We encourage extended learning for full time students to attend CFUnited. We offer a discount of 60% off the current price. Submit your semester schedule and school name to us and we will send approval within 48 hours.

We understand those who have fallen into hard times and we believe it shouldn't keep you from finding new opportunities. We especially believe CFUnited is a place to find open doors and a way to connect with others. It is our hope that we can help up to 10 individuals improve their careers and create a new path by making it more affordable to attend CFUnited. The first 10 approved for this program will receive free tickets and the others who are approved will receive a 60% discount. You may nominate someone else to receive this offer. We will need a letter to CFUnited management stating how CFUnited can help their career and talk about their passion for ColdFusion.

We hope everyone is doing well in their careers and we are always looking for ideas on how to bring more opportunities to CFUnited for our attendees. Any suggestions, please comment on blog post. Thanks!

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CFUnited Podcast: Matthew Woodward - OO Architecture Back to Front

Hosted by Christian Ready

Description

Many of the materials currently available for learning object-oriented programming in ColdFusion do an excellent job of explaining the basic concepts, but leave a bit to be desired in terms of teaching developers how to truly architect an enterprise application in ColdFusion using object-oriented principles and processes. This session will bridge this knowledge gap by outlining an object-oriented architecture in ColdFusion from back (your database) to front (your presentation layer) and everything in-between. Come to this session to learn how to better architect your OO ColdFusion applications.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=281636

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For CFUnited 2008 we are allowing up to 5 starter companies to participate in the contributor program and receive sponsorship benefits.

Sponsorship Includes:
1 table placed in the exhibitor booth area at the conference.
Logo on the website
1/4 page ad in the conference show guide
Newsletter feature about your company

What CFUnited gets:
Promote CFUnited to your customers
Logo or banner ad on your website
Interview for newsletter

If you'd like to apply for this program, please contact liz (at) cfunited.com

The first 5 companies that qualify will receive this sponsorship free. Others will be offered the program at $500 each. Must be a company that has just begun in the industry and has an exciting vision of how CFUnited can help their business.

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Only a few days left to take advantage of the CFUnited Early bird rate of $749 for 3 days, $849 for 4 days, and $199 for Saturday only.

These rates will expire on Friday, November 30th 2007, so don't delay!

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Congratulations to Jura from Bratislava, Slovakia for winning the CFUnited Europe Survey Contest. Jura has won a free pass to CFUnited Europe conference on March 12-13th 2008 at the Novotel London West, UK.

We want to thank all those who participated in this contest and for all your feedback.

The correct answers for the survey questions were:

Question: What are the dates of CFUnited Europe 2007 conference? Answer:March 12-13th 2008

Question: Where in Europe will the CFUnited Europe conference be held? Answer:Novotel London West, UK

Question:Which 5 speakers who are speaking at CFUnited Europe? Answer(s): - Mark Drew - Simon Horwith - Jeff Tapper - Christian Ready - Andrew Schwabe

Question: Who is speaking on "Recursive Technique in ColdFusion"? Answer: Andrew Schwabe

Question: Which topic describes the CFFEED tag? Answer:Atom and RSS feeds with ColdFusion 8 (by Chaz Chumley)

Question: Why do you think people should go to CFUNITED Europe Answer: Same organizers team as for the orig CFUNITED conference, which means good references - Pretty interesting programme/events - Not a big choice of CF-related events in Europe ;-)

Don't forget to register for CFUnited Europe before the next early bird date of Jan 10th 2008. You can also take advantage of the buy 2 get 3 special, where if you register 2 people, you can register the third person for free. For more information on this special please email us at [email protected]

Also visit http://europe.cfunited.com/ for more information.

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Online meeting via Adobe Connect

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 12:00 PM

Duration: Approx. 1 hour

COOP - A Framework That Thinks Like ColdFusion, with John Farrar

COOP is the most ColdFusion-like Framework to date (and yet, if you use another framework, note that COOP works with or separate from other frameworks). ColdFusion gives the power to simplify your code by moving your processing completely off your markup page if you choose. Let designers work in a processing free page while developers still have complete access to the markup page through a object-oriented structure. If you like MVC you will live COOP. If you don't like MVC you will say along with a developer we met at Chicago CF United, 'Finally, an MVC that makes things simple.' (This technology can be used as a stand-alone technology or inside other Frameworks like Fusebox.)

For more details visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6806993/

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http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=281386

In this practical introduction to object orientation with ColdFusion components, well-known trainer Hal Helms will lead you through the architecting and coding of a project using CFCs. Along the way, we'll cover UML class diagramming, Model-View-Controller applications, and best practices for working with CFCs. If you're unsure of how to use CFCs in your applications -- or simply want to better integrate them into your applications -- this long session will help you.

Audio of presentations given at CFUnited, plus interviews with conference attendees, speakers, and more. Hosted by Christian Ready.

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Take a look at the updated design of CFUnited.com

http://cfunited.com

- Now you have the ability to view content from past year's events. When you log in, select for which year and you'll get access to presentations and more.

- We've added a podcast link.

- Updated our Blog.

- With the new design of the site, you'll get a sense of the look and feel for CFUnited 2008

Thank you Elliott for the all the hard work you put into the website. We are looking forward to what's next for the future.

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This year we've added another track. So far this is the accepted topics, we may add 1-2 more.

IDEs and other technologies - Includes CFEclipse, Dreamweaver, Wizards, Online Tools, etc.

"Build a scalable architecture with Amazon's EC2" - Adam Howitt
"Practical Code Generation" - Peter Bell
"Building Google Maps Applications with ColdFusion" - Steve Nelson
"Building offline applications with Google Gears" - Steve Nelson
"Google webmaster tools step by step" - Michael Dinowitz
"Integrated ColdFusion Development Environment" - Phill Nacelli
"Testing CF Applications" - John Paul Ashenfelter

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What a great line up so far! This is the new RIA track, - Rich Internet Applications including Flex, Ajax, Air topics

Accessibility and Rich Internet Applications - Sandy Clark
Flex 3 For ColdFusion Developers - Jeff Tapper
CF Software Architecture For Web 2.0 - Simon Horwith
From ColdFusion to Flex: Model-View-Controller - Joe Rinehart
Real World Flex and ColdFusion - Matthew Woodward
Continuous Integration with Flex, FlexUnit, and Ant - Robi Sen
Writing an RIA? Secure your data! - Rob Gonda
Ajax and CF - Raymond Camden

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