I received this message from a fellow TeraTech employee and thought I'd forward it along to the public.

On July 26 - 27, AboutWeb LLC (and other friends) will be hosting a Extreme Website Makeover code-a-thon for the Pan American Medical Society (PAMS) charity. PAMS is a non-profit group that facilitates the donation of medical equipment, resources, and medical personnel to disadvantaged communities locally, as well as in Latin America and the Carribean. Locally, the PAMS doctors are continuously volunteering throughout the community. And just in the past three years, the Pan American Medical Society provided assistance of intense medical-surgical activities in Northern Peru, Eastern Ecuador, and Quito. The application we are building is a social networking app with all the bells and whistles, including payment processing, photos, blogs, forums, etc. The technologies we are utilizing are mainly ColdFusion, Flex, Ajax, and YUI. The main goal of the application will be to act as a hub for PAMS members and companion groups and organizations to share resources, raise funds, and coordinate activities. Please let us know if you are able to attend! Feel free to contact us with any further questions at 301-468-9246 x104. Again, the dates for the the code-a-thon is July 26 (9:00AM) - July 27 (6:00PM) at the AboutWeb office (6177 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852). You are more than invited to come and donate your talents and whatever time your schedule allows!

Note: The work is going to be 90% ColdFusion, but I know a lot of Flex people also do ColdFusion so I thought it was appropriate for the user group.

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CF Meetup: "Database Patterns for Unit Testing", with Bill Shelton

Thursday, July 17, 12:00pm

Meeting URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: Testing code that touches databases needs to be done, but it's hard. Databases can be large, complex, and the data can be changing frequently. To make matters worse, there are numerous vendor-specific database implementations that make it difficult to provide unified solutions to testing. In this talk, we will discuss some approaches to these challenges. We will show you how you can design your code so that you can isolate and test CF code that interacts with databases, we will show you how you can test database logic independently of your cf application, and we will discuss some Database Sandbox approaches developers can use to create a local test lab.

To learn more visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/8344536/

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Those who attended CFUnited 2008 can now login at cfunited.com

Click "topics" and view "video recording" next to each presenters topics.

We were able to capture a good number of presentations on Adobe's Connect due to the cooperation and excitement of most speakers. For those who did not get recorded, we are working to provide the slides.

Big thanks to Ryan Monger and the Etech Av crew for making this available and an easy process. We hope to continue this kind of recording in the future and provide it for free to all CFUnited attendees. Enjoy!

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Thank you Brian Meloche for putting together these interviews and round tables. We enjoyed talking with you. I know we will do more in the future.

http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/

Michael Smith Interview http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/7/5/006_Michael_Smith

Liz Frederick and Nafisa Sabu http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/28/Episode5_Liz_Frederick_Nafisa_Sabu_Teratech

Round Table: Brian Meloche, Rick Mason, John Farrar, Dana Tierney, Ken Auenson, Chris Hough, Seth Bienek, Timothy Farrar, Adam Tuttle, and Adam Haskell http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/24/Day3-At-CFUnited

Round Table: Brian Meloche, Adam Haskell, Rick Mason, Judith Dinowitz, Brian Swartzfager, Dee Sadler and Bill Shelton http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/20/Day2AtCFUnited

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I've posted the code samples from my presentation on the Internals of the Adobe ColdFusion Server.

You'll need to login to download them here, but I'll have them mirrored on my blog shortly :)

- Elliott

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