I've finally checked the SlideSix Flex and AIR source code into GitHub. You can take a look at the following four projects if you are interested:

• https://github.com/cfsilence/SlideSix-Dedicated-Room
• https://github.com/cfsilence/SlideSix-Presenter
• https://github.com/cfsilence/SlideSix-Slide-Manager
• https://github.com/cfsilence/SlideSix-Viewer

The Dedicated Room project is the web based viewer that is used to live broadcast presentations from the AIR based Presenter. The others should be self explanatory; the Slide Manager is the Flex application used to upload and manage profile, groups and events and the Viewer is, well, the Viewer :).

The main project is up to date with some features being added in the past few weeks like support for Conferences/Events as well as minor things like 'featuring' users, groups, events and slideshows. There has also been some work to integrate Disqus into the front end for comments with an option for users to provide their own account for moderating comments or use the default, unmoderated account.

Keep an eye on the group for more info and as always if you are willing and able to contribute please let me know.

I've come to a crossroads with SlideSix. The service has never fully taken off as a legitimate competitor to SlideShare (among numerous other similar services) and the reasons for that are numerous and outside the scope of this posting. The issue that I'm facing is the fact that my server is running out of disk space (less then half a gig free out of 30gb). It's been getting close for a while and every few months I take some temporary steps to clear some space, but I can't continue postponing the inevitable. A lot of you have reached out to me via Twitter or other channels expressing your support and for that I am truly grateful.

I've been strongly considering shutting the service down all together, but I feel a strong commitment to my most loyal users. Thinking about those users has led me to realize just who those users are: the ColdFusion and Adobe developer/designer community. I'd like to keep providing a service to those users and at the same time I'd like to reward them for their loyalty so here is what I'm thinking of doing.

• Finish the complete rewrite of the service that I began last year (which utilizes CF 9 ORM).
• Relaunch the service as being geared towards developers and designers and the development/design community at large
• Utilize s3 for storage
• Abandon the premise of recording video along with each slide
• Focus on live streaming of presentations (thoughts/opinions are welcome on the value of this feature -- IE: should it even exist or should it be abandoned as well?)
• Scheduling live streams
• Group associations
• Possible conference support?
• End-Of-Life SlideSix
• 60 day period where users can sign up for new service and import previous presentations if desired
• Fully Open Source the entire codebase
• ColdFusion code
• Flex code
• AIR code

• Site layout/design/rebranding (my design skills are surpassed by my 3yr old and a box of crayolas)
• Donated s3 account for hosting images
• Donated hosting for version control repository for the new OS codebase (possibly use RIAForge)
• Participation!
• Contribute to the code if you are willing/able
• Use the new service!
• Perfect for extending the reach of User Group presentations Conferences
• Spread the word about it!
• Any other help/kindness you're willing to provide!!

Here are the slides from my "Real Life RIA" session at RIAUnleashed. There was a really good turnout and it was an engaging and fun crowd to present for. Brian Rinaldi has done a great job with this event!

There are a few other presentations up here so check it out if you couldn't make it to the event.

I just realized that RIA Unleashed is just a few short weeks away. I'm pretty excited about speaking at this conference - let me tell you why.

I created an online focused version of my slides from my Real Life RIA session at CFUnited. To check it out head past the jump.

Wow, it's been six months since I wrote a post on the old blog here (I know you've all missed me)! The awesome news is that CFUnited is right around the corner - just a week away in fact! So, on to the important news...

I'm finally getting around to really digging into ColdFusion 9 and stumbled on a very strange error with Flash Remoting (specifically the Flex Messaging Gateway) in one of my applications. The app worked just fine on CF 8 but I started getting a 'foo is undefined in event.data.body' when I tried it in 9. So I started doing my standard troubleshooting. Step one was to dump out the struct in question. Oddly enough, my key was there and it had a value. Next I tried structKeyExists() and sure enough CF told me that the key did in fact exist. However, when I tried to access the value I'd get the exception. I even tried associative array notation and accessing the keys as uppercase in case there was some weirdness going on. That didn't work either.

A buddy sent me an opening today on behalf of his friend who is looking for help developing a Flex/AIR app. Here is the listing:

I wanted to help spread the word about two new conference options for developers. The first is the RIAdventure 360 Cruise that will be held December 6-13 on the high seas of the Western Caribbean. This is the second iteration of this event which is organized by my buddy Josh Cyr. Josh says:

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of a new community effort, cfpanel. This is an effort put together by myself and Dan Vega to bring a new live podcast hosted by a rotating panel of community members to discuss relevant topics.

Read more here.