Our 2nd winner for our Social Media Raffle is Kris Korsmo, who is a follower of CFUnited on Twitter!

He is deciding between CS5 and Flash Builder!

We still have one more drawing coming up this Friday, July 9, 2010!!

Make sure you are keeping up with CFUnited, Stellr and the Lansdowne Resort on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!!!

This entry was posted on July 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM and has received 3467 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Hi everyone,

I'm proud to announce that Seth Tepfer has been chosen as the first social media raffle winner! He gets his choice of CF9 Enterprise, Flex or Creative Suite 5.

Seth was chosen randomly from our list of fans of our CFUnited page on Facebook!

That means our next two drawings will be pulled from Twitter followers (Lansdowne, CFUnited, Stellr), CFUnited Facebook event, CFUnited LinkedIn event, or being a fan of Stellr or the Lansdowne resort on Facebook.

So many opportunities - you better start clicking!

Since I have delayed in announcing the first winner, I will announce the next winner this Friday, July 2, 2010.

This entry was posted on June 29, 2010 at 8:43 AM and has received 3057 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Hello everyone,

As I have mentioned before, we weren't able to snag the free golf for everybody; however, the Lansdowne Resort was kind enough to let us raffle off a free round of golf! So here's the deal:

Send us a picture, video, or really anything of you related to golf to: newsletter(at)cfunited(dot) com, in addition to your registered name (so we know who you are!), with a subject line of: Golf Contest Submission.

Yes, it's that easy.

Only one (1) entry allowed per person. Those who would like to participate must be registered; this may be as an attendee, speaker or sponsor. Either way, the winner has to be registered for CFUnited. Please only submit if you plan to use the free round of golf! The coolest/most creative/most awesome/best submission decided by me will be chosen as the winner! All entries must be submitted by June 30, 2010 to be eligible.

The winner will receive a round of golf for a total of 4 players. The winner will be responsible for selecting the other 3 players. This prize is transferable, so if the winner changes his/her mind, they can pass it on to whomever they choose.

If you would like to be eligible for this prize, but have yet to register, please do so now!

Also, take advantage of Lansdowne Resort's very own Spa Minérale, where attendees get a 10 percent discount.

Good luck to all!

This entry was posted on June 1, 2010 at 1:36 PM and has received 2953 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

Hello everyone!

As soon as we posted up the guest packages, we realized we were going to have some problems.

Long story short, the system was not going to work as we hoped. So we have a new system.

We are going to offer a guest package for $220, which will cover Wednesday through Saturday guest amenities, including lunch and evening events.

Of course, we know not all guests will want the whole week's worth of goodies, so we have discounts available for the guest packages.

Guest1 - $160 off - Use only if you want to use the guest package for either Wednesday or Thursday (1 day only).

Guest2 - $100 off - Use only if you want to use the guest package for Wednesday AND Thursday (2 days).

Guest3 - $50 off - Use only if you want to remove the Saturday from the guest package, and therefore would be applicable for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (3 days).

ALSO!

We have had some people asking about the golf and spa specials that the resort had offered last year. This year, the Lansdowne Resort will be able to offer 10% off all spa treatments.

Though not many people had taken advantage of the free golf that was offered last year, the Lansdowne Resort was kind enough to let us raffle off (1) free tee time! Stay tuned for more info about that!

Purchase your guest passes here!

Thanks everyone!

This entry was posted on April 26, 2010 at 4:03 PM and has received 3140 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

Thank you everyone who voted in the State of the CF Union survey. I noticed that many folks are not on the latest version of CF and are yet to adopt OO and frameworks. However CFC use is nearly universal. And open source products such as CFEclipse, MySQL and Railo are heavily used. Group learning resources such as user groups and conferences are used by the majority of developers.

Here are some of the interesting things I learned from the detailed results:

• 80% of developers are using CF8, with about half that number using CF9
• If you are running CF6 or earlier you are behind the curve
• Nearly a quarter of developers are using the open source Railo ColdFusion
• More than half are using Enterprise CF (vs Standard)
• 80% run on Windows
• A third use Fusebox with other frameworks such as Model Glue, Mach-II and ColdBox at 12-16%
• While nearly everyone uses CFCs only a third use ColdSpring or similar to organize their CFC and only one in six do data via CFCs using ORM
• UDFs, Custom tags and CFIncludes are still popular ways to reuse code but are starting to fall behind CFCs these days
• Most developers have used CF for more than 6 years and over 90% use object orientation
• CFers are heavily multi-lingual - using Flex, Java, PHP, AIR and .Net in large numbers
• SQL Server remains the database of choice, with MySQL closely following. Oracle and Access runners up.
• Two-thirds of developers use subversion, but a shocking 20% don't do source code control at all
• CFEclipse, Dreamweaver and CF Builder are the top tools
• Two thirds of developer attend a local user group some of the time
• CFUnited is the most attended conference by CF developers, followed by MAX and CF.Objective()
• The top challenges facing developers today is too much work, followed by maintaining someone else's badly written code and finding the time to learn new features.

And the winner of the ticket to CFUnited is Matthew Jones from Indianapolis IN. If you need to get on top of your backlog of work, learn new CF features, meet OO gurus or get up to speed on Flex or AIR then check out CFUnited.

This entry was posted on January 29, 2010 at 5:54 PM and has received 6805 views. There are currently 6 comments. Print this entry.

Be the very first to own a copy of ColdFusion 9 at CFUnited next week! Winner will receive the copy in the mail as soon as the release is announced.

To be eligible to win you must:

• be a registered CFUnited attendee
• fill out your session/ conference surveys
• be present during the Demo Mania Friday at 5:20pm

We will be raffling off a lot more really cool Adobe software, ThinkGeek goodies and other sponsor prizes, so make sure you are present!

This entry was posted on August 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM and has received 4234 views. There are currently 2 comments. Print this entry.

A message from Ajay Sathuluri - Speaker

CFUnited is next week!

I'll be presenting on Wednesday on "Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool". I'll be covering Basic, parameterized, and scripted load testing. It's a fairly inexpensive tool, but can do some powerful testing.

This week I also found out I'll be able to raffle 3 software licenses: 2 licenses for Paessler Webserver Stress Tool, and 1 for FusionReactor server monitor! ($1000 worth of software). Licenses sponsored by Paessler and Intergral, respectively.

Topics:

* Test Types

* setting up a set of URLs

* Multiple users

* URLs bound to a dataset (parameterize the tested URLs, merge with a dataset; one set for each user)

* Scripting, instead of list of URLs

* Simulate multiple simultaneous CF sessions

* How to simulate AJAX calls

* Test results and logs; where's the most useful information

This entry was posted on August 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM and has received 2879 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Nominate the Best in the Industry for the Adobe Community Achievement Awards. Formerly known as the CFEmmys, Todd Sharp has reintroduced to CFUnited a chance to recognize those who display excellence.

Please enter your nominations by June 8th

Everyone is eligible and feel free to nominate yourself. Todd will narrow down the results and CFUnited will provide the list to the public before the vote on winners begins.

http://cfunited.com/go/survey/172

This entry was posted on May 21, 2009 at 8:47 PM and has received 4987 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

We are giving away $200 at the end of each month to one lucky winner who has CFUnited Blog Bling on their blog/ website!

To enter the contest pick from the CFUnited Blog Bling, then fill out this form to submit your URL. At the end of each month between now and July 2009 we will pick a random winner from the URL's entered into the contest. Anyone can enter the contest and you can submit as many URL's as you like to enhance your chances of winning.

We are picking the March winner on 03/30/09 after 3pm, so go get your CFUnited Blog Bling now!

This entry was posted on March 26, 2009 at 3:07 PM and has received 3484 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

Our friends at ThinkGeek are giving CFUnited three prizes each month to raffle off to our attendees.

This months prizes are three of their Nintendo Wall Graphics, perfect for decorating the office space!

We will be announcing the three winners on March 31, 2009. Don't forget you must be registered in order to participate in the raffle.

This entry was posted on March 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM and has received 3612 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.