I'm very proud to announce that this past Monday, June 22, 2009 at 2:23pm my beautiful wife Amy gave birth to our son Michael Marins Nacelli. Baby was born weighting 6 lbs 12 ozs, 19.5 inches long. Both Mom and Baby are doing great and we can't wait to take him home soon.

Just arrived in Minneapolis and checked into my room. Waiting for Scott Stroz, Dan Wilson and Jason Delmore to arrive and hit our tee time. Looking forward to another great CF.Objective() 2009 Conference.

If you happen to see me on the hallways, do say hi. I'm looking forward to seeing and meeting you there!

CFUnited folks have asked the speakers to answer some questions regarding the conference and post on our blogs, here's my response:

Topic: Leveraging Basic Object Oriented Concepts in ColdFusion - http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/295

1. Have you spoken at CFUnited in the past? What would you tell someone who hasn't been to CFUnited before?
I spoke at CFUnited 2008, and I have attended every year since the CFun days. If you have never been to CFUnited, you are missing out in one of the best chances to trully make your job better in a number of facets. You'll learn from industry experts on the latest ColdFusion and Flex/Air trends, not only this gives you the power to build better apps but makes you more marketable when looking for a new job. You'll have a chance to meet and network with a great number of people who's day to day experiences are similar to your own, this is a huge resource when you stumble on a problem or if you are also looking for talent to help in your projects. The Expo hall is a great chance to checkout what products and services are there to make your day to day life easier and help achieve your development goals.

2. Why should people attend your session(s)?
If you are not yet doing Object-Oriented programming because you keep hearing all those buzz words like Singletons, Decorators, and other Design Patterns and can't find an example using ColdFusion to help you understand what they mean, you may want to checkout my "Leveraging Basic Object Oriented and Design Patterns in ColdFusion" session. This session is built to help you break into the OO world with a basic understanding of Design Patterns and how they help solve re-occurring problems.

3. Do you have any projects in the works that you will be revealing at CFUnited?
It's too early to tell...

4. Besides your topic, what other sessions are you looking forward to?
I'm looking forward to seeing some of the Coldbox sessions, more on Flex and AIR development with ColdFusion.

5. Where can people find you at CFUnited? (At the bar, networking, working, in your room, etc.)
AboutWeb booth, sessions, bar, networking, bar, pool, golf course and yes.. the bar!

6. What's the latest news with you? Has anything changed since last CFUnited?
My wife and I are expecting our first child, boy, due July 1st! He may be making his first appearance at CFUnited this year!!!

7. When you are not working what do you like to do in your free time?
Try out new technologies and frameworks, golfing and grilling with family and friends.

Just want to give a quick shout out that my good friend and colleague Rolando Lopez is back in the bloggosphere with a totally redesigned and fresh new blog.

I have the privilege to be Rolando’s colleague and friend (Thanks Rob Gonda!) and I have to say that it’s always a joy to have technical discussions with him. His skills and knowledge on CF and Software Architecture that I see potentially being discussed in his blog will without a doubt be an asset to us all.

http://www.rolando-lopez.com/tech/uncategorized/2009/04/new-blog-new-post-one-year-of-absence/

Not sure how many of you know this, but I'm originally from Brazil. In the past few years, I have seen a great amount of buzz increase about ColdFusion in South America, particularly in Brazil.

I was proud to find out that there will be a Web Day in Brazil totally devoted to discussing and promoting the ColdFusion platform and its capabilities online.

The event will take place on April 11th. For more information and schedule/agenda go to www.cfwebday.com.

I'm sure by now many of you have heard of, or had the pleasure of personally meeting Joe Rinehart, one of our own community's most selfless and dedicated individuals. And by now you may have heard about his wife Dale's recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I'm very fortunate to know Joe and have met his wife Dale at past conferences and I have to say they are both incredible people. Also, like many of you, I have benefited from his work with Model-Glue and his knowledge which he is always willing to share either via his always great presentations at conferences or on an individual basis. Regardless of the circumstances, Joe is always there willing to help or contribute with enthusiasm.

It's well known that Multiple Sclerosis treatment costs are very expensive. Regardless if the patient has adequate medical insurance coverage they still have many out-of-pocket expenses. This is where you, the ColdFusion community comes in. We are asking everyone who can, to please visit http://www.helpsupportjoeanddale.com/ and help us say thanks to all his efforts while supporting them.

Thank you.

I'm proud to announce that towards the end of June my wife is due to give birth to our first child! Yesterday we went in for our monthly consult we learned that we are having a boy!

So I finally decided to really invest some time into checking out Twitter and I decided to take the plunge (ok.. some of you have convinced me I was behind the times.. you know who you are!!!). So now you can see what I'm up to, but be warned, you may find yourself being bored!!!

http://twitter.com/phill_nacelli

The CFUnited 2009 Topics Survey is now open, you can go there and vote for your favorite topics you'd like to see presented.

I have re-submitted my topic (you can find it under the "Please choose 4 from the list of topics that cover OO" section) from last year as it was well received and attended, and I'm hoping to make this year's presentation even better, so please head on over to the survey and voice your opinion and hopefully vote for my as well. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Leveraging Basic Object Oriented Concepts and Design Patterns in ColdFusion - Phill Nacelli

This session will introduce you to the basic concepts of object oriented development along with some basic design patterns by looking at real world code examples. Today's ColdFusion developers are bombarded by complex terms such as Singletons, Facades, Data Access Objects(DAOs) and other design patterns, making it hard for the novice to understand these valuable concepts without looking at actual code. This session will demystify those terms and give you the basic knowledge needed to build a foundation into the real advantages of Object Oriented programming.