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CFUnited Early Bird to Expire Nov 30th 2007

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!

Winner of CFUnited Europe Survey contest

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.

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

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/

CFUnited Podcast: Hal Helms - OO Programming with CFCs

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.

New Design for CFUnited.com

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.

IDEs and Other Technologies Track

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

RIA Track for CFUnited USA 2008

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

Manager Track Topics

Here are the Manager Track Topics. More coming soon! Thank you Shlomy Gantz for being the track chair.

"Promoting ColdFusion Outside the ColdFusion Community" - Brian Meloche
"Changing the Game" - Hal Helms
"Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications" - Nat Papovich
"CF Powered Traffic Optimization" - John Farrar
"10 steps to ruin a CF project" - Shlomy Gantz (NEW)

Frameworks Track at CFUnited USA 2008

Here is the list of accepted topics so far for the Frameworks Track.

"ColdSpring: Better Living through Configuration" - Mark Drew
"ColdSpring 1337" - Chris Scott
"Using Popular JavaScript Frameworks" - Boyan Kostadinov
"Event-Driven Programming in CF" - Sean Corfield
"Leveraging Popular CF Frameworks to Make Better Applications" - Kurt Wiersma (covers using Mach-II, CS and Transfer together)
"Head First Mach-II" - Matt Woodward
"Driving Fusebox 5.5" - Sandy Clark

Topics on ColdBox, Model-Glue, Transfer, etc. coming soon

By the way, some people have asked about Frameworks Conference. Well, we haven't found a good time to do one yet or a location. We hoped the turn out last year would have been better but we were a little disappointed. Maybe for 2009 we will make some changes and find a fun location. For now, please enjoy the Frameworks Track at this year's CFUnited. Lots more to come!

CFUnited Europe survey contest ends Nov 23rd

Don't miss out on an opportunity to win a pass to CFUnited Europe, March 12th - 13th 2008 in London.

We are giving away a free ticket to one lucky attendee who completes the CFUnited Europe Scavenger Hunt Survey! The best part about the survey is that its easy, so no excuses for not giving it a shot.

To participate in this contest just visit http://europe.cfunited.com/go/survey

If you have already completed the survey feel free to share the link with developer friends and coworkers!

All fields must be completed correctly and we will pick the one that in our opinion answers the question below best and completes all comments.

Entries must be submitted by November 23rd 2007, and a winner will be announced on November 27th 2007.

To learn more about the conference visit http://europe.cfunited.com/

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