In this 20-30 minute session, Patrick Quinn will preview his one-hour class on Application Server Analytics (ASA), an evolving niche in Web-based software development. It consists of a combination of tools and methodologies for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting of Web sites and applications. The goal of ASA is to improve performance and stability (and thus uptime) for Web applications by helping developers and systems administrators "see" application server internals much more clearly, and also by allowing for much easier use of ASA metrics to fix and even prevent problems..

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Planning to move to CF8? Did you skip either 6 or 7? Or have you perhaps installed and been running on them but doing little or no new development? Were you paying attention as all the new features (and folks' experiences using them) were being shared? There may be a lot you've missed. Veteran CFML developer Charlie Arehart will introduce both the key features introduced in those releases as well as many hidden gems. It's surprising how many little things get slipped into releases, and point releases, and sometimes it's those which can be as important to you as any prominent feature. In his typical encyclopedic but pragmatic style, Charlie will help you make the most out of features you may have missed. Of course, this is just a 20- minute preview of what is in fact a day-long course. But it will give a taste of what's to expect and will provide value in and of itself.

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In this 20-30 minute session, Oguz Demirkapi will preview his day-long class which will explain the theory of creating multi-language applications and methods in ColdFusion with best practices. The main goals of this class are explaining multi-language applications theory, defining requirements and solutions, and providing best practices with direct coding in class.

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How do you build an application that scales? What exactly is scalability, anyway? How does one measure performance and how do you identify performance and maintenance bottlenecks?

In this preview of his day-long class, Simon will introduce the things he'll be discussing on the day, where students will learn about common scalability and performance problems, and how to solve them. In the full day, we'll examine the coding and architecture choices that make maintenance easier, optimize database access, and optimize the runtime performance of your CF applications. Students will learn how to architect a well-designed ColdFusion application and how to review and optimize code, with special emphasis on avoiding common scalability and performance problems.

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In this 20-30 minute preview, Rob will give us a taste of his full day hands-on Flex course, which requires no previous Flex experience. The class promises to be fun, energetic, and saturated with information, examples, and code. It will focus not only on Flex architecture, but also teach you to organize your ColdFusion code in such fashion that you can reuse your business layer across any front-end, including Html, Ajax, Flash, or Flex.

About Rob Gonda:

Rob Gonda is the CTO for iChameleon Group and Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer's Journal. He is an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, frequent speaker at IT and developer conferences nationwide, co-author of Real-World Ajax, author of ajaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering, an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship, and he specializes in Rich Internet Applications and object-oriented architecture. You can reach him at rob[at]robgonda[dot]com and read his blog is at http://www.robgonda.com/

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In this 20-30 minute session, Peter Bell will preview his day-long class which will show how to generate sophisticated custom business applications - quickly, maintainably and extensibly. It doesn't matter whether you are procedural or object oriented - whether you use simple queries or stored procedures, whether you are an intermediate programmer or a guru. If you would like to spend more time solving new problems and less time writing the same old code, his day-long class will change the way you think about your job. Whether you've been generating code for years or are completely new to the concept, you will learn practical techniques and see real world examples that will allow you to significantly improve your skills. He'll preview how in each section we will use practical code examples that you can use in your real world applications while explaining important principles that will allow you to write more powerful, extensible and maintainable code.

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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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