For years now I've struggled with the knowledge that while I have some small amount of skill for ColdFusion, my true expertise, and passion, was elsewhere. I've kept this a secret for as long as possible, but I decided that I cannot spend another day living a lie. My true passion, no, my calling, has always been singing.
For several years now I've performed with a Duran Duran covertribute band called Shadow Rose Alpha One. We've toured the country giving concerts and spreading the musical awesomeness that can only be conveyed by the greatness of Duran Duran's material.
One night - in a cosmic collusion of blissful synchronicity, Simon Le Bon himself was present during our concert. Our band had just wrapped up with a Caribbean-styled version of The Chauffeur and had retuned back stage. Le Bon personally asked me (perhaps one could say "beg") if I would join the band in their new tour in the fall of 2010. I graciously accepted the offer.
While my time as a ColdFusion developer, blogger, and speaker, has come to an end, I hope people can come to accept my decision and come to appreciate the choice I've made.

p.s. Thanks to Nick Hill for the Photoshop working. My Photoshop skills are only slightly worse than my real singing ability.
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Awesome :) Let me know when the tour heads to Cincy.
Keep rocking!!
Believe or not, but they still sound great.
Good luck touring with them and see you on concert :))
btw, nice outfit :)
@Marko - I would argue that they _never_ sounded great.
Ha ha ha ha, classic :)
Simon Le Bon was present during your "conference"? You're kidding yourself...you're a geek through and through. :-)
haha you look like Gordon freeman in the pic
http://www.daxiongames.com/...
:D
Shananana, shananana. The reflex, Flec-Flec-Flec-Flec-Flex!
Now come on, everyone knows the Spandau Ballet cover bands are where it's at.
Good luck with the career change though :)
@TomJ: Actually, that headshot of me has my old glasses. My new ones are thick and black, much closer to Freeman's style.
@Debbie: Wow, talk about a Freudian slip. Fixed. Thanks.
@Zoid: Blasphemer!
Will there be any performances over Connect? :)
For you, Dan, anything you want.
Sean Corfield dance, now Ray sings... what next ? Ben Forta painting ?
Just waiting for the You Tube appearances now !! lol :0)
Hope you can make the trip down into Florida on your tour...
"For years now I've struggled with the knowledge that while I have some small amount of skill for ColdFusion, my true expertise, and passion, was elsewhere...." lol. Dang, for a minute I thought you were coming out of the closet!
For a second there, I thought you were following in Ricky Martin's footsteps with his recent announcement and all.
Maybe you can get your band to perform at CFUnited this year.
Perhaps we can get one of the sponsors to supply the earplugs :-)
Keep on rockin'
Darren
And here I was thinking your true expertise and passion lied in PHP programming!
@Thomas: Unfortunately I got pretty bad at PHP when I got real coding skills.
(Yes, I went there. SNAP!)
I hope your singing is better than those photoshop skills :P
I love that outfit however, I think you should wear it to MAX
Ray,
1 April, ah ah ah!
congrats
LOL . . . how did I miss this announcement?