Big End of Year Meeting! 12/8/2009
Meetings, AnnouncementsSomehow another year has rolled around and it is time for the last DFWCFUG meeting for 2009. It has been a great year for CFML developers with the release of ColdFusion 9, big surges in the open source community with Open BlueDragon and Railo becoming real players in the CFML world, and locally as the job availabilities in DFW have been plentiful. We are going to send the year off with a bang. Here is what is on deck for the night:
We will be continuing our ongoing series as we explore the Head First Design Patterns (HFDP) book and give illustrations about how the concepts fit into our world as CFML developers.
HFDP4CF - Chapter 4: The Factory Pattern - If you recall, Andrew Leaf gave us a real world illustration earlier this year about how the factory pattern is being leveraged in his daily work. In this presentation, he will be walking through the topic in the HFDP book and covering their examples using ColdFusion.
HFDP4CF - Chapter 5: The Singleton Pattern - Dave Shuck will be covering the chapter explaining how the singleton pattern can be used in the CFML world. As with the other chapters in our series, Dave will be demonstrating the samples using ColdFusion.
Remember that if you would like to read ahead a bit, you can see much of the HFDP book for free on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=LjJcCnNf92kC&printsec=frontcover
GIVEAWAYS!
As a year-end wrapup, we will have a number of giveaways. We will be giving away one software license for any Adobe project worth up to $2000 to one attendee (CF9 Standard definitely applies!). Additionally, our sponsor Paladin Consulting will be giving away electronic goodies, gift cards and more.
As always we will be meeting at the Paladin Consulting offices at Webb Chapel/635 in the ClubCorp building at 6:30. Food and drinks will be provided.
October Monthly Meeting - HFDP for CF Chap 2 & ColdBox
Meetings, AnnouncementsI just returned from a *fantastic* week at Adobe MAX, and realized that I have not made the "official" announcement for the October monthly meeting. Additionally, I we are adding to the agenda, so here goes!
First off, next Tuesday night (10/13/2009) is our regularly scheduled monthly meeting. This month, we will continue our progress in what I am coining Head First Design Patterns for CF as Adam Presley will be covering Chapter 2 - The Observer Pattern.
Secondly, I spent some time chatting with ColdBox creator Luis Majano this week. He has just released a new version of the framework, and will be in town offering ColdBox training in November. After some very gentle twisting of his arm, he agreed to repeat the session that he gave at the ColdFusion Unconference at MAX via Connect exclusively for the DFWCFUG.
In addition to these great two topics, I will be giving away a few of the extremely limited "Zombie ColdFusion" shirts that say "ColdFusion Lives!!!" They were hard to get at the conference, but I was able to sneak a few off for the group.
So, here is the schedule for the night:
6:30 - intro, open discussion, t-shirt giveaway (hint: brush up on your CF9 info)
7:00 - Luis Majano - ColdBox
8:00 - short pizza break
8:15 - Adam Presley - HFDP4CF - Chapter 2 - The Observer Pattern.
Also, I have had a number of people ask about the URL for the recording of last month's meeting in which I covered Chapter 1 of HFDP (the Strategy Pattern). If you are interested in watching this and getting up to speed, you can do so at:
| Title: | DFWFUG - Head First Design Patterns for CF - Chapter 1_0 |
| Duration: | 00:38:45 |
| URL for Viewing: | http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p50727167/ |
| Uploaded on: | 09/08/2009 7:53 PM |
I look forward to seeing you all next Tuesday!
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Monthly Meeting - May 12, 2009 - Guillermo Cruz: Why programming TO the persistence layer hinders objects
Meetings, AnnouncementsMake sure to join us Tuesday May 12, for our monthly meeting. Guillermo Cruz will be presenting on OO application design and why programming to a the persistence layer can limit your application.
Topic Description: We will be discussing the pros and cons of abstracting the persistence layer and programming objects without the persistence layer, including the design of an object by using the Noun Phrase Analysis process of a given description for a stated application.
If time permits, Guillermo will also be covering re-factoring an already existing application and why the above process is extremely important.
We will also be discussing some BIG ColdFusion related events in the next month here in Big D! Make sure to join us at our regular meeting time of 6:30pm at the Paladin Consulting Inc. Offices. For directions, see our Meetings page.
March Monthly Meeting - Tuesday March 10, 2009 - Dave Shuck on Painting Yourself Out of a Procedural Corner
Meetings, AnnouncementsMake sure to join us Tuesday, March 10 for our regular monthly meeting. Dave Shuck will be presenting "Painting Yourself Out of a Procedural Corner". The is a real world example of how an organically growing procedural application can become a maintenence nightmare, and how using objects and inheritance can help solve a real world problem. This is not about frameworks, or application flow, but how using business objects can lower your blood pressure!
As always, our first hour will be devoted to "intro" ColdFusion topics. the following topics are the slate for this meeting :
- Stopping form spam without making your users do the work.
- Using a simple bean, how to get data, set data, and return snapshots of the data.
See you there!
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Adobe User Group member discount!
Announcements
Adobe is delighted to offer the Dallas Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group (DFWCFUG) members special pricing on Adobe software. Place your order before March 2, 2009, in order to save 20% on all Adobe products in the North America online Adobe Store.
Here are the simple steps required to get your discount:
1) Visit http://www.adobe.com/go/
2) A custom Adobe Store URL with an embedded coupon code will be e-mailed to you.
3) The custom URL can be used only one time, and only by the requester. Additional program terms and conditions are detailed at the URL referenced above.
If you have additional questions or would prefer to place your order by phone, contact Adobe at 800-585-0774.
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February meeting 2/10/09 - Peter Farrell on ANT - Intro training topics and mini
Meetings, AnnouncementsMake sure to join use on Tuesday February 9 at 6:30 at our regular meeting location at the Paladin Consulting Inc office. Peter Farrell, who is perhaps best known for his work on the Mach-II framework, ColdSpring framework and formerly as one-half of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast, will be joining us remotely to offer a presentation on using ANT in your development. For those that were at the January meeting and got a small taste of ANT in the intro topic on using cfcompile, this will be a much more in depth look at the topic of automated builds.
As always we will have training topics in the first our as well. I will be updating the group on Monday with what exactly those topics will be.
Lastly, there are currently several job postings within the group. Aaron Lynch, Adrian Moreno, and Mike Jr. all have positions open within their companies. I know that at least Aaron and Adrian will be present, and have not received work back from Mike at the time of this posting. If you are looking for a position, I urge you to come that night with resume in hand. We are going to have the second conference room availble if you would like to sit and chat with these guys one-on-one about the positions. Don't forget the power of networking within our group!
As always, I am looking for volunteers for presentations on both advanced and intro topics. If you have anything at all that you would like to share, please me know.
See you at the meeting!
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