I 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:

I look forward to seeing you all next Tuesday!

Make 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!

Make 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!