Hey Folks! Have you registered for CFUnited?

Reason's to attend:

1. If you take your ColdFusion and web development seriously, this is the one event you won't want to miss. Learn what's new, directly from Adobe. Ben Forta calls CFUNITED, now in its 8th year, "the premier CF-specific event."

2. Meet other developers who share your interests. Find people who have already solved that problem that's giving you headaches back at the office; schmooze with speakers late-night at the bar; discuss the future of development. Often putting a face to that email that you've been chatting with on lists is the best part of CFUNITED.

3. Are members of your team new to ColdFusion? Then the CFUNITED bootcamp track will teach them the basics in a few days. From CFOUTPUT to looping, from SQL to database design - they'll learn all this and more from top experts in the field.

4. Flex is hot right now and we have a whole track on Flex, Ajax and Apollo. Learn Flex and pick up advanced techniques for Rich Internet Applications.

5. Meet the engineers from Adobe who create ColdFusion, ask them questions, and give them your 2 cents on what you'd like to see in the future.

6. See the latest tools for web development. We are expecting several new releases at CFUNITED, so visit our expo area and be prepared to have your socks blown off!

7. The After Party. Let your hair down, play games with your buddies, or challenge famous speakers to a game of pool. You might even have a technical conversation or two between the beers!

8. A year of info packed into 4 days! If you are hungry for technical information or want to ask questions, this is the place for you! We have regular sessions, long sessions and - if that is not enough - Birds-of-a-Feather evening sessions that go long into the night! Basic CF, Advanced CF, Better SQL, XML, CSS, Accessibility, Usability, Fusebox, security, PDFs, SMS, CFCs, OO, RSS, UDFs,debugging, arrays, structures, caching, web services, testing, charting, Flex, Ajax, Apollo, ColdSpring, Prototyping, MVC, CFEclipse, Spry, Design patterns, project management, and more.

9. Want to get your hands dirty? Attend our hands-on pre-conference classes taught by top speakers. Bring your own laptop, and code along with the pros!

10. Bags, t-shirts and goodies galore. Printed slides for every talk, so you don't have to print them out yourself. Plus online access to presentations, code samples and audio of any sessions you may have missed.

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Ever run across a problem where you needed to store data into a multidimensional array that contains a multidimensional array that contains a structure? What would the logical storage container look like that houses a companies org chart? This topic will show you how to create such a complex container, populate it with data, and then get the data back out. We will be covering Arrays and Structures and ways that you can mix and match these containers to create one huge container for your complex data.

This discussion will cover a real world example of an application that uses a complex container to automatically generate dynamic reports for several different people at different times throughout the year. The complex container that will be discussed houses information about the report itself, information about the people getting the report, and the unique parameters that gets passed into the report each time the report is generated. A sample applet will be provided that contains all of the required source code and database tables to implement an auto report generating applet.

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The CFUnited Schedule is posted for June 27th - June 29th.

This is the online version of the schedule. http://cfunited.com/go/schedule

Some TBA Topics will be announced soon as well, pending product release dates and other advisory board decisions.

This schedule posted is the LATEST version as of March 27th 2007. Refer to this blog for updates to topics, changes in schedules, and corrections.

Yesterday we posted the PDF version of this schedule temporarily. http://cfunited.com/images/CFUnited_schedule03262007.pdf

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Simon Horwith on "Success From The Trenches - Building Better Applications"

Mar 26, 2007

by Clark Valberg

Today I sat down with Simon Horwith (http://www.horwith.com/) to discuss his upcoming talk at CFUNITED. Simon is the CIO of AboutWeb, editor of ColdFusion Developer's Journal, an Adobe Certified Master Instructor, a Flex developer, a consultant to some of the largest ColdFusion-using organizations in the world, and if all that's not enough, he's also quite the globe trotter.

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Chris Scott's topic "Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programing with ColdSpring"
is now
"Leveraging ColdSpring to build a robust Flex applications"

In this session I will introduce ColdSpring's Remoting Framework and show how it can be leveraged to build robust applications for Flex clients. We will discus design decisions, such as Service Oriented Architecture and how you can easily build and maintain remote services with ColdSpring. We will also cover some advance topics such as incorporating security and error handling into you applications by taking advantage of the AOP underpinnings of ColdSpring's Remoting Framework. Along the way we will also cover some of the common pitfalls encountered when combining Flex with ColdFusioin

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If you are interested in speaking at the User Group Manager Event on Tuesday June 26th 2007, please contact [email protected]

Last year's speakers were:
Lisa Heselton
Josh Adams
Charlie Arehart
Simon Horwith
Eddie Sullivan

We will post more information about this event and the main website soon. Current information:
Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center
Tuesday June 26th 2007
9am-5pm
Speakers:TBA

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This presentation will skip past the basics of using SQL with ColdFusion and dive right in to more intermediate and advanced topics. It covers the many features, options, and practices available to developers besides just using basic queries. Discover there is much more to using a database with ColdFusion than simply storing and accessing data.

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Marty Ladner recently posted a review of CFUnited Express and shared his experience with his user group.

http://www.cacfug.org/a/archives/2007.cfm

Thanks again for joining us, Marty, hope we see you in June!

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Hal Helms on "OO Programming with CFCs"

Mar 19, 2007

by Clark Valberg

Hal Helms is regarded by many as the patriarch of the ColdFusion MVC movement. His upcoming CFUNITED 2007 talk, "OO Programming with CFCs", promises to be an exploration of OO techniques and thinking from one of the foremost experts on the subject. Today I sat down with Hal to find out a bit more.

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"Atlas" is Microsoft's new cross-platform/cross-browser framework for building rich, client-centric AJAX-style Web applications. In this keynote you will see an exciting overview of "Atlas" and learn about data-binding, modernized object-oriented JavaScript techniques, designing interactive UI and more. Follow along as we explore how the "Atlas" controls and components remove the complexity from designing rich, interactive experiences, and help you build AJAX-style applications more quickly. Get more information at http://atlas.asp.net/

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