CFUnited Blog - podcast http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm This is the development blog. en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:39:32 -0500 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:38:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss michael@teratech.com michael@teratech.com michael@teratech.com no Round up of CFUnited CFConversations http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/31/Round-up-of-CFUnited-CFConversations Here is a round up of the recent CFConversation podcasts that spotlight the CFUnited conference, sessions, and speakers. Big thanks to Brian Meloche for doing such an awesome job of organizing and hosting the podcasts! <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/8/12/CFConversations-35-Interview-24--Barney-Boisvert">Barney Boisvert</a> - this episode in the Speakers of CFUnited series features Barney Boisvert. This is a great episode, which was recorded on Day 2 of CFObjective in May. Barney talks about his session, CFGroovy - Groovy for the CFML Developer, which he's doing Thursday at 4:45pm at CFUnited. Of course, that means he talks about Groovy and why he uses it with CF. We also talk about Hibernate, Grails, Fusebox and his mini Fusebox-inspired framework called FB3Lite. <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/8/14/CFConversations-36-Roundtable-12--CFUnited-Day-2-Part-1">CFUnited 2009 Day 2, Part 1</a> - The new venue for CFUnited this year, Stellr, the day 1 keynotes from Liz Frederick and Adobe, day 1 sessions, birds of a feather and hints at several other things that we dive deeper into in part 2. On the roundtable panel: Brian Meloche, John Mason, Timothy Farrar, John Farrar, Anita Neal, and Jason Dean <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/8/14/CFConversations-37-Roundtable-13--CFUnited-2009-Day-2-Part-2">CFUnited 2009 Day 2, Part 2</a> - Covering a lot of stuff, including things both at the conference and other things to think about. Joe Reinhart's inspiring day 2 keynote that prominently featured Todd Sharp's Slide Six site as an example of sites CF developers should aspire to build rather than oldschool CF CRUD-style apps that ColdFusion no longer has the same advantages it historically had over other languages.We discuss some of the interesting day 2 sessions we attended. Janine Driver, Mark Phillips, Charlie Arehart, Mike Brunt, Adam Haskell and Barney Boisvert were singled out as speakers with interesting talks. Lastly, some of the demo derby apps were discussed, as the two Johns and Timothy are each competing in the derby. <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/8/17/CFConversations-34-Interview-23--Lawrence-Cramer">Lawrence Cramer </a> - Lawrence is speaking (in one hour! - apologies to all) on Real World eCommerce with ColdFusion, and he talks about his presentation. He also talks about how he got started in Dreamweaver and later ColdFusion, ColdFusion 9/ColdFusion Builder (still code named, at the time) and some other projects. <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/8/31/CFConversations-38-Roundtable-14--PostCFUnited-2009-Wrapup-Withdrawal--Fallout">Post-CFUnited 2009: Wrap-up, Withdrawal & Fallout</a> - a post-CFUnited 2009 "wrap-up fallout" roundtable, where we review the conference as a whole, "post-conference withdrawal and fallout" of things that both happened and what didn't happen during the conference. On this roundtable, we have: Brian Meloche, Adam Haskell, Dan Wilson, John Farrar, and Mark Mandel conference Interviews speakers community podcast Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:38:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/31/Round-up-of-CFUnited-CFConversations CFUnited Podcast: Douglas Knudsen - Connecting Flex to ColdFusion http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/25/CFUnited-Podcast-Douglas-Knudsen---Connecting-Flex-to-ColdFusion <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//doug_small1.gif"ALIGN=LEFT> "In our third installment of the Speakers of <a href="http://cfunited.com">CFUnited</a> series, <a href="http://www.nodans.com/">Dan Wilson</a> interviews <a href="http://www.cubicleman.com/">Douglas Knudsen</a>, consultant with <a href="http://universalmind.com/">Universal Mind</a>, who is speaking on <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/topics/2009#topic-1944">Connecting Flex to ColdFusion</a> at CFUnited. Doug talks about topics from his talk at CFUnited, working in a coworking group environment instead of working from home, his start with ColdFusion, and music to work to, including Chinese Silk music." - <a href="http://www.brianmeloche.com/blog/index.cfm">Brian Meloche</a> Visit <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/2/10/CFConversations-29-Interview-19--Douglas-Knudsen">CFConversations</a> to listen to the podcast. topics Interviews podcast specials Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:43:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/25/CFUnited-Podcast-Douglas-Knudsen---Connecting-Flex-to-ColdFusion CFUnited Podcast: Luis Majano http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Luis-Majano <img src="http://cfunited.com/blog/images//luis_majano1.jpg"align="left">For our <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/2/3/CFConversations-28-Interview-18--Luis-Majano--02032009">second episode</a> in the Speakers of CFUnited series, <a href="http://cfrant.blogspot.com/">Adam Haskell</a> and I interview <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/speakers/2009#speaker-512">Luis Majano</a>, the creator of the <a href="http://www.coldboxframework.com/">ColdBox framework</a>. This was recorded October 24, 2008, so it predates the MAX conference, the Bolt announcement, and Adobe layoffs, and ColdBox is now up to version 2.6.2. Of course, Luis talks about Coldbox, but he also talks about growing up in El Salvador during its civil war, including Salvadoran cuisine, coming to America, how he started in ColdFusion, pre-Coldbox, what led to Coldbox and why Luis is excited about ColdFusion's future. This interview, which was originally scheduled to be released before MAX, is one of my favorites so far. It was delayed due to some time sensitive episodes, vacation, and the MAX episodes (including ones not yet released, as mentioned earlier) but I'm proud to bring it to you now, and I think you'll really enjoy it!" - <a href=http://www.brianmeloche.com/blog/page.cfm/AboutMe">Brian Meloche</a> Luis will be speaking on <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/topics/2009#topic-1871">Coldbox</a> at CFUnited. Visit <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/2/3/CFConversations-28-Interview-18--Luis-Majano--02032009">CFConversations</a> to listen to the podcast. Interviews speakers podcast Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:22:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Luis-Majano CFUnited Podcast: Doug Hughes http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/21/CFUnited-Podcast-Doug-Hughes We are excited to announce that CFUnited will be working with Brian Meloche & <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com">CFConversations</a> to bring a series of podcasts with CFUnited speakers and topics. Check out the first episode where Dan Wilson interviews <a href="http://cfunited.com/go/speakers/2009#speaker-511">Doug Hughes</a>, visit <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2009/1/18/CFConversations-27-Interview-17--Doug-Hughes">CFConversations</a> to listen in. Stay tuned for more podcasts in the upcoming months! Interviews speakers podcast Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:49:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/21/CFUnited-Podcast-Doug-Hughes CFConversations.com interviews and round tables http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/7/CFConversationscom-interviews-and-round-tables Thank you Brian Meloche for putting together these interviews and round tables. We enjoyed talking with you. I know we will do more in the future. http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/ Michael Smith Interview <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/7/5/006_Michael_Smith"> http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/7/5/006_Michael_Smith</a> Liz Frederick and Nafisa Sabu <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/28/Episode5_Liz_Frederick_Nafisa_Sabu_Teratech">http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/28/Episode5_Liz_Frederick_Nafisa_Sabu_Teratech</a> Round Table: Brian Meloche, Rick Mason, John Farrar, Dana Tierney, Ken Auenson, Chris Hough, Seth Bienek, Timothy Farrar, Adam Tuttle, and Adam Haskell <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/24/Day3-At-CFUnited">http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/24/Day3-At-CFUnited</a> Round Table: Brian Meloche, Adam Haskell, Rick Mason, Judith Dinowitz, Brian Swartzfager, Dee Sadler and Bill Shelton <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/20/Day2AtCFUnited">http://www.cfconversations.com/index.cfm/2008/6/20/Day2AtCFUnited</a> podcast Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:54:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/7/CFConversationscom-interviews-and-round-tables CFUnited Podcast: Sean Corfield - AJAX Integration With CF 8 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/9/CFUnited-Podcast-Sean-Corfield--AJAX-Integration-With-CF-8 CFUnited Podcast: Sean Corfield - AJAX Integration With ColdFusion 8 Hosted by Christian Ready AJAX is one of the most talked about "new" technologies of recent years but the reality so far has been that writing dynamic, cross-browser applications that leverage JavaScript is a complex, labor-intensive process. Find out how Scorpio will change that reality by providing AJAX functionality built right into our favorite language! Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343311">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343311</a> podcast Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:56:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/9/CFUnited-Podcast-Sean-Corfield--AJAX-Integration-With-CF-8 CFUnited Podcast: Nate Nelson - Database Performance Tuning http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Nate-Nelson--Database-Performance-Tuning CFUnited Podcast: Nate Nelson - Database Performance Tuning Hosted by Christian Ready Ever have a slow running application and you know you have gone to all extents to make your code run quick. If you don't have a DBA available to performance tune your database then learn how to do it yourself. There are many ways to improve database performance and you will learn them here. The presentation will include examples of slow peroforming queries on large amounts of data. Watch these techniques improve performance 10 times over. Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343012">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343012</a> podcast Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:18:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Nate-Nelson--Database-Performance-Tuning CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Ben Nadel http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Ben-Nadel CFUnited Podcast: CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Ben Nadel Hosted by Christian Ready I sat down with <a href="http://bennadel.com/">Ben Nadel</a> who was attending his first CFUnited conference! An avid blogger at Kinky Solutions, Ben explained his philosophy of being a perpetual student of ColdFusion and of web development, how the ColdFusion community has benefited him, and on making the transition from procedural to Object-Oriented development. Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343319">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=343319</a> podcast Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:56:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Ben-Nadel CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Mark Drew http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Mark-Drew CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Mark Drew Christian Ready sat down with Mark Drew on the first day of CFUnited 2007 to talk about what projects he was up to at the time and what he would be speaking about at CFUnited. Podcast Link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298981">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298981</a> podcast Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:24:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/4/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Mark-Drew CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Kevin Roche - Fusebox framework http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/28/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Kevin-Roche--Fusebox-framework CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Kevin Roche - Fusebox framework Christian Ready sits down with Kevin Roche to talk about his work with the Fusebox framework and his work on the upcoming CFUnited Europe. Check out the podcast <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298658">here </a> podcast Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:50:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/28/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Kevin-Roche--Fusebox-framework CFUnited Podcast: Simon Horwith: Success From The Trenches - Building Better Applications http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/21/CFUnited-Podcast-Simon-Horwith-Success-From-The-Trenches--Building-Better-Applications CFUnited Podcast: Simon Horwith: Success From The Trenches - Building Better Applications Hosted by Christian Ready What is it that makes some applications successful while others fail? What causes server performance and stability issues and how do you avoid and troubleshoot them? Can ColdFusion applications really scale? In this session, Simon will explain the traits that make some applications a success and others fail. He will explore the things that developers can do to ensure that their applications will scale. He will walk you through the thought process when architecting and/or code reviewing a ColdFusion application. Simon's 11+ years of experience developing, designing, reviewing, and troubleshooting ColdFusion applications has exposed him to some of the largest enterprise CF applications and most rigorous demands on the planet, and he has seen first-hand what does and doesn't work in the real world. In this session, Simon will divulge many of the tricks of the trade that will lead to success for attendees. Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298561">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=298561</a> podcast Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:32:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/21/CFUnited-Podcast-Simon-Horwith-Success-From-The-Trenches--Building-Better-Applications CFUnited Podcast: Sandy Clark - CSS Back to Basics http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/8/CFUnited-Podcast-Sandy-Clark--CSS-Back-to-Basics CFUnited Podcast: Sandy Clark - CSS: Back to Basics Hosted by Christian Ready With more people jumping on the CSS bandwagon and with Internet Explorer 7 finally released, its always good to review the basics. This session will cover semantic and structural HTML with an eye toward how to use the DOM to create simple HTML and put the complexity of selectors into the Cascading Style Sheet. It will cover all selectors that are now available in all browsers and how to use them effectively. Podcast link: <a href=http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=290309>http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=290309</a> podcast Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:12:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/8/CFUnited-Podcast-Sandy-Clark--CSS-Back-to-Basics CFUnited Podcast: John Paul Ashenfelter - Testing CF Applications http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/1/CFUnited-Podcast-John-Paul-Ashenfelter--Testing-CF-Applications CFUnited Podcast: John Paul Ashenfelter - Testing CF Applications Hosted by Christian Ready Test-driven development is very popular in the Java and Ruby worlds and becoming moreso in the ColdFusion world. This session covers the tools that are available to test ColdFusion applications and discusses how to implement them into your existing workflow. We'll specifically cover: * CFCUnit/CFUnit for testing ColdFusion code * Selenium for testing web pages * DBUnit for managing the database during testing * Grinder (and similar) load-testing tools Together, these tools can provide unit, functional, regression, and load tests for your applications. Finally, we'll touch on automating these tests so you can ensure that you are delivering higher-quality, well-tested code. Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=288428">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=288428</a> podcast Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:33:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/1/CFUnited-Podcast-John-Paul-Ashenfelter--Testing-CF-Applications CFUnited Podcast: Peter Bell - CFUnited Europe Preview http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/12/24/CFUnited-Podcast--Peter-Bell--CFUnited-Europe-Preview This week we begin the first of our preview interviews with speakers at CFUnited Europe. Our first guest is Peter Bell. Peter Bell is a passionate advocate of Application Generation and meta-programming in ColdFusion and is author of Application Generation, blog dedicated to best practices in application development and how to get our projects done quicker and easier. He has lectured both locally and nationally on using ColdFusion for application generation and to create software product lines and runs Systems Forge a company that generates custom applications quickly and cost effectively. Peter discusses his upcoming talks at CFUnited Europe, Prectical Code Generation, RAD OO, and Using The Iterating Business Object. Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=290207">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=290207</a> CFUnited Europe will be held March 12-13 2008 at the Novotel London West, UK. Learn more at <a href="http://europe.cfunited.com/">europe.cfunited.com</a>. We want to hear from you! If you have any feedback on the podcast, please feel free to drop me a line at chris@christianready.com or info@cfunited.com. podcast Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:57:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/12/24/CFUnited-Podcast--Peter-Bell--CFUnited-Europe-Preview CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Ben Forta http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/12/24/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Ben-Forta CFUnited Podcast: Interview with Ben Forta Hosted by Christian Ready Description At CFUnited 2007, I spoke with some of the speakers and attendees alike to talk about how they were enjoying the conference, what they found exciting in ColdFusion 8, and what they got out of CFUnited. In this interview, I sit down with Ben Forta from Adobe Systems on Wednesday morning just after his keynote address. Ben talks about the then-upcoming release of ColdFusion 8, its impact on the community, and the future of ColdFusion. Podcast link: <a href="http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=288268">http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=288268</a> podcast Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:53:00 -0500 http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/12/24/CFUnited-Podcast-Interview-with-Ben-Forta