Lance Smith & Aaron Wolfe on CFUnited video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0nOITyE4U

Handling Errors with Error Handling

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Hello NYC!

Officially the entire CFUnited Stellr team is coming to NYC. That's myself (Liz), Nafisa, and Elliott. Plus a regular helper of our Cara. We have more cool prizes and more goodies to hand out.

http://express.cfunited.com/go/newyork/2009/

Some important changes to note:

Jeff Tapper has needed to cancel. In his place is Javier Julio, an emerging Flex speaker. Javier's topic is temporarily titled "Digging Through the Flex Framework" and promises to be an amazing set of useful skills and real world case studies.

Sean Hanover had a family emergency and will unfortunately not be able to present. Michael Dinowitz a long time CFUnited presenter and always a crowd pleaser has agreed to give his presentation titled "Google Webmaster Tools, What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You"

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We have only 4 seats left. If you want to register at the door, you will need to contact us to see if we have space.

Date: Monday 4/20/2009

Location: Pace University - New York City Campus

One Pace Plaza

2nd Floor - Lecture Hall South

New York, NY 10038

Phone: 212-346-1200

Check in at security desk - Main Lobby on right side of One Pace Plaza building near William Street

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Schedule:

9:00AM 9:15AM Elliott Sprehn Welcome to CFUnited Express

9:15AM 10:15AM Ben Nadel Advanced Custom Tags

10:25AM 11:25AM Peter Bell Practical Code Generation

11:25AM 12:25PM Lunch

12:30PM 1:30PM Simon Free Flex-a-sketch: Creating online drawing and image creation tools

1:40PM 2:40PM Andrew Schwabe Charting with ColdFusion and Flex

2:50PM 3:50PM Michael Dinowitz Google Webmaster Tools, What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You

4:00PM 5:00PM Javier Julio Digging through the Flex Framework

5:00PM 5:15PM Elliott Sprehn Raffle

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Someone asked me on twitter how was Denver Express? (@chrishough)

I went to Denver with only a few expectations, to meet cool new people and too put on a great event. I'd say I accomplished both of those. The people in Denver are great. So nice and really easy going. Everyone showed up to the conference with a positive attitude and ready to learn. They asked great questions and really appreciated all the work involved. We had about 20 people attend, which is a good size for something like this. I met a few guys who said that this was their first time ever going to an event for CF ever. They were just really appreciative to meet other local developers and talk code.

I gave so much stuff away, seriously. From software to ThinkGeek toys, it was a good time for all. Someone even won the Annoy-a-Tron (which is a prize in every UG package and Express event), and couldn't resist testing it out. lol It really is annoying!

I've posted 4 out of the 6 presentations on the topics page. http://express.cfunited.com/go/denver/2009/topics

Rob Rusher was first with AIR development. Comments were "Good knowledge of info", "Very good info for getting started with AIR", and "I learned a couple of things. That is always good."

Mike Brunt was filling in for Patrick Quinn on Wholesum Performance. Comments were "Mike has a Killer Accent :-)", "Depth of knowledge", "Provided good tricks and tips about most common performance issues" and "lots of great info Wow!"

Nate Nelson talked about DB tips. Comments were "Professional and Knowledgeable", "Tons of great info", and "Detailed examples, relevant to my specific needs."

Mike Brunt talked about JVM. Comments were "Its good to know these techniques are available.", "Like the demo, Interesting overview", "Great in depth info on tuning the JVM and I'm really scared of the JVM - now I feel enabled to tune it!"

RJ Owen talked on Component LifeCycle in Flex 3. Comments were "Great info on how Flex 3 works informally", "Instructor's knowledge", "In depth and informative on an important topic that not many people seem to know a lot about"

Kevin Hoyt talked on CF/LCDS. Comments were "Kevin always makes it look easy", "Easy to follow", and "Overwhelmed!! Excellent".

Comments about the event itself: Wish we had longer sessions. More time for Q&A. More hands on. It was a solid one day. I got some good info. Good advanced content. This was great!! Thank you!! Come back to Denver.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhODJDkRUfU

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBocBdDw7g0

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This is the Ultimate Manager Guide for CFUnited 2009.

If you do anything today, print a copy of this document and hand it to your manager. It has great information and I hope they realize that CFUnited is the place for you to be this year.

http://cfunited.com/images/CFUnited2009_managerguide.pdf

*Also, please tell your friends :-)

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We are really looking forward to the Flex tracks this year. Basic and Advanced. Here's the rest of what you have to look forward to at CFUnited for Flex and AIR.

Ryan Stewart "Flash Catalyst"

Greg Owen "Introduction to AIR"

Christophe Conerats "LCDS next"

Doug McCune "Riding Coattails to the Top: Using Open Source Flex and ActionScript Projects"

Tom Gonzalez "Data Visualization with Flex"

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That's right, 6 topics covering Database Systems. There's something new for everyone. Check it out.

Advanced SQL for ColdFusion
Presented By Sean Woods (Adobe Systems, Inc.)

Database Performance Tuning: No Magic is Needed a Systematic Approach Will Do
Presented By Damon Brown (Policy Studies)

Database Tips, Tricks, & Secrets
Presented By Nate Nelson (Policy Studies)

Getting Started with SQL Server 2008 for ColdFusion Developers
Presented By Jeremy Kadlec

Head to Head Database Systems: Oracle vs SQL Server vs MySQL
Presented By Nate Nelson (Policy Studies)

Intro to SQL Server Reporting
Presented By Selene Bainum

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I couldn't hold out on these awesome new topics any more so I'm announcing them today.

Raymond Camden Charting and ColdFusion

Simon Free Facebook apps with a ColdFusion backend

Oguz Demirkapi Geolocation with ColdFusion

Peter Bell RAD Object Oriented CF Development

Mark Drew Model-Glue and you: MVC, hassle free!

Pete Freitag Design Diagrams for CFC's and Databases

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Hello NYC! We are coming back to your home town.

Only $149

Register now! http://express.cfunited.com/go/newyork/2009/

It will be held at the Pace University on April 20th.

We will have coffee, snacks, lunch, and lots of free stuff. Including a CF8 tag poster for each person. Lots of prizes and software to give away. Even a free ticket to CFUnited.

REMEMBER, when you register at an express event you can use 100% of your registration as a discount towards CFUnited's main event in August.

Topics and Speakers:

Advanced Custom Tags Presented By Ben Nadel

Charting with ColdFusion and Flex Presented By Andrew Schwabe

Flex-a-sketch: Creating online drawing and image creation tools Presented By Simon Free

Practical Code Generation Presented By Peter Bell

Selling Selling CF Development to Small and Mid Size Businesses Presented By Sean Hanover

TBA topic Presented By Jeff Tapper

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