Check out their site for directions and whatnot.

I’ll also be stopping by the LA Web Professionals meeting on April 8th at 6:30 in Hollywood. Check out their site for whatnot and directions.

I’ll be talking about ColdFusion Builder as well as Flex and Flash Builder. I look forward to seeing you all there.

No ColdFusion Builder Tour Stops in Your Area?

Are you feeling left out of the Special ColdFusion Builder tour that’s coming around? If so, Charlie Arehart cures what ails you through the magic of the Internet.

I’ll be doing a ColdFusion Builder Tour session on Charlie’s Online ColdFusion Meetup.

Thursday, March 15^th at 12:00 PM EDT.

As always, the session will be at: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/ and will be available as a recording afterwards.

ColdFusion Builder Tour – More Stops

I’ve added a few more stops on my stretch of the ColdFusion Builder Tour.

I was already scheduled to do:

Dallas, TX	DFW CFUG	Wednesday March 24 7:30PM	RSVP
Philadelphia, PA	Philly CFUG	Tuesday March 30 6:00PM	RSVP

Make sure you sign up for these if you are planning on coming.

I am now adding:

Pomona, CA	IECFUG	Wednesday April 7
Los Angeles, CA	LA Web Professionals	Thursday April 8
Chicago, IL	CCCFUG	Wednesday May 12

Details are forthcoming