Attention CFUnited Saturday Attendees
We will be picking the Saturday Topics Mid-June. We will be looking at the most popular sessions once more attendees pick their agenda for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday on the scheduler. This will help us determine the most popular topics to repeat on Saturday.
If you have a suggestion for a must have topic on Saturday as repeat, please email it to liz (at) cfunited.com
We will work with the community to pick those sessions. Thanks!
You can now make comments about topics on CFUnited.com!
If you see a topic you would like more information about, go to that topic link and write your comment to the speaker. You will get an email and the speaker will get an email. Also check back often to see what others are saying about all the topics.
Here's a demo to see how to do this. There's no sound (couldn't find my microphone) but you can get the idea. :-)
http://tinyurl.com/cfunitedcomments
Happy Q&A everyone!
We noticed over some time that Scott Stroz and Shlomy Gantz had similar topics. So Scott has agreed to speak on a new topic which also belongs in the Best Practices Track.
"ColdFusion and jQuery: Perfect Together"
jQuery has been defined (by me) as the 'ColdFusion of JavaScript libraries' because you can do some very cool stuff with very little code. In this session we will compare ColdFusion's AJAX functionality and jQuery (including jQueryUI) to show when you might chose one over the other. We will also discuss how you can integrate both to make your applications that much better.
If you would like to comment on his topic, go here: http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/286
Hello Community!
We've posted the schedule.
http://cfunited.com/2009/schedule
We have some new topics on the way as well. The Scheduler Software will be coming May 22nd.
Each topic has an assigned room with the number of seats available. If you plan on attending, you will have to add your favorite topics to your personal schedule to reserve a seat.
Keep subscribed to this blog for the announcement when the time comes to fill out your personal schedule.
Adobe topics are TBA at the moment.
Thanks for registering for CFUnited!
We've accepted a few more new topics.
Sean Moore had to cancel and we've chosen Javier Julio as his replacement. Digging Through the Flex Framework
Aaron West is a wild card speaker. His topic is AIR Messaging: Integrating AIR, BlazeDS, and ColdFusion
Charlie Arehart has another new topic Using Apache Derby, the Open Source Database Embedded in ColdFusion 8
Here are the list of women speakers that have been chosen to present their topic at CFUnited!
Dee Sadler - "Flash Catalyst round trip wireframe"
Lisa Heselton - "Rapid Application Prototyping w/Captivate"
Rachel Lehman - "Keeping Front End Dependencies Under Control"
Huyen Dao - "Divide and Conquer: Greenthreading in Flex/AIR"
Gail Shoffey - "Payment Processing Paradigm"
Selene Bainum - "eCommerce: Build or Buy"
These topics will be listed on the main site momentarily. Help me publicly congratulate all the ladies for submitting topics. I'm very excited to have them speaking at our conference.
STATISTIC: 14% of the current registrations for CFUnited are Women!
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
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.
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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