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CFLive! Broadcasting Live from CFUNITED

Join CFUNITED conference organizer, emcee, and Teratech's own Michael Smith in a live Breeze Meeting from the show.

Michael will be joined by Simon Horwith and other speakers and attendees. They will discuss what people are learning at CFUNITED, including keynote announcements live from the CFUNITED show floor.

The FREE EVENT will be held on Thursday, June 29th at 12:30 - 1:00 PM US/Eastern, live from the conference.

Please refer to: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ for timezone assistance. The URL for the Breeze meeting is listed in the MORE INFORMATION section of the RSVP page. Just click the button to login as GUEST with no password and enter your name when prompted in order to join the meeting from your browser.

If you've never used Breeze Meeting, get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/products/breeze/productinfo/meeting/meeting_intro.html

Hal Helms unable to attend

Unfortunately Hal Helms will be unable to join us this year and we are working to replace his talks with Speakers like Simon Horwith, Nick Tunney, Jeff Peters, and Sean Corfield. More information coming soon. We apologize if our event materials do not reflect the last minute changes.

His Domain Modeling class is NOT cancelled and we have a professional replacement who is speaking with Hal at this moment to figure details.

More information coming soon.

Hostmysite XBOX 360 give-a-way!

HostMySite.com is giving raffle participants the chance to win an XBOX 360! Stop by the Thursday Evening Event for chances to win even more great prizes. See what other prizes sponsors are giving away! www.cfunited.com/prizes.cfm

CFDynamics Attendee Dinner Tuesday 27th

LAST CHANCE!

You are invited to attend the official pre-CFUNITED dinner and networking event, hosted by CFDynamics, the premier coldfusion web hosting company.

The event will be held on Tuesday, June 27 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Dave & Buster's Restaurant, located at 11301 Rockville Pike, 3rd Floor, North Bethesda, Maryland. That is 4 blocks from the hotel (10 minutes walk).

Please join us for a night of socializing, billiards and fantastic food and drinks! The cost will be $30 per person. Please R.S.V.P. to [email protected] if you are planning on attending.

The dinner will consist of six delicious entrees with a cash bar and all you can play billiards. We'll have tons of prizes and giveaways, so be sure to RSVP now & you'll receive a BONUS raffle ticket!

We hope to see you there!

RSVP this week to ensure your seat at the event! More info at http://www.cfunited.com/attendee_dinner.cfm

REGISTRATION PACKAGES

Hi Attendees! Most of you have received your registratio npackages. If not, DON'T WORRY! We have a copy of everyone's badge and tshirt on site. It is easy for us to hand you the materials you need to be checked in to the event. For those of you who do have your packages, have your badge ready for quicker entrance. Thanks!

View the registration package online http://www.cfunited.com/AttendeePage.cfm

Testing ColdFusion by John Paul Ashenfelter AND Paul Kenney

Just in, The CU213_6-26-06 Testing ColdFusion taught John Paul Ashenfelter will also be taught by Paul Kenney who actually wrote cfcunit!

sign up today! www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm

100 more laptop bookbags for registered attendees!

We've hit the 750 mark! However our Platinum and Gold Sponsors have made it possible to provide more laptop bookbags for registered attendees!

Thanks Adobe, Hostmysite, TeraTech, Microsoft, and New Atlanta. Register today and you'll be sure to receive this awesome giveaway.

New Topic: Introducing the Spry framework for AJAX

Kelly Brown has a new topic for the Manager/Empowered Programming Track "Introducing the Spry framework for AJAX" http://www.cfunited.com/topics.cfm#664

Adobe has pre-released an initial version of the Spry framework for AJAX development. This new framework allows you to easily add AJAX functionality to your web sites. Just include a couple JavaScript libraries and you can add AJAX capabilities to your site with a minimal amount of coding. It is designer friendly and based on familiar technologies of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. This session will give an overview of the framework, demonstrate the ease of incorporating it into your site, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using it for your RIA development.

This session is 2:45pm on Friday.

Bridging the Gap between Marketing and IT professionals

Have you ever noticed that the marketing department and IT department seem to speak different languages? Would you like to receive the tools that can help your business roll out a successful software project from start to finish?

If so, than this executive briefing will provide tools for the technical and non-technical professionals to approach a project together in efficient manner avoiding software & project disasters. This session will not only provide you with the resources that you need to bring back to the office but we will provide you and your peers with a forum to ask questions and a platform to network. Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge to avoid common pitfalls in your software development.

Reasons to attend? Go to http://www.cfunited.com/bridging_gap.cfm

CFLive! Podcast!

CFUnited is now Podcasting!

Want to listen to the CFLive! presentations in your car, at work, or on the go? If so, subscribe to our podcast! Just click the "podcast" button on our side bar and add the URL of the XML feed to your favorite podcatcher program.

Don't have a podcatcher? What's wrong with you? That's okay, we're just getting hep to this podcast thingy ourselves. Here are some links to some pretty good ones:

Apple iTunes (http://apple.com/itunes/) Juice Reciever (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/) jPodder (http://www.jpodder.com/)

Still not sure what podcasting is? Check out Wikipedia's article on podcasting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast).

As the Breeze presentations are archived, Christian Ready (http://www.christianready.com/) will be recording and adding them to the podcast.

Enjoy the show!