I got a nice surprise this week, my boss bought me a new 15 inch Macbook Pro. It's been several years since I've developed on a Mac and being back on one for the past 2 days I wonder how I did it.

I must say Macs have come a long way since I had one, but the over all feel is still the same. Clean, simple, and powerful, oh and the pad short cuts rock. I'm still working on getting my development environment setup for developing ColdFusion applications. So if any one has any suggestions on must have apps pay or free I just shouldn't develop with out, please post a comment and let me know.

P.S. Thanks Boss!!!

So it's still early but you can now submit topics. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out a topic, something new, but I have no clue =/. If anyone wants to suggest some ideas that would rock.

Any way here is the link have fun...

So far this has been a great conference. I've seen some great sessions that have gotten the creative juices flowing, plus I got to see my co-worker for the second time since I've been with my company. I wanna thank all the presenters I have seen so far. I wanted to add more blog posts but there is just so much going on and I know a lot of my fellow CF developers are posting detailed blog posts already.

I'm in my last session before dinner and the Adobe Pool Party.

I went to two sessions on jQuery. The first one I saw was with Ray Camden. He went through all the basics and show some powerful stuff on what it can do. I started looking into it a few months ago but with my work load and not having a project to use it on it took a back burner.

Funny thing is the day before I left for CFUnited my "boss" asked me to look at something a client sent. After a few min of looking at what they sent we both thought this was the best time to get into jQuery.

Right now I'm in  Scott Stroz's session on CF and jQuery Perfect Together. He's talking about how CF works so well with jQuery.

I have the whole front end almost done, you can see it running here. I have no backend yet, which I will start after CFUnited. The software allows you to post messages from your phone, you can do just plain text messages or picture messages. I will be testing it a lot at CFUnited and making sure I have no bugs before I start on the admin section.

Some cool features to be brought online are:

yfrog and twitpic support for picture messages. You will be able to pick which one you use and any picture messages will be sent to your twitter account through one of them. If your message is just a text message you can post it to twitter with a shortened url link to the blog post. (haven't decided which one to use).

I have a lot to do but I'm hoping the beta release will be ready by September for download.

On June 24 Kevin Hoyt will be here in Denver for “Next Generation Flex & ColdFusion Tour – Denver” I’ll be there so if you see me stop and say hi.

You can get more info at RMAUG about the event.