We had around 25 people show up for the Munich CFUG for the AIR/Flex release roadshow, which I think was a pretty good turn out (Chris Schmitz will have to verify). Naturally the lure of a few prizes (sadly none of which I won) tend to increase attendance.

I presented an AIR prototype of a Lotto Player I built for a customer of ours MeinLottoSpiel.de (German). However, the presentation gremlin struck, I didn't have the right version of the AIR SDK on my laptop, but I think for my first presentation to a German Audience it was "ok".

By ok I mean that I started out in German and then about half way though my brain got tired and switched over to English pretty much on it's own accord. Thankfully no one in the audience complained.

I enjoyed giving the presentation and hope to be invited back in the future to give more.

I am attending the first Munich CFUG meeting of 2008 on Wednesday 12 March at 18:00. The company I work for has graciously donated space to hold the meeting.

The focus will be on Flex/AIR with CF as the natural choice for the backend. Christoph Schmitz has promised some Adobe sponsored give-aways, and I have promised to present a "proof of concept" AIR Application written in HTML/Ajax that connects to a backend system written in Coldfusion.

I haven't quite decided yet if I should attempt to give the presentation in German or stick to what I know best, English. The good thing is of course that the Germans us 90% English IT terminology so I should be good-to-go in that regard should I decide to give it a try in German.

I hope this CFUG meeting will be the start of something somewhat regular where we can get together and exchange ideas. Actually now that I think of it this will be my first ever CFUG meeting.

"Hi, My name is Gary and I am a CF Junky"

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If you haven't heard of CFMaps it is a Yahoo Maps mash-up tool written by Nic Tunney that shows where registered CF developers can be located in the world.

Besides being a great resource for people looking to find other developers around them, it is also a great way to market yourself and/or your company.

You can keep certain information about yourself private (your address information for instance which is only used for geo-location), or you can add your website, and e-mail address to the information that is available for searching.

Go on then go ahead and sign up!

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Dan Wilson posted yesterday that DZone recently added a Coldfusion tag. This means that we can now submit articles relating to Coldfusion giving us ever greater awareness/reach.

Thanks Dan for letting us know!

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Todd Sharp announced the opening of voting for this years CFeMmy's. The categories for this years CFeMmys in no particular order are:

• Best Aggregator
• Best Blog
• Best Reference Web Site (Site that teaches or provides documentation)
• Best Community Site (Site that provides info or resources to developers)
• Best OS Project (Built in CF)
• Best Commercial App (Built in CF)
• Best CF Host
• Best Newcomer (CF Blog that started in 2007)

I also noticed that I happen to have been nominated for the category "Best Newcomer (CF Blog that started in 2007)".

Thanks to whomever nominated me :).

Now that the voting is open please head over to the voting booths and vote for me!

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Nick Tong launched ColdfusionCommunity on November 5th since then over 500 Coldfusion enthusiasts have joined.

I am very pleased with the community so far there has been a lot of people joining over the last couple of days as the word has spread. I can't help but think that by the end of this month we should have over 1,000 people joined up.

Send out those invites to your CF buddies!