I'm heading out to Dublin on Friday for the ScotchOnAir event.

This is a half day event put together by Scotch on the Rocks and MMUG Dublin.

Dublin was originally part of the Adobe onAir tour, but due to "unforeseen circumstances", the Dublin date was cancelled and Scotch's very own Kev McCabe jumped into organise something.

Kev has managed to arrange for Adobe's Ryan Stewart and Ted Patrick to come along and give talks on Air and Flex respectively, whilst Kev will be talking about ColdFusion and Flex.

I'll be doing my damnedest to plug Scotch on the Rocks and in addition to the swag Adobe have given us to raffle off, we will also give away a full 3 day pass to Scotch, There may also be a few other Scotch bits and bobs kicking around, and maybe some Fuzzy Orange swag too.

Now, if I can just survive my flight with Ryanair!!!

The March edition of Web Designer, features the second in a series of ColdFusion tutorials by myself; The Basics of ColdFusion Coding.

Not very interesting for the seasoned ColdFusion developer, but then these tutorials aren't for you (though be sure to pick up the mag anyway, and give it support. If we want ColdFusion to have more exposure in the non-CF press, then we as a community need to increase their sales. No, I wasn't paid to say that heh).

These tutorials will hopefully tap into some of the other development communities, and at the very least, offer some exposure of ColdFusion to them. If a few decide to give ColdFusion a go - not to necessarily dump their existing skills in favour, but more to give them another tool in their belt - then it's a job well done.

My third tutorial, due April, exposes some of the new features of ColdFusion 8 including; PDF Interaction, Image Manupulation and Presentations on Demand.

I'm delighted to announce that Fuzzy Orange are now an official reseller of ColdFusion, in addition to other Adobe products.

This latest move allows Fuzzy Orange to deliver every aspect of application development, providing your solution at every level; the ColdFusion product, Consultancy, Training and Support.

We shall be releasing additional information shortly on this service, in addition to how you can purchase ColdFusion itself.

By a twist of fate, I will now be at MAX in Barcelona.

Not only will I be attending, but I am now giving the ColdFusion 8 Server Monitoring talk at 4pm on Tuesday.

I hope to see some folks there, as it turns out that Sean Corfield, Ben Forta, Dirk Eismann and Ted Patrick are all speaking at the same time.

I'm not sure how many sessions I will attend but I'll definately be getting involved with the ColdFusion BoF that is due to run on Monday.

I've got lots of things I want to discuss with Ben Forta, and the others who attend. I may even give away a couple of Fuzzy Orange tshirts.

Also, it will be nice to meet up with some folks again, including Ben, Sean, Mark Drew, etc in addition to finally meeting up with Sumi Lim and Kristen Schofield from Adobe.

Now, if only I can find my passport ...

Fuzzy Orange are now running two ColdFusion Administration courses:

• ColdFusion Installation and Configuration
• ColdFusion Advanced Administration and Configuration

Full details of these courses can be found on our training page.

These courses will teach budding ColdFusion Administrators and developers how to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot their ColdFusion servers.

I'll be in Edinburgh on October 9th for the Adobe Creative License Tour

This is a great chance to find out more about Adobe's Web and rich internet application development tools, specifically Flash CS3, Flex, AIR and ColdFusion 8

Fuzzy Orange today gained Adobe Solution Partner status. This achievement reflects Fuzzy Orange's expertise in the administration and deployment of Adobe ColdFusion, and applications built using ColdFusion.

This further underlines out commitment not just to our clients, but also to the ColdFusion community via our ongoing sponsorship of the Scottish ColdFusion User Group.