Moving back to Omaha / CACFUG / Firebug

November 4, 2010 by Mike Henke

Posted under: CFWheels · ColdFusion

Well, if you follow my blog you may remember I moved to Washington, DC nearly 2 years ago. It has been an interesting time. I have seen many embassies, been on lots of walking tours, and many boat cruises on the Potomac along with seeing all the memorials and some Smithsonians. I really enjoyed the Southeast Minnesota Honor flights. I think I helped with five. With that said, I am moving back to Omaha after accepting a position that looks very interesting and will allow me to mentor a younger developer while hopefully implementing a lot of Wheels projects on new applications while expanding the position and leading more developers as the company grows.

CACFUG

I would like to point out a new user group, I will be missing. The Capital Area ColdFusion User Group has had an outstanding start and I am sad I will be unable to attend all the upcoming meetings. They have a lot of great content and presenters to pick from in the DMV (District, Maryland, and Virgina — Washington loves its initializations). The CACFUG reminded me of the NECFUG I left and will be rejoining in Omaha. The members are really friendly and smart. The upcoming meeting on Nov 9th will be my last for the CACFUG.

Firebug/CSS

The job I am leaving asked me to give a quick Firebug/CSS demo before I leave, so here are some resources. I would watch this for an intro into firebug. I use the net and html tabs the most for css/html editing/debugging. I have used the Script tab a little to debug javascript. As for learning CSS, I would say I learned a lot from this book, Head First XHTML/CSS. And for jQuery I like the "In Action" book series

CFWheels · ColdFusion

10 Comments + Add Comment

Lola LB Nov 4, 2010 at 12:55 PM PERMALINK

Congratulations on your new position!
Marc Esher Nov 4, 2010 at 1:03 PM PERMALINK

Congratulations, Mike! Best of luck, and the East Coast will miss you!
Mike Henke* Nov 4, 2010 at 1:09 PM PERMALINK

Thanks Lola and Marc :-)
Sam Farmer Nov 4, 2010 at 3:23 PM PERMALINK

Congratulations Mike! Enjoy life back in Omaha.
Matt Woodward Nov 4, 2010 at 4:13 PM PERMALINK

Congrats Mike! I'm originally from Lincoln so from one Husker to another, Go Big Red!
Mike Henke* Nov 4, 2010 at 4:24 PM PERMALINK

Thanks Sam and Matt. @Matt, Guess I never knew you are originally from Lincoln :-)
Matt Woodward Nov 4, 2010 at 4:29 PM PERMALINK

Yep, born and raised, did my undergrad at UNL, played in the Cornhusker marching band, the whole nine.
Larry C. Lyons Nov 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM PERMALINK

Wow. Hate to see you leave but I can understand. Tell me how much did Daniel explode when you turned in your notice? (answer off line if you prefer).
anthony petruzzi Nov 6, 2010 at 4:39 PM PERMALINK

congrats mike!!!
Mike Henke* Nov 7, 2010 at 8:35 AM PERMALINK

Thanks Tony.