CF Meetup: ANT on the Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS, with Marc Esher

Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM

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

Description: This is a how-to session on using FTP, Email, Subversion, and VSS access in your ANT build files. It will demonstrate exactly how to configure your environment for using these tasks and will demo all of them. I'll show you where to go in the documentation to learn all about these tasks. In addition, I'll show how all of this comes together in the build we use for MXUnit. A small bonus -- using ANT for version numbering -- will sneak in there, too b/c it's so cool.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7386772/?gj=&a=nr1p_grp

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CF Meetup: BlazeDS Revealed! , with Tom Jordahl of Adobe

Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM

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

Description: Recently Adobe announced the release of BlazeDS which will make some key server technologies open source and free to use in any application. These technologies are critical to building great applications with Flex and AIR. Tom will talk about exactly what you get in BlazeDS and how it relates to LiveCycle Data Services and will detail some of the reasons why you might want to use these server technologies. He will also explain how ColdFusion developers can take advantage of BlazeDS in their applications.

To learn more visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7387399/?gj=&a=nr1p_grp

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CF Meetup: "Testing with cfcUnit", with John Mason

Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM

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

Description: Unit testing and test-driven development are common in the Java world but can still be fairly new to web developers. We will explore the different types of testing and how unit testing fits in. We'll try to address why unit testing is something you will want to do in your future development and current projects. Next, we will see how CFCUnit helps us in performing unit tests against our ColdFusion coding and then how it applies to the test driven development (TDD) methodology. Finally, we'll explore continuous testing with CFCUnit and ANT. With ANT, you can automate your unit tests and run them either command line or with Eclipse.

To learn more visit: http://cfunited.com/blog/admin/entry.cfm?id=0

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CF Meetup: Building ColdFusion based Flex applications using ZoomFlex, with Grant Straker

Thursday, Jan 24, 12:00pm EST

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

We'll have two speakers on Jan 24. First up will be Grant Straker on "Building ColdFusion based Flex applications using ZoomFlex". I'll have more on the 6pm speaker later in a separate entry.

Attend this meetup to get a quick intro into ZoomFlex, a ColdFusion based rapid development tool for building Cairngorm based Flex applications. You will learn why the Cairngorm framework is so important in Flex development and get a clear understanding of it's main features and concepts. The session will also take you through some of the best practices with regards to buildling data driven CF / Flex application and how to leverage CF and as a server side engine for Flex applications.

Learn more here: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7165145/

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CF Meetup: CFUnited Europe Preview, "Practical Code Generation", with Peter Bell

Thursday, Jan 17, 6:00pm EST

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

Peter Bell, presenting another preview session for the upcoming CFUnited Europe event (http://europe.cfunited.com/) being held March 12-13th in London. These preview talks will be about half the duration of the full hour-long sessions, giving a taste of what the full session would cover. He will be speaking on "Practical Code Generation".

A 20-30 minute preview session of my full session where we'd learn how to generate your applications in a fraction of the time by using the latest techniques proven to reduce application development times - from Software Product Lines to Domain Specific Languages.

Learn more here: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7117727/

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CF Meetup: "Configuring, Using and Extending Savvy Content Manager", with Joshua Cyr

Thursday, December 20, 2007, 12:00 PM

Online meeting via Adobe Connect

Learn how easy Savvy Content Manager is to deploy, then learn how to extend with your own ColdFusion code. Savvy CM is the leading low cost commercial CMS in use by many CF shops today. More information on Savvy CM can be found at http://www.besavvy.com/

For more information about this CF Meetup visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6907806/

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CF Meetup: "Design Patterns and ColdFusion", with Sean Corfield

Thursday, December 13, 2007, 6:00 PM

Online meeting via Adobe Connect

Come find out what design patterns are really about and how they can make your life easier. (You're probably already using some design patterns, although you may not know it.) For this session, we have distilled decades of software engineering experience into a well- documented set of blueprints that can be applied to common problems to ensure clean, maintainable code.

For more information about this CF Meetup visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6873619/

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Thursday, December 6, 2007, 12:00 PM

Online meeting via Adobe Connect

Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy, with John Paul Ashenfelter Many developers are aware of tools to automate and empower software development tasks, ranging from source control software to test suites and continuous integration tools. Frequently however, the realities of making deadlines and concerns about complexity or learning curves lead developers to use the same old practices they always have used. This session shows you how to quickly and simply put an open-source, standards-based system in place that can

* manage source code using Subversion

* reset the database to a known state for repeatable testing

* run code-level unit tests with CFCUnit to improve code quality

* automate user-level functional and acceptance tests in the browser using Selenium

* automatically build and deploy code to the appropriate environment using Ant

We'll start with a working demonstration of the automated process, provide an overview of each tool, and discuss the various ways to take these tools and apply them into your current development environment. The main focus will be on using Ant and various plugins to orchestrate the testing and automation process.

For more information about this CF Meetup visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6827400/

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Thursday, December 6, 2007, 6:00 PM

Online meeting via Adobe Connect

Step Debugging in ColdFusion with Charlie Arehart In this talk, veteran CFML developer Charlie Arehart will introduce and demonstrate the ability all ColdFusion developers now have to step through their code interactively to debug it, whether running on CF 6, 7, or 8. For those moving to CF8, there is now a debugger built into CF, but it works only with CF8. For those on CF 6, 7, or 8, they can use the commercial FusionDebug tool (www.fusiondebug.com) . Both are plug-ins for Eclipse which enable step debugging, and they're very similar, which is why Charlie will show them both in the one talk. He'll also cover some differences.

Don't worry if you don't care for Eclipse. You can continue to use DWMX or CF Studio/HomeSite+ for editing: just use the Eclipse-based tools for debugging. Charlie will show you how easy it is and the problems step debugging can solve. And if you're thinking you don't need interactive debugging, Charlie will also explain over a dozen benefits this offers over traditional CFDUMP/CFOUTPUT debugging, as well as tips, tricks, and traps.

For more information about this CF Meetup visit http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6827442/

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Online meeting via Adobe Connect

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 12:00 PM

Duration: Approx. 1 hour

COOP - A Framework That Thinks Like ColdFusion, with John Farrar

COOP is the most ColdFusion-like Framework to date (and yet, if you use another framework, note that COOP works with or separate from other frameworks). ColdFusion gives the power to simplify your code by moving your processing completely off your markup page if you choose. Let designers work in a processing free page while developers still have complete access to the markup page through a object-oriented structure. If you like MVC you will live COOP. If you don't like MVC you will say along with a developer we met at Chicago CF United, 'Finally, an MVC that makes things simple.' (This technology can be used as a stand-alone technology or inside other Frameworks like Fusebox.)

For more details visit: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6806993/

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