Understanding the Flex event model is critical to developing powerful Flex applications. Further, using the event model to build your own components and architect your application, while not required, is considered an important best practice for building scalable and maintainable applications. While developers experienced with other languages that utilize the DOM event model (e.g. Java and JavaScript) are usually familiar with concepts related to the event model, many ColdFusion developers struggle with this important concept. This session will discuss the event model, why it is important, how it is implemented in Flex's core architecture, and how custom components and application architecture can utilize events to foster scalable and maintainable Flex applications. This session will also discuss a related conceptual hurdle for web programmers the asynchronous nature of Flex applications. We'll discuss how this relates to both the event model and integration with backend systems like ColdFusion.

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Congrats to Mitch McCoy for winning the radmon drawing for the survey contest. Here is what Mitch has to say about Why people should attend CFUnited. "If you are a beginner, the sessions are good at demystifying something that could be intimidating. For the advanced developer, you can pick up some fresh ideas."

So other great quotes from others about "Why people should attend CFUnited"

"CFUnited is the premiere ColdFusion event where all members of the CF community, regardless of experience and skill level, come together to discuss and debate the latest techniques and technologies involving web application development with ColdFusion." -Brian S.

"The ColdFusion landscape is changing very rapidly and those developers who don't stay "up-to-date" will be left "in-the-dust". CFUnited is a great opportunity to catch up with all the latest and greatest enhancements in ColdFusionMX and especially the upcoming Scorpio release!" -Patrick S.

"After attending CFUnited Express in NYC this Spring, I saw the potential of CFUnited 2007. Its a conference full of information that will get you up to date on all the latest and greatest in the ColdFusion Developers world today. I am not missing any Teratech conferences anymore. Frameworks Conference and CFUnited Express proved that you can get so much more knowledge and training from few days on the conference, versus paying much more attending a class and getting much less for the money. I spoke to CFUnited 2006 attendees who cant stop praising the event. There are sessions for everyone, from developer to the manager. Can't wait for June 27th. Thanks!" -Elena A.

"Because it's a great opportunity to network with other developers and it's more fun than any human being should ever be allowed to have!!!" -Steven R.

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Join dataTV's Adam Bell for the prelude to the CFUnited Conference on Tuesday Evening, June 26th at 8PM ET at the Marriott Hotel in North Bethesda, MD for MiniMAX's seventh annual event.

This event is free to anyone who wants to attend. You don't even need to be registered for CFUnited to join Adam Bell and friends at this fun evening event!

You must signup to reserve a seat at http://www.minimaxconference.com/

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With tools springing up like weeds in the object / persistence space, it's hard to keep track of the options available to us! This talk will look at a variety of libraries, tools and techniques for assisting developers solve the persistence problem. The talk will also examine the term "Object Relational Mapping" (ORM) and look at conflicts between object model design and relational table design.

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This entry was posted on April 28, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 3491 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

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Hello Folks, Some people have been curious about the repeat sessions for Saturday. Here is the list that has not been announce on the schedule or the scheduler yet. We are still finalizing the speakers to confirm each topic. So we are about 75% sure that these sessions will be repeated on Saturday. You DO NOT have to reserve seats for Saturday.

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

1. Chris Scott "Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming with ColdSpring"
2. Nicholas Tunney "Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with CF"
3. Jeff Tapper "Flex 2 for ColdFusion Developers"
4. Andrew Powell "Integrating Spry and ColdFusion"
5. Charlie Arehart "Step through your CFML code with FusionDebug"
6. Joe Rinehart "AJAX Development with ColdFusion Frameworks"
7. Raymond Camden "Authentication and Basic Security in CF"
8. Rob Gonda "Embrace Factories"
9. Pete Freitag "Working with RSS in ColdFusion"
10. Thomas Burleson "Continuous Testing with Flex and ColdFusion Projects"
11. Tom Jordahl "Flex Data Services & CF Scorpio - Faster, Better & Cooler!"
12. Robi Sen "Testing, Monitoring & Tuning CF w/ Open Source tools"
13. Mark Drew "Advanced CFEclipse"
14. Rob Rusher "Flex Charting Explained"
15. Hal Helms "OO Programming with CFCs"
16. Matthew Woodward "OO Architecture Back to Front"
17. Tyson Vanek "Are You "Cashing In" on Caching?"
18. Ted Patrick "Flex 101"

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Its ready! Pick your CFUnited Schedule.

In order to attend limited seating topics, you must add the session on your scheduler.

Limited Seating Sessions are: -All Topics labeled TBA Scorpio Topic (Top Secret)

-Raymond Camden's CFC Development

-Shlomy Gantz's Managing ColdFusion projects from start to finish

-TBA New Atlanta Topic

http://scheduler.cfunited.com/

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What's in store as you move your CFML to .NET? What amazing possibilities are enabled, both now and into the future as CFML, BlueDragon, .NET, and related Windows components all continue to evolve? In this session, we look at the road ahead and give some insights (and demonstrations) of just some of the many possibilities enabled by the marriage of CFML and .NET. Starting with some cool things you can do today to solve important problems, we'll then move to a sneak peak at some even cooler things coming down the road with .NET and related components including as much on Vista, Atlas, Windows Presentation Foundation, Avalon, Indigo, XMAP, and other new technologies as time and timing will allow.

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The session is an examination of advanced techniques when using Regular Expressions in ColdFusion. Regular Expressions are the most powerful ways to find (and replace) text data. This topic covers the advanced techniques and deals heavily in usable examples of the technology in action.

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