As previously blogged, our very own Matt Gifford was nominated in this years .NET Awards for Developer of the Year.
We're delighted to announce that Matt has been shortlisted for the award, along with Paul Irish and Lorna Mitchell.
Congrats Matt and best of luck!
The annual .net Awards, organised by .net magazine, is one of the Web industry's leading ceremonies recognising some of the best talent the world of Web Design and Development has to offer.
For 2011, our very own Matt Gifford has been nominated in the "Developer of the Year" category.
Matt has worked like a demon, not just for us or our our clients, but also for the ColdFusion community as a whole, releasing a huge number of open source applications, including the much loved monkehTweets. His hugely popular "Object Oriented Programming in ColdFusion" book, released Autumn 2010, has been a massive success, and he's authored numerous magazine articles covering (to name but a few): Building Mobile Application with Adobe AIR, ColdFusion ORM, HTML5, Application Security, and speaking at Conferences.
We know just how good Matt's work is, as do our clients, and it's great to see that work be recognised globally.
You too can vote for Matt. Just head to the .net Awards website.
As it's the season of good will, plus the fact we love giving swag away, we thought we'd put together a little ColdFusion development Santa sack.
Included in the sack are:
So what do you have to do? Simply send us your best Christmas photo. It could be of your Christmas tree, or you dressed up as Santa ... you take the photo and we'll decide which is the best.
Send your photo to christmas@fuzzyorange.co.uk - Photos need to be with us by Friday 17th December.
Matt (Gifford) and myself will be heading out to LA a week on Saturday for Adobe MAX 2010.
We'll both be giving a hands on Lab entitled "Search Made Easy: Full Test Search with ColdFusion and Solr" at 8am on Tuesday 26th and again at 8.30am on Wednesday 27th.
Additionally, we'll both be giving presentations at the ColdFusion Unconference.
I'll be presenting on "Search and Destory: The Rock Star Approach to ColdFusion and Solr" at 3pm on Monday 25th. This session will dive into some of the unknowns such as configuration, security, monitoring, as well as some other rather nifty tricks.
Matt will be presenting "ColdFusion as a Service: How to Extend 'The Awesome'". This will be an updated version of Matt's session from Scotch on the Road 2009.
So come along, say hello, give us abuse (accompanied by donuts) and we'll maybe even buy you a beer.
Adobe MAX, the annual showcase conference for all things Adobe takes place October 23-23 in Los Angeles, California.
Registration for the conference is already open, and this week the official Session Scheduler has been released.
I'm delighted to announce that Matt Gifford and myself will not only be there, but we'll also be delivering a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) lab on "Search made Easy: Full-Text Document Search with ColdFusion".
In this lab, we'll be getting hands on and demonstrating ColdFusion and Solr; how to configure Solr, it's advantages over Verity, how to manage Collections, how to index files and query objects, and ultimate how to build a slick search interface.
You're going to love Solr once we're finished.
The Lab description says Windows, but we can guarantee it also works on the Mac as that's what we've built the code on. And there's no reason for it not to work on Linux as well, so not matter what operating system you're running, you'll be able to join in.
Scotch on the Rocks is now less than 5 days away.
If you haven't confirmed your place or purchased your ticket for the event yet, don't hesitate and secure one now from the official SOTR site: www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk
The large number of EMEA developers work hard at what they do, and provide fantastic content, open source or not. The ColdFusion community across the globe is one of (if not) the best, open sharing communities, and we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight that fact and reward developers for their efforts.
There are five categories in this year's awards, and if you haven't voted, or are still unaware the awards even exist ( shame on you ), head over to the nominations page on the SOTR website to view the categories and place your nominations.
There ARE prizes for each category winner.
It is with this important support that the conference has been able to grow and progress year after year, and attendees have been able to enjoy the wealth of knowledge and fun of the event. A massive thank you to the sponsors of the 2010 event.
Ultimately, SOTR has always been undertaken with the attendees in mind, and it will continue to cater for you/them at every turn, every year.
Simple. We love it.
Ever since SOTR was brought to life by Andy Allan and Fuzzy Orange in 2005, it's been a boost for the RIA and ColdFusion community in the UK and Europe. Bringing together like-minded individuals and developers is essentially what the conference is about.
Whether you are there for business reasons, development ideas, educational purposes, networking, or purely as a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues and to enjoy a beer or five, Scotch on the Rocks has always been and will always be happy to have you.
2009 is most definitely a year of conferences and events for us.
The latest event to be thrown into the mix is the Future of Web Design (FOWD). I've been lined up to speak at the Glasgow event on September 14th, and will present on "Getting Started with Adobe AIR".
2009 is already shaping up to be a hugely busy year for Fuzzy Orange.
Project wise we're extremely busy, but as I've posted before, one of the objectives for 2009 was to get out on the road and speak more.
Well, we've added another event to the list for 2009, and I'm delighted to say I'll be jetting out to Minneapolis in May to speak at cf.Objective().
I'll be posting more in the not too distant future about the different topics I'm presenting on.
We've been working with Adobe to bring the ColdFusion Insider Workshop to Scotland, and I'm glad to say that we've managed just that.
On March 16, the workshop will come to Edinburgh, and it will be hosted at Adobe's Edinburgh office.
Head over to http://www.englebert.be/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/18/ColdFusion-workshops-tour-2009 to see the full list, and for details on who to contact for more information.
Fuzzy Orange will obviously be presenting at the Edinburgh workshop (in addition to the previously announced London workshop).
I'll be heading to London at the start of February to present at a half day workshop laid on by Adobe covering ColdFusion.
I'll be presenting on:
These workshops normally have an entry fee, but if you fill in the attached PDF provided by Adobe, you will receive a voucher entitling you to free entry.
