I just read Clark Valberg's interview with Michael Dinowitz about his upcoming presentation at CFUNITED/Express NYC - looks like a great chance to learn about the right way to code for reuseabilty from an expert! Read more at: http://www.fusionauthority.com/Community/ 4664-CFUNITED-Express-NYC- Interview-with-Michael-Dinowitz.htm

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I hope everyone is familiar with our awesome sponsors! If not, I hope you visit their booths at the event. Our sponsors really help shape the community and keep these events exciting. We've recently aquired new sponsors, so we just had to announce them all together. This list is in no specific order.

AboutWeb, Silver Sponsor, is running the community pit and I hear it is going to have a really cool set up this year. Lots of prizes and activities. I know Simon and Nick Tunney look forward to presenting their awesome topics and another one soon to be announced in the Flex track. http://www.aboutweb.com/

Webapper, Silver Sponsor, will be announcing a really cool topic to be presented at the conference soon. I'm sure everyone saw their awesome Seefusion tshirts last year. You see, I see, we all see. http://webapper.com/

Straker Interactive, Silver Sponsor, is making the long trip again to join us. Don't forget to check out their booth for a demo of their cool product ShadowCMS with ZoomFlex. http://straker.co.nz/

CFDynamics, Elevated Silver Sponsor, is going out of their way to make the attendee get-together pretty awesome this year I heard. Can't wait! Plus they've been incredible help with hosting our conference websites. Thanks guys! http://www.cfdynamics.com/

Paperthin, Elevated Silver Sponsor, will be coming again in full force and looks forward to meeting everyone this year, including Ron West who will be announcing his topic soon. http://www.paperthin.com/

Hostmysite, Gold Sponsor, will be out and about displaying their awesome service and keeping us well hydrated with bottles of water at every corner. Plus they will be co-sponsoring the attendee ColdFusion celebration with Adobe again. http://www.adobe.com/

Adobe, Platinum Sponsor, is taking their place at the top and they are coming in full fashion this year with incredible topics and awesome prizes. TeraTech is proud of its partnership with Adobe and looks forward to a successful year creating awesome applications with ColdFusion and Flex. And I can't wait for Ben Forta's Keynote presentation this year, can you? http://www.adobe.com/

Edgewood Solutions, Bronze Sponsor, will be participating again this year and making sure everyone knows how they do SQL better. Jeremy Kadlec's topic will be announced soon and you won't want to miss this presentation. http://www.edgewoodsolutions.com/

New Atlanta, Gold Sponsor, is back with their awesome server-side products and ready to meet all of you. Not to mention we love their cool give-a-ways. Be sure to check out their new presentation being announced soon. http://www.newatlanta.com/

Universal Mind, Silver Sponsor, looks forward to meeting everyone again at their booth and don't forget their awesome presenter Thomas Burleson speaking in the Flex Track. http://www.universalmind.com/

Sys-con Media, Bronze Sponsor, is providing a free copy of ColdFusion Developer's Journal again to everyone at the conference. So don't forget to look in your goodie bag for the latest issue at the conference. Oh, and keep an eye out for CFUnited's ad in the next issue of CFDJ. http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/

A big thanks to all our sponsors for their support and contribution to this amazing community. All attendees will receive cool promotions and gain lots of valueable information from our sponsors. We hope to post all these sponsors and more details on our newly designed CFUnited website soon. Be sure to visit them as well during our Sponsored Networking Event on the first night of the conference.

If you would like to sponsor, contact LIZ, at 301.424.3903 x107

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Adding data to a database and then displaying that data is one of the main tasks in most ColdFusion programs. In this session we will cover the basics of database access in CF, including how to setup a data source, how to create SQL queries in CF, how to select data to display, options available to you when outputting data and the basics of inserting and updating data.

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ColdFusion has always been an excellent tool for rapidly delivering high-quality web applications, but by adopting techniques and software from the Agile world, we can deliver applications even faster. In this session, we'll take a look at how we can use open source frameworks, automated database/object-relational mapping software, and unit tests to quickly build a simple application. The proof for Agility will be this session itself - we'll build a small but non-trivial ColdFusion application using a selection of these tools during the session. We'll start with an empty directory and end up with a fully-functional and tested prototype site before the timer ticks down.

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CFUnited Announces the Flex track topics. http://cfunited.com/2007/pages/topics.cfm

Actually we have renamed the track to Flex/Apollo/Ajax. We will be adding more topics to that track soon. And, yes, Apollo too!

I've had a lot of questions about Scorpio Topics. We do have them on reserve. So don't worry! Adobe is going to be announced as Platinum Sponsor soon and they will cover some excellent topics.

Flex Topics

Advanced Styling and Skinning in Flex 2 * Rob Rusher

Continuous Testing with Flex and Coldfusion Projects * Thomas Burleson (Universal Mind)

Flex 101 * Ted Patrick (Adobe)

Flex 2 for ColdFusion Developers * Jeff Tapper

Flex and Ajax: perfect match * Rob Gonda (iChameleon Group)

Flex Data Services & ColdFusion Scorpio - Faster, Better and Cooler than ever! * Tom Jordahl (Adobe)

Using MVC with Flex/Coldfusion projects * Thomas Burleson (Universal Mind)

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http://www.cfunitedexpress.com

Do you live in or near New York City? Well CFUnited is coming to New York March 8th at the Graduate Center. We are bringing the awesome CFUnited experience to you. This is a chance for you to test out CFUnited for one whole day. If you like what you see, you can attend CFUnited in DC for a huge discount! Subtract what you paid at Express from the current price of CFUnited. Registered for CFUnited already? Go to Express for free!

It gets better! We've added a new speaker. Raymond Camden's topic should be announce this week! How cool is that to be in the same room as CF experts like Ben Forta, Shlomy Gantz, Michael Smith, Michael Dinowitz, and Raymond Camden!

Plus! You get a FREE CFUnited laptop bookbag and cool free stuff, valued at over $75!

http://www.cfunitedexpress.com

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We had a power failure here in our offices in the DC-area, and as a result, our online registration system is down.

We'll have an announcement just as soon as power is back up and registration becomes available once again.

Sorry 'bout that!

Feb 22, 2007 9:00 AM I got a message that things are working again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Frameworks conference Presentations are posted online.

Sorry for the wait folks. The presentations are available for the public.

http://www.frameworksconference.com/pages/topics.cfm

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This topic includes some nice hidden features of ColdFusion MX that you won't find anywhere in the documentation. Learn how to use these features through an example rich presentation. These undocumented treasures will show there is much more to ColdFusion than meets the eye.

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Frameworks-Who Needs Them? Why do some people swear by them while others swear at them? What's all the fuss about? Hal Helms is the pioneer of the popular Mach-II and Fusebox frameworks, and Simon Horwith has, after several outspoken public comments on the subject, managed to become the unofficial opponent of framework use.

This is a steel cage match. Audience participation is encouraged, the fight... err...umm... debate, will be limited to 10 rounds, and there will be no hitting below the belt (we'll see about that). But remember, at the end: There Can Be Only One.

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