>I've been invited to speak at the FB/Frameworks conference in late >September. I'm excited. It will be my first conference both attending >and as a speaker. I just bought my plane tickets today.
Congratulations! I wish I could be there to hear you speak (and to finally meet you after chatting online for so long). Unfortunately, timing and budget make it impossible for me to attend this year's Fusebox conference. I'm still on my sabbatical at that point and will be on the road driving to Salt Lake City that Friday (so even if I had budget, I would still have to miss the last day of the conference). It looks like a fantastic line up and I'd strongly urge folks to attend if they can manage it. The conference will cover all the major frameworks in CF as well as some lesser-known ones and stuff like Spring (Maxim's talk on integrating CF and Java using Spring ought to be worth the ticket price alone!). The last two years' conferences have been great, even tho' they only covered one framework (Fusebox - and even then non-Fusebox CFers would still have gotten value out of the tips and tricks and networking!). As for budget, since lots of people ask me, I work in IT as part of Macromedia's Web Team and I have budget to attend about two conferences a year: one on the West Coast and one on the East Coast. I chose SD West and CFUNITED this year. Without SD West, I'd have had budget to attend the frameworks conference (even tho' it's East Coast, the conference itself is a bargain). However, SD West was more applicable to my broader role as an architect and in particular to the enterprise integration work I've been focused on for the last two years so it won out. Sorry. If I lived up in the Washington area, I'd probably pay out of my own pocket to attend but the airfare and hotel costs make that prohibitive. Hope y'all have a great time! Sean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:170545 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
