Ok, so I didn't win first place but I did come in second or third. That's something me and Jon Stierman need to work out. I did win a cool prize which I must admit we could use. Looks like a great product.

OK so I've talked and talked about it, I did a search to find the link. I have had a few sites that have posted it try and get me to post there links but no no, you need to pay me for that.

Anyone catch the Robot Chicken Star Wars special? It was freak in hilarious, I couldn't stop laughing. They showed the one where Vader called the emperor to tell him the Death Star was blown up. If you haven't seen it you should very fun.

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 little by little I've been working on the beta release of CFBloggy. With all the testing and rewriting of code it's coming along. One problem I have is my blog is running what most would call the Frankenstein version. I setup my blog to catch all errors and email them to me, need to keep the server admin happy. So I would say I get 1 to 2 bad errors every week. I go though them and find solutions and reasons why it happened. I also make sure the current version of CFB had the update, most of the time it did.

So first and for most this is for Windows environments I don't have a Mac or the time to install on my Linux box. The process is pretty easy first download ColdFusion 8 "http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion8/", save it to your desktop or your favorite download spot.

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.

So I entered a newbie contest at Ray Camden's website and Ray reviewed it. I must say I was scared to show my work, even more so to a large reader base as Ray has. It wasn't that bad the things he pointed out I did wrong I should have cought. The review really made me feel better about my code and even after the review I learned even more. This was a great contest and I had alot of fun, I hope he does another one soon. I think he will have the winner Monday, I'll keep eveyone posted if I win, (ticket to CFUnited).

I have been working on CFBloggy every chance I get. I have my Advanced ColdFusion training in 2 weeks and they want us to bring any projects we are working on to go over in class. So I'm taking CFBloggy and LinkExchange, once I finished with class CFBloggy will be ready for release as beta.

I also hope to release Link Exchange, although I think I need to slim it down. I really think I made it to complicated, but then again maybe not. If anyone wants to help me with it let me know. Well back to work need to get some stuff ready for tomorrow, got to take care of our clients before I work on my stuff.

This Saturday I attended the Apollo Ranch mini conference in Boulder Colorado. I told myself over 6 years ago I would never go to Boulder, but anything to do with web development could get me there, and this is one of them. So here is my review in no order, just my thoughts on it. I won't go into detail on what was shown for the Beta release.