Hey everyone just wanted to let everyone know what's been going on. I'm not dead and I'm not moving to PHP haha, I know it's been awhile since I have posted anything. Let's see I am super busy with work, my wife is 9 months pregnant with our second child, and I have to keep up with my 6 year old. If the baby is not here by Tuesday, they will induce Tuesday night. So I should have another son by Wednesday. I do have a secret project I'm working on. It's not a software package but something I hope will help bring the CF community together, super cool project I must say.

So why no posting or playing with the super cool features of CF8, well if anyone has kids can tell you my wife is nesting. Whats nesting? Well it the time in a womens pregnancy when she drives her mate crazy wanting everything cleaner then clean. I had to clean the crawl space out (crawl space: a small spider infested area to store junk you'll never use again) and let me tell you I hate spiders. Why did I have to clean it out, will the new born be playing there, will anyone see it? No! But when a women is nesting she is crazy and everything has to be just right or it drives them crazy, and if their crazy you'll go crazy. Two more days then the fun starts, no sleep, long nights, but hey I wouldn't traid it for anything. I can't wait for my 6 year old to meet his little brother. So give me a few weeks to get in a groove and I'll start posting more again.

Well I guess updating my site to a whole new system, ColdFusionBloggers.org thought I was a new site and pulled the last 20 entries. My dates didn't change on the site or through my feed. Sorry Ray I don't know what happend. I am running a new database and the feed was not updated, although it is dynamic.

Finaly my site is running the latest version of CFBloggy, and got a new look to go with it. It's also running MSSQL, no more Access yea! I may have lost a few hits in the update but nothing to worry about. If anyone sees any mistakes or anything not working right let me know, please. I figured my site could use a new look on it's first birthday.

I have received lots of spam over the last week or so. It's really starting to bug me. I wrote a small script to catch the IP addresses and block them, hopefully this will stop most of it, if not all of it. I have a feeling it's from the same person, and I am using Lyla Captcha. It's only hitting the same to old posts over and over. Could it be a Bot? Has anyone else using Lyla had this problem?

I'll post again after I catch the IP addresses and block them see how it goes. If I still get them I will be adding CFFormProtect and see how it works out.

What a week! I have been super busy with work, and play. Last weekend my 6 year son won Grand Champion at his first Taekwondo Tournament. Very proud day for me and my wife. Also this week I'm no longer an employee at my company, I'm a partner. What better way then to grow old, but to grow old writing ColdFusion code. (Insert geek comments here).

I've also been trying to workout the 6 pages of css code to make a template from JohnRamon.com, and I have giving up. I am working on a new design, and I hope everyone likes it as much and the old one. I must tell you that the code on my blog is so outdated it scary. So updating to the newest version will improve preformace and stop the errors my code here kicks off from time to time.

Over the next week I will be updating my site to the latest version of CFBloggy. Currently I'm running a pre pre alpha version with more bugs then a rotted out log. I added some cool stuff to the latest version, which I have not updated on RIAForge.org. I will in the next few days need to do some testing. What did I add you ask? Well I added "remember me" and "subscribe" features to posts. So now if someone posts a comment to your comment and you subscribe you'll know it. I don't want to be posting every little change I make so you can always check out CFBloggy.com for news and updates before releases come out.

I have been reading the new Harry Potter book as I have free time. I haven't worked on any side projects or even looked at many blogs. Half way done, I'll give my review once I'm done.

Happy Father's to all the dad's out there. I spent the day with my 6 year old, we went to see Surf's Up, great movie. I had a great day hope everyone else did to.

So by now I should have had my last CF training, but with training I seem to have Ray's bad luck, or so it seemed. I got a call saying my training was canceled, I had already paid for flight and so forth, so I went down to Houston for fun. I must say my flight was perfect never had any problems like Ray.

Well I have been trying to think of a cool Apollo app to build I have been studing my Flex stuff and I think I have something pretty cool. I'm hoping to get through all the Flex training in the next few weeks. I'm also going to Advanced ColdFusion training at the end of May. Once I'm comforable with Flex and done with my training I'll start my Apollo app, I won't say what it is cause then someone will build it before me. Well I'm out back to studing.