We've added two new topics for CFUnited Europe.
Mark Drew will be giving his session "Coldspring: Better living through configuration"
http://europe.cfunited.com/go/topics#topic-1705
New speaker for CFUnited Europe is Peter Coppinger. His presentation will be "How we made it: Teamwork Project Manager"
http://europe.cfunited.com/go/topics#topic-1691
CFUnited Blog
CF Meetup: "Design Patterns and ColdFusion", with Sean Corfield
Thursday, December 13, 2007, 6:00 PM
Online meeting via Adobe Connect
Come find out what design patterns are really about and how they can make your life easier. (You're probably already using some design patterns, although you may not know it.) For this session, we have distilled decades of software engineering experience into a well- documented set of blueprints that can be applied to common problems to ensure clean, maintainable code.
For more information about this CF Meetup visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6873619/
Thank you Adobe for your Gold Level sponsorship for CFUnited Europe 2008!
With Adobe's contribution will be able to make this London event even more exciting to attend. Don't miss the opportunity to spend two days with the community's best CF gurus.
Don't forget Ben Forta's big ColdFusion Keynote presentation.
We've announced our prices and at Buy 2 tickets and Get 1 ticket free, its a steal! Contact liz (at) teratech.com to obtain the discount code. Prices expire January 10th and if you register by then, you will be entered in a raffle for a free iPod touch!
Show your support for CFUnited by posting the following on your blog or website. Don't forget to link them to http://europe.cfunited.com/
CFUnited Podcast: Pete Freitag - Working with RSS in ColdFusion
Hosted by Christian Ready
Description
Adding RSS Feeds to your web sites and web applications is becoming more important every day. We will start from the ground up and explain what RSS is, and why it is important. Then you will learn how to build a RSS feed from scratch using your data. Along the way pick up several battle hardened tips and tricks for implementing standards compliant RSS feeds.
Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=285158
CFUnited Podcast: Tyson Vanek - Are You "Cashing In" on Caching?
Hosted by Christian Ready
Description
The implementation of a well-planned caching strategy can make the difference between a scalable enterprise-wide application and an application that crushes under the weight of 3 or 4 simultaneous users. A good caching strategy should incorporate many facets of caching as they apply to ColdFusion application design and development. Whether caching simple rendered content/output or caching complex data objects and variables, the key to gaining maximum benefit is properly identifying caching candidates and the proper caching solutions. This session will focus on methods used for identifying application bottlenecks, further identifying cache candidates, and designing caching solutions based on those findings.
Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=285169
Forta is a CFUnited Rock Star. We are so excited to announce Ben Forta as our keynote speaker at CFUnited Europe (March 12-13). Come see the event people have been excited to attend year after year in the USA. Ben Forta and the rest of our awesome speakers are ready to bring you an amazing ColdFusion event the UK has to see.
Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Product Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit.
The rest of the line up for March 12-13 2008:
John Paul Ashenfelter
Peter Bell
Vince Bonfanti
Chaz Chumley
O uz Demirkap1
Mark Drew
Shlomy Gantz
Rob Gonda
Simon Horwith
Russ Michaels
Rakshith N
Christian Ready
Kevin Roche
Andrew Schwabe
Michael Smith
Jeff Tapper
Ron West
Register for CFUnited 2008 conference before Early bird date of Jan 05, 2008 or CFUnited Europe conference before Early bird date of Jan 10, 2008, and you will automatically be entered into a raffle to win one of two 8gb iPod touch!
With an iPod touch you can listen to your favorite CFUnited podcasts on the go, browse the CFUnited conference websites with wifi, and watch CFUnited speaker interviews on YouTube :)
When you register by the above Early bird dates not only will you get a chance to own an iPod touch but you will also be saving $200 off of the base registration price.
For those of you who have already registered for CFUnited and CFUnited Europe, don't worry you will be entered into the iPod touch raffle as well.
Winners will be announced on Jan 11th, 2008.
Thursday, December 6, 2007, 12:00 PM
Online meeting via Adobe Connect
Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy, with John Paul Ashenfelter Many developers are aware of tools to automate and empower software development tasks, ranging from source control software to test suites and continuous integration tools. Frequently however, the realities of making deadlines and concerns about complexity or learning curves lead developers to use the same old practices they always have used. This session shows you how to quickly and simply put an open-source, standards-based system in place that can
* manage source code using Subversion
* reset the database to a known state for repeatable testing
* run code-level unit tests with CFCUnit to improve code quality
* automate user-level functional and acceptance tests in the browser using Selenium
* automatically build and deploy code to the appropriate environment using Ant
We'll start with a working demonstration of the automated process, provide an overview of each tool, and discuss the various ways to take these tools and apply them into your current development environment. The main focus will be on using Ant and various plugins to orchestrate the testing and automation process.
For more information about this CF Meetup visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6827400/
Thursday, December 6, 2007, 6:00 PM
Online meeting via Adobe Connect
Step Debugging in ColdFusion with Charlie Arehart In this talk, veteran CFML developer Charlie Arehart will introduce and demonstrate the ability all ColdFusion developers now have to step through their code interactively to debug it, whether running on CF 6, 7, or 8. For those moving to CF8, there is now a debugger built into CF, but it works only with CF8. For those on CF 6, 7, or 8, they can use the commercial FusionDebug tool (www.fusiondebug.com) . Both are plug-ins for Eclipse which enable step debugging, and they're very similar, which is why Charlie will show them both in the one talk. He'll also cover some differences.
Don't worry if you don't care for Eclipse. You can continue to use DWMX or CF Studio/HomeSite+ for editing: just use the Eclipse-based tools for debugging. Charlie will show you how easy it is and the problems step debugging can solve. And if you're thinking you don't need interactive debugging, Charlie will also explain over a dozen benefits this offers over traditional CFDUMP/CFOUTPUT debugging, as well as tips, tricks, and traps.
For more information about this CF Meetup visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6827442/
