CFUNITED BOF (Birds of Feather) sessions have been announced on the following topics:

• Apollo and Flex fears debunked - Todd Cieplinski
• Managing Client Expectations - Abraham Lloyd
• Solo Coding - Charlie Arehart, Chaz Chumely, and Mark Drew.
• The Google Generation - SEO, Adsense, Adwords and more - Michael Dinowitz
• Using your Whole Brain for Developers - Michael Smith

Birds of Feather are informal sessions, often in the evening, where you can share detailed development ideas with speakers and fellow attendees.

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We have put the most popular topics from the session survey for repeats on the Saturday schedule.

See http://cfunited.com/go/schedule for details.

Can't make CFUNITED for four days? - you can just come for Saturday only for a much lower price. See http://cfunited.com/go/prices for details.

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In order to reach international markets through the Internet, supporting different cultures through our applications is essential for being successful. ColdFusion MX comes with an integrated infrastructure for creating international applications.

The internet is continuing to make the world a smaller place. Multi-lingual sites are becoming essential for many businesses, especially those that market products internationally.

The multi-language application is not an auto-translator like those found on Google or Babel Fish. Adding multi-language capabilities other than English should be done from the ground up. All the code that represents the language to the user (buttons, menus, prompts, help, text, dialog-boxes, etc.) must be found and altered to support language independence. This problem multiplies exponentially when you deal with applications that have hundreds of thousands of lines of code, which have been created over time and modified constantly by different developers. Hard-coding the language dependent text within your view code makes the process of adding multilingual capability extremely complex. One will have to develop an individual application for every language he wants to support. Maintaining such a program will be yet another headache.

So, we need to define a way to create multilingual applications as straightforward as possible.

In this case, I would like to let you know that I will present a whole day class just before CFUnited: "Multi Language Applications in CF in Theory and Practice"

I will show best practices while coding with ColdFusion and interacting with related platforms such as databases, Java, XML etc. As a developer who has already programmed more than a hundred multi lingual websites in different languages such as German, Norwegian, Turkish, Arabic, and Korean, I would like to share my experiences in this class.

If you are trying to create multi language applications from scratch, or if you have applications you want to modify but would like to learn best practices or even if you have plan to have ability to use international names such as "René" or "João", you need to attend this class to learn best practices with code examples.

Register now!

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We have a new pre-conference class for Server admins and developers on how to administer your ColdFusion Server, with an eye toward security.

Learn all the pieces of the CF admin and what settings are critical for security. Plus things you should never do in your code if you want your site to be secure. How to prevent deadlocks, how to control the JVM, Client variables setup and issues and Error handler best practices.

More information at: http://cfunited.com/go/classes#course-cu222

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We are excited to announce the CFUnited Wiki. This wiki will be accessible year round. Once you become a CFUnited Attendee you can login to the Wiki and begin adding pages and comments of your own.

If you have never used wiki before, it is really easy.

What's on CFUnited wiki?

- Share Ride and Room, post a request to share a ride to CFUnited or see if anyone wants to split a hotel room

- Take notes at any of the CFUnited sessions and post your notes on the wiki topic page

- Make dinner reservations and see if anyone else would like to come. Great way to make new friends.

- Share your ideas and comments.

GO TO http://wiki.cfunited.com/ and use the email address and password that you registered with.

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Reason's to attend:

1. If you take your ColdFusion and web development seriously, this is the one event you won't want to miss. Learn what's new, directly from Adobe. Ben Forta calls CFUNITED, now in its 8th year, "the premier CF-specific event."

2. Meet other developers who share your interests. Find people who have already solved that problem that's giving you headaches back at the office; schmooze with speakers late-night at the bar; discuss the future of development. Often putting a face to that email that you've been chatting with on lists is the best part of CFUNITED.

3. Are members of your team new to ColdFusion? Then the CFUNITED bootcamp track will teach them the basics in a few days. From CFOUTPUT to looping, from SQL to database design - they'll learn all this and more from top experts in the field.

4. Flex is hot right now and we have a whole track on Flex, Ajax and Apollo. Learn Flex and pick up advanced techniques for Rich Internet Applications.

5. Meet the engineers from Adobe who create ColdFusion, ask them questions, and give them your 2 cents on what you'd like to see in the future.

6. See the latest tools for web development. We are expecting several new releases at CFUNITED, so visit our expo area and be prepared to have your socks blown off!

7. The After Party. Let your hair down, play games with your buddies, or challenge famous speakers to a game of pool. You might even have a technical conversation or two between the beers!

8. A year of info packed into 4 days! If you are hungry for technical information or want to ask questions, this is the place for you! We have regular sessions, long sessions and - if that is not enough - Birds-of-a-Feather evening sessions that go long into the night! Basic CF, Advanced CF, Better SQL, XML, CSS, Accessibility, Usability, Fusebox, security, PDFs, SMS, CFCs, OO, RSS, UDFs,debugging, arrays, structures, caching, web services, testing, charting, Flex, Ajax, Apollo, ColdSpring, Prototyping, MVC, CFEclipse, Spry, Design patterns, project management, and more.

9. Want to get your hands dirty? Attend our hands-on pre-conference classes taught by top speakers. Bring your own laptop, and code along with the pros!

10. Bags, t-shirts and goodies galore. Printed slides for every talk, so you don't have to print them out yourself. Plus online access to presentations, code samples and audio of any sessions you may have missed.

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Hi there Conference Goers! We started to understand since CFUnited 2006, that attendees really don't want hot dogs, hamburgers, and pizza all the time. So we've worked really hard this year in coming up with a delicious and healthy menu for each day at the conference. We recently went to a taste testing where we were presented with the hotel's suggestions to improve the menus at CFUnited. They took the request very seriously and I'm glad to know I'll be eating very well in June.

Also see Simon Horwith's Blog for a list of the full menus and his comments. Simon is one of our advisory member and he happen to have his office across the street from the hotel at AboutWeb. Thanks Simon for helping us eat all that delicious food. http://www.horwith.com/index.cfm/2007/5/13/cfunited2007-menu

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We've posted the presentations and sound recordings of what we were able to recover from the Frameworks Conference. We had some technical issues recording most of the advanced topics. The recordings and presentations are available to the public. Enjoy!

http://www.frameworksconference.com/pages/topics.cfm

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With SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has introduced new editions to support evolving customer needs. With these new editions, especially the Express Edition, new features and capabilities for development, test and production environments are available. This session will be a hands-on starting from installation, to the management tools for operations and application development for developers. See how the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition can expand your offerings to your organization!

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Ed Bartram blogged about Charlie Arehart's CFUnited preview presentation on "New in CFMX 6 and 7: What did you miss?". He gives a nice summary of the features list in his post too.

He also says "It looks like I'm really going to miss out by not attending this conference!". We hope you can come Ed, it is going to be a great event!

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