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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This entry was posted on June 11, 2007 at 4:49 PM and has received 4706 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

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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This entry was posted on June 10, 2007 at 12:35 PM and has received 5737 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

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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This entry was posted on June 7, 2007 at 3:44 PM and has received 5730 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

Find out how to optimize and troubleshoot CFMX driven applications. You will learn how to quickly debug and identify issues such as the server CPU going to 100%, what causes out of memory errors and how to track memory leaks. The session will also cover how to optimize your application for performance and scalability as well as how to monitor what is going on in the underlying java architecture. Grant is an experienced ColdFusion Developer who runs Straker Interactive, a successful ColdFusion software development house with offices in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Many of the lessons you will learn in this session have been learnt the hard way and in 50 minutes you could save yourself many hours of head scratching and frustration down the track.

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This entry was posted on June 6, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 3978 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

Max has been leading software development teams for most of his career. In this session, Max will share his many secrets for success in all areas of successful team management. If you're a Team Lead or Development Manager, you'll learn how to maximize the potential of your existing team, as well as how to build a successful new team from scratch. Topics covered in detail include the following: - How to hire and retain the best talent (regardless of budget), including step-by-step coverage of an incredibly effective interview process - Using an open collaboration environment to achieve constant improvement with very little effort - Growing the skills of your team through tactical use of mentoring and delegation - Proven techniques for the creation and enforcement of development standards - Getting the most out of your team with peer review cycles - Striking the documentation balance: how much is "just enough"? - Effective distribution of new code and maintenance work for maximum throughput and skills development.

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This entry was posted on June 2, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 4430 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

The future of Microsoft's Web Server Platform is exciting for developers! The release of Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Vista and Server will dramatically improve the development, deployment and management of web sites and applications. This demo packed session will highlight an all new, distributed configuration system and administration tool, a new modularized core web server with powerful new extensibility support. Most importantly, you will see how to plug in custom modules, written in native or managed code, in order to implement entirely new capabilities for IIS 7 and the web applications it delivers. Learn how these advances and more make IIS the best place to run ColdFusion applications.

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This entry was posted on May 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 3221 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

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2006 marks the fifth year that New Atlanta has been present at CFUN/CFUnited since BlueDragon was first introduced at CFUN'02. Today, BlueDragon is firmly established as a world-class, enterprise-ready alternative for deploying CFML applications in standard Java/J2EE and Microsoft .NET server environments. During the first part of this keynote session, Vince Bonfanti, president and co-founder of New Atlanta, will provide an overview of the history of BlueDragon and trace its evolution over the years, highlighting significant customer successes in government, education, health care, finance, retail, and other industries.

During the second part of this keynote, Vince will highlight and demonstrate some of the unique features offered by BlueDragon and how you can use these features to improve your productivity and the performance of your CFML applications. Vince will conclude by demonstrating some of the new features being introduced in BlueDragon 7.0 that continue BlueDragon's tradition of innovation and leadership in the CFML server market.

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This entry was posted on May 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 3269 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

We all know that CFML makes web services creation and consumption easy. Still, there tips and tricks that can solve common problems in working with them, or expose new possibilities you may not have considered. In this presentation, veteran CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will share some useful (and some little used) features of ColdFusion MX, BlueDragon, and Dreamweaver MX to help you make the most of web services. He'll also show several ways to test web services, as well as point out some interesting and useful examples of real web services you can use in business today. He'll also cover challenges of passing data between CFML and other web service apps, including .NET.

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This entry was posted on May 22, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 3929 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

Using Flex 2.0, you can now deploy Flex applications using any number of backend technologies without the addition of a Flex server product. However, with the new ColdFusion-Flex connectivity features, ColdFusion will have a significant advantage over all other backend technologies; providing the most efficient data exchange, the easiest programming model, and specialized tooling that make it the fastest, easiest way to build Flex apps with or without the purchase of a Flex server. This session will provide advanced details on RemoteObject and the CF-Flex connectivity features including the use of value objects to exchange data between ColdFusion and Flex. General tips and tricks related to data exchange between ColdFusion and Flex will also be discussed. Previous experience with CF/Flex applications is highly suggested.

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This entry was posted on May 18, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 4317 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

With SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has introduced new editions to support evolving customer needs. With these new editions, especially the Express Edition, new features and capabilities for development, test and production environments are available. This session will be a hands-on starting from installation, to the management tools for operations and application development for developers. See how the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition can expand your offerings to your organization!

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This entry was posted on May 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM and has received 3407 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.