CF Meetup: "CFUNITED Preview: Using Apache Derby", with Charlie Arehart

Thursday, Thurs. Jul 30, 6:00pm US EDT

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: Using Apache Derby, the Open Source Database Embedded in ColdFusion 8

Come see a preview (about 20-30 minutes) of one of my CFUnited sessions, this one on Apache Derby. No, it's not "new in CF9", but many have missed or dismissed it. In this session, you will learn about the Apache Derby database included in ColdFusion 8. A full-featured database with a ten-year heritage, Apache Derby is fully transactional, easy to use, and standards based and has the advanced features you'd expect in any quality DBMS. Yet it's small, at only 2MB. You'll find out how to use Apache Derby within ColdFusion, as well as about tools that work with it and where to learn more. Again, this is just a preview, but for many it will be more than they've ever heard about the Derby DBMS embedded in CF8. I'm sure some will have preconceived notions about the tool. Come share your thoughts. I hope to dispel a few myths along the way.

To learn more visit http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10978170/?a=nr1p_grp

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CF Meetup: "Trailer for CFUNITED: Who killed ColdFusion?", with David Stockton

Thursday, Jul 30, 12:00pm US EDT

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: At CFUnited join the CSI: ColdFusion Server Investigation team using state of the art server analysis tools to unravel a mystery. Together we must hunt down and stop a ColdFusion serial killer who's hanging CF Servers across the country. To not give away the mystery, this CFMeetup presentation will focus on how you can use a new ColdFusion analysis tool from the makers of FusionReactor to help you find out how and why a server was "killed."

To learn more visit http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10969750/

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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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CF Meetup: ColdFusion and Flex, with Dale Fraser

Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: So how hard is it to write Flex applications that utilise ColdFusion components? It?s actually very easy, easier than you might think. One of the reasons for giving this talk is that I initially found it hard to get my head around how it would work, how to configure it all and looked at it and then put it aside a few times. >From doing this I have learnt what I think is the easiest way to get ColdFusion & Flex configured to work together, this is what I will be demonstrating.

I?ll show the basics of configuration (Flex Builder and some setup of CF), then will show and discuss several forms of integration: remote objects, remoting & binding, and using queries, arrays, structures, and objects/CFCs.

To learn more visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7928523/?a=nr1p_grp

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CF Meetup: ColdFusion and Flex, with Dale Fraser

Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6:00 PM

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: So how hard is it to write Flex applications that utilise ColdFusion components? It?s actually very easy, easier than you might think. One of the reasons for giving this talk is that I initially found it hard to get my head around how it would work, how to configure it all and looked at it and then put it aside a few times. >From doing this I have learnt what I think is the easiest way to get ColdFusion & Flex configured to work together, this is what I will be demonstrating.

I?ll show the basics of configuration (Flex Builder and some setup of CF), then will show and discuss several forms of integration: remote objects, remoting & binding, and using queries, arrays, structures, and objects/CFCs.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7876941/

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CF Meetup: CFInterface , with Robin Hilliard

Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 11:00 PM

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: With all the fantastic new features in ColdFusion 8 you could be forgiven for overlooking the CFInterface tag. But with the introduction of CFInterface Adobe has given us a fundamental concept of most object oriented programming languages that has been missing since the introduction of components in CFMX, a concept used to great effect in many key design patterns and extensible software frameworks like Eclipse.

In this presentation Robin explains what an interface is, how they're used in software design and how to use CFInterface to bring them to your ColdFusion applications. It's a lot simpler and cooler than you might think.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7837529/

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CF Meetup: Leveraging RDS in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, and HomeSite+/CF Studio, with Charlie Arehart

Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: Are you using the RDS-enabled features in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, or HomeSite+? If not, you could be missing out on a lot of increased productivity, from the query building tools it enables, to the component browsing tools, to enabling file access across the web, and more.

Perhaps it's been disabled on your server, or people may argue that it's insecure. If you could be shown how it could be secured, might you (or your admin) reconsider it? I think it's a tragedy how many developers suffer without leveraging RDS, certainly on their own machines, and even on shared servers.

Whether you think RDS evil or a blessing, or are unaware of what it enables in your favorite CFML editor, and whether you use CF 8 or earlier, there may be more to RDS than you realize. And there are solutions to security concerns, especially in CF8 but even beforehand.

In this talk, frequent CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will show you all the ways that RDS can be used to make you more productive in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, or HomeSite+. He'll also address (and in some cases resolve) common security concerns, especially the multi-user RDS security available in CF 8 (and CF 4 and 5), as well as how to enable it if it's been disabled (assuming you have the right to make configuration changes, of course).

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7837371/

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CF Meetup: Introducing sebForm, with Steve Bryant

Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: The cf_sebForm custom tag simplifies development of simple forms. It separates logic and display, integrates with CFCs, and manages validation. The output is unobtrusive and skinnable.

In this short presentation you will see how to use cf_sebForm to create a simple contact forms, integrate with CFCs, manage validations (both type and business logic), upload files, and reduce spam.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7741474/

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CF Meetup: Unit Testing w/MXUnit - Part 2: In Action or In The Weeds, with Bill Shelton

Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:00 PM

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

Organized by Charlie Arehart

Description: In the second part of the series we'll continue by reviewing the installation for MXUnit and basic unit testing. We'll then delve into more detail by presenting more complex examples and some advanced concepts. We will show you how to automate your development tasks, increase efficiency, and develop a higher level of quality in your code.

This will include automation: using MXUnit Ant task to run tests, using Ant to deploy your code, and concepts of continuous integration. We'll further show you how you can extend MXUnit to easily add your own custom assertions or alter the existing ones without altering the MXUnit framework code.

Time permitting we'll discuss some of the hard questions related to unit testing in general, not just in the ColdFusion world: how to test private methods, how to handle external resources like databases, and what Mock objects, fixtures, and scaffolding are and how they might be used.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7691492/

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CF Meetup: XML and ColdFusion, with Nic Tunney

Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM

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

Description: XML and ColdFusion is an intermediate level presentation delving into not only what XML is and what it means to developers as both a communication tool and persistence layer, but also how to traverse the XML Dom using ColdFusion. If time permits, an XPath demonstration will be given as well. This presentation assumes a basic knowledge of ColdFusion arrays and structures.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7388675/

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