I am safely returned from CFUnited 06. I got back last last night, and was happily greeted by my beautiful wife, and bouncing dogs.

Getting up this morning was a bit hard. It doesnt take long to get used having your friends close at hand. I came down the steps and looked around for Maxim to see if he wanted to get breakfast, but he wasnt there. So I went downstairs to see if Mark was watching soccer. I checked the beer fridge but scott was no where to be found. I went back to the living room to see if joe was around, but I guess he was off writing a framework or something. I thought for sure Andy would be near the liquor cabinet, but I found the bottles lonely.

It took me a full cup of coffee to realize that I didnt have any of my CF buddies close at hand anymore, and I was actually a little bit sad. I really am so happy to be home, but I am disappointed that its over already. I look forward to these conferences all year, and Its amazing to have the opportunity to have all the most important people in our community together in one place.

I got soooooooo much done this week. And by so much done, I mean I ran around coming up with code problems so that while I had people at hand they could help me sort things out. My big push this week has been Unit Testing. After attending John Paul Ashenfelters sessions, I knew I was probably the most important step I was missing from my development proccess. I talked to him about unit testing and how to write better tests. Then I figured out how to load up coldspring with Model-Glue from outside the application so i could test my model with the correct components. This is also nessicary for allowing me to use flash remoting against my busines model that is tied to a Model-Glue application. Then i worked on getting John Paul’s cfcUnit Ant task to work from inside eclipse. Which on the last day I was successful in.

Beyond that I also presented on CFEclipse at the conference. I was in the second biggest ballroom, and if I dont say so myself, it was pretty packed ( I even through out a few friends who deserved to spend their time learning something in other good sessions). By chair count and my (totally unofficial ) guess that the room was about 80% full meaning there were about 400 people in there. The presentation went pretty well I think and I spent a long time after the preso helping people with specific questions and installation help. I think the community is very excited and supportive of the project.

Beyond that I spent the week talking with people about dozens of topics, and I promised to blog more info about alot of things. However, I remember promising to write about a bunch of topics, but i dont remember what many of them were. So if you really want me to write about something that we talked about at the conference, then post a comment about it here and remind me :) And beyond that, if we spent time talking at the conference please dont be afraid to stay in touch, I can always be reached: simeon at simb dot net.

Thats all for now folks, gotta spend some time with my wonderful wife!