My wife and I fly out tomorrow for our first trip to Europe. I am speaking at RailsConf Europe next week. I have the pleasure of sharing Flex with the Rails community of Europe.

Although we start off in Berlin, we will also be making stops in Paris and London before returning to Stateside. I am hooking up with Mark Drew in London on Sunday the 23rd. Drop me an email if you would like to join us for a beer.

After that we come back to the US and I am back home for a few days before I leave for the US Adobe Max conference. I am presenting there on “ColdFusion development with Eclipse” where I will give an abbreviated version of my usual CFEclipse talk, but also cover the ColdFusion extensions for Eclipse and Debugger in CF 8. I give this talk in the afternoon on both Tuesday and Wednesday of the conference so stop in for some CF/Eclipse good times.

After that I get to come home and I will not leave travel again before the year is over. After MAX I will have given some kind of presentation at 7 conferences (i said no to 2) , and 4 user group talks this year. And I think I still have one more promised to the COWPU group in Bend.

Although some may think my speaking schedule is not that heavy, I want to try to tone it back a bit. I do not have a service to sell, and I dont do much contract work. So I am not sure why I have been working so hard at getting out there. I enjoy sharing the technologies I am excited about with others, but I think I may have gone a little strong this year. Between the travel for conferences and training gigs, I really want to spend more of my daughters second year of life at home than I did the first.

Now thats not to say I wont be out and about in 2008. I am just going to be much more selective about where I go. The good news is this will allow me much more time for blogging and releasing some of the code I have written. I have a flex framework and a couple utility classes I need to get out into the wild.

So if you are gonna be at RailsConf or at Max drop me a line. I always love to get a beer and chat tech. But in the mean time I will likely be offline until after the first week of October.