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Overflow Hotel Rate Changes

Our overflow hotel, the Bethesda Marriott on Pooks Hill Road, has 30 more rooms available at $239. After June 11th, however, the discount on these rooms will no longer be available and the regular hotel rates will apply!

So register now and book your room with the group code COFCOFA.

Check out the Travel Page for more information.

See you at CFUnited!

"Cat's" out of the bag... CF Celebration Location!

June 28th 2007

ColdFusion Celebration

This Event is free to attendees of CFUnited 07!

Adobe, TeraTech and Hostmysite are joining together to throw a very special event in celebration of ColdFusion. The event will be held at The National Zoo in Washington DC. Attendees will meet at 6:30pm in the lower level registration lobby and buses will transfer everyone over to the zoo for open bar and some hors d'oeuvres. (Please note we are not serving a full dinner) Everything will be served at the Great Cats Exhibit over looking all the Lions and Tigers.

If you would like to bring a guest and purchase a ticket for just the evening event please contact, Liz Frederick at liz (at) teratech.com

Join the CF Tribe for drinks and fun. A night never to forget. More surprizes yet to come.

Drew Robbins - An End-to-end overview of Microsoft's New Web Application Server IIS7

The future of Microsoft's Web Server Platform is exciting for developers! The release of Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Vista and Server will dramatically improve the development, deployment and management of web sites and applications. This demo packed session will highlight an all new, distributed configuration system and administration tool, a new modularized core web server with powerful new extensibility support. Most importantly, you will see how to plug in custom modules, written in native or managed code, in order to implement entirely new capabilities for IIS 7 and the web applications it delivers. Learn how these advances and more make IIS the best place to run ColdFusion applications.

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Vince Bonfanti - BlueDragon - Five Years of CFUnited: Yesterday, Today and the Road Ahead.

Note: Part of the audio of this presentation was never recorded. Sorry about that!

2006 marks the fifth year that New Atlanta has been present at CFUN/CFUnited since BlueDragon was first introduced at CFUN'02. Today, BlueDragon is firmly established as a world-class, enterprise-ready alternative for deploying CFML applications in standard Java/J2EE and Microsoft .NET server environments. During the first part of this keynote session, Vince Bonfanti, president and co-founder of New Atlanta, will provide an overview of the history of BlueDragon and trace its evolution over the years, highlighting significant customer successes in government, education, health care, finance, retail, and other industries.

During the second part of this keynote, Vince will highlight and demonstrate some of the unique features offered by BlueDragon and how you can use these features to improve your productivity and the performance of your CFML applications. Vince will conclude by demonstrating some of the new features being introduced in BlueDragon 7.0 that continue BlueDragon's tradition of innovation and leadership in the CFML server market.

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CFUNITED countdown is live

Unsure how much time left until CFUNITED-07? Then check our Flash countdown widget on the CFUNITED home page to find out exactly how many days, hours, minutes and seconds until CFUNITED!

New User Group manager topics announced

Two new topics for the User Group manager event

Michael Smith - How to get members involved

Are you the only person running your group? Would you like to get some members to help you? Learn how can you encourage members to get more involved and take some of the pressure off you, the group manager.

Michael has been running MDCFUG since 1998 with regular help from many members.

Oguz Demirkapi - Tools to Manage a User Group Efficiently

Communication is important, and we need to be more proactive in our communication to be more efficient. Tools are very important to create good communication in a group or individually. But what tools would be interesting specially for the user groups? What is the best way of collaborating? How can we improve our communication? Do we learn from other user groups to generate more efficient tools and environments?

I would like to share my experiences in these fields not only being an old CFUG manager, but also being an active person at open source user communities.

Charlie Arehart - Web Services Tips and Tricks

We all know that CFML makes web services creation and consumption easy. Still, there tips and tricks that can solve common problems in working with them, or expose new possibilities you may not have considered. In this presentation, veteran CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will share some useful (and some little used) features of ColdFusion MX, BlueDragon, and Dreamweaver MX to help you make the most of web services. He'll also show several ways to test web services, as well as point out some interesting and useful examples of real web services you can use in business today. He'll also cover challenges of passing data between CFML and other web service apps, including .NET.

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CFUNITED-07 pre-conference classes iPod raffle

Everyone who signs up before Friday 6/15/07 5pm EDT will be entered in a raffle to win one Apple iPod Nano. The iPod will be selected at random on Monday 6/18/07 from one of the people who are registered for the class. Each class registration counts as one "ticket" in the raffle.

Registration and more info at http://cfunited.com/go/classes

Monday 6/25
CU221 Rob Gonda Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Developers
CU222 Ajay Sathuluri CF Server Administration for Security and More
CU223 Oguz Demirkapi Multi Language Applications in CF in Theory and Practice
CU224 Nate Nelson Advanced Database

Tuesday 6/26
CU225 Peter Bell Practical Code Generation: By Example
CU226 Simon Horwith Architecting and Optimizing CF Applications for Performance and Scalability
CU227 John Paul Ashenfelter Best Practice Bootcamp for Developers
CU228 Charlie Arehart New in CFMX 6 and 7: What Did You Miss?

User Group Manager Meeting New Update

Calling all User Group Managers! This is going to be a fun event. Have a beer and a fabulous lunch on us and listen to great talks from experienced User Group Managers and Adobe professionals.

ONLY $29.95 !!! Register now http://ugmm.cfunited.com/

Speakers for UGMM

Adam Bell: Riding the User Group Free-way: Using free ways to get your group out there.

Michael Smith: TBD

Oğuz Demirkapı: TBD

Eddie Sullivan: Case studies from the front lines - Ed's stories of some of the best things managers do to make their group high impact.

Amy Brooks: Best Practices for Hosting Virtual UG Meetings via Acrobat Connect.

Over Flow Hotel Bethesda Marriott - Pooks Hill

PLEASE NOTE: The Bethesda Marriott has only 20 rooms per night left. They will be releasing any rooms not booked on June 11th. The price will go up after that. Another over flow hotel will not be provided after June 11th. You may try Bethesda Marriott Suites (2 miles), Rockville Hilton Executive Meeting Center (1 mile), or Ramada Inn (1 mile).

If you would like to find someone to split the cost of a hotel room, go to http://wiki.cfunited.com/ then login and click "Share a Hotel" and place a request or view a request.

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