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Other Hotels for CFUnited Attendees

We have new information!

http://cfunited.com/2009/travel

Unfortunately we could not provide group rates for overflow hotels. However, we are providing a FREE shuttle to 3 nearby hotels! And we've included price ranges for your convenience.


Holiday Inn Carrodoc Hall (3.58 miles; 5-10 Minutes Away)
As low as $105 per night
1500 East Market Street
Leesburg , VA 20176


Hampton Inn (6.43 miles; 10-15 Minutes Away)
As low as $135.15 per night
46331 McCellan Way
Sterling, VA 20165


Comfort Suites (5.38 miles; 10 Minutes Away)
As low as $125.99 per night
80 Prosperity Ave
Leesburg, VA, US, 20175

View Map of Hotel Shuttle Route. Shuttles will run often. Exact times will be announced on July 17th.

CFUnited Track Chairs

Thank you to all our Track Chairs and Co-Chairs.

These are the people who have volunteered their time to help me provide guidance for our speakers. Our objective is to make sure our tracks have the best and most accurate content possible.

AIR and UI Development -ROB RUSHER & JOSH ADAMS

Best Practices -SCOTT STROZ & SHLOMY GANTZ & SEAN CORFIELD

ColdFusion (advanced) -TERRY RYAN & RAY CAMDEN & CHAZ CHUMLEY

ColdFusion (basics) -TERRY RYAN & SCOTT STROZ & RAY CAMDEN

Configuration,Testing & Deployment -JOSHUA CYR & DOUG HUGHES

Databases -NATE NELSON & JEREMY KADLEC

Flex (advanced) -ANDREW POWELL

Flex (basics) -PETER BELL & BRIAK KOTEK

Frameworks -SEAN CORFIELD & ADAM HASKELL

Managing Projects -SHLOMY GANTZ

OO Development -CHAZ CHUMLEY & BRIAN KOTEK

New Topic - Janine Driver, The Lyin Tamer

Do you have it all?

I brought in a celebrity to speak at CFUnited. I saw Janine Driver in DC in June and she's hilarious and has a ton of great tips for business professionals. She will show you how to climb the ladder in your career. She's trained many in the government and law enforcement agencies, now she's reaching to business professionals like us. (See the link to her recent TV show appearances below)

For all you "LIE TO ME" show fans: Janine Driver's mentor is Dr. Paul Ekman, the inspiration behind the new hit TV show.

Her topic is "The New Executive Presence"

Speaking Times:
Thu. 3:15PM-4:15PM
Fri. 9:00AM-10:00AM

Janine Driver, Body Language Contributor for NBC's The Today Show, has been dubbed the "Lyin' Tamer" and that's L-Y-I-N Tamer because...she knows when people are lying! Janine is a world-renowned body language expert, international speaker, author and life coach. She has been seen on the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, the History Channel, ESPN, Fox News Live and many more. She is the author of The Masters of Success and will release her second book with Crown Publishing, "YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK: A 7- Day Plan on How to Use the New Body Language to Get What You Want", February 2010. Janine's background is as fascinating as the subject matter she teaches. By day, she spent more than a decade as an award- winning Federal Law Enforcement Officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), training 30,000+ cops, lawyers and judges in the fine art of separating fact from fiction. By night, she thrilled audiences as a stand up comic who shared the stage with Chris Rock, Robin Williams and Ray Romano. Today, Janine teaches her recently de-classified body language strategies to thousands of businesses around the globe! Her motto: "If I can teach cops to get the bad guys to confess, then I can teach YOU to easily get the people in your life to say 'YES'!"


Watch videos of her recent appearances on TV

I decided to bring in something a little different to this conference. I hope everyone enjoy this rare experience.

Early Bird Ends Tomorrow 6/30

Don't miss your last chance to snag this great deal! After June 30th the registration fee for CFUnited increases by $100. Get down with a discount and register today!

http://cfunited.com/2009/

jQuery and ColdFusion: A Quiz

How do you measure up hot shot?

Take this quiz to see if you how you do.

Jeff Peters is teaching an intense class August 11th 2009 on "jQuery and ColdFusion"

jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries in use. ColdFusion can auto-generate JavaScript for many favorite AJAX-type tasks. This class will explore how to make automated JavaScript and hand-rolled JavaScript work and play well together, while retaining the developer's sanity. Bring your own laptop and a healthy dose of curiosity. Techniques explored are also applicable to other JavaScript libraries.

jQuery and ColdFusion: A Quiz

Or register now! http://cfunited.com/2009/classes#class-CU248

ColdBox Training at CFUnited - Luis Majano

See original post here: http://blog.coldboxframework.com/post.cfm/coldbox-training-at-cfunited-2009

Intro to ColdBox is an intense 1-day training course that will get you started with ColdBox Application Development. This course focuses on the main aspects of ColdBox Development and it delivers a one-two punch to get you started.

Register now for this pre-conference class! Only $549

http://cfunited.com/2009/classes

Final Early Bird Ends June 30th

Don't miss out on the the most amazing CFUnited event ever!

I promise to WOW everyone. From the resort, to the sessions, to the food, to the entertainment... What you'll gain is a refreshing view of your career and friends. Its time plan your trip to Virginia!

I'll have travel tips and places to see while you are in town soon.

Register now!

http://register.cfunited.com

Saturday Repeat Schedule Announced

We have announced the topics that will be repeated on Saturday, August 15th at CFUnited! you can now fill in your scheduler to reserve your seat in that session. Topics were picked based on most popularly selected sessions during the main event. Also, based on which speakers are available on Saturday.

http://cfunited.com/2009/schedule

CFUnited BOFs fixed

It was brought to my attention that the first set of BOFs we scheduled for 2 hours. I've changed them to 1 hour so that everyone can schedule their second set of BOFs.

Here are the list of BOFs in case you haven't seen them yet!

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sean Corfield "The CFML Advisory Committee - Happy First Birthday! BOF"

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dee Sadler "Designer and developers working together BOF"

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dan Wilson "Model-Glue:Gesture release BOF"

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dan Vega "iPhone Application Development BOF"

9:30 PM - 10:30 PM Luis Majano "ColdBox Platform 3.0.0"

9:30 PM - 10:30 PM John Mason "ColdFusion User Group / Community Development BOF"

9:30 PM - 10:30 PM Mike Brunt and John Farrar "Silent Authentication BOF"

9:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raymond Camden "SciFi BOF"

9:30 PM - 11:00 PM Movie (we are taking suggestions for which movie to play!)



Thanks Sean for pointing out the mistake!

New Topics

These topics have been added to the schedule.

Brian Kotek Introduction to OO Modeling and Design

Rachel Lehman Keeping Front End Dependencies Under Control

Selene Bainum eCommerce: Build or Buy

Chris Peterson Performance Tuning ColdFusion: Before the JVM

Sean Schroder Mura CMS - Open Source Content Management

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