If you haven't registered for CFUnited 2009 yet, you'll want to be sure to do so TODAY to take advantage of the early bird pricing option. CFUnited, now in its fifth year, is the #1 ColdFusion developer conference in the world. This year, it will be bigger than ever with more speakers and topics than ever before. If you're a CF developer, do whatever you have to do to get to Washington, DC this August for the CFUnited ColdFusion conference!

Also, don't forget that Aaron Wolfe and yours truly will be presenting the topic "Handling Errors with Error Handling". A funny topic name, perhaps, but definitely one of the most important and informative sessions at the conference this year. We'll be covering the importance of error handling in a site and the potential consequences developers face with little or no error handling in place. It's definitely going to be a worthwhile session.

Managers, if you're still not convinced about sending your team members away for a week, follow this link for an informative manager's guide: http://cfunited.com/images/CFUnited2009_managerguide.pdf.

See you at CFUnited!

This Thursday, October 9th the Miami Valley ColdFusion User Group will be having our second meeting at O'Neil & Associates, Inc. in Miamisburg, Ohio. We will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.

For this meeting, Adam Haskell will be doing a presentation on "Improving Code Quality". He will be talking about how we can work together to create maintainable software that has high fidelity.

Adam worked with my colleague and friend Aaron at Parts Express, was a speaker at BFusion, is actively involved in the community including open source CF and Fusebox, and is a regular in the CFConversations podcast. I saw him present at BFusion in Bloomington and it was very interesting. Adam has a particular presentation style all his own.

I highly encourage anyone who is a developer to try to make it out for this event. Not only will we have a great presentation on tap, but it's quite possible we will have some great swag to give away (CS4 stuff, maybe? Hint hint).

I said I'd follow up, so here it is.

Tuesday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Canal Street Tavern will be the anticipated Creative Suite 4 blowout meeting! Be sure to be there for some exciting news, fun networking, and great Adobe giveaways!

In addition, laptops will be available for use, there will be free food, the cash bar will be open, and there will be free local music.

It's going to be brilliant!

Tuesday, September 30th at 7:30 p.m. at Canal Street Tavern will be the first ever combined user group event between the WPCFUG and MVCFUG. The event will be absolutely awesome! That's about all I can say right now. Just be prepared to get yourself there and have a great evening with other Adobe developers and enthusiasts.

More details to come soon! Check out the MVCFUG site for more details!

Things are quite different this year, though. The conference was pushed from March (hence "Spring Break") to June. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to attend since I'm hitting CFUnited in June also, but was able to pull some strings and my boss let me go. The conference is still sponsored by Adobe, but the keynote speaker hasn't been announced, yet (it has been Ben Forta the last few years). Apparently, Eric Meyer, the CSS master, will be doing the lunchtime keynote.

The biggest shocker this year is the price increase. It was originally free (just two years ago), then, last year, the price was $25. This year it shot up to $45 and $55 for hands-on sessions. For as long as it took them to get anything online about the conference this year, I was very hesitant to go or pay the fee this time around. We'll see if the higher fee is worth it this year. I will be blogging from the conference and posting to Twitter so be sure and stay tuned!