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)

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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!

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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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Below are a list of topics that will be included in the Advanced CF Track for CFUnited USA 2008, track chair Ray Camden.

This is not the full list of topics, however, these are the ones chosen to be accept now. More coming soon. These will be posted on the website within 24 hours.

"RAD OO"
Peter Bell
Object Oriented programming can be quicker as well as more maintainable than procedural code, but you have to use the right patterns in the right way so you can focus on getting your sites live rather than worrying about DAO's and Gateways. In one hour, learn a series of patterns we have used to build rich custom web applications in days rather than months. Some OO experience required.

"jQuery/CF Integration"
John Farrar
With each version of AJAX there are special unique benefits and challenges. This talk will be on how to mix your ColdFusion sites with jQuery AJAX library. Learn how to use the AJAX and how to build your own plugins.

"Writing Secure CFML"
Pete Freitag
Web vulnerabilities are the new buffer overflows. Hackers are shifting their focus from attacking server software in favor of targeting flaws within web applications. Learn to write code that mitigates the effectiveness of this new breed of attacks.

"Multi Lingual (i18N) ColdFusion Applications"
Oguz Demirkapi
This presentation will explain the theory of creating multi-language applications and methods in ColdFusion with best practices. The main goals will be explaining the theory behind multi-language applications, defining requirements and solutions, and providing best practices with code samples. Some points that will be covered: * Explaining the theory for i18N (internationalization), L10N (localization), g11N (globalization) and other known approaches. * Defining opportunities to create effective solutions such as Java platform tools usage or designing better database. * Setting up your environment to make multilingual applications easier to write: Code organization, database server settings, ColdFusion server settings, development tools, etc. * Creating a multi-language application from scratch with some different i18N techniques such as dynamic content management or content replication.

"All about CFThread"
Rupesh Kumar
ColdFusion 8 introduced CFthread that allows writing multi-threaded programming in ColdFusion. This sessions will cover CFThread in great details - threads life cycle, how to use it, different scopes related to threads and how it can increase the performance of application. It will cover various pitfalls when it comes to multi-threaded applications and how to avoid it. It will also cover the management and monitoring aspect of cfthreads.

"ColdFusion Administrator API"
Nicholas Tunney
Learn to build administration consoles with restricted rights for your web developers using the CFAM API. Take the pain out of server administration without the security worries!

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