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Meet Team CFUnited!

Over here at TeraTech, Team CFUnited is working so hard to bringing you the best event ever. So much has changed this year and we've taken everyone's requests very seriously. If you see us walking by during the conference we'd love to meet you! Feel free to give us more feedback and ask us questions.

The Team (From left to right)

  • Alex Emmerman - Conference Intern
  • Nafisa Sabu - Graphic Designer / Assistant Conference Coordinator
  • Liz Frederick - Conference Manager / Lead Graphic Designer
  • Elliott Sprehn - Software Engineer / Assistant Conference Coordinator

Thank you for your business and we hope to see you in a couple weeks!

- Team CFUnited :)

CFUnited Europe Call for Speakers Open

Want to learn something new? Know of an awesome topic you'd love to attend? Have a certain speaker you think would make make the conference rock?

Well you're in luck...

We've opened the Call for Speakers for CFUnited Europe!

Join the tribe, suggest a topic today.

Open Source Code Off Entries on Wiki

The Open Source Code Off Entries are now listed on the CFUnited Wiki
http://wiki.cfunited.com/index.cfm?event=Main&path=Open_Source_Contest_Entries

Winners will be announced Thursday or Friday.

Good Luck!

Entries:


* Brice Mason "Tag Benchmark"
* Luis Majano "ColdBox"
* Barney Boisvert "Transaction Advice"
* Barney Boisvert "Management Tool"
* Barney Boisvert "Formatting Timestamps"
* Brad Wood "Resend Undeliverable Mail"
* Sajid Anwar "Minute Converter"
* Mary Jo Sminkey "USPS tracker"
* Jeff Howden "A Worthwhile Custom Tag"
* Mahfuz Anwar "Works Cited"
* Laura Arguello "Mango Blog"
* Jeffrey C. Ludden "Mapper"
* Russ Johnson "Issue Tracker"
* Simon Horwith "Security Framework"
* Joe Danziger "Project Tracker"
* Boyan Kostadinov "Movie Tracker"

Shuttle Bus Schedule Between Marriott Hotels

Tuesday, June 26th - Saturday, June 30th
Bethesda Marriott (Pooks Hill) to Bethesda North Marriott (Conference Center)

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Shuttle Will Be Available from 5:00pm - 10:00pm

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Shuttle Will Be Available from 6:30am - 11:00pm

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Shuttle Will Be Available from 6:30am - 11:00pm

Friday, June 29, 2007
Shuttle Will Be Available from 6:30am - 11:00pm

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Shuttle Will Be Available from 7:00am - 6:00pm

Transportation will be exclusive for CF United attendees to go from Bethesda Marriott to Bethesda North. Please allow approximately 30 minutes in between each hotel.

Loading/Unloading Location
Pick up and drop off will be in front of the hotel at Bethesda Marriott

Pick up and drop off will be off Executive Blvd entrance (Lower Lobby Registration) at Bethesda North

Sean Corfield - Heresy! Embracing Duck Typing in CFCs

The conventional wisdom for working with CFCs is that you should provide returntypes and argument types for methods. This idea stems from working with strongly-typed languages such as Java and C#. What if, though, we accepted ColdFusion as a dynamically-typed language, such as Smalltalk or Ruby? This talk explores the problems "duck typing" solves and the new possibilities it opens.

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CFUnited 2007 Preview: Simon Horwith on Architecting and Optimizing CF Applications for Performance

How do you build an application that scales? What exactly is scalability, anyway? How does one measure performance and how do you identify performance and maintenance bottlenecks?

In this preview of his day-long class, Simon will introduce the things he'll be discussing on the day, where students will learn about common scalability and performance problems, and how to solve them. In the full day, we'll examine the coding and architecture choices that make maintenance easier, optimize database access, and optimize the runtime performance of your CF applications. Students will learn how to architect a well-designed ColdFusion application and how to review and optimize code, with special emphasis on avoiding common scalability and performance problems.

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CFUnited 2007 Preview: Rob Gonda: Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Dev

In this 20-30 minute preview, Rob will give us a taste of his full day hands-on Flex course, which requires no previous Flex experience. The class promises to be fun, energetic, and saturated with information, examples, and code. It will focus not only on Flex architecture, but also teach you to organize your ColdFusion code in such fashion that you can reuse your business layer across any front-end, including Html, Ajax, Flash, or Flex.

About Rob Gonda:

Rob Gonda is the CTO for iChameleon Group and Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer's Journal. He is an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, frequent speaker at IT and developer conferences nationwide, co-author of Real-World Ajax, author of ajaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering, an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship, and he specializes in Rich Internet Applications and object-oriented architecture. You can reach him at rob[at]robgonda[dot]com and read his blog is at http://www.robgonda.com/

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Bethesda Marriott -Last Reservations COB June 11th

The Bethesda Marriott Hotel at Pooks Hill is releasing the last set of room holds (15 left) on COB Monday June 11th. If you have not made a reservation, please do so by then.

Group Code: COFCOFA, 1-800-228-9290 or go to www.bethesdamarriott.com.

After June 11th we will not be supplying any more room holds. Both the Bethesda North and Bethesda Marriotts will be sold out the entire week of CFUnited. Our suggestion if you need a hotel room in the area is to try the Hilton. 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, USA, 20852-1699 (1-301-468-1100)

CFUnited 2007 Preview: Peter Bell on Practical Code Generation by Example

In this 20-30 minute session, Peter Bell will preview his day-long class which will show how to generate sophisticated custom business applications - quickly, maintainably and extensibly. It doesn't matter whether you are procedural or object oriented - whether you use simple queries or stored procedures, whether you are an intermediate programmer or a guru. If you would like to spend more time solving new problems and less time writing the same old code, his day-long class will change the way you think about your job. Whether you've been generating code for years or are completely new to the concept, you will learn practical techniques and see real world examples that will allow you to significantly improve your skills. He'll preview how in each section we will use practical code examples that you can use in your real world applications while explaining important principles that will allow you to write more powerful, extensible and maintainable code.

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