The blog was officially launched on 1/5/2009. The first true knowledge sharing entry came on 1/8/2009, so its been 1 year and 1 week since I started bloging. It has been an excellent journey till now and I am sure it will continue to be. The main idea behind the Blog was to motivate me to continue learning new things and it did serve that purpose. While it took me more than an year to really look at whats new in ColdFusion 8, but with ColdFusion 9 I was right in there with the beta. Now there are other community blogs I read daily and always end up learning something new everyday. I have a better understanding of Ajax and libraries such as ExtJS, YUI and jQuery. Of course, there is still a lot to learn too in all of them. I haven't blogged as much as I had hoped, there have been big periods of inactivity, sometimes due to a busy schedule, sometimes due to other reasons.

I would also like to thank the people who read the blog. It has been great to see some positive comments on some of the blog entries, so thanks for all the support.

There are some goals in mind for 2010:

• Blog More - This is pretty simple. Blogging more will also mean I am learning more things.
• Learn a Framework - I really feel that my next level of Proffesional Development should involve learning a framework. Even though, I have my own take on organizing code properly (that achieves to a good extent OO and MVC), learning a framework should be fun, challenging, exciting. I don't know which framework I am going to choose, but it will be one of the newer ones.
• More ORM - ColdFusion 9 brought us ORM integration. I did dive into it during beta, its time to explore it further and learn ORM concepts.
• jQuery 1.4 - A great library, a new version. Excellent opportunity to learn more about JavaScript, DOM, Ajax.
• Attend a CF Conference - My intention was to attend CFinNC last year, but it didn't work out at the last moment. This year, I want to attend atleast one CF conference.
• Local User Group Involvement - I haven't attended a single UG meeting. I am not sure how active they currently are, but need to look it up and start attending some meetings. Should be a great place to meet new people and learn new things.
• AIR/Flex - I really need to first figure out which one to tackle first. On one hand, AIR seems very exciting. On the other hand, I have done some Flex before and increasing my understanding of it will also help me design AIR applications. Someone want to help me out here?

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I am personally from Charlotte, so when the CFinNC Conference was announced, it was very exciting. I wanted to get to CFUnited this year but could not make it because of a very busy work schedule, so a weekend conference a few hours away was awesome. And on top of everything it is Free. Let me say that again, it is Free.

They put out a provisional list of speakers and its a very good list. A lot of people who I wanted to listen to in previous conferences will be there.

So head on over to cfinnc.com and register for it.

This post is more for record keeping. Found this useful little SQL on another site and posting it here will make it accessible to me forever.

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