I'm the one on the end

A video I made last summer, starring several of my friends in Spain

4th of July in Viladrau from Greg Franklin on Vimeo.

I was recently working on an ecommerce site which uses Payflow Pro to process credit card transactions. Well, Verisign was recently acquired by Paypal, and the url of the transaction approval service was changed as of September 1, 2009. Our online store stopped working! When I changed the url for CFHTTP connection to the new Paypal url and tested it, boom! crash! the connection failed! "What is going on here, Paypal?" I shouted at my computer. The strange thing was that I could run a test script on my localhost with no problems, but when I put the test script into our production server, it failed to connect.

It has been several years since I went to one of these technology conferences, but it was high time I did it again. And I'm glad I did. My brain is still reeling from all the information I crammed into over the 4-day technology feast. There were so many sessions to choose from, I had to bounce around between them at times. I thought the organizers did a fantastic job with everything, and despite being in the middle of a golf course, and way WAY outside of Washington DC, it was a fantastic setting for the event. I like how they have integrated Flex and Air into the topics too. There was a great selection of various learning tracks, and a nice mix of UI approach (be it flex/air, or javascript/html etc). Favorite topics included: , iPhone + Coldfusion, Coldbox, Flex basics, Automation, Advanced Subversion techniques, and of course Hitler as a Flex developer.