Peter Coppinger was excited to speak at his first CFUnited conference. His latest blog entry talks about how he survived his first time speaking at a major event, which was CFUnited Europe last week.

Read more about his adventure. And download a copy of his presentation. http://www.cftopper.com/index.cfm?blogpostid=210

"Mission accomplished - I spoke at CFUnited and survived.

Charlie Arehart was nice enough to give me some tips and help me rearrange and improve my Powerpoint presentation for the 2 hours before my talk.

With minutes to go, I saved my Powerpoint and suspended my laptop, then headed upstairs to the conference room. Now this was my first time speaking in front of more than 6 people and I was extremely nervous.

I get to the conference room and there are a few people in there already. I head up to the stage, laptop in hand and start setting up..."

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Thanks for speaking at CFUnited Europe! Great Job. - Liz

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An Interview with Mark Drew, Speaker at CFUNITED Europe Mar 09, 2008

by Paul Vernon

With CFUNITED Europe coming up, Paul Vernon, Fusion Authority reporter, has interviewed Mark Drew about his upcoming presentations and his work on the open source CFEclipse project.

Paul Vernon:
So, I guess the first question is, how did it all start for you? How did you get involved with ColdFusion, and what makes you stick with it?

Mark Drew:
My first involvement was back in 1997. I was working for a company called Nettec, and we were asked to develop an insurance quoting system. Up until then, I had been using Perl on an e-Commerce product called Intershop, and I didn't think Perl was up to the job, especially when you considered the time we had to do it, so I had a look around and stumbled upon ColdFusion. In about an afternoon I had most of the system written, apart from the pretty interface. After that, I recommended it to other developers for any custom work we had to do. We all loved it since we all came from a HTML background. It was a nice fit, and seemed to make a lot of sense.

Read more of this interview at http://www.fusionauthority.com/community/4735-an-interview-with-mark-drew-speaker-at-cfunited-europe.htm

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The main hotel at the conference is about 3/4 full. We may add rooms if available. The Grand Hyatt is where the speakers will be staying as well as CFUnited Staff and other activities. There will be an "attendee" meeting room in the lower level. This room is available for attendees as a meeting space for special activities 24/7.

The hotel is approximately 2-3 blocks from the Convention Center entrance.

Book your room today! https://resweb.passkey.com/go/CFUnited08

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Thank you Ouz Demirkap1 for taking photos of the conference. The experience was very different and very fun to organize. We had over 130 attendees from all over the world. Our sponsors exhibited for both days in the Chablis suite where we also enjoyed a delicious lunch. The session presentations were well done and prepared for and will be posted soon for attendees to view. Thank you everyone for attending and making day and night a special visit for CFUnited staff. :-)

Please see more photos at http://flickr.com/photos/oguz/sets/72157604098407196/

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