CFUnited Blog - CF Meetup http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm This is the development blog. en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:19:01 -0500 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:24:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss michael@teratech.com michael@teratech.com michael@teratech.com no CF Meetup: "CFUNITED Preview: Using Apache Derby", with Charlie Arehart http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/29/CF-Meetup-CFUNITED-Preview-Using-Apache-Derby-with-Charlie-Arehart CF Meetup: "CFUNITED Preview: Using Apache Derby", with Charlie Arehart <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//meetup_logo_8.gif"> Thursday, Thurs. Jul 30, 6:00pm US EDT Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by Charlie Arehart Description: Using Apache Derby, the Open Source Database Embedded in ColdFusion 8 Come see a preview (about 20-30 minutes) of one of my CFUnited sessions, this one on Apache Derby. No, it's not "new in CF9", but many have missed or dismissed it. In this session, you will learn about the Apache Derby database included in ColdFusion 8. A full-featured database with a ten-year heritage, Apache Derby is fully transactional, easy to use, and standards based and has the advanced features you'd expect in any quality DBMS. Yet it's small, at only 2MB. You'll find out how to use Apache Derby within ColdFusion, as well as about tools that work with it and where to learn more. Again, this is just a preview, but for many it will be more than they've ever heard about the Derby DBMS embedded in CF8. I'm sure some will have preconceived notions about the tool. Come share your thoughts. I hope to dispel a few myths along the way. To learn more visit <a href="http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10978170/?a=nr1p_grp">http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10978170/?a=nr1p_grp</a> CF Meetup Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:24:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/29/CF-Meetup-CFUNITED-Preview-Using-Apache-Derby-with-Charlie-Arehart CF Meetup: "Trailer for CFUNITED: Who killed ColdFusion?", with David Stockton http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/27/CF-Meetup-Trailer-for-CFUNITED-Who-killed-ColdFusion-with-David-Stockton CF Meetup: "Trailer for CFUNITED: Who killed ColdFusion?", with David Stockton <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//meetup_logo_8.gif"> Thursday, Jul 30, 12:00pm US EDT Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by Charlie Arehart Description: At CFUnited join the CSI: ColdFusion Server Investigation team using state of the art server analysis tools to unravel a mystery. Together we must hunt down and stop a ColdFusion serial killer who's hanging CF Servers across the country. To not give away the mystery, this CFMeetup presentation will focus on how you can use a new ColdFusion analysis tool from the makers of FusionReactor to help you find out how and why a server was "killed." To learn more visit <a href="http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10969750/">http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10969750/</a> CF Meetup Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:38:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/27/CF-Meetup-Trailer-for-CFUNITED-Who-killed-ColdFusion-with-David-Stockton CF Meetup: "Database Patterns for Unit Testing", with Bill Shelton http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/16/CF-Meetup-Database-Patterns-for-Unit-Testing-with-Bill-Shelton CF Meetup: "Database Patterns for Unit Testing", with Bill Shelton <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//meetup_logo_8.gif"> Thursday, July 17, 12:00pm Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: Testing code that touches databases needs to be done, but it's hard. Databases can be large, complex, and the data can be changing frequently. To make matters worse, there are numerous vendor-specific database implementations that make it difficult to provide unified solutions to testing. In this talk, we will discuss some approaches to these challenges. We will show you how you can design your code so that you can isolate and test CF code that interacts with databases, we will show you how you can test database logic independently of your cf application, and we will discuss some Database Sandbox approaches developers can use to create a local test lab. To learn more visit <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/8344536/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/8344536/</a> CF Meetup Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:06:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/16/CF-Meetup-Database-Patterns-for-Unit-Testing-with-Bill-Shelton CF Meetup: ColdFusion and Flex, with Dale Fraser http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/21/CF-Meetup-ColdFusion-and-Flex-with-Dale-Fraser CF Meetup: ColdFusion and Flex, with Dale Fraser <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//meetup_logo_8.gif"> Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: So how hard is it to write Flex applications that utilise ColdFusion components? It?s actually very easy, easier than you might think. One of the reasons for giving this talk is that I initially found it hard to get my head around how it would work, how to configure it all and looked at it and then put it aside a few times. >From doing this I have learnt what I think is the easiest way to get ColdFusion & Flex configured to work together, this is what I will be demonstrating. I?ll show the basics of configuration (Flex Builder and some setup of CF), then will show and discuss several forms of integration: remote objects, remoting & binding, and using queries, arrays, structures, and objects/CFCs. To learn more visit <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7928523/?a=nr1p_grp">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7928523/?a=nr1p_grp</a> CF Meetup Wed, 21 May 2008 12:43:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/21/CF-Meetup-ColdFusion-and-Flex-with-Dale-Fraser CF Meetup: ColdFusion and Flex, with Dale Fraser http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/6/CF-Meetup-ColdFusion-and-Flex-with-Dale-Fraser CF Meetup: ColdFusion and Flex, with Dale Fraser <img src="http://img4.meetupstatic.com/img/logo/random_logo/meetup_logo_29.gif" Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: So how hard is it to write Flex applications that utilise ColdFusion components? It?s actually very easy, easier than you might think. One of the reasons for giving this talk is that I initially found it hard to get my head around how it would work, how to configure it all and looked at it and then put it aside a few times. >From doing this I have learnt what I think is the easiest way to get ColdFusion & Flex configured to work together, this is what I will be demonstrating. I?ll show the basics of configuration (Flex Builder and some setup of CF), then will show and discuss several forms of integration: remote objects, remoting & binding, and using queries, arrays, structures, and objects/CFCs. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7876941/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7876941/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 06 May 2008 17:38:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/6/CF-Meetup-ColdFusion-and-Flex-with-Dale-Fraser CF Meetup: CFInterface , with Robin Hilliard http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/29/CF-Meetup-CFInterface--with-Robin-Hilliard CF Meetup: CFInterface , with Robin Hilliard Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 11:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: With all the fantastic new features in ColdFusion 8 you could be forgiven for overlooking the CFInterface tag. But with the introduction of CFInterface Adobe has given us a fundamental concept of most object oriented programming languages that has been missing since the introduction of components in CFMX, a concept used to great effect in many key design patterns and extensible software frameworks like Eclipse. In this presentation Robin explains what an interface is, how they're used in software design and how to use CFInterface to bring them to your ColdFusion applications. It's a lot simpler and cooler than you might think. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7837529/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7837529/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:09:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/29/CF-Meetup-CFInterface--with-Robin-Hilliard CF Meetup: Leveraging RDS in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, and HomeSite+/CF Studio, with Charlie Arehart http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/29/CF-Meetup-Leveraging-RDS-in-Eclipse-Dreamweaver-and-HomeSiteCF-Studio-with-Charlie-Arehart CF Meetup: Leveraging RDS in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, and HomeSite+/CF Studio, with Charlie Arehart <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//Charles_Arehart1.jpg"> Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: Are you using the RDS-enabled features in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, or HomeSite+? If not, you could be missing out on a lot of increased productivity, from the query building tools it enables, to the component browsing tools, to enabling file access across the web, and more. Perhaps it's been disabled on your server, or people may argue that it's insecure. If you could be shown how it could be secured, might you (or your admin) reconsider it? I think it's a tragedy how many developers suffer without leveraging RDS, certainly on their own machines, and even on shared servers. Whether you think RDS evil or a blessing, or are unaware of what it enables in your favorite CFML editor, and whether you use CF 8 or earlier, there may be more to RDS than you realize. And there are solutions to security concerns, especially in CF8 but even beforehand. In this talk, frequent CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will show you all the ways that RDS can be used to make you more productive in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, or HomeSite+. He'll also address (and in some cases resolve) common security concerns, especially the multi-user RDS security available in CF 8 (and CF 4 and 5), as well as how to enable it if it's been disabled (assuming you have the right to make configuration changes, of course). To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7837371/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7837371/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:01:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/29/CF-Meetup-Leveraging-RDS-in-Eclipse-Dreamweaver-and-HomeSiteCF-Studio-with-Charlie-Arehart CF Meetup: Introducing sebForm, with Steve Bryant http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/15/CF-Meetup-Introducing-sebForm-with-Steve-Bryant CF Meetup: Introducing sebForm, with Steve Bryant Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: The cf_sebForm custom tag simplifies development of simple forms. It separates logic and display, integrates with CFCs, and manages validation. The output is unobtrusive and skinnable. In this short presentation you will see how to use cf_sebForm to create a simple contact forms, integrate with CFCs, manage validations (both type and business logic), upload files, and reduce spam. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7741474/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7741474/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:57:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/15/CF-Meetup-Introducing-sebForm-with-Steve-Bryant CF Meetup: Unit Testing w/MXUnit - Part 2: In Action or In The Weeds, with Bill Shelton http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/8/CF-Meetup-Unit-Testing-wMXUnit--Part-2-In-Action-or-In-The-Weeds-with-Bill-Shelton CF Meetup: Unit Testing w/MXUnit - Part 2: In Action or In The Weeds, with Bill Shelton Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Organized by <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/members/1758213/"> Charlie Arehart</a> Description: In the second part of the series we'll continue by reviewing the installation for MXUnit and basic unit testing. We'll then delve into more detail by presenting more complex examples and some advanced concepts. We will show you how to automate your development tasks, increase efficiency, and develop a higher level of quality in your code. This will include automation: using MXUnit Ant task to run tests, using Ant to deploy your code, and concepts of continuous integration. We'll further show you how you can extend MXUnit to easily add your own custom assertions or alter the existing ones without altering the MXUnit framework code. Time permitting we'll discuss some of the hard questions related to unit testing in general, not just in the ColdFusion world: how to test private methods, how to handle external resources like databases, and what Mock objects, fixtures, and scaffolding are and how they might be used. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7691492/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7691492/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:17:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/8/CF-Meetup-Unit-Testing-wMXUnit--Part-2-In-Action-or-In-The-Weeds-with-Bill-Shelton CF Meetup: XML and ColdFusion, with Nic Tunney http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/4/CF-Meetup-XML-and-ColdFusion-with-Nic-Tunney CF Meetup: XML and ColdFusion, with Nic Tunney Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/ ">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/ </a> Description: XML and ColdFusion is an intermediate level presentation delving into not only what XML is and what it means to developers as both a communication tool and persistence layer, but also how to traverse the XML Dom using ColdFusion. If time permits, an XPath demonstration will be given as well. This presentation assumes a basic knowledge of ColdFusion arrays and structures. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7388675/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7388675/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:10:07 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/4/CF-Meetup-XML-and-ColdFusion-with-Nic-Tunney CF Meetup: ANT on the Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS, with Marc Esher http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/27/CF-Meetup-ANT-on-the-Wire-Using-FTP-Email-SVN-and-VSS-with-Marc-Esher CF Meetup: ANT on the Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS, with Marc Esher <br/> Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM <br/> Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> <br/> Description: This is a how-to session on using FTP, Email, Subversion, and VSS access in your ANT build files. It will demonstrate exactly how to configure your environment for using these tasks and will demo all of them. I'll show you where to go in the documentation to learn all about these tasks. In addition, I'll show how all of this comes together in the build we use for MXUnit. A small bonus -- using ANT for version numbering -- will sneak in there, too b/c it's so cool. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7386772/?gj=&a=nr1p_grp">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7386772/?gj=&a=nr1p_grp</a> <br/> CF Meetup Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:37:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/27/CF-Meetup-ANT-on-the-Wire-Using-FTP-Email-SVN-and-VSS-with-Marc-Esher CF Meetup: BlazeDS Revealed! , with Tom Jordahl of Adobe http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/27/CF-Meetup-BlazeDS-Revealed--with-Tom-Jordahl-of-Adobe CF Meetup: BlazeDS Revealed! , with Tom Jordahl of Adobe <br/> Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM <br/> Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> <br/> Description: Recently Adobe announced the release of BlazeDS which will make some key server technologies open source and free to use in any application. These technologies are critical to building great applications with Flex and AIR. Tom will talk about exactly what you get in BlazeDS and how it relates to LiveCycle Data Services and will detail some of the reasons why you might want to use these server technologies. He will also explain how ColdFusion developers can take advantage of BlazeDS in their applications. To learn more visit: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7387399/?gj=&a=nr1p_grp">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7387399/?gj=&a=nr1p_grp</a> <br/> CF Meetup Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:23:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/27/CF-Meetup-BlazeDS-Revealed--with-Tom-Jordahl-of-Adobe CF Meetup: "Testing with cfcUnit", with John Mason http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/20/CF-Meetup-Testing-with-cfcUnit-with-John-Mason CF Meetup: "Testing with cfcUnit", with John Mason <br/> Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM <br/> Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> <br/> Description: Unit testing and test-driven development are common in the Java world but can still be fairly new to web developers. We will explore the different types of testing and how unit testing fits in. We'll try to address why unit testing is something you will want to do in your future development and current projects. Next, we will see how CFCUnit helps us in performing unit tests against our ColdFusion coding and then how it applies to the test driven development (TDD) methodology. Finally, we'll explore continuous testing with CFCUnit and ANT. With ANT, you can automate your unit tests and run them either command line or with Eclipse. To learn more visit: <a href="http://cfunited.com/blog/admin/entry.cfm?id=0">http://cfunited.com/blog/admin/entry.cfm?id=0</a> <br/> CF Meetup Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:17:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/20/CF-Meetup-Testing-with-cfcUnit-with-John-Mason CF Meetup: Building ColdFusion based Flex applications using ZoomFlex, with Grant Straker http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/21/CF-Meetup-Building-ColdFusion-based-Flex-applications-using-ZoomFlex-with-Grant-Straker CF Meetup: Building ColdFusion based Flex applications using ZoomFlex, with Grant Straker Thursday, Jan 24, 12:00pm EST Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> We'll have two speakers on Jan 24. First up will be Grant Straker on "Building ColdFusion based Flex applications using ZoomFlex". I'll have more on the 6pm speaker later in a separate entry. Attend this meetup to get a quick intro into ZoomFlex, a ColdFusion based rapid development tool for building Cairngorm based Flex applications. You will learn why the Cairngorm framework is so important in Flex development and get a clear understanding of it's main features and concepts. The session will also take you through some of the best practices with regards to buildling data driven CF / Flex application and how to leverage CF and as a server side engine for Flex applications. Learn more here: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7165145/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7165145/</a> CF Meetup Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:38:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/21/CF-Meetup-Building-ColdFusion-based-Flex-applications-using-ZoomFlex-with-Grant-Straker CF Meetup: CFUnited Europe Preview, "Practical Code Generation", with Peter Bell http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/15/CF-Meetup-CFUnited-Europe-Preview-Practical-Code-Generation-with-Peter-Bell CF Meetup: CFUnited Europe Preview, "Practical Code Generation", with Peter Bell Thursday, Jan 17, 6:00pm EST Meeting URL: <a href="http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/">http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/</a> Peter Bell, presenting another preview session for the upcoming CFUnited Europe event (http://europe.cfunited.com/) being held March 12-13th in London. These preview talks will be about half the duration of the full hour-long sessions, giving a taste of what the full session would cover. He will be speaking on "Practical Code Generation". A 20-30 minute preview session of my full session where we'd learn how to generate your applications in a fraction of the time by using the latest techniques proven to reduce application development times - from Software Product Lines to Domain Specific Languages. Learn more here: <a href="http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7117727/">http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7117727/</a> CF Meetup Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:04:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/15/CF-Meetup-CFUnited-Europe-Preview-Practical-Code-Generation-with-Peter-Bell