Hello Attendees. We will be closing the room block on Thursday the 15th. The Grand Hyatt has about handful of rooms left. The over flow is Metro Center Marriott, about 1 block from the Grand Hyatt. We can only hold 15 rooms per night at the Marriott without being fully responsible for them. And they are requiring that we expire the room hold by the 15th.
There are other hotels in the area that are reasonable.
More details about Grand Hyatt and the Overflow hotel at http://cfunited.com/go/travel
Raymond Camden did a contest to see what his fans would like to see as a new topic as CFUnited. Last week Ray revealed that Hal Helms and Clark Valberg will be speaking on "Prototyping for Smarties".
Presentation begins 8:15am on Thursday
Description: Quick! You are been put in charge of a mission-critical project by a particularly sadistic genie (aka "your boss") who will hold you solely responsible for the project's success. Of course, you will still be expected to perform your other responsibilities as well. You've seen other, similar projects fail. Now it's your turn at the dock.
What single action on your part will do the most to ensure a successful project? In this session, Hal Helms and Clark Valberg explain and explore prototyping as the key to project success. We know that when projects go awry, they very often do so because of a mismatch between what users want and what we build. Why the mismatch? Because users can't tell us what they want until they see it.
Drawing on their experience with both successful and failed projects, Hal and Clark offer the lessons they've learned about the right and wrong ways to prototype.
We are almost full on assigning new topics. Here are a few of the last to announce.
"Building your first RIA app with CF & Flex" by Adam Wayne Lehman
Adam Lehman is the ColdFusion Specialist at Adobe Systems Incorporated based out of Washington, DC. Prior to joining Adobe, Adam was the Senior Web Engineer for the U.S. Department of State where he managed a team of developers and architected enterprise ColdFusion-based applications. Adam also founded and managed the Department of State Adobe Developer User Group for over two years. His background also includes several years designing and programming e-learning applications for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Adam has been developing web applications specializing in ColdFusion for over a decade. His work has been featured in Macromedia's DRK (Developer Resource Kit) and his other areas of expertise include application security and Oracle database development.
"BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services for ColdFusion 8" by Tom Jordahl
Tom Jordahl is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe and the architect for ColdFusion. As part of the original ColdFusion team, he has implemented a wide variety of tags, functions, and features in both the original (C++) and MX (Java) releases of ColdFusion. He is one of the primary implementers of the Apache Axis SOAP engine, and is the Adobe representative on the W3C WSDL 2.0 working group. Before diving into web services, Tom was the technical lead for ColdFusion on UNIX, leading the efforts to bring ColdFusion to Solaris and Linux. Prior to joining Allaire in 1997, he worked at the Open Software Foundation (OSF) on the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) and the OSF/1 UNIX operating system. Tom is currently hard at work on the next major release of ColdFusion.
Descriptions coming soon.
We asked a few questions to find out what our speakers are up to prior to their trip to CFUnited.
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Joe Gautreau
Question: What are you looking forward to?
Joe: The experience of the entire trip, also hot model-glue, and coldspring tips and tricks.
Question: Has your presentation changed?
Joe: My presentation hasn't changed, but will change a bit.
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Raymond Camden
Question: What are you looking forward to?
Raymond: Talking with others about where ColdFusion is going.
Question: A recent hot topic?
Raymond: Not sure if this is "hot", but for me, anything related to ColdSpring and Transfer is on my hot list.
Question: Beer of choice if someone wants to buy you a drink.
Raymond: Anything by Sam Adams, Newcastle, or anything I haven't tried before.
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Marc Esher
Question: What are you looking forward to?
Marc: The sessions, naturally, especially the ones on frameworks and better OO programming. I'm also looking forward to meeting Luis Majano, who writes more code in a week than most people do in a year. And I'm looking forward to smoking a good stogie with anyone who will join me!
Question: A recent hot topic?
Marc: One that doesn't get much press but which is on the minds of many is whether Adobe's going to come out with a CF IDE. It's been hinted at in blogs but in typical fashion is carried out with the same degree of teasing that 8th grade girls use. It's frustrating for some of us who would choose to contribute to CFEclipse if we thought that product had a long life. I believe Adobe's hurting the CF community by not either a) committing to building an IDE or b) stopping the chatter entirely and getting behind CFEclipse. After working with FlexBuilder and seeing the productivity gains you get from it with Flex, you can't help but feel that we're crippled, productivity-wise, by lack of an enterprise-class IDE for CF.
Question: Has your presentation changed?
Marc: As I prepared the presentation, I learned a lot more about ANT, and so I'll be peppering in more tips and tricks. In addition, I've added a new section on ScriptDef... showing how to use javascript to do CF-like programming right in your ANT files
Question: Beer of choice if someone wants to buy you a drink.
Marc: Ohhhh, so many. I'm partial lately to Belgian abbey style beers like Stoudts Abbey Triple and Weyerbacher Merry Monks. And I love a good strong IPA.
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Liz Frederick
Question: What are you looking forward to?
Liz: Seeing the Exhibit Showroom come alive. We are going to have webcams all around so people can see the crowd online. I'm also looking forward to the evening event.... I know I haven't released the location but it will be so much fun its a "crime"...
Question: A recent hot topic?
Liz: I have too many secrets that I can't tell, so when they come out at CFUnited, I'm sure they will be hot topics. Question: Beer of choice if someone wants to buy you a drink.
Liz: Well seeing how I'm the one buy you all a drink, I'd better get a corona or two. Flowers work much better in my case.
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