Way back in January I gave a sneak peek of an Apache article I had written for the Fusion Authority Quarterly. During the welcome reception of the Adobe Community Summit (last night) Terrance Ryan came up and said he had read (and enjoyed mind you) my article. Up until that moment I didn't even know it was released.

If you're interested in understanding Apache more I encourage you to check out my article. While you're at it, why not purchase a subscription to FAQU? It's an excellent magazine available in print and PDF versions.

Last night, at the Adobe Community Summit welcome reception Rachel Luxemburg was introduced as the new user group manager for Developer Relations at Adobe. Rachel replaces Ed Sullivan who has been an amazing manager in this role for many years. Ed is a stalwart in the Adobe community and will continue working with the community in his new role in Developer Relations.

Rachel hails from New York City but currently lives in CA. She's an avid blogger and twitterer and has been a ColdFusion user as well.

Please give Rachel a warm welcome to Adobe and the Adobe community.

Last night I received a TeraTech care package with a bunch of goodies to give away to the local Nashville ColdFusion user group. Many thanks to Michael Smith and company for sending the items.

The box included:

• 2 backpacks from previous CFUnited conferences. Backpack on left includes laptop sleeve (shown under hats).
• CF stickers
• CFUnited hats
• CFUnited travel coffee mug
• CFDynamics water bottle
• CFUnited presentation/slides book
• CFUnited flyers
• CFUnited mini notebook with super thin pen that is stored with the notebook

The Acrobat Connect recording for Tuesday nights ColdFusion Powered AIR meeting with Zach Stepek is now available. Zach gave an excellent talk with tons of great information on powering your AIR applications with Flex using Web Services or Flash Remoting (AMF). The recording is 1 hr and 25 minutes and includes all Q&A.

Watch it here:
http://mmusergroup.adobe.acrobat.com/p83838845/

The general CF and Flex/AIR community are invited to attend a presentation tonight broadcasting from the Nashville ColdFusion User Group. Zach Stepek, Director of Interactive Development at Crave Media Group, LLC and author of Foundation AIR: Creating Desktop Applications with the Adobe Integrated Runtime, will be presenting ColdFusion Powered AIR. Barring any technical difficulties the preso will be available via Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional at the URL listed below. If the recording turns out, I'll post it to Charlie Arehart's UG TV sometime after the event.

WHEN:
March 18, 2008 at 6:30pm CST

WHERE:
http://mmusergroup.adobe.acrobat.com/r78233552/

About a month ago I received an e-mail from Roman Villarreal, founder and CEO of Lumenbrite Training, an Adobe Authorized Training center. Roman was writing an article for the Adobe Development Center and he wanted to mention my name in the article and link to my CFEclipse snippets. Well, Roman's article is now out and you should give it a read if you are new to Eclipse or CFEclipse, or if you need help with any of the following:

• installing CFEclipse
• configuring your development environment
• setting up snippets
• integrating with a SnipEx server
• using CF8 extensions
• using the Tasks panel
• using RDS and the Visual Query Builder
• using CFC Wizards

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

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