Thanks to everyone who attended the ColdFusion 10th Birthday celebrations
last night. Extra thanks to everyone who worked hard to make it all
happen.
As far as I could tell everyone had a good time.
The event in Brisbane went really well. We had 33 party-goers, scoffing
through 3 trays of subway, 6 pizzas, chips, marshmallows, nuts, snakes and
dinosaurs, beer and softdrinks!
We started out with our quiz, the first round being paper based with 20
multiple choice questions, while we watched Geoff's walk down memory lane,
and Nick's recounting of 'the old days'. We then collected up our quiz
sheets, and the 2 other qld judges and myself franticly went about marking
them while the other states patiently(?) waited for us. We ended up with a
4
way tie, and after administering the tie breaker questions, we ended up
with
only a 2 way tie (between Phil Arnold and Vaughan Allan), so we did what
anyone would do in this situation and tossed a coin! (Phil won)
Then each state pitted their chosen champion against the other champions
in
a breeze quiz, which Sydney declared themselves the winner of. After
Queenslands very vocal (typed) protests, the results were actually counted
and surprisingly enough, Queensland (CF Capital of Australia) was declared
the clear winner by one point! Yay!!!
Phil won a copy of CF Server Professional for his efforts, and QLD
retained
its crown as CF capital despite the best efforts of the treacherous
southerners!!
Feeling guilty about the coin toss we awarded our other copy of CF server
to
Vaughan for his efforts in the quiz.
After a marathon prize drawing we gave a way a copy of Ben Forta's CFMX7
WACK and Adv Wack books, one of our last much sought after MXDU bags, and
a
whole bunch of 'developer sized' commemorative CF 10th birthday shirts
(thanks to Mark Blair), and some CF frisbees.
Then we broke out the cake. A fantastic chocolate sponge decorated in
white
and cf blue trim with 'Happy 10th Birthday ColdFusion' written across it.
We
did a very poor (yet heartfelt) rendition of Happy Birthday and blew out
the
candles, and congratulated ourselves for beating the Southerners!
After some quick Q&A, some talk about the Flash public beta and some
amazing
demos of Google's new Earth program, we called it quits, cleaned up and
headed off for the night.
Before I finish here, I thought I should share with you some historical
things that happened on the 10th of July in 1995, when CF was born (or
rather unleashed upon the world):
MOVIES showing on 10th of July 1995, in Australia
Braveheart
Crimson Tide
Tank Girl
Casper
Batman Forever
Congo
Bad Boys
Flashlight
Billy Madison
First Knight
Top 30 Songs in Australia - Sunday 9th July 1995 : Week 28
Title and Artist(es)
01 HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME - U2 (1 wk @ No.1)
02 HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN - Bryan Adams (1 wk @ No.1)
03 MOUTH - Merril Bainbridge (6 wks @ No.1)
04 THIS AIN'T A LOVE SONG - Bon Jovi
05 SHY GUY - Diana King
06 YOU BELONG TO ME - JX
07 BACK FOR GOOD - Take That (2 wks @No.1)
08 DON'T STOP (WIGGLE WIGGLE) - The Outhere Brothers
09 SCREAM / CHILDHOOD - Michael Jackson
10 SET YOU FREE - N-Trance
11 STRONG ENOUGH - Sheryl Crow
12 BOMB! (THESE SOUNDS FALL INTO MY MIND) - The Bucketheads
13 SUKIYAKI - 4PM
14 BABY BABY - Corona
15 I'VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU - MN8
16 EVERYBODY ON THE FLOOR - Tokyo Ghetto Pussy
17 MY LOVE IS FOR REAL - Paula Abdul
18 THIS IS HOW WE DO IT - Montell Jordan
19 RIVER OF LOVE- Rick Price
20 RUN AWAY - MC Sar & The Real McCoy
21 IF YOU LOVE ME - Brownstone
22 DON'T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE - Alex Party
23 INSENSITIVE - Jann Arden
24 (HE'LL NEVER BE AN) OL' MAN RIVER - T.I.S.M.
25 HEAVEN HELP MY HEART - Tina Arena
26 BABY - Brandy
27 THIS IS A CALL - Foo Fighters
28 U SURE DO - Strike
29 MY GIRL JOSEPHINE - Super Cat
30 ONLY ONE ROAD - Celine Dion
Events, birthdays and deaths around the world on the 10th of July...
In 1692 Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung
In 1723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's
Commentaries),
born.
In 1792 George Mifflin Dallas (D), 11th Vice President (1845-49), born.
In 1856 Nikola Tesla, physicist who developed alternating current and
radio,
born.
In 1871 Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), born.
In 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established
In 1925 The official news agency of the Soviet Union TASS was established.
In 1926 Fred Gwynne, actor (The Munsters), writer, born.
In 1940 The Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air.
In 1942 Pyotr I. Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30), born.
In 1943 U.S. and Britain invade Sicily in WWII.
In 1945 Robert Goddard, rocketry pioneer, died.
In 1949 First practical rectangular TV tube announced -- Toledo, Oh.
In 1951 Armistice talks to end the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
In 1962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched.
In 1966 Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
In 1973 Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule.
In 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
In 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
In 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
In 1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
Regards
Darren Tracey
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Wealth and Corporate Systems
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