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Conference Registration Package and Scheduler Instructions

Hello Attendees!

If you have not received your registration package in the mail we will give you one onsite at the event. It contains a t-shirt and a document, which you can download here.

Please note that we will CLOSE LIMITED SEATING SESSIONS on Friday June 22nd at 5pm (COB). You will not be allowed to add Limited seating sessions to your scheduler after June 22nd.

If you have not filled out your scheduler, do so now! http://scheduler.cfunited.com/

ALL ColdFusion 8 topic recordings will be made available for FREE after the event to all attendees. They will be Screen Video Capture and Sound recordings!

Limited Seating Sessions are:

6/27/2007 10:15AM-11:15AM
ColdFusion 8: Going Beyond Paper with PDF Documents and Forms - Dean Harmon

6/27/2007 11:30AM-12:30PM
ColdFusion 8: Dynamic Image Processing - Raymond Camden

6/27/2007 2:15PM-5:15PM
CFC Development - Raymond Camden

6/28/2007 8:30AM-9:30AM
ColdFusion 8:CFML Enhancements - Rupesh Kumar

6/28/2007 9:45AM-10:45AM
ColdFusion 8: Flex 3 & Apollo (The Future of Adobe Development) - Matt Chotin

6/28/2007 1:45PM-2:45PM
Prototyping Applications with Flex 2.0 - Scott Stroz

6/28/2007 3:00PM-6:00PM
The Microsoft .NET Framework + BlueDragon: A Better Platform for CFML
Integrating CFML and .NET Code - Josh Adams

6/29/2007 8:30AM-10:30AM
Managing ColdFusion projects from start to finish - Shlomy Gantz

6/29/2007 1:30PM - 2:30PM
ColdFusion 8: Microsoft Exchange and .NET Integration - Ramchandra Kulkami

6/29/2007 2:45PM-3:45PM
ColdFusion 8: Case Study: Hostmysite.com - Monish Sood

Attendee and Speaker Website Bling

Are you going to CFUnited? Are you a speaker? Well pimp out your blog or website with these awesome badges.

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Top Ten Reasons to Attend

Reason's to attend:

1. If you take your ColdFusion and web development seriously, this is the one event you won't want to miss. Learn what's new, directly from Adobe. Ben Forta calls CFUNITED, now in its 8th year, "the premier CF-specific event."

2. Meet other developers who share your interests. Find people who have already solved that problem that's giving you headaches back at the office; schmooze with speakers late-night at the bar; discuss the future of development. Often putting a face to that email that you've been chatting with on lists is the best part of CFUNITED.

3. Are members of your team new to ColdFusion? Then the CFUNITED bootcamp track will teach them the basics in a few days. From CFOUTPUT to looping, from SQL to database design - they'll learn all this and more from top experts in the field.

4. Flex is hot right now and we have a whole track on Flex, Ajax and Apollo. Learn Flex and pick up advanced techniques for Rich Internet Applications.

5. Meet the engineers from Adobe who create ColdFusion, ask them questions, and give them your 2 cents on what you'd like to see in the future.

6. See the latest tools for web development. We are expecting several new releases at CFUNITED, so visit our expo area and be prepared to have your socks blown off!

7. The After Party. Let your hair down, play games with your buddies, or challenge famous speakers to a game of pool. You might even have a technical conversation or two between the beers!

8. A year of info packed into 4 days! If you are hungry for technical information or want to ask questions, this is the place for you! We have regular sessions, long sessions and - if that is not enough - Birds-of-a-Feather evening sessions that go long into the night! Basic CF, Advanced CF, Better SQL, XML, CSS, Accessibility, Usability, Fusebox, security, PDFs, SMS, CFCs, OO, RSS, UDFs,debugging, arrays, structures, caching, web services, testing, charting, Flex, Ajax, Apollo, ColdSpring, Prototyping, MVC, CFEclipse, Spry, Design patterns, project management, and more.

9. Want to get your hands dirty? Attend our hands-on pre-conference classes taught by top speakers. Bring your own laptop, and code along with the pros!

10. Bags, t-shirts and goodies galore. Printed slides for every talk, so you don't have to print them out yourself. Plus online access to presentations, code samples and audio of any sessions you may have missed.

CFUnited Scheduler, pick your sessions!

Its ready! Pick your CFUnited Schedule.

In order to attend limited seating topics, you must add the session on your scheduler.

Limited Seating Sessions are: -All Topics labeled TBA Scorpio Topic (Top Secret)

-Raymond Camden's CFC Development

-Shlomy Gantz's Managing ColdFusion projects from start to finish

-TBA New Atlanta Topic

http://scheduler.cfunited.com/

CFUnited Schedule

The CFUnited Schedule is posted for June 27th - June 29th.

This is the online version of the schedule. http://cfunited.com/go/schedule

Some TBA Topics will be announced soon as well, pending product release dates and other advisory board decisions.

This schedule posted is the LATEST version as of March 27th 2007. Refer to this blog for updates to topics, changes in schedules, and corrections.

Yesterday we posted the PDF version of this schedule temporarily. http://cfunited.com/images/CFUnited_schedule03262007.pdf

CFUnited Pre-conference classes posted!

We have announced pre conference classes on the conference website. Please go to http://cfunited.com/go/classes for more information.

Each class is $449 and you may only register for one each day. Please also note that your CFUnited conference registration does not cover admission to these classes

Monday 6/25

CU221 Rob Gonda Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Developers

CU222 Kurtis D. Leatham Creating Your First Cold Fusion Application

CU223 Oğuz Demirkapı Multi Language Applications in CF in Theory and Practice

CU224 Nate Nelson Advanced Database

Tuesday 6/26

CU225 Peter Bell Practical Code Generation: By Example

CU226 Simon Horwith Coming Soon

CU227 John Paul Ashenfelter Best Practice Bootcamp for Developers

CU228 Charlie Arehart New in CFMX 6&7: What Did You Miss?

Other Pre-conference events will be announced soon. MiniMAX and the User Group conference and information will be announced soon

New CFUnited Sponsors!

I hope everyone is familiar with our awesome sponsors! If not, I hope you visit their booths at the event. Our sponsors really help shape the community and keep these events exciting. We've recently aquired new sponsors, so we just had to announce them all together. This list is in no specific order.

AboutWeb, Silver Sponsor, is running the community pit and I hear it is going to have a really cool set up this year. Lots of prizes and activities. I know Simon and Nick Tunney look forward to presenting their awesome topics and another one soon to be announced in the Flex track. http://www.aboutweb.com/

Webapper, Silver Sponsor, will be announcing a really cool topic to be presented at the conference soon. I'm sure everyone saw their awesome Seefusion tshirts last year. You see, I see, we all see. http://webapper.com/

Straker Interactive, Silver Sponsor, is making the long trip again to join us. Don't forget to check out their booth for a demo of their cool product ShadowCMS with ZoomFlex. http://straker.co.nz/

CFDynamics, Elevated Silver Sponsor, is going out of their way to make the attendee get-together pretty awesome this year I heard. Can't wait! Plus they've been incredible help with hosting our conference websites. Thanks guys! http://www.cfdynamics.com/

Paperthin, Elevated Silver Sponsor, will be coming again in full force and looks forward to meeting everyone this year, including Ron West who will be announcing his topic soon. http://www.paperthin.com/

Hostmysite, Gold Sponsor, will be out and about displaying their awesome service and keeping us well hydrated with bottles of water at every corner. Plus they will be co-sponsoring the attendee ColdFusion celebration with Adobe again. http://www.adobe.com/

Adobe, Platinum Sponsor, is taking their place at the top and they are coming in full fashion this year with incredible topics and awesome prizes. TeraTech is proud of its partnership with Adobe and looks forward to a successful year creating awesome applications with ColdFusion and Flex. And I can't wait for Ben Forta's Keynote presentation this year, can you? http://www.adobe.com/

Edgewood Solutions, Bronze Sponsor, will be participating again this year and making sure everyone knows how they do SQL better. Jeremy Kadlec's topic will be announced soon and you won't want to miss this presentation. http://www.edgewoodsolutions.com/

New Atlanta, Gold Sponsor, is back with their awesome server-side products and ready to meet all of you. Not to mention we love their cool give-a-ways. Be sure to check out their new presentation being announced soon. http://www.newatlanta.com/

Universal Mind, Silver Sponsor, looks forward to meeting everyone again at their booth and don't forget their awesome presenter Thomas Burleson speaking in the Flex Track. http://www.universalmind.com/

Sys-con Media, Bronze Sponsor, is providing a free copy of ColdFusion Developer's Journal again to everyone at the conference. So don't forget to look in your goodie bag for the latest issue at the conference. Oh, and keep an eye out for CFUnited's ad in the next issue of CFDJ. http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/

A big thanks to all our sponsors for their support and contribution to this amazing community. All attendees will receive cool promotions and gain lots of valueable information from our sponsors. We hope to post all these sponsors and more details on our newly designed CFUnited website soon. Be sure to visit them as well during our Sponsored Networking Event on the first night of the conference.

If you would like to sponsor, contact LIZ, at 301.424.3903 x107

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