I arrived in San Diego safely this afternoon after a layover in Seattle.

It’s been a long day since my son decided he needed to wake up at 5:30 this morning and potty and wouldn’t return to sleep.

I’m staying in a Hilton and let me tell you, the thread-count on this bed is unbelievable.  So soft I can barely handle it. This room in general is pretty off-the-hook. I would post some pictures but I forgot my transfer cable back at home and the card is not compatible with my laptop.

I’ve forgotten about the size of American food portions. The layover in Seattle left us hungry so we made a quick stop at Burger King in the airport. The man asked me if I’d like a large drink, and my business partner quickly said to me “remember you’re in the states now”, which prompted me to ask for a medium. The man then presented a cup equivalent to the Super Big Gulp available at 7-11 (about a gallon). I then said I’d take a regular which is about the size of a Canadian large.

Not that I’m complaining. At least you get your money’s worth.

I just created my first Hello World page in ColdFusion. This seems like a strange step backwards to me but firstly I had never made one before (again, because it was too simple to even bother), and I was trying to verify that my local ColdFusion environment was functioning properly.

Just wiped my laptop again to prepare for my trip in the morning to San Diego.

This is as much for my own posterity as for any readers who haven’t read it, John Whish’s “Why Use ColdFusion?” post. I’d like to keep this on record for any clients asking me the same question.

It’s that time of year again, of particular importance this year due to the fact that business has been agonizingly slow for the last year, but has now picked up to the point that it has become necessary to travel south of the border. South of the Canadian border, that is. I’ll be spending a week or so in a hotel in San Diego locked in a room with my two business partners while we hammer out some ideas on a gargantuan whiteboard.

I’ve had further opportunity to play with ColdFusion 8/9, but I haven’t discovered anything particularly noteworthy aside from finding that I suck at cfscript. I vastly prefer tag syntax, but I’ve done a bit of reading on it and it seems like something I’ll need to know, even though it is similar to JavaScript with I have a hate/hate relationship with.

I have enjoyed using ColdFusion Builder Beta. I don’t generally need “Live View” from Dreamweaver anymore – I am quite comfortable using a simple text editor so Dreamweaver comes across as a bit bloated at this point for my purposes. ColdFusion Builder has just what I need and it seems to do it well.

This last week has been prep work for a project that has been looming without funding for quite a long time (and has recently been funded). I fly to San Diego tomorrow morning and after that I suspect there will be plenty to write about; I only hope I have time to do so.

I just discovered I’m not even in the top 10 pages of Google results when searching my name.  How disappointing. Will have to remedy this soon and crush all other Andrew McLeans in the way.