ColdFusion Drag Race

This afternoon at MAX, I had the fun privilege of taking part in a MAXUP session run by Ray Camden. It was an hour session where Ray gave the coders in the "audience" a particular ColdFusion application to create in a half-hour. We did not know anything about the app before he got up to speak. It ended up that there were only three of us coding, so we had a great chance to win one of the cool prizes.

The time went VERY quickly. I had never coded under the "pressure" of a short timeline to create an app that I just found out about. It was quite fun. When the time was up, my app didn't totally run, but many of the pieces were in place. No one totally finished their app, so it ended not being so bad. When the time was up, we each shared what we did and why we did it. It was interesting to see the different perspective each of us brought to the same problem. After we each presented, the audience voted on who "won"--and it was me! I won a 512 MB iRiver U10 player. It's a pretty cool device--it can play songs (mp3, wma, ogg), play videos (mpg4), show photos (jpg), and play Flash Lite 1.1 games. It also has an FM radio and microphone built-in. The 2.2" screen is quite impressive!

Kudos to Ray for leading this MAXUP session and getting his hands on the cool prizes.