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A new tool from Adobe has been released, which is your central point of information about ColdFusion, targeted specifically at EMEA.

ColdFusion Box contains the latest news, events, white papers, documentation, etc.

You can even start a Live-Chat directly with an Adpbe representative ... I've tested this out and it's pretty cool.

Go download from www.coldfusionbox.eu

I've already blogged this over on the Fuzzy Orange site but I'll repeat it here....

Fuzzy Orange are running a Scotch on the Road promotion as part of the upcoming ColdFusion Insider Workshops.

If you register for either the London or Edinburgh ColdFusion Insider Workshops, and purchase an upgrade from ColdFusion 6 or 7 to ColdFusion 8 either before the workshop or within 30 days of attending the workshop, receive one free ticket to your local Scotch on the Road event for each license upgraded.

Conditions:

1. You must attend the workshop
2. You must purchase your ColdFusion upgrade via Fuzzy Orange
3. Offer only open to UK

We hate country specific competitions and promotions, so for those in mainland Europe, if you can provide the necessary proof of upgrade (from your local Adobe reseller), as well as confirmation of attending your local ColdFusion workshop, then we will honour the promotion when we bring Scotch on the Road to Brussels and Munich.

For the full list of dates for the ColdFusion Insider Workshops, head over to Claude Englebert (of Adobe)'s blog

http://www.englebert.be/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/18/ColdFusion-workshops-tour-2009

To purchase your ColdFusion upgrades, contact Fuzzy Orange using the information provided on our Contact page, or email me directly on andy[.]allan[@]fuzzyorange.co.uk

Adobe EMEA have organised a series of half day ColdFusion workshop, and on Thursday 5th February, the workshop comes to London.

Taking place at Adobe's London office at the Regents Park office, Claude Englebert (Adobe), Fuzzy Orange, and Monochrome will deliver a series of sessions on how to get the best out of ColdFusion 8.

I'll be giving the following sessions:

• Beyond HTML: Using Ajax, PDF, and More to Create Engaging Applications with ColdFusion 8
• The ColdFusion 8 Server Monitor

To attend free of charge, fill in the attached PDF and submit it to recieve your voucher from Adobe.

Academy Class, sponsors of both Scotch on the Rocks and A Wee Dram of Scotch  are running a free one day seminar on Creative Suite 4 on the 19th November in Glasgow.

For full details, and how to register head over to http://www.academyclass.com/events.asp

Spaces are limited, so sign up quickly at http://www.academyclass.com/events.asp

Hope to see you there!

The sessions for MAX Europe, Milan were announced today.

From a ColdFusion perspective it seems even scarcer that 2007, with just the 3 sessions dedicated to ColdFusion. There's another 3 sessions that may feature CF, but they are more general and will either talk about other server side technologies as well, or will focus on Adobe as a whole.

Lab wise, we have 3 focused on ColdFusion, with another that will undoubtedly touch on it (it's being given by Ben Forta).

Lastly, there is one post event training session that covers CF (which costs an additional €300 I believe).

In all, it's a very poor allocation of sessions, especially in comparison to MAX NA in San Francisco, where I believe there is 17 dedicated CF sessions, plus the labs, etc.

Additionally, at this point there is only one European based speaker talking on ColdFusion. Admittedly, not every session has a speaker assigned to them yet; ColdFusion Powered Ajax and Architecting ColdFusion for Scalability and High Availability being the ones in question, however it does give the impression that either there is a lack of European based ColdFusion speakers (though maybe few submitted themselves), OR the team behind MAX Europe rejected the talks.

Having spoken at MAX Europe last year I was hoping to be chosen again, but alas neither of my talks were picked; ColdFusion Server Monitoring and Improving Your Workflow with ColdFusion and PDF. Such is life.

There's still plenty of good talks in regards Flex, AIR, LiveCycle, and a healthy number on the CS products so everyone's mileage of the sessions is going to vary.

From a CF perspective, and that's my baby, what with me being a Certified Developer, Certified Instructor and Community Expert for CF, plus Fuzzy Orange being a Solution Partner and Authorised Reseller specialising in ColdFusion... it's a poor showing.

I've not yet bought my ticket, as I was waiting to see if I would be chosen as a speaker (hint to MAX organising team - let us know if we've not been picked. Cheers!) and it's kinda looking doubtful that I will actually make it, mainly due to the fact I get married November 8th and my honeymoon could well conflict with the conference. My lovely missus had agreed to postponing the honeymoon if I was chosen as a speaker, but as that hasn't happened.....

Maybe I can talk her into going to San Francisco :)

Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Yours truly is now an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion here in the UK.

That's about it really.