Message from Raymond Camden:

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2008/3/7/Suggest-a-topic-for-CFUNTED-08-and-win-a-pass

I'm the track chair for the Advanced track at CFUNITED. We are looking to fill another session and thought it would be fun to open it to the public. If you have an idea for a session, suggest the topic along with a speaker. I'll take the best 5 topics (best being relative of course) and create a survey for folks to vote. If your session is chosen, you get a free ticket to the conference. Note that in order for your session to be eligible, you have to suggest a speaker who is also willing to do the presentation, and will be at CFUNITED.

Don't delay your registration for the premiere ColdFusion conferences any longer...

Register for CFUnited by Jan 05th 2008 and save $200 off the base registration rate.

Register for CFUnited Europe by Jan 10th 2008 and save $100 off the base registration rate. Also as a group discount, register 3 for the price of 2, for more details contact info@cfunited.com

When you register for either conference by the above dates you are also automatically entered into a raffle to win one of two 8gb iPod touch!

Winners will be announced on Jan 11th 2008

Congratulations to Jura from Bratislava, Slovakia for winning the CFUnited Europe Survey Contest. Jura has won a free pass to CFUnited Europe conference on March 12-13th 2008 at the Novotel London West, UK.

We want to thank all those who participated in this contest and for all your feedback.

The correct answers for the survey questions were:

Question: What are the dates of CFUnited Europe 2007 conference? Answer:March 12-13th 2008

Question: Where in Europe will the CFUnited Europe conference be held? Answer:Novotel London West, UK

Question:Which 5 speakers who are speaking at CFUnited Europe? Answer(s): - Mark Drew - Simon Horwith - Jeff Tapper - Christian Ready - Andrew Schwabe

Question: Who is speaking on "Recursive Technique in ColdFusion"? Answer: Andrew Schwabe

Question: Which topic describes the CFFEED tag? Answer:Atom and RSS feeds with ColdFusion 8 (by Chaz Chumley)

Question: Why do you think people should go to CFUNITED Europe Answer: Same organizers team as for the orig CFUNITED conference, which means good references - Pretty interesting programme/events - Not a big choice of CF-related events in Europe ;-)

Don't forget to register for CFUnited Europe before the next early bird date of Jan 10th 2008. You can also take advantage of the buy 2 get 3 special, where if you register 2 people, you can register the third person for free. For more information on this special please email us at info@cfunited.com

Also visit http://europe.cfunited.com/ for more information.

Thank you to everyone who entered in the Open Source Code Off.

The winner of a Nintendo Wii is Barney Boisvert "Management Tool"
A simple schema management tool. You write your database mods into migration scripts (CFCs), and then the tool manages application of the scripts on an as-needed basis in all environments the application is deployed to. Very handy if you have a laptop, an office workstation, a home machine, and a production server and don't want to spend your life keeping the databases backing each one in sync with the others.
It is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. Download File

Second: Mary Jo Sminkey "USPS tracker"
Third: Joe Danzinger "Project Tracker"

View all entries here:http://wiki.cfunited.com/index.cfm/Open_Source_Contest_Entries

The winner of the iPod Nano is Carolyn F. of Sacramento. Congratulations!

Thank you everyone for registering for CFUnited's Pre-Conference Classes. Please note that you should have received an email from us about your classes and instructions. See you soon!

The Open Source Code Off Entries are now listed on the CFUnited Wiki
http://wiki.cfunited.com/index.cfm?event=Main&path=Open_Source_Contest_Entries

Winners will be announced Thursday or Friday.

Good Luck!

Entries:

* Brice Mason "Tag Benchmark"
* Luis Majano "ColdBox"
* Barney Boisvert "Transaction Advice"
* Barney Boisvert "Management Tool"
* Barney Boisvert "Formatting Timestamps"
* Brad Wood "Resend Undeliverable Mail"
* Sajid Anwar "Minute Converter"
* Mary Jo Sminkey "USPS tracker"
* Jeff Howden "A Worthwhile Custom Tag"
* Mahfuz Anwar "Works Cited"
* Laura Arguello "Mango Blog"
* Jeffrey C. Ludden "Mapper"
* Russ Johnson "Issue Tracker"
* Simon Horwith "Security Framework"
* Joe Danziger "Project Tracker"
* Boyan Kostadinov "Movie Tracker"

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that so far there only have one entry for Ben Nadel's open source CF programming contest (with a deadline of Tuesday 6/5/07). With a first prize of a Wii AND a $1000 valued ticket to CFUNITED (and second and third prizes of 50% off your registration), the current only entrant Brice Mason is 100% certain to win! So if anyone else has some cool CF code that you want to make open source you would have a 50% chance of winning the top prize, and a good chance of winning something! You don't have to duplicate a paid component - just do something cool and make it open source. Perhaps you even have some code lying about your computer that is ready to submit as you read this... That code could snag you a Wii and CFUNITED ticket!

I guess the bad news is that if other people do enter by Tuesday that Brice's chances go down.

With the CFML compiler the Smith Project going open source and Ben Nadel's open source code off competition it will be soon possible to create total open source CF solutions!

The cats out of the bag - the big grand prize we have in store for the open source code-off has been announced. One lucky ColdFusion coding champion will win a shiny new Nintendo Wii as well as a free ticket to CFUnited. Second and Third runner up will receive 50% off registration.

More information about the Open source code-off http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/4/ColdFusion-Open-Source-Codeoff

Win awesome prizes by creating something free for our beloved ColdFusion community. But, not just anything for free; find something that currently costs money, duplicate the described functionality, then publish your open source version for free. Read more!

All entries must be submitted by June 5th. One winner will be chosen by the CFUnited Advisory Board and will be given a free ticket to CFUnited and a special prize. All entries will be recognized publicly along with the winner after June 5th.

Thank you Ben Nadel for hosting this contest!