Fresh from the resounding success that was webDU 2009, we are raring to go for webDU 2010. If you have something new and revolutionary, some tricks of the trade to share, want to help your fellow developers or you're just pure passionate for web technology, don't miss your chance to take part in webDU 2010.

Mat Bryant (Lead Author) and Geoff Bowers (self-styled Benevolent Dictator) spent all of 11 November talking to a rabid audience about FarCry's past, present and future. And believe me, the future's so bright, we're all wearing shades around the office.

10-13 November 2009 is shaping up to be a week of ColdFusion in Australia; the Forta is in town, FarCry DevCamp, and cf.Objective ANZ conference. Antipodean ColdFusion renaissance or what!?

Gave two short talks at OZIA 2009 this year; UNSWTV: Publishing Everywhere at Once & Content Objects. The presentations might be a little obtuse in isolation but happy to answer comments if folks have questions.

Recently participated in a great little panel discussing upcoming Adobe releases, local case studies and general geek gabbing. AdobeRefreshTV is an initiative by the local Adobe APAC team to engage the developer community. It's been a little while coming, but its great to see this vodcast live.

Saw a recent post from Ray Camden on Yahoo Query Language. Thought I might add that there were a couple of good sessions on Yahoo Pipes and YQL available at the webdu conference, including a YQL overview in the podcast.

Decided to move the webdu conference session podcast to Amazon S3 to improve download performance. Thought it would be cool to put together a custom tag that dynamically builds an iTunes feed from the S3 bucket list XML.

webDU was another awesome experience this year. Been reminiscing while listening to the high-quality, audio podcast of sessions I missed and the sessions I just had to hear all over again.

Adobe Connect is a great tool for running online meet-ups of all sorts. You can record and play-back the meeting through Adobe Connect itself, but it's often desirable to do a bit of post production before you distribute your recording to a wider, more discerning, audience; clean-up the video, edit out the bloopers, trim down the waffle and so on.

Daemon does a lot of time and materials work for clients from operational support and maintenance through to feature development. If you're not careful you can die from a thousand cuts as you keep estimating work that folks never follow through with.