"Building Your First AIR/CF Application" - Dan Wilson

Dan, you've earned yourself a free Swedish Massage at the Lansdowne Resort during the week of CFUnited conference. Congratulations!

Your topic was the most popular and I'm sure many are looking forward to attending your session.

We'd like to hear more about your session and what you plan to bring to the podium. If you comment about your topic, please let us know where to find the entry.

Thanks!

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I wanted to clarify the process for announcing the rest of the CFUnited 2009 topics.

A total of 100 topics will be accepted for CFUnited.

We have announced about half of the topics last week.

We have a list of topics and new speakers that are potentially going to be accepted. We will announce about 5 or 6 per month. Speakers will be notified of their potential status and informed early enough of their acceptance.

Included in those 50 or so topics are CF, Centaur, Bolt, Flex, Air, Manager, Beginner, Advanced, etc. So it is still anyone's gain.

We are doing this so that we have a good number of topics that are new. The Advisory Board has made it very clear to me that they want to make sure we have the right variety and a good mix of speakers.

As for the Centaur/Bolt Topics there has been some adjustments lately. The exclusivity will be held only to a handful of certain topics that are assigned or approved from Adobe. The possibility that other events will be talking about Centaur/Bolt now is welcome based on guidelines from their organizer which I am not aware of at this time. But I do know that some events are looking at potential Centaur topics and are pleased that the exclusivity is lifted.

I am really pleased with the feedback from the Adv Board and the community. Blog comments and Twitter discussions have proven to be valuable to us.

Please add 'lizign' and 'cfunited' on your twitter follow. I'll ask questions from time to time and I'd love to follow you as well.

Happy New Year everyone. Please continue feedback and thanks for those who registered early. I'll have to think of a treat to send everyone. It is really helping us afford the venue deposit due soon and start off the new year right.

:-)

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Congrats to the following accepted topics. More topics and speakers will be announced in the next couple months.

Included are some Flex and Air topics that are must sees. A total of 25% out of the whole event will be Flex/Air for 2009.

Centaur and Bolt Topics will be announced later.

"Handling Errors with Error Handling" - Aaron Wolfe & Lance Smith

"Busy Developers Guide to Fusebox" - Adam Haskell

"Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool" - Ajay Sathuluri

"Advanced PDF Workflow with ColdFusion" - Andy Allan

"Advanced Custom Tags" - Ben Nadel

"Subversion for Smarties - Do More With Subversion" - Cameron Childress

"CFMythBusters: Countering Some Conventional Wisdom" - Charlie Arehart

"Building Desktop applications with Coldfusion 8 and AIR" - Chaz Chumley

"Flex development with the Swiz Framework" - Chris Scott

"Design Patterns and ColdFusion: Exploring Object Based Programming" - Dan Blackman

"Exploring Real-time apps with ColdFusion and Blaze DS / Live Cycle Data Services ES" - Dan Blackman "Transfer 101" - Dan Vega

"Building Your First AIR/CF Application" - Dan Wilson

"Practical Refactoring: Making Bad Code Good" - Dan Wilson

"Design for Developers" - Dave Powell

"Hands-on CSS" - Dee Sadler

"Using Ant to Deploy ColdFusion Application" - Doug Hughes

"Connecting Flex to ColdFusion" - Douglas Knudsen

"Railo Open Source" - Gert Franz

"Extending CFCs' Power" - Hal Helms

"Form Validation with CFCs and jQuery" - Hal Helms

"Hacking Your Own Website" - Jake Munson

"PDF Documents and Forms in ColdFusion 8" - Jeff Coughlin

"Groovy for ColdFusion Developers" - Joe Rinehart

"ColdFusion Basics" - John Farrar

"Thinking Outside of the CF Box" - John Paul Ashenfelter

"iPhone Apps + Adobe ColdFusion" - Josh Adams

"Build/Deploy/Upgrade" - Joshua Cyr

"Real World ColdSpring" - Kurt Wiersma

"Real world ecommerce with ColdFusion" - Lawrence Cramer

"ColdBox" - Luis Majano

"Do more work in less time: Become an Automation Rock Star!" - Marc Esher

"Atomic Reactor! Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the ORM" - Mark Drew

"Understanding Application.cfc" - Michael Dinowitz

"ColdFusion and BlazeDS 101" - Mike Nimer

"Building Scalable Web Applications with ColdFusion" - Oguz Demirkapi

"Requirements and Estimating" - Peter Bell

"Leveraging Basic Object Oriented Concepts and Design Patterns in ColdFusion" - Phill Nacelli

"ColdFusion, Model-Glue, HIbernate, Spring, and Groovy" - Raymond Camden

"Introduction to jQuery with ColdFusion" - Raymond Camden

"Ajax/ColdFusion 911" - Raymond Camden

"AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3" - Rob Rusher

"How To Make Your ColdFusion Applications Hack Resistent " - Scott Stroz

"Advanced SQL for ColdFusion" - Sean Woods

"Hack Proofing Coldfusion" - Shlomy Gantz

"Creating Public Facing API's" - Simon Free

"Skinning Components in Flex 4 (Gumbo)" - Theo Rushin

"Integrating ColdFusion and Adobe Livecycle ES Technologies" - Todd Sanders

"How to Setup a Local Development Environment" - Yancy Wharton

This entry was posted on December 23, 2008 at 8:51 PM and has received 8902 views. There are currently 8 comments. Print this entry.

For groups of 3 or more we have a 10% discount. However, if you really want to send more people from your company I'm willing to make you a deal of a lifetime for registering early.

CFUnited is running on its own income and we want to bring the best event we can by reserving the best vendors and lock in the lowest deals for our attendees. To do this we create Early bird rates for those who want to save big and help with our early deposits.

If you are willing to help, we may just be willing to make an offer. Same with Sponsorships.

Thanks for the early support! Contact me this week to get an offer.

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Finally! The topic survey for 2009 is open until December 20th 2008.

http://cfunited.com/go/survey/166

Not all topics will be accepted. And not necessarily will these categories become the tracks. We will only be accepting 70 topics for now.

This is the first time EVER that we are choosing the topics through the community picks.

On the survey you can download the PDF of all the topics and descriptions. Do not copy the information on this PDF without the permission of myself and the speaker. These have been submitted to CFUnited directly.

Thank you to the speakers who submitted on time. Thank you to the advisory board for helping me categorize and make changes.

I'm really excited about these topics. So good luck and let speakers know how excited you are about their topics. Blog about your choices so others know and feel free to twitter that you voted. Spread the word!

CFUnited 2009 is going to be Stellr!

http://cfunited.com/go/survey/166

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