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Jeff Peters and I have started a podcast on various software issues. The site is helmsandpeters.com. The RSS feed is www.helmsandpeters.com/audiofiles/rssFeed.cfm?AlbumName=Out%20Loud.

The newest version of Mach-II (1.10) is available at www.mach-ii.com

Newsletter readers: the BaseComponent.cfc file can be found here.

Jeff Peters and I recently had an IM chat about page-centered v. domain model-centered development, available here.

The next Java for CF Programmers class will be held February 20-24 in Atlanta, GA. Click here for more info.

I'm teaching my "Designing and Developing OO Applications with CFCs" class in Atlanta, GA, February 13-17. Click here for more info.

Interested in learning to design and implement OO applications with ColdFusion? Check out the recent series on OO in the Newsletters section. For an in-depth experience, though, consider my Designing and Developing OO Applications with CFCs class. Click here for more info.

Jeff Peters and I spoke for several hours about our experiences in building successful (and not successful) projects -- and how FLiP should be implemented. Jeff was kind enough to edit this down to about two hours of talk, which he then converted into .mp3 files. Here are links to the files:

I'm often asked, "Do you provide onsite training?" I certainly do. I offer classes in Java for ColdFusion Programmers, Fusebox 4, Mach-II OO framework, and ColdFusion MX Foundations. Later this year, I'll be offering a "Building J2EE Web Applications" that will focus on Java beans, servlets, and Java Server Pages (JSP)s. If you're interested in having me come to you to teach a class, please send me an email.

I spoke with some Fuseboxers at the recent conference and they told me they needed help explaining the benefits of my FLiP methodology to their managers. I wrote a brief explanation titled "FLiP: A Manager's Guide" that's available here.

If you're interested in writing OO applications using ColdFusion MX, check out Mach-II, developed by Ben Edwards and me. If you're looking for a mature, highly-capable framework for writing procedural applications, check out Fusebox 4.

Speaking of Mach-II, Sean Corfield, Macromedia's Director of Architecture in IT, has written some great stuff about Mach-II, for which Ben and I are most grateful. Check it out at http://www.corfield.org/index.php?fuseaction=machii.main

I've entered the world of bloggers with "Occasional Thoughts" to accompany my "Occasional Newsletter".

The new Techspedition book, Discovering Fusebox 4, is available at www.techspedition.com.

I gave a keynote talk at CFUN-03. The text for that talk is here.

Need to convince your boss to send you to Java training? Here are 10 reasons why it makes sense for your company to send you. If you'd like to see this in PDF, click here.

My book, Discovering CFCs, written with Ben Edwards, is shipping. There's an accompanying e-workbook, Studies in Discovering CFCs, to help you apply what you're learning. Both are available at www.techspedition.com.

Is ColdFusion Dying? That's the provocative title of a newsletter I wrote (if you're not an "Occasional Newsletter" subscriber and would like to be, click here). Rather than take a pro -- or con -- position, I argue that the question deserves a deeper answer. You can read it here.

I have an article on Using Inheritance and Composition with CFCs at Macromedia's Designer/Developer site. Click here to read it.

For a free, sample chapter of Discovering ColdFusion Components, called "An Introduction to CFCs", click here.

Interested in a introductory class in ColdFusion MX? Click here for more info.

Judith and Michael Dinowitz run FusionAuthority, a free newsletter that I subscribe to. In this issue, I have an article called "Ten Deadly Mistakes Fuseboxers Make". [5 May 2002]

I did a talk on methodologies at the recent CFNorth conference. You can download it here. In the NOTES section is the full text of my talk.

Here's a link to an article I wrote for webreference.com on methodologies and Fusebox. Click here.