Matt Shooks

Scott Stroz will be speaking about Flex at our Columbus ColdFusion User Group> on September 27th. You can RSVP by going to the site.

The World of Warcraft Armory has gotten a shortened URL. You can now use http://www.wowarmory.com/ instead of the longer http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com. With the update they also improved on the size of some the XML files and made some structure changes to the XML.

Adam Lehman is going to be presenting on the new PDF and AJAX features of ColdFusion 8 on August 16th at 5:30 PM. I only wish I could attend but I have a prior engagement presenting on our eLearning initiatives at UPS. You can RSVP at columbuscfug.org

Had a fun night tonight. I tanked several bosses in our cleanup run of Karazhan tonight. They included Prince Malchezaar, Terestian Illhoof, Maiden of Virtue and Attumen the Huntsman. Now most people would say that is great, every warrior does that. Will that is where this is different. I am a tankadin or protection spec paladin. The other neat thing is I did all the tanking solo without the help of a second tank. We wiped the first time on prince as we got boxed in on a couple of unlucky infernal drops but the second time went smooth. Maiden of Virtue was a pain because of the silence but I managed to stay ahead on the threat meter. Attumen and Midnight were fun as I got to tank both bosses while they were separated. Overall a fun evening and very challenging but also nice to show the guild a tankadin can MT just fine.

It is official, Adobe is shipping ColdFusion 8. I have been using ColdFusion 7 for a while now on my personal site and look forward to taking advantage of the great new features once my host makes it available. I just wish our IT department at my work moved a little bit faster. From what I hear, we might get on 7 the beginning of next year. Sometimes working for a trucking company that dabbles in technology can be painful.