Next Meeting August 12 - Mark Piller: Building Flex Applications with ColdFusion
MeetingsMake sure to join us August 12 for our regular monthly meeting. We will be starting off the evening as usual by covering some basic ColdFusion training topics during the first hour. August training topics will be:
- Getting started with CFCOMPONENT
- Working with XML in ColdFusion
- JQuery and ColdFusion
In the second hour, Mark Piller will present on the subject of building Flex applications with ColdFusion. He is going to describe integrating an alternative approach to LiveCycle and demonstrate the benefits of the integration. The group will learn about developer productivity tools, remoting and data management concepts. Mark has been working on some exciting stuff in this space, and we are fortunate to get this opportunity!
About Mark Piller: Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in RIA integration technologies, professional services and training. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past five years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.
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Next meeting - May 13, 2008 - Document Generation in CF8 and Big Announcement!
MeetingsAll, here is a reminder to put the next meeting on your calendars for May 13. Here is our current agenda:
Training Time:
6:30-6:45 SQL Tips, Tricks and Best Practices - Robert Froehling
6:45-7:00 Structures and Arrays - TBD
7:00-7:15 CFQUERY - TBD
10 minutes on.... (Dave)
5:00-10:00 General Introductions/News
CF In depth:
Document Generation in CF8 - Conrad Davis
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As you can see, we are looking for volunteers to cover the two intro topics: Structures and Arrays and CFQUERY. Let this serve as an invitation for you to give it a shot! Keep in mind that these are entry level training topics, and you do *not* need to be an expert to fill that spot. Just know your topic and share what you know.
Oh.... and what about that "Big Announcement" in the title? We have some big news to share that will have a large impact on our group. Make sure to join us so you can find out what it is!
Monthly Meeting - Tuesday April 8 - New meeting format!
MeetingsThe DFW ColdFusion User Group will be altering the meeting format a bit, based on member feedback from the last meeting. For more information on this please read this post. Based on this new format, below you will find the schedule for the April monthly meeting. Please note the CF In Depth topic is CFIMAGE which will kick off a 3 meeting series where we will explore CF8 specific features of ColdFusion.
Training:
15:00 SQL tricks and best practices - Robert Froehling
15:00 CFOUTPUT - Joe Kelly
15:00 Application.cfc - Tom Woestman
10 minutes on.... - Dave Shuck (topic pending)
5:00-10:00 General Introductions/News
CF In Depth:
1:00:00 CFIMAGE - Steve Good
Make sure to join us at our regular meeting time of 6:30. Check here for directions and more information. See you there!
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Next meeting: Tuesday March 11 - Flex 3 and Group Planning meeting - and pizza!
MeetingsAll, make sure to join us on Tuesday March 11 for our monthly meeting.
This meeting will be a slightly different format from our traditional presentation style meetings. We will begin the evening with short discussion about the Flex 3 release, and what that means to us as ColdFusion developers. As of the time of this posting, we plan on covering some of the key topics that were presented at the Flex 3 lauch events.
After that, we will be talking a bit about the direction of our User Group. We would like to have spend some time with some of our regular attendees and talk about the things you would like to see our group doing. We plan on talking about meeting ideas, presentation topics, meeting location, and more. Come with lots of ideas. What's in it for you? Well in addition to helping to custom tailor your User Group, we are going to buy pizza!
Dave Shuck will be out of the country until March 9, so if you have any questions, please contact Joe Kelly or Tom Woestman. Their contact information can be found here.
See you there!
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Next meeting: Tuesday, Jan 8, 2008 - Dave Shuck on Mach-II User Authentication
MeetingsMake sure to join us for our first meeting of the year this coming Tuesday, January 8, 2008 as we kick off the new year. Dave Shuck will be doing a presentation on implementing Use Authentication in a Mach-II application. If time permits, Dave will also be covering the new features in the soon-to-be released Mach-II 1.6 and ... possibly some insight into 2.0?
In addition to Dave's presentation, we will be discussing the upcoming Flex 3 pre-release party in Dallas, be giving away lots of Adobe goodies and more.
For Meeting location, directions and time, check out our Meetings Page.
See you then!
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Link to last night's presentation and wrap-up
Meetingshttp://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p38197000/
More information can be found at:
http://www.coldboxframework.com/
If you missed this presentation I urge you to take a look. It is no secret that I am a big fan of the Mach-II framework, however, I must say that I was pretty blown away by the magnitude of work that has been put in on that framework and how feature rich it is.
Thanks to Mike Kelp for offering another presentation on his continuing series of CFEclipse features. I think it is safe to say that everyone in the room walks away with something they didn't know before each time he presents.
After the meeting we discussed some ideas about the CFUG, including an idea that I have been kicking around now for the better part of a year about our group trying to host a small conference here in this area. I have some general thoughts and ideas, but would like to bounce them off of some of our members who might be interested in exploring this idea further. I have created s Google group specific to that discussion, so you you are interested, please contact me.
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