Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced huge pricing reductions in their popular S3 storage plans today. In addition, they're offering "Free Inbound Data Transfer" until June 30, 2010 which includes Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Read the full announcement at http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/12/08/aws-announces-pricing-changes/.

Are you tired of trying to shoe-horn your custom web site design into someone else's content management system? Drop in and learn how to fully integrate your custom CSS and HTML with Mura CMS, a comprehensive, ColdFusion-powered, open source content management system. In less than sixty minutes, I'll attempt to cover:

• Exploring Mura templates & themes
• Integrating your custom CSS & HTML
• Creating Mura components
• Creating Feeds/Indexes
• Creating Custom Feeds/Indexes

If you haven't already done so, it might behoove you to catch part one, "Getting Started with Mura CMS", offered on the CFmeetup on Nov 12, with the recording here.

Where: The presentation will be online and free to anyone who's interested. The meeting will also be recorded for those who are unable to make it to the live presentation. Visit http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/11981239/ for more information and to RSVP.

When: Thurs. Dec 3, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)

Feel free to stop by!

Are you looking for a ColdFusion-powered, open source content management system? Drop in and learn how to have a site up and running in less than sixty minutes! Within one hour, I'll walk through each of these steps to help you get started using Mura CMS:

• Installing Mura CMS
• Creating your first site
• Setting up navigation
• Creating a custom 404 page
• Exploring some built-in features and objects
• Creating your first Mura component
• Creating your first form

Where: The presentation will be online and free to anyone who's interested. The meeting will also be recorded for those who are unable to make it to the live presentation. Visit http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/11838818/ for more information and to RSVP.

When: Thurs. Nov 12, 12:00 pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)

Hope to see you there!