CFUnited and BlueDragon 7
I'm excited to be heading to my first CF conference since Macromedia's DevCon 2002 in Florida. After that conference the company I was working for hit hard times and then I moved back to Chicago. I focussed my training budget on classes last year but this year, it was time for a conference. The training environment is completely different than classroom training at a conference. Not only do they offer the opportunity to cover many topics but they also offer different levels from beginner topics to advanced including areas not traditionally covered in classes.
One presentation I won't be missing is Vince Bonafonti's BlueDragon 7 keynote where the latest release is introduced. He has been offering sneak peeks over at his blog this week. I've been using BlueDragon 6 to run WalkJogRun for 3 months now on Apache and Ubuntu with MySQL and it is doing great. BlueDragon has happily handled the 30,000 page views per day on a simple P3 box with 256Mb memory! Yes, it's an old converted desktop but that hasn't caused any problems so far. Not bad for free! Now if I can just work out a way to make money from the site without resorting to adwords I'll be golden.