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Steve Rittler - Farcry 3.0

Farcry has been completely renovated and updated with version 3.0 to be much more user-friendly and approachable. The presentation will be built around showcasing the implementation of the Frameworks conference site. There will also be an overview of how the system works and how to get started (kind of like last year's presentation but with better live examples).

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Sandra Clark - Cascading Style Sheets - Floating

Cascading Style Sheets support a positioning technique called floating. In this session, Sandra Clark will look at floating, describe the rules of engagement and give an overall view of this important layout concept.

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Jeremy Kadlec - SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Performance Tuning

Achieving high performance is no mistake. But what if no one took the time during the design, development and testing phases to ensure the platform will meet the performance requirements? Now the system is live, performance is unacceptable and it needs to be corrected. Does this sound familiar? Come learn how to diagnose and resolve common performance issues with the SQL Server tool set. You will learn tips and tricks to take back to the office as a resolution for those pesky performance problems.

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Joe Rinehart - Ten Things You Need to Know

In this presentation, you'll learn ten beginner-to-intermediate techniques and practices that you should follow in every ColdFusion application. The Ten Tips will help your applications run faster, be more secure, and more maintainable. We'll also look at tools that can be used to help with these techniques, and resources where you can learn more.

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Jeremy Lund - Another Look at Microsoft Office Using Apache Jakarta POI

Has a client sent you a Word document, wanting the content added to their website right away? And of course, they want the content to fit in flawlessly with the rest of the website. What about that excel spreadsheet data that they want imported into their database? Or, what about that nice table report that it sure would be nice to have as an Excel spreadsheet? In this presentation, I will look at the options that Apache Jakarta POI project offers in working with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, and present code examples and use cases where POI is a good choice. If you have ever found COM too slow to work with in ColdFusion, or the conversion facilities of Word of Excel too limiting for your needs, then Jakarta POI just might be the answer!

Raymond Camden - Verity Searching Secrets

Do you want to do free text searches like Google in your sites? Are you afraid of ColdFusion's Verity search engine? Come to this Introduction to Verity and learn how easy text searches can be for search database or documents. We will also cover the newest and latest features of Verity.

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Steve Rittler - CFAjax

We've all seen Ajax-powered applications built using Ruby on Rails and other non-CF tools. Have you wondered how to create them using ColdFusion? This presentation will show some basic examples using the latest CF-powered packages for doing so and also include the demonstration of a CFAjax-powered application. We'll also discuss security, usability and cross-browser compatibility concerns. Once we're done, you'll be able to look around at all the Web 2.0 pundits and laugh at how simple it is to emulate their techniques using your favorite programming language: ColdFusion.

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Adam Wayne Lehman - ColdFusion Application Security

This presentation details the OWASP Top Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Vulnerabilities and how they are pertain to developing ColdFusion applications. Demonstration of effective methods to avoid and prevent invalidated input, broken access controls, broken authentication and session management, cross-site scripting flaws, injection flaws, and improper error handling.

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Douglas Ward - Fundamentals of Good Usability

Usability is today's competitive advantage. Industry leaders understand this. Google has codified 10 principals that guide its approach to development. Number one is, "Focus on the user, and all else will follow." At Microsoft's 2005 PDC, Bill Gates repeatedly encouraged developers to focus on the user experience. The folks at Macromedia have persistently emphasized creating better RIAs that enhance the user experience. Come to this presentation to learn the basics of usability. Learn and apply the fundamentals, and see immediate improvements on the sites you build.

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Nicholas Tunney - Variables and Conditions

Variables are at the heart of any CF program, but many people are confused about the different scopes and how they should be used. Learn about CF's data types, scopes and assignment rules. Then take a branch into conditionals. Conditionals let your programs make decisions from simple branching to more complex switch and logical comparisons, so that you can build more complex web applications successfully.

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