So this blog is changing a little. When I first started it I was a ColdFusion programmer that loved what he did and loved writing about it. As I approached 30 this past summer I started to feel like there was a void in my career path that needed to be evaluated. I started thinking about what I loved to do and I kept coming back to media. I started as a designer many years ago and fell in to ColdFusion as a natural progression of making my websites do things. Before I knew it I had a full time job doing it and the next 10 years of my life flew by.
I got married, had 3 kids (with another on the way) and dev work was stable and kept coming. It was easy.
This summer I started to get back in to video, photography, and motion graphics. It is what I love to do and it is starting to go to the forefront of my career.
I’ve started to do more “production” as opposed to just straight web development and I am LOVING IT! I get to create and manage projects but don’t have to code day in and day out and be a total nerd. I get to play around with other technologies like RoR and PHP, WordPress and Joomla!, AfterEffects and Final Cut Pro, it has been a whirlwind!
Needless to say you are going to see a lot of things posted to this blog that may not be what you originally signed up for and that is ok. I still will post things on technology since that will never leave me but it won’t be strict ColdFusion.
So here we go to the second act of my life!
Just a quick reminder to anyone in the Tennessee, Alabama, or Kentucky area… the Nashville stop on the 2009 Adobe ColdFusion User Group tour is tonight. So, stop what you are doing make plans to attend the event and head over to the NCFUG site to RSVP for the event. Everyone that RSVPs (and shows up of course) will be entered into the drawings for a Adobe CS4 Master Collection, Flex Builder, Your choice of $2100 of Adobe software, a TimBuk2 laptop bag, Amazon gift cards, and more! Plus, each person that shows up will get stickers, a ColdFusion tour shirt and (yes there’s more) an audio CD copy of Dave Ramsey’s High Performance Achievement! Wow, how could you not come?
I hope to see you there! More info and RSVP details are here.
Thursday, February 26 (6:00pm food/drink, 6:30pm presentation)
Cloud Computing Series: Amazon S3 and ColdFusion – A Match Made in (Storage) Heaven
J.J. Merrick starts our cloud computing series with a talk on Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Solution).
S3 is a Web Service that allows you to store files that are served both publicly or through an
authentication system. J.J. will look at how to build a CFC (ColdFusion Component) to interact with
the service and how to use it in your everyday programming.
Meeting information:
http://tinyurl.com/cn62t4
RSVP for this meeting:
http://tinyurl.com/ddhozn
Just posted the Connect recording to last nights NCFUG meeting. You can get it at:
http://mmusergroup.adobe.acrobat.com/p44126041/
REMINDER: Terrence Ryan is going to talk on Squidhead tonight at the Nashville ColdFusion User Group. We will be broadcasting it live via connect so join us tonight at 6:30 CST.
