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I finally hit the big time - I was asked to do an interview with the ColdFusion Podcast guys reviewing CFUnited. The best part is that I only sound like kind of a jackass. But with Ray and Mark there, I knew I was a bit out of my league.

It was a fun interview to do, and so big thanks to Bryan and Michael for having me on the show. Remember, I’m available for bar mitzvah and other small gatherings .

I’m heading to the airport in about an hour and should be in DC at around 10:00 EST. This will be my first CFUnited so I’m really curious to see how it compares to MAX. Should be a good time and I’ll finally get to put faces to some of the names I know.

Over the weekend Terry Ryan posted instructions and source code for integrating ColdFusion and Exchange. With the code you can create contacts and appointments directly from ColdFusion. There was talk about this being in the next version of ColdFusion, but Terry has the code right now. I’m really excied about what this might mean for Flex developers because now that we have a way to send data to Exchange, it would be relatively simple to create a Flex 2 replacement for the Outlook Web Access. Very cool stuff!

There has been a lot of buzz around Joe’s Goals which is an elegant, clean, Ajax app written with ColdFusion. The idea is simple: you can track a series of positive or negative goals and then track how you’re doing. You can also share the goals with friends which goes a long way towards keeping on top of them. It’s a great example of ColdFusion and Ajax and I thought some of you might enjoy it.

A couple things today. One, Justin Everett-Church posted that Yahoo! is hiring a slough of Flash Developers. If I understand the post correctly, I assume this may be part of a Flash section under the Yahoo! Developer Network. Their User Interface Library is awesome, and I think an equally high quality Flash library would be amazing.

Second, the ColdFusion podcast guys have a great episode up this week that talks about Flex. I think they’re getting better and better. This was a fun one to listen to because they tackle some important topics and hash out some nice conclusions. They also mentioned that someone they know has registered the domain name “flexpodcast.com”. Whom might that be? David Hassoun perhaps? Seems like the Rocky Mountains are poised to become Adobe podcast central.