CFUnited Survey

Hello CF Community. Please provide your input for the 2009 topics. We've listed all the submitted topics from the call for speakers. Voting ends December 20th 2008
Please open this document in a separate window CFUnited2009SubmittedTopics.pdf before voting. It will give you the full description of each title.
Please choose your top 3 choice from the list of topics that cover AIR technology.
"Building Desktop applications with Coldfusion 8 and AIR" - Chaz Chumley
"Adding Bling to your AIR App" - Simon Free
"Building Your First AIR/CF Application" - Dan Wilson
"What is Adobe AIR" - Yancy Wharton
"AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3" - Rob Rusher
"Don't Forget the Desktop -Integrating with the Desktop using CF" - Mark Phillips
"AIR: What can the desktop do for you?" - Samer Sadek
Please choose 1 from the list of topics that cover APIs.
"Creating Public Facing API's" - Simon Free
"$ Payment Processing Paradigm $" - Gail "Montreal" Shoffey Keeler
"Data Visualization with Google Charts" - Barney Boisvert
Please check the boxes below if you agree that any of these topics should be placed in the Beginner Track.
"ColdFusion Basics" - John Farrar
"Smarter Learning: How to learn CF (or anything else). A Session for Learners and Mentors" - Marc Esher
"CF Orientation" - John Mason
"How to Setup a Local Development Environment" - Yancy Wharton
"Building ColdFusion Custom Tags" - Steve Bryant
"CF911: Tools and Techniques for Troubleshooting" - Charlie Arehart
"Understanding Application.cfc" - Michael Dinowitz
"CFScript from the bottom up" - Michael Dinowitz
"From UDFs to CFCs " - Michael Dinowitz
Suggest another topic for the Beginner Track. List title and speaker if possible.
Please choose your top 15 favorites (or less) from the topics that address Best Practices for Developing.
"Using Apache Derby with ColdFusion 8" - Scott Stroz
"Applied YSlow: Maximizing ColdFusion Application Performance on the Client Side" - Brian Meloche
Stop, Stop, Stop Writing the Same Code" - John Farrar
Practical Code Generation" - Peter Bell
Continuous Integration - Automation for people" - Qasim Rasheed
The Septernary Rules of Super Awesome Applications" - Jon Hartmann
Design Patterns and ColdFusion: Exploring Object Based Programming" - Dan Blackman
Sourceless Code Deployment" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Creating Usable and Attractive Forms" - Rob Huddleston
"Thinking Outside of the CF Box" - John Paul Ashenfelter
"CFUniform: Awesome Forms in Record Time" - Dan Wilson
"Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines" - Nathan Stanford
"Content Management Systems (CMS) with ColdFusion" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Subversion for Smarties - Do More With Subversion" - Cameron Childress
"Code Generation Options in ColdFusion" - Steve Bryant
"Taking Code Reuse to a Higher Level" - Jeff Chastain
What are Object Relational Mapping Systems?" - Jeff Chastain
"Adding Code Generation to Your Workflow" - Brian Rinaldi
"Advanced Custom Tags" - Ben Nadel
"Caching a ColdFusion Application and improvements with Centaur" - Chandan Kumar
"Search Engine Optimization and Conversion 2009" - Steve Drucker
"Editorial for Web Content and Its Effect on SEO" - Judith Dinowitz
Head First i18N (Internationalization)" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Hands-on: Creating Our First i18N (Internationalization) Application" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Multi Lingual (i18N) Flex & AIR Applications" - Oguz Demirkapi
"The Power of Refactoring" - Oguz Demirkapi
": Practical Refactoring: Making Bad Code Good " - Dan Wilson
"Introduction to HTML...For Search Engines" - Michael Dinowitz
"Google Webmaster Tools" - Michael Dinowitz
"Hands on Regex" - Michael Dinowitz
"CFMythBusters: Countering Some Conventional Wisdom" - Charlie Arehart
"The Power of 64 bit" - Oguz Demirkampi
Please choose your top 12 choices (or less) from the list of topics that cover Building Applications.
"Using Ant to Deploy ColdFusion Application" - Doug Hughes
"Introduction to ANT" - Jim Priest
"Building Scalable Web Applications with ColdFusion" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Geolocation with ColdFusion" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Charting and ColdFusion" - Raymond Camden
"Eclipse and Mylyn with CFEclipse" - Mike Henke
"Quickbooks, Quick and Easy" - Doug Hughes
"doubtLESS validation" - John Farrar
"Building Mobile Applications with Adobe" - Rob Rusher
"Advanced PDF Workflow with ColdFusion" - Andy Allan
"Hands-on sessions: Building a shopping cart" - Dan Vega
"Report Builder - Tips and techniques" - Sandeep Paliwal
"64-bit and IPv6 support in ColdFusion" - Kiran Sakhare
"Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines" - Nathan Stanford
"Delivering for Mobile and More" - John Farrar
"iPhone Apps + Adobe ColdFusion" - Josh Adams
"Groovin' to the Fusion: Flex Edition" - Joe Rinehart
"Groovy for ColdFusion Developers" - Joe Rinehart
"CFGroovy - Groovy for the CFML Developer" - Barney Boisvert
"PDF Documents and Forms in ColdFusion 8" - Jeff Coughlin
"Don't Forget the Desktop -Integrating with the Desktop using CF" - Mark Phillips
Please select 5 choices from the list of topics that cover the new Centaur and Bolt. These topics are also Pending Approval from Adobe.
"From Eight to Centaur: New Programming Tips and Techniques" - Sam Farmer
"Object Relation Mapping (ORM) in Centaur" - Rupesh Kumar
"Adobe ColdFusion IDE" - Dan Vega
"Managing your servers the Centaur way" - Douglas Knudsen
"Using CF9's ActionScript libraries from Flex/AIR" - Dave Watts
"CFC Enhancements in CF9 "Centaur" - Dave Watts
"CF AIR Integration in Centaur" - Rakshith N
"New language features in Centaur" - Hemant Khandelwal
"New Ajax features in Centaur" - Bhakti Pingale
"Overview of Bolt" - Ramchandra Kulkami
"Application code generation in Bolt" - Sandeep Paliwal
"Server and project support in Bolt" - Kiran Sakhare
Please choose your top 2 choices from the list of topics that cover CFCs.
"Extending CFCs' Power" - Hal Helms
"Using CFCs With Flex/AIR" - Jim Leether
"Introducing cf_sebForm" - Steve Bryant
"Design Diagrams for CFC's and Databases" - Pete Freitag
"Red Green Refactor" - Adam Haskell
Please choose your top 2 choices from the list of topics that cover Databases
"Build/Deploy/Upgrade" - Joshua Cyr
"Fusion Reactors and how to do deal with data" - Mark Drew
“Got an SLA problem? ColdFusion Enterprise's Load Balancing has the solution so you can get some sleep at night” - Aaron Wolfe & Lance Smith
"DataMgr: Database Abstraction without an ORM" - Steve Bryant
"Atomic Reactor! Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the ORM" - Mark Drew
Please choose your top 2 choices from the list of topics that address Design in Development
"Hands-on CSS" - Dee Sadler
"Design for Developers" - Dave Powell
"Designers Are Useless, Long Live Designers!" - Rachel Maxim-Lehman
"Flash Catalyst round trip wireframe" - Dee Sadler
"Flash Catalyst to Flex Builder 4" - Dee Sadler
Please choose 1 from the list of topics that cover Dreamweaver.
"Getting Started with Coldfusion and Dreamweaver CS4" - Chaz Chumley
"CSS based websites using Dreamweaver CS4" - Chaz Chumley
"New Developer Workflows in Dreamweaver CS4" - Rob Huddleston
"Build a ColdFusion App with Dreamweaver" - Michael Markowski
Please choose your top 12 favorites (or less) from the topics that include the Flex technology
"Creating Games Through Flex" - Simon Free
"ColdFusion Flex Craigslist and Google Maps Mashup" - Andrew Schwabe
"Flex and Google App Engine" - Andrew Schwabe
"Flex and Drupal" - Jon Rowny
"How do I hook this shiny new Flex tool up to ColdFusion?" - Douglas Knudsen
"Drawing and Canvas Capture in Flex" - Simon Free
"ColdFusion and BlazeDS 101" - Mike Nimer
"Real World BlazeDS and ColdFusion" - Kurt Wiersma
"Skinning Components in Flex 4 (Gumbo)" - Theo Rushin
"Connecting Flex to ColdFusion" - Douglas Knudsen
"Ajax vs Flex – Making the appropriate choice for your business" - Dan Blackman
"Using Flex/AIR with Google App Engine" - Dave Watts
"Creating and Managing Dropdown Lists and Datagrids" - Kurtis D. Leatham
"Using Dropdown Lists and Datagrids in our Business Application" - Kurtis D. Leatham
"A CF Developer's Guide to the Mate Flex Framework" - Brian Rinaldi
"Flex development with the Swiz Framework" - Chris Scott
"MATE: A Flex Framework "Extreme Makeover" - Theo Rushin JR
Please choose your top 10 favorites (or less) from the list of topics that cover Frameworks.
ColdFusion, Model-Glue, HIbernate, Spring, and Groovy" - Raymond Camden
"Introduction to COOP " - John Farrar
"Introduction to SOS " - John Farrar
"Drupalfied websites" - Chaz Chumley
"ColdBox" - Luis Majano
"Real World ColdSpring" - Kurt Wiersma
"ColdBox Interceptor and Plugin Development" - Luis Majano
"Using Caching in the ColdBox Framework" - Luis Majano
"The JMS (Just My Size) Framework for ColdFusion" - David Hannum
"Transfer 101" - Dan Vega
"Using Model-Glue 3 For Fun and Profit" - Dan Wilson
"Developing ColdFusion Applications with the FarCry Framework " - Jeff Coughlin
"Using fusebox with other frameworks" - Nick Tong
"Busy Developers Guide to Fusebox" - Adam Haskell
"“Inheriting Legacy Applications – Dealing with That Application from 1999” - Aaron Wolfe, Mike Harman, & Lance Smith
"What's New in Mach-II 1.6 and 1.8" - Peter Farrell
"Taming CFCs with ColdSpring" - Dan Wilson
"Mark Drew - Model-Glue and you: MVC, hassle free! " - Mark Drew
"What is New In Mach II" - Peter Farrell
"Head First Mach II" - Matthew Woodward
Please choose your top 1 choices from the list of topics that incorporate Java.
"Busy Programers Guide to Java part 1" - Adam Haskell
"Busy Programers Guide to Java part 2" - Adam Haskell
"Caffeinated Fusion: Java technology roundup" - Joe Rinehart
Please choose 2 from the list of topics that covers LiveCycle
"Exploring Real-time apps with ColdFusion and Blaze DS / Live Cycle Data Services ES" - Dan Blackman
"Integrating ColdFusion and Adobe Livecycle ES Technologies" - Todd Sanders
"BlazeDS" - John Mason
"Getting Pushy: Animation with ColdFusion and LCDS" - Robin Hilliard
Please choose your top 10 choices (or less) from the list of topics that cover Managing Projects
"Building an Enterprise Install of ColdFusion from Ground Zero" - Mike Brunt
"Biggest Mistakes in CF Code" - TBA
"ColdFusion Is Your MOM" - Andrew Powell
"Managing a Global Team of Developers" - Bryan Hogan
"Do more work in less time: Become an Automation Rock Star!" - Marc Esher
"Requirements and Estimating" - Peter Bell
"Prototype to Production" - John Farrar
"ColdFusion and Continuous Compilation (step toward CI)" - Mike Henke
"Introduction to ColdFusion Report Builder" - Chaz Chumley
"Managing the Testing Process" - Jeff Peters
"The Business of (ColdFusion) Software" - Patrick Quinn
"Project Management and Time Management" - Mark Phillips
"Adobe Server Platform Solutions Explained for Managers" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Hidden Secrets of ColdFusion Hosting" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Project Management 101" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Embrace change – join the Scrum!" - David Stockton
"Managing the Development Process" - John Paul Ashenfelter
"Being a ColdFusion Developer When You Don't Work in a ColdFusion Development Shop" - Mark Leo-Russell
"Using your Whole Brain for Developers" - Michael Smith
"Project Management Tips and Traps" - Michael Smith
"How to become a Guru Coder" - Michael Smith
"project management seminar" - Shlomy Gantz
Web Application Project Management" - Jeff Chastain
"Information Architecture for Dummies" - Dave Powell
"Dancing with the Devil: Dealing With Difficult Customers" - Clark Valberg and Hal Helms
Please choose 4 from the list of topics that cover OO
"What to do when pure OO fails you in ColdFusion..." - Brian Meloche
"Leveraging Basic Object Oriented Concepts and Design Patterns in ColdFusion" - Phill Nacelli
"Intro To Object Orientation" - Ben Nadel
"RAD Object Oriented CF Development" - Peter Bell
"An Object Oriented Approach to Validations" - Bob Silverberg
"Building an Object Oriented Model" - Bob Silverberg
Please choose 3 from the list of topics that cover Open Source
"Open Source: TaskCFC " - Andrew Schwabe
"Better Development Through Open Source" - Todd Sharp
"D2O - Open Source CFML IDE" - Timothy Farrar
"Cream of the Crop - Tools and Utils" - Yancy Wharton
"Developing and Deploying CFML Applications on Apache Tomcat" - Matthew Woodward
"Automated Code Checking" - Steve Bryant
"The Power of 64 bit " - Oguz Demirkapi
"Railo Open Source" - Gert Franz
Please choose 4 from the list of topics that covers Application Security
"How To Make Your ColdFusion Applications Hack Resistent " - Scott Stroz
"Hacking Your Own Website" - Jake Munson
"Prevent Spam and Keep Your Customers" - Jake Munson
"Intermediate Application Security with ColdFusion" - Jason Dean
"Writting secure Coldfusion code" - TBA
"“Not Just Another Security Presentation” - Aaron Wolfe, Mike Harman, & Lance Smith
"ColdFusion Server Security" - Oguz Demirkapi
"ColdFusion vs OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities" - Dave Watts
"Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)" - John Mason
"Hack Proofing Coldfusion" - Shlomy Gantz
"Building Secure Forms" - Selene Bainum
Please choose 1 from the list of topics that addressing Selling
Selling CF Development to Small and Mid Size Businesses" - Sean Hanover
"Real world ecommerce with ColdFusion" - Lawrence Cramer
"AIR: What can the desktop do for you?" - Samer Sadek
"eCommerce: Build or Buy" - Selene Bainum
Please choose 2 from the list of topics that cover Social Networking
"Facebook apps with a ColdFusion backend" - Simon Free
"Open Social API" - John Farrar
"The Ripple Effect" - Stephen Harper
"“CF User Groups – Worth the Investment” - Aaron Wolfe & Lance Smith
"Building Social Web Applications" - Oguz Demirkapi
Please choose 3 from the list of topics that cover SQL
"Advanced SQL for ColdFusion" - Sean Woods
"The Power of MySQL" - Oguz Demirkapi
"Recovering from a SQL Injection Attack" - Jeremy Kadlec
"SQL Server Performance from a snail to a cheetah" - Jeremy Kadlec
"Getting Started with SQL Server 2008 for ColdFusion Developers" - Jeremy Kadlec
"SQL Server Database Administration 101 for ColdFusion Developers" - Jeremy Kadlec
Please choose 4 from the list of topics that covers Testing, Monitoring, & Debugging
"Load Testing with JMeter" - Peter Farrell
"Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool" - Ajay Sathuluri
"Unit Testing Training" - Timothy Farrar
"Turbo charged CF development" - Shlomy Gantz
"Head First ColdFusion Debugging with FusionDebug" - Mike Henke
"Debugging Flex applications" - Mike Nimer
"“Have a Site that Forgets Users More than the Stock Market Changes? - Cookie/Session Problems Solved” - Aaron Wolfe & Lance Smith
"ColdFusion Server Administration" - Michael Collins
"Whole Sum Performance" - Patrick Quinn
"“Handling Errors with Error Handling” - Aaron Wolfe & Lance Smith
"If a scheduled task fails in the woods, does it make a noise?" - Sam Farmer
Please choose your top 6 choices from the list of topics that cover UI Development focusing mostly on RIA with jQuery
"Ajax/ColdFusion 911" - Raymond Camden
"Fun with Ajax" - Chaz Chumley
"Securing AJAX Interfaces with jQuery and ColdSpring" - Brian Langston
"Using Javascript, regex, and Ajax technology with ColdFusion" - TBA
"Introduction to jQuery with ColdFusion" - Raymond Camden
"CF and jQuery Part 2" - John Farrar
"Introduction to jQuery for the ColdFusion Developer" - J.J. Merrick
"Introduction to jQuery and ColdFusion" - Jon Rowny
"Form Validation with CFCs and jQuery" - Hal Helms
"jQuery Alternatives to CFGRID, CFWINDOW, CFTOOLTIP, and other ajax-related tags" - Michael Sprague
"Building AJAX interfaces with ColdFusion 8" - TBA
"Best practices for UI design with AJAX" - Peter Bell
"Javascript for ColdFusion Developers" - Jon Hartmann
"Ext JS 2.0.1" - TBA
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