We're now taking applications for the 2009 Max Awards. Of special interest... there's a new category this year dedicated to Education. I hope to see some familiar faces in competition for that.

Go to the Max Awards Site for more details.

I'm pleased to announce that there will be a ColdFusion Birds of a Feather session at webDU. Come by and feel free to ping Hemant and I about all things ColdFusion.

Details:

• BOF: ColdFusioneers
• Thursday 5:30 PM

Please stop by.

A few people have asked me about the tour and the status of their city.

Allow me to explain a little more. Adobe is doing a whirlwind tour of 119 cities over two weeks. We will be talking about both Flex 4 and ColdFusion 9. Since we are going for a short intense tour, there are many of us doing our own unique tour agendas. Tours are being done by more people than I can name. If your city is not on my list, it may very well be on someone else's list.

Luckily there is a reference of all of the stops, check out Ted Patrick's blog entry on the tour.

Ben blogged it so I guess I'm free to now.

We're doing a multi-city tour of ColdFusion and Flex user groups. I'll be talking about the next version of both products, currently code named Centaur and Gumbo respectively. Here's the schedule:

• Albany, NY - 6/16
• Hartford, CT - 6/17
• East Lansing, MI - 6/18
• Bloomington, IN - 6/22
• San Antonio, TX - 6/23
• Houston, TX - 6/24
• Austin, TX - 6/25
• Dallas, TX - 6/26

A few months back we held our first Flex BugQuash. This event brings together Flex developers and Adobe staff, both remote and local, in order to start knocking bugs out of the SDK.

It was so successful that we're doing it again. This time it will be the day before 360Flex in Indianapolis (or May 17^th)

You do need to register. You don't have to be going to 360Flex to participate, but you do in order to be part of the local group doing it.

I just booked my travel for cf.Objective() 2009. I'm especially excited to return this year, for a few reasons:

• cf.Objective() was the event that got me re-energized about CF back in 2007
• cf.Objective() did that because it is a kick ass event
• I'm now part of Adobe
• We're going to be talking a great deal about Centaur and Bolt

We're doing a few sessions:

• Advanced ORM in ColdFusion 9 - Me
• Extending Adobe Bolt with CFML - Adam Lehman
• Advanced ColdFusion Server Administration - TBD
• ColdFusion as a Service (CFaaS) - Me
• Centaur and Gumbo - TBD

I can't wait to see you all in Minneapolis. Make sure you get your tickets.