Thank you Brian Meloche for putting together these interviews and round tables. We enjoyed talking with you. I know we will do more in the future.

http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/

Michael Smith Interview http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/7/5/006_Michael_Smith

Liz Frederick and Nafisa Sabu http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/28/Episode5_Liz_Frederick_Nafisa_Sabu_Teratech

Round Table: Brian Meloche, Rick Mason, John Farrar, Dana Tierney, Ken Auenson, Chris Hough, Seth Bienek, Timothy Farrar, Adam Tuttle, and Adam Haskell http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/24/Day3-At-CFUnited

Round Table: Brian Meloche, Adam Haskell, Rick Mason, Judith Dinowitz, Brian Swartzfager, Dee Sadler and Bill Shelton http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/20/Day2AtCFUnited

CFUnited Podcast: Sean Corfield - AJAX Integration With ColdFusion 8

Hosted by Christian Ready

AJAX is one of the most talked about "new" technologies of recent years but the reality so far has been that writing dynamic, cross-browser applications that leverage JavaScript is a complex, labor-intensive process. Find out how Scorpio will change that reality by providing AJAX functionality built right into our favorite language!

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343311

CFUnited Podcast: Nate Nelson - Database Performance Tuning

Hosted by Christian Ready

Ever have a slow running application and you know you have gone to all extents to make your code run quick. If you don't have a DBA available to performance tune your database then learn how to do it yourself. There are many ways to improve database performance and you will learn them here. The presentation will include examples of slow peroforming queries on large amounts of data. Watch these techniques improve performance 10 times over.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343012

CFUnited Podcast: CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Ben Nadel

Hosted by Christian Ready

I sat down with Ben Nadel who was attending his first CFUnited conference! An avid blogger at Kinky Solutions, Ben explained his philosophy of being a perpetual student of ColdFusion and of web development, how the ColdFusion community has benefited him, and on making the transition from procedural to Object-Oriented development.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343319

CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Mark Drew

Christian Ready sat down with Mark Drew on the first day of CFUnited 2007 to talk about what projects he was up to at the time and what he would be speaking about at CFUnited.

Podcast Link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298981

CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Kevin Roche - Fusebox framework

Christian Ready sits down with Kevin Roche to talk about his work with the Fusebox framework and his work on the upcoming CFUnited Europe.

Check out the podcast here

CFUnited Podcast: Simon Horwith: Success From The Trenches - Building Better Applications

Hosted by Christian Ready

What is it that makes some applications successful while others fail? What causes server performance and stability issues and how do you avoid and troubleshoot them? Can ColdFusion applications really scale? In this session, Simon will explain the traits that make some applications a success and others fail. He will explore the things that developers can do to ensure that their applications will scale. He will walk you through the thought process when architecting and/or code reviewing a ColdFusion application. Simon's 11+ years of experience developing, designing, reviewing, and troubleshooting ColdFusion applications has exposed him to some of the largest enterprise CF applications and most rigorous demands on the planet, and he has seen first-hand what does and doesn't work in the real world. In this session, Simon will divulge many of the tricks of the trade that will lead to success for attendees.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298561

CFUnited Podcast: Sandy Clark - CSS: Back to Basics

Hosted by Christian Ready

With more people jumping on the CSS bandwagon and with Internet Explorer 7 finally released, its always good to review the basics. This session will cover semantic and structural HTML with an eye toward how to use the DOM to create simple HTML and put the complexity of selectors into the Cascading Style Sheet. It will cover all selectors that are now available in all browsers and how to use them effectively.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=290309

CFUnited Podcast: John Paul Ashenfelter - Testing CF Applications

Hosted by Christian Ready

Test-driven development is very popular in the Java and Ruby worlds and becoming moreso in the ColdFusion world. This session covers the tools that are available to test ColdFusion applications and discusses how to implement them into your existing workflow. We'll specifically cover:

* CFCUnit/CFUnit for testing ColdFusion code

* Selenium for testing web pages

* DBUnit for managing the database during testing

* Grinder (and similar) load-testing tools

Together, these tools can provide unit, functional, regression, and load tests for your applications. Finally, we'll touch on automating these tests so you can ensure that you are delivering higher-quality, well-tested code.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=288428

This week we begin the first of our preview interviews with speakers at CFUnited Europe. Our first guest is Peter Bell.

Peter Bell is a passionate advocate of Application Generation and meta-programming in ColdFusion and is author of Application Generation, blog dedicated to best practices in application development and how to get our projects done quicker and easier. He has lectured both locally and nationally on using ColdFusion for application generation and to create software product lines and runs Systems Forge a company that generates custom applications quickly and cost effectively.

Peter discusses his upcoming talks at CFUnited Europe, Prectical Code Generation, RAD OO, and Using The Iterating Business Object.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=290207

CFUnited Europe will be held March 12-13 2008 at the Novotel London West, UK. Learn more at europe.cfunited.com. We want to hear from you!

If you have any feedback on the podcast, please feel free to drop me a line at chris@christianready.com or info@cfunited.com.