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Please welcome Adrian Moreno as DFWCFUG co-manager

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:36:20 GMT

As was discussed at the July meeting, we have been directed by Adobe to name a co-manager to the group that will serve as manager in my absence and will share duties running the group. After considering a number of candidates, the decision has been made to have Adrian Moreno fill that role. He has been an active participant in the group for many year, is an active blogger, is active on many community email lists, and has been a regular presenter for our group. Please join me in welcoming him to this role.

Additionally I would like to thank all members that expressed interest in filling this role. It is obvious that we have a number of people that want to see our group continue to succeed and flourish, and I will be calling on all of you to contribute in the future.

~Dave Shuck

Next Meeting August 12 - Mark Piller: Building Flex Applications with ColdFusion

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Make 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.

Next Meeting July 8 2008 - Transfer with Mark Mandel

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:05:39 GMT

All, make sure to mark your calendars for the July monthly meeting on July 8. We are honored to have Mark Mandel joining us for a Connect presentation to talk about TransferORM, an extremely powerful and easy to use database abstraction/object persistence mechanism.

As always we will be starting our night with 3 short training topics, and will be starting the main presentation around 7:30pm.

Here is the current agenda for the night...

Training Time:

CFTHREAD - Dave Shuck
Cascading Application.cfc - Adrian Moreno
OnError() usage and functionality - Andrew Leaf

10 Minutes on...

Topic TBD

CF In Depth

TransferORM - Mark Mandel

Make sure to join us at our new meeting location graciously hosted by Paladin Consulting. For more information on location/details, check our Meetings page.

See you there!

Meeting Location Details!

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:10:00 GMT

Starting with our June 2008 monthly meeting, the Dallas/Ft. Worth User Group begins meeting at the Paladin Consulting Inc. office on the south side of 635 LBJ Freeway between Webb Chapel and Josey in the ClubCorp building. Look for the "ClubCorp" sign at the top of the building.

When you arrive you will notice there are two towers, and we meet east tower adjacent to the AMC movie theater. I suggest parking between the towers and entering the front door of the building on the west side. Once you come inside, take the elevator to the 11th floor and enter the Paladin office. We meet in a room right at the front - you won't miss us!

If you have any problems getting in (such as arriving late to find building doors locked), please contact Dave Shuck on his cell phone @ 940-231-4333 and we will send someone to help you.

The address of the office is:

Paladin Consulting, Inc.
3030 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1140
Dallas, TX 75234
Phone: (972) 783-1995

More details and a link to a map can be found here.

Next meeting - June 10 2008 - Ajax in CF8 - NEW MEETING LOCATION

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:00:00 GMT

All, make sure to join us on Tuesday June 10, 2008 for our first meeting at our new location, graciously provided by Paladin Consulting!

We will have 3 short training topics to start of our evening at 6:30 running until about 7:15. These topics are:

SQL Tips and Tricks - This is part of our continued series presented by Robert Froehling covering best approaches to SQL.
Application.cfc - Tom Woestman will be covering use of the various methods available in Application.cfc
Error Handling with CFTRY/CFCATCH - Andrew Leaf will be covering this topic.

The CF In Depth topic will cover some of the Ajax functionality that is now available in ColdFusion 8, presented by Dave Shuck.

Make sure to check out this blog post for specific information about our new meeting location, where to park, etc.

See you Tuesday!

May meeting's 10 minutes on...

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:48:00 GMT

All, we are still looking for suggestions for the May meeting's "10 minutes on..." slot. In case you are new or missed this previously, this is a 10 minute spot on whatever *you* want it to be, presented by Dave Shuck. Keep in mind as you are suggesting topics, that they should be short concise topics about a specific feature, code usage, or general technology that could be amply covered in a limited time slot. That said... please add your suggestions in the comments below!

Next meeting - May 13, 2008 - Document Generation in CF8 and Big Announcement!

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:38:00 GMT

All, 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!

April meeting's 10 minutes on...

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Starting this meeting we are going to try a new 10 minute segment where Dave Shuck will cover 10 minutes on any topic related to ColdFusion web development. The idea is that the topic will be chosen by the membership by replies to this entry. For example, if someone replies to this email with "Using INI files for application settings", or "Properly locking shared scope variables", or something along those lines, Dave will look through the entries and pick one to cover for a 10 minute segment in the next monthly meeting. As you make your suggestions, please keep the short time limit in mind!

This is our first attempt at this, so let's give it a go. What topic would you like to spend 10 minutes on.... ?

Please reply to this blog entry with your submissions.

Monthly Meeting - Tuesday April 8 - New meeting format!

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:52:00 GMT

The 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!

Next meeting: Tuesday March 11 - Flex 3 and Group Planning meeting - and pizza!

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:12:00 GMT

All, 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!

Next meeting: Tuesday Feb. 12: Tom Woestman on integrating Selenium with CFCUnit

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:35:00 GMT

Meeting

Next meeting: Tuesday, Jan 8, 2008 - Dave Shuck on Mach-II User Authentication

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:10:43 GMT

Make 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!

Link to last night's presentation and wrap-up

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:27:35 GMT

All, here is the link to last night's presentation by Luis Mujano on his Coldbox framework presentation:

http://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.

Final Monthly meeting of 2007! December 11 - 6:30pm

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:49:54 GMT

This is a last minute reminder of our monthly meeting Tuesday night December 11 at 6:30.

We will begin the meeting at 6:30 with a short presentation by Mike Kelp continuing his series of CFEclipse features.

Immediately following we will have a live presentation via Adobe Connect from Luis Mujano about his ColdFusion application framework Coldbox.

After the presentations wrap up we will be doing our semi-annual software giveaway in which we will give away any Adobe product up to $2000 in value! In addition we will be giving away some Adobe swag items and I will be announcing some new ideas for 2008. Be sure to join us. For meeting location/directions, make sure to check the meetings page.

Next meeting: Tuesday November 13 - The next step in OO development

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:14:01 GMT

Make sure to join us Tuesday night, November 13, 2007 at 6:30 for our monthly meeting.

This month we will start off with a short presentation by Mike Kelp covering CFEclipse as part of an ongoing series talking about features and benefits of using CFE for ColdFusion development.

Following Mike, Adrian Moreno will be doing a presentation covering "The next step in OO development", covering real world usage of object oriented principles in ColdFusion development.

For meeting information and directions, be sure to check out Meeting page. See you there!

Next meeting: Tuesday October 9 - ColdFusion and Ajax by Chris Jordan

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:40:37 GMT

Make sure to join us Tuesday, October 9 for our monthly Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting!

Dave Shuck will be starting the meeting with a brief demonstration of using Subversion to manage source control using Subclipse and CFEclipse. The topic will cover general concepts, checking out projects, managing/merging conflicts and a brief question and answer session.

Immediately following, Chris Jordan will be taking the floor to give a presentation on working with Ajax in ColdFusion. With Christopher's extensive work with JQuery, this should be a great topic, so make sure to be there!

Please check the Meetings page for more information about location and times. See you there!

About Chris - Chris is a 32 year old computer programmer from Mansfield Texas working for Planet Access. He's been programming for the web using ColdFusion since 2003, and has written code in versions 4.5, 5, 6.1 and 8 (yep skipped version 7 completely!) Other languages he's used include: JavaScript, PHP, Pearl, and C. He also wrote a few scripts for the Korn and Bash shells back in the late '90s. He is the primary author/maintainer of the open source project: CFJS.

Tom Woestman joins the DFWCFUG Board

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:57:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce and congratulate Tom Woestman who has recently joined the DFWCFUG Board as the Speaker Coordinator. His role will be to engage speakers and will direct the focus of our meetings by determining the topics and subjects that will be presented. Please offer your praise and appreciation to Tom for undertaking this important role on the DFWCFUG Board.

Next meeting: Tuesday September 11 - Intro to CFCs and Object Oriented Programming in ColdFusion

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:10:22 GMT

Make sure to join us Tuesday for a night full of ColdFusion components. Our meeting will begin with a 30 minute presentation by Tom Woestman which is an introduction to using ColdFusion Components (CFCs) in your code.

After this presentation, Dave Shuck will be doing a presentation in which we will take a small procedural application and refactor it to use CFCs. After replacing all in-line queries with component method calls, we will then take the next step and move the application into the Mach-II 1.5 framework and introduce dependency injection with ColdSpring. If you are new to some of these concepts, this is not a meeting you will want to miss!

As a side note, we are still looking for a new meeting location, so the meeting place is still at TEKSystems as is listed on the meeting page.

See you there!

ColdFusion 8 Launch Meeting August 14!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:44:15 GMT

Some of you might have noticed the somewhat cryptic announcement on the DFWCFUG blog last week.

Now that CF8 is officially released, we can be a little more forthcoming with the meeting info, so here goes.

As we had discussed on the list and in the last meeting, the August meeting was going to consist of an "into to CFCs" short presentation by Tom Woestman, followed by a presentation by me in which I take an existing procedural application and converting it first to using objects, then secondly putting it into a framework. Due to the big Adobe news this morning, this meeting will be postponed until September. With that said, our August 14th meeting is slated to be a ColdFusion 8 Launch meeting. We have some giveaways... including...... one free copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition!!!!! In addition, we are going to have a Connect presentation by none other than Ben Forta, which is recording exclusively for the Adobe CFUGs. As a word of warning, I am told that this presentation may include much of what he showed on his Scorpio Tour, however, since Dallas was in the first week of presentations the content was added to significantly by the end of the tour.

In addition, we will have free pizza that night, so come hungry!

We are still actively trying to find a new meeting location, but for the August meeting, we will still be in the TekSystems office. Hopefully we will be in a new home by September, so stay tuned.

NOTE Topic change for August 14 meeting - Presentation on CF8

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:57 GMT

As discussed in the last meeting and on the email list, the topic for the August 14 meeting was going to be converting legacy applications to OO, and taking an existing small application and convert it to a Mach-II application in order to demonstrate how all these pieces fit together.

However, due to some behind the scenes details, we now have a big ColdFusion 8 meeting in the works, with a presentation by a super-secret special guest.

More details will follow in the coming week. Stay tuned!