Well, CF Objective is almost here, only 31 more days!! I am super excited that this year I will be attending again and actually speaking on two sessions:

• ColdBox Framework 101
• ColdBox Advanced Techniques Workshop

These sessions should definitely get you familiar with what ColdBox is and how it can help you or your organization. The two hour hands-on workshop will surely be an interesting one as I will demo lots of features and some clever tips and tricks. Hope to see you there and don't forget to register for these sessions.

Only a few days left for the Early Bird special for CFUnited. So if you haven't registered yet, I really hope you do. I will be doing a great session on ColdBox at the conference and it should be a great one.

These California wild fires are out of control. It seems that all of our area is burning. Here are some pictures I took from outside my house near the lake arrowhead fire. All my prayers go out to firefighters and the people who have lost their homes in this natural disaster.

I will be presenting at the Melbourne CFUG this October 18th on ColdBox. However, it will be on my 2AM, (thanks Mark!!) So I will have to struggle with sleep deprivation for the presentation. You can find more information on the presentation here.

Sorry guys, no ColdBox development for about a week and a half!! The wife requires it, now that we are going to Florida for a brothers reunion. So DON"T BOTHER ME!!

Have a great week.

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My good Friend Oscar Arevalo, from Home Portals fame and CFEmpire has now released another incredible application, WSCandis.

WSCandis is a caching and directory solution especially tailored for enterprise environments in which client applications rely on a layer of webservices that may be located on separate locations. In these environments applications are often deployed from one or more development servers to one or more production servers.

The Webservices Caching and Directory Service (wscandis) tries to address the following issues:

The need of applications that act as webservices clients to have the webservice WSDL address hardcoded as part of the application code.

The lack of a single directory of web services used by all applications

Lack of a consistent naming scheme for all webservices (i.e. "com.uvi.general.resorts") regardless of their network location, implementation language and environment.

An application's need to use a different webservice, or the same webservice but on different locations, based on whether the application is being executed on a development or production server.

Performance hit on high demand applications due to having to continually instantiate and discard webservice stubs for each request.

WSCandis tries to solve these problems using a two-part approach: a webservice stub caching mechanism and the use of a central directory and lookup service.

I just landed today in Redlands California. My new home!! I will be starting my new employment at ESRI the following week and my new adventures have just started. I landed in the afternoon and headed for my new apartments to check them out. Once I got there, man, what a dump!! It is really hard to decide on a place by just looking at pictures. I decided to get the *&(&# out of there. Panic soon ensued, my van line from Florida is arriving in three days and I have no home. I soon turned out to three locations and found a decent place. Tomorrow I go apartment scouting and hopefully find a suitable location by tomorrow.

A part from that, the area is very nice, the weather is completely amazing in comparison to Miami's hot and humid nastiness. The temperature right now is about 51 degrees and it is awesome. I can finally wear sweaters and cold weather clothes.

Anyways, just a quick post to say goodbye to 12 years of living in Miami and welcoming a new era at ESRI in Redlands, CA. I believe good things are about to happen, I am excited and can't wait to start developing!!!

Bye Bye Miami!!!

Welcome Home Redlands!!

I am an Uncle today, Nicolas Majano Larrea was born today at South Miami Hospital!! I am extremely happy, I can't imagine when it will be my very own son!

This post is dedicated to the Sandals development team since I have place my resignation last week. I will be moving to better and more distant fields at ESRI in Redlands, California. I excited to announce that I have accepted a senior web development position at ESRI (www.esri.com) The Geoghraphical software giants, and will be starting mid-November. I am truly excited to start work at this great company and with so many great engineers. I hope they like ColdBox!! jejeje :)

I thank Sandals for all the time they gave me, the opportunity to shine and bring forward more Object Oriented Coldfusion than they ever imagined possible. Thanks for this great 4 years where I have grown and learned.

I guess I have a cool new governor, ARNOLD!!

Adiue Sandals!!