Greetings on the official first day of sessions at Macromedia DevCon 2002. Things have been going well so far. Rather than go on and on, I'll give you the highlights (at least for me):

• Wireless Internet Access! There are several open access points setup throughout the conference area where anyone with an 802.11b card in their laptop (or other device) can connect anf get high speed Internet access. Kudos to Macromedia!
• Networking. I can't say this enough. If I take nothing else away from this conference (don't worry, I will), I can say that without a doubt, I've met some of the most fantastic people in the ColdFusion community. Things started at yesterday's CF_Underground 4, organized by Michael Smith and his crew and progressed through the night with Macromedia's Welcome Reception, followed by more schmoozing at Kimono's with a great group of developers. For me, the night wrapped up over at the House of Fusion's Community Suite, hosted by Michael Dinowitz and his group.
• This mornings keynote was good, but I do have a few comments. Having attended all three previous Allaire/Macromedia DevCons, it was a little sad to see some of the attention taken away from ColdFusion and given (understandably) to Macromedia's other products. While I totally understand this (after all, Macromedia does have a full, integrated product line), it made me a little nostalgic for DevCon's gone by. That said, the keynote did a good job of showing how Macromedia has evolved over the years. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's keynote more, however, as I'm really hoping Macromedia will give us more of a glimpse of where they are headed in the future!
• Speaking of glimpsing into the future, there's a lot of buzz over macromedia's previews. What could they be??? I wonder...
• I gave my first session today - UDFs in ColdFusion MX. It went fairly well, although I had some technical difficulties with the projector, needed to borrow a mouse (long story), and really needed more than the alloted 60 minutes to deliver everything that I had to show. All in all, it was ok, but I would have liked it to have gone a little better.

There's still a lot of great stuff happening tonight. There's an event for meeting Team Macromedia members (of which I am one) as well as Coldfusion User Group Managers. With so much to see and do here at DevCon, you could never leave the hotel, and still not be board. More later...