CFUnited Blog - prizes http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm This is the development blog. en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2024 04:18:24 -0500 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:46:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss michael@teratech.com michael@teratech.com michael@teratech.com no Social Media Raffle - Second Drawing http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/7/Social-Media-Raffle--Second-Drawing 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 <b>Friday, July 9, 2010</b>!! Make sure you are keeping up with CFUnited, Stellr and the Lansdowne Resort on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!!! prizes Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:46:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/7/Social-Media-Raffle--Second-Drawing Social Media Raffle - First Drawing http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/6/29/Social-Media-Raffle--First-Drawing 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 <b>CFUnited page on Facebook</b>! 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 <b>Friday, July 2, 2010</b>. promotions prizes featured Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:43:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/6/29/Social-Media-Raffle--First-Drawing Golf Contest http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/6/1/Golf-Contest Hello everyone, <img src="http://www.alhi.com/images/memberPhotos/Main36.jpg"> 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 <b>June 30, 2010</b> 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 <a href="http://register.cfunited.com">register</a>, 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! hotel contest prizes featured Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:36:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/6/1/Golf-Contest Guest Pass Changes and Hotel Prizes http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/26/Guest-Pass-Changes-and-Hotel-Prizes 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 <a href="http://www.lansdowneresort.com">Lansdowne Resort</a> 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 <a href="http://register.cfunited.com">here</a>! Thanks everyone! hotel travel prizes featured Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:03:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/26/Guest-Pass-Changes-and-Hotel-Prizes State of the CF Union results and winner http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/29/State-of-the-CF-Union-results-and-winner <p>Thank you everyone who voted in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">State of the CF Union</span> 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.</p> <p>Here are some of the interesting things I learned from the detailed <a href="http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/14/State-of-the-CF-Union-survey--partial-results">results</a>:</p> <ul> <li>80% of developers are using <span style="font-weight: bold;">CF8</span>, with about half that number using CF9</li> <li>If you are running CF6 or earlier you are behind the curve</li> <li>Nearly a quarter of developers are using the open source <span style="font-weight: bold;">Railo</span> ColdFusion</li> <li>More than half are using <span style="font-weight: bold;">Enterprise </span>CF (vs Standard)</li> <li>80% run on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Windows</span></li> <li>A third use <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fusebox </span>with other frameworks such as Model Glue, Mach-II and ColdBox at 12-16%</li> <li>While nearly everyone uses <span style="font-weight: bold;">CFC</span>s only a third use <span style="font-weight: bold;">ColdSpring </span>or similar to organize their CFC and only one in six do data via CFCs using ORM</li> <li>UDFs, Custom tags and CFIncludes are still popular ways to reuse code but are starting to fall behind CFCs these days</li> <li>Most developers have used CF for more than 6 years and over 90% use object orientation</li> <li>CFers are heavily <span style="font-weight: bold;">multi-lingual</span> - using Flex, Java, PHP, AIR and .Net in large numbers</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">SQL Server</span> remains the database of choice, with MySQL closely following. Oracle and Access runners up.</li> <li>Two-thirds of developers use <span style="font-weight: bold;">subversion</span>, but a shocking 20% don't do source code control at all</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">CFEclipse</span>, Dreamweaver and CF Builder are the top tools</li> <li>Two thirds of developer attend a local <span style="font-weight: bold;">user group</span> some of the time</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">CFUnited</span> is the most attended conference by CF developers, followed by MAX and CF.Objective()</li> <li>The top challenges facing developers today is <span style="font-weight: bold;">too much work</span>, followed by maintaining someone else's <span style="font-weight: bold;">badly written code</span> and finding the time to learn new features.</li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> survey prizes Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:54:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/29/State-of-the-CF-Union-results-and-winner Be the first to own ColdFusion 9 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/7/Be-the-first-to-own-ColdFusion-9 <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//cf9_cfunited.jpg"> Be the very first to own a copy of <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/?sdid=EUWVK">ColdFusion 9</a> at <a href="http://cfunited.com">CFUnited</a> next week! Winner will receive the copy in the mail as soon as the release is announced. To be eligible to win you must: <ul> <li>be a registered CFUnited attendee <li>fill out your session/ conference surveys <li>be present during the <a href="http://cfunited.com/2009/topics#topic-337">Demo Mania</a> Friday at 5:20pm </ul> We will be raffling off a lot more really cool Adobe software, ThinkGeek goodies and other sponsor prizes, so make sure you are present! community ColdFusion 9 prizes featured Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:23:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/7/Be-the-first-to-own-ColdFusion-9 Ajay Sathurlui - Session Raffle details http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/6/Ajay-Sathurlui--Session-Raffle-details 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 topics conference attendees speakers community prizes Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:59:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/6/Ajay-Sathurlui--Session-Raffle-details Adobe Community Achievement Awards http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/21/Adobe-Community-Achievement-Awards 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. <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/survey/172">http://cfunited.com/go/survey/172</a> survey adobe news conference attendees community events contest prizes featured news Thu, 21 May 2009 20:47:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/21/Adobe-Community-Achievement-Awards Do you have your CFUnited blog bling? We are picking the March winner 03/30/09! http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/26/Do-you-have-your-CFUnited-blog-bling-We-are-picking-the-March-winner-033009 <a href="http://cfunited.com"><img src="http://cfunited.com/images/125x125_cfunited_09.gif" border="0"/></a> We are giving away $200 at the end of each month to one lucky winner who has <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/spreadtheword">CFUnited Blog Bling</a> on their blog/ website! To enter the contest pick from the <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/spreadtheword">CFUnited Blog Bling</a>, then fill out this <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/survey/167">form</a> 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 <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/spreadtheword">CFUnited Blog Bling</a> now! attendees community contest promotions prizes Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:07:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/26/Do-you-have-your-CFUnited-blog-bling-We-are-picking-the-March-winner-033009 ThinkGeek giveaways - Nintendo Wall Graphics! http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/26/ThinkGeek-giveaways--Nintendo-Wall-Graphics <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//wall_decor.jpg"> Our friends at <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com">ThinkGeek</a> are giving CFUnited three prizes each month to raffle off to our attendees. This months prizes are three of their <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/japanfan/a6d0/">Nintendo Wall Graphics</a>, 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. community promotions prizes Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:27:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/26/ThinkGeek-giveaways--Nintendo-Wall-Graphics Win a Hyper-V VPS from Media3 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/26/Win-a-HyperV-VPS-from-Media3 We are very excited to have <a href="http://www.media3.net/">Media3</a> as a Silver Sponsor at <a href="http://cfunited.com">CFUnited</a> this year. To share in all the excitement, Media3 is giving us a Hyper-V VPS to CFUnited so that we can raffle it off to a randomly selected registered attendee by March 31, 2009! These VPS' are residing on 64 bit DELL 900 series servers with CF Enterprise, and are connected to a Gigi Bit switched network in their SAS70 data center. It is the latest technology. Below is a message from Bob Hayes, the CEO and Founder <a href="http://www.media3.net/">Media3</a>. <a href="http://media3.net/adobe.cfm"><img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//media3_logo.gif"></a> We know that finding a reliable hosting company to work with is not easy. So you'll be happy to know that at Media3 we don't believe in cutting corners. Our idea is simple and hasn't changed since 1995. We specialize in hosting the powerful development features of ColdFusion from Adobe. The pages that you visit at media3.net are driven by ColdFusion, in fact, our entire support, billing , sales and control panel functions are driven by CF. As a <b>Premier Adobe Hosting Partner</b> and a long term CF user, we are uniquely positioned to assist you in all aspects of your ColdFusion hosting environment. Have you ever watched the Miss Universe Pageant, used Equal Sweetener, Ever rode a Roller Coaster at Cedar Park in N.J. watched Ultimate Fighter Championship on Spike TV, thumbed through a National Geographic Magazine, heard of the United Auto Workers or United Nations? Well, all of the above and ten's of thousands more have trusted us with their web presence and email. We are one of the pioneers in the website hosting industry. We currently serve thousands of professional website designers and developers, just like you. We know how important proper professional hosting is to you and your clients. SERIOUS HOSTING FOR SOLID BUSINESS We are proud sponsors of the CFUNITED conference this August and hope to see you there. We are committed to the CF community and will be announcing a very special offer to ALL those who register, which we will announce at a later date. We have offered the Adobe evangelist free windows 2008 Hyper-V VPS' for both personal and professional projects. And we are looking to assist the community with any CF hosting issues. For all those that register by March 31st Media3 is giving <a href="http://cfunited.com">CFUnited</a> one of our Hyper-V VPS to be given away in a drawing. These VPS' are residing on 64 bit DELL 900 series servers with CF Enterprise, and are connected to a Gigi Bit switched network in our SAS70 data center. It is the latest technology. See the enhanced plan at <a href="http://www.media3.net/vps/CFVPSHostingplans.cfm">http://www.media3.net/vps/CFVPSHostingplans.cfm</a> Look forward to seeing you at the show ! Bob Hayes CEO and Founder <a href="http://www.media3.net/">Media3</a> promotions prizes featured sponsor Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:42:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/26/Win-a-HyperV-VPS-from-Media3 CFUnited Valentines Day Raffle http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/30/CFUnited-Valentines-Day-Raffle <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//cfunited_valentines.jpg"> <a href="http://register.cfunited.com/">Register</a> for CFUnited by Feb 14th and you will be entered into a raffle to win $150 gift certificate to <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/">Think Geek!</a>. <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/"><img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/tg-logo.gif" border="0"/></a> </br> Check out all the cool stuff you get at <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/">www.thinkgeek.com</a> *Everyone already registered will be included in the raffle. contest promotions prizes Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:58:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/30/CFUnited-Valentines-Day-Raffle iPod Touch - end of early bird raffle results http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/11/iPod-Touch--end-of-early-bird-raffle-results <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//iPod%20touch2.gif"> Anyone who registered before the early bird date for CFUnited Europe and CFUnited USA 2008 was entered in a raffle to win an iPod Touch. Winner for CFUnited Europe: Simon Wallace-Jones Winner for CFUnited: Rob Langston Congratulations! Look in your mail box for your prize! Boy am I jealous. I'd love an iPod Touch, who wouldn't. More opportunities to win an iPod Touch or Nintendo Wii will be announced later. Don't miss out! prizes Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:21:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/11/iPod-Touch--end-of-early-bird-raffle-results Conference Prizes From Our Sponsors http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/18/Conference-Prizes-From-Our-Sponsors Just after the Q&A Panel Friday, we will do most of our raffle give-aways. Some raffles will be during lunch and networking events. If you are not present, you cannot win. Prizes from our sponsors! <b>Adobe:</b> <br>Copies of Flex and CF8 (winners will be delivered CF8 1.5 months after the event)<br> <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/store/product_boxshots/90x120/box_flexbuilder_90x120.jpg"> <b>TeraTech:</b> <br>Free Consulting and 1 Free TeraTech Class Admission <b>CFUnited:</b> <br>1 Free Ticket to CFUnited 2008 and mugs <b>CentraSoft.com:</b> <br>DW8 Exam Buster <b>Intergral:</b> <br>License for FusionDebug<br> <img src="http://www.fusion-reactor.com/images/FDBox159.gif"> <b>Figleaf:</b> <br>Free entrance to Flexmaniacs 2008 - Date TBD <b>Pearsons:</b> <br>20 books all different (list coming soon) <b>ThinkGeek.com:</b> <br>Awesome items all ranging from about $50-$100 each!<br> Powermonkey - Emergency charger, MP4 Video Watch, Executive Dashboard, Instant Music, Cool IT Chiller -Beverage Chiller<br> <img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/powermonkey.jpg"> <img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/oled_video_watch.jpg"><br> <img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/instant_music_import.jpg"> <img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/usb_cooler.jpg"> <b>Straker Interactive:</b> <br>Full Copy of ZoomFlex <br><img src="http://cfunited.com/images/sponsors/sm/strakerinteractive.gif"> NEW!!<br> <b>CommunityMX:</b> <br>3 annual subscriptions More prizes to come... prizes Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:16:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/18/Conference-Prizes-From-Our-Sponsors