The speakers list is now up at the cf.Objective() site. I couldn't assist last year, but I heard nothing but great stories, so I'm really happy to make it this year. Sessions and topics will be posted shortly, but registration is already open. Trust me, no matter what are the final topics, just look at the speakers, you know it will be good. Hope to see you all there.

The frameworks conference was great... big applause to Liz and the Teratech team for putting it together. Like in most conferences, I only made it to a selected number of sessions, however, I learned a lot from the speakers at the bar.

The two sessions I enjoyed the most were Hal Helm's Interface Driven Architecture, and Chris Scott's Intro to Aspect Oriented Programming.

The food was great; we had food available from 8am till 6pm ... We had a foosball tournament and the prize was two Flex 2.0 licenses... too bad the tables were even worse than the beat-up one at my office :)

My session was on object factories, providing some history and evolution in CF programming, and examples taking apart Ray Camden's Galleon forums and showing alternative ways to wire dependencies together. Ray assisted my presso and it seems like I could have made a difference; that's great!.

I'll post my slides and code shortly, plus a bonus video or two, showing what speakers really do at these conferences.

After a long wait, Paul announced the beta release of cfcUnit 1.2, which now finally includes Ant support. cfcUnit allows you to perform tests on very specific functionality of your components (units), and now they can be funny automated with your builds by being invoked by Ant right from within Eclipse. I know Paul has been working on this for a long time under Sean's pressure, so you know this code must be good. You can get the latest release at sourceforge.