In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Hotel update - 77% full * Win a ticket to CFUNITED with our competition. Deadline 2/28/06 * What's coming soon... classes, Free Sneak Peak and more... * Interview with Jeffry Houser - Creating Reusable Components in CFML
CFUNITED is the premier ColdFusion Conference near Washington DC 6/28-7/1/06 (Four whole days!) Check out speakers and topics at http://www.cfunited.com/ - Michael Smith TeraTech, Inc TeraTech is hiring a senior developer to join our growing team http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.JobDetail&JobID=7 Conference and training news **************************** * Upcoming classes CF202 - Web Accessibility and 508 Feb 21 2006 FB101 - Intro to Fusebox Feb 28 2006 MS01 - Avoiding web disasters Mar 1 2006 FB201 - Intermediate Fusebox Mar 7 2006 CF206 - ColdFusion SQL Skills Mar 14 2006 Cost $59 - $349 see http://www.teratech.com/training/ for more details and registration CFUNITED NEWS! * Hotel guest room update. Currently 77% of the rooms have been sold. The Bethesda North Marriot is the host of our event, which is located right at the Montgomery County Conference Center. See http://www.cfunited.com/travel.cfm for details. * Win a ticket to CFUNITED with our competition. Answer the questions and tell us why should people come to CFUNITED-06 by 2/28/06 and you could win a free ticket to the event http://www.cfunited.com/survey.cfm * Come to CFUNITED Sneak Peek event on March 1st, 2006 at 7pm - 9pm at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Montgomery County Conference Center in the Brookside Room on the lower level. This is a chance to get the inside scoop at what is happening new at this year's main event in June and you also get to learn a little bit more about ColdFusion too. By the way, the event is FREE! (But registration is required). http://www.cfug-md.org/cfunited-sneak-peek.cfm * New topic - MindMaps for better programming. * Timely bird price ends 3/31/06 * only 131 days left until CFUNITED! * What else is coming soon to CFUNITED website? -- Fusetalk attendee chat list -- Common Interest application where you can find other attendees with interest in common with you. -- The schedule will have a new feature that you will be able to easily create your own personalized schedule and print it out too. -- Pre-conference class schedule and topics will be posted soon along with sign-up. Teachers are Simon Horwith, Jeff Peters, Hal Helms, John Paul Ashenfelter, Kurtis D. Leatham, Rob Gonda, Adam Wayne Lehman, and Nate Nelson. ****************************************************** And now our CFUNITED spotlight interview. Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Jeffry Houser about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Creating Reusable Components in CFML". So why should a developer come to your session Jeffry? Jeffry Houser: A developer should come to my session because they want to spend less hours at work and more time on important things such as a with their wife, kids, or Xbox. MS: That sounds intriguing, but what kind of magic juice are you drinking? It isn't that easy, is it? JH: I'm actually drinking water today, but yes it is that easy. In my presentation I'm going to be talking about the different flavors of code re-use in CFML. Once you implement code-reuse you'll have less development time, less debugging time, and less overtime. MS: That does sound nice. Are you sure that it isn't your water that is flavored, as opposed to CFML? How do you re-use your CFML code? JH: I assure you this is just plain water. There are plenty of ways to reuse code in CFML, all of them built right into the language itself. I'll talk about includes, custom tags, User Defined Functions (UDFs), and ColdFusion Components (CFCs). My presentation will talk about the evolution of encapsulation through the ages of CFML, what each flavor brings to the table, and when to use one over the other. MS: The Evolution of Encapsulation, eh? Nice alliteration. What exactly is encapsulation, and how did it evolve? JH: Encapsulation is the process of building re-usable chunks of code. With each release of ColdFusion, the encapsulation features of the language just keep improving. We didn't have UDFs until CF5, and CFCs were not introduced until CFMX. Re-use is one by-product of encapsulation. MS: I think I get it now. Are there other benefits of encapsulation? JH: There sure are. As I mentioned before, encapsulation offers you less debugging time and quicker development. With some forms of encapsulation you also have the benefit of code hiding. This means that you are coding a black box type of implementation. Your black box can change, but the code that uses your black box does not change. You can think of ColdFusion as one big black box. When you upgraded from CF5 to CFMX everything inside the box changed (From C++ to Java), yet your usage of CFML was probably not affected. You still can still use cfif and cfloop (and most other tags) without a second thought, just like you did before the upgrade. MS: That sounds pretty neat. You can use CF to write these type of black box applications? JH: Yes you can, and that is what my presentation is about. MS: Sounds good, I can't wait to see you at CFUnited. You can see more interviews at http://www.cfunited.com/interviews.cfm CFUNITED-06 is Wed 6/28/06 - Sat 7/1/06 in Bethesda MD, just outside Washington DC. It costs $649 until 1/31/06 then $749. For more information on CFUNITED see http://www.cfunited.com/ --- Creating Reusable Components in ColdFusion ************************* This presentation will look at options in ColdFusion for creating reusable components. It will talk about includes, custom tags, UDFs, and CFCs, examining the benefits and drawbacks of each method. Speaker Bio: Jeff Houser is owner of DotComIt, a full service web-consulting firm, based out of Connecticut. He is a certified ColdFusion developer and has been dealing with computers for over 20 years. He currently writes a column in the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and is the manager of the Hartford Connecticut Macromedia Use Group. He authored 3 books, including ColdFusion: The Complete Reference. He also owns a recording studio and has been recording music for more than 12 years. ************************** * Speakers include top names like Simon Horwith, Charlie Arehart, Hal Helms, Michael Dinowitz, Ray Camden and many more respected CF authors and presenters. * Great tracks: * Bootcamp - Basic ColdFusion and Flash topics * Advanced - Advanced ColdFusion topics * Manager/Empowered - Fusebox and Project management topics * Flex/RIA - Flash, Flex and other technologies integrated with CF topics * Accessibility / usability - section 508, CSS and disabled access * Deployment/Platform - tuning, install issues, OS, picking a database * Included in your full conference registration is the following: * Attendence for 4 days (6/28/2006-7/1/2006) * Keynote and General Sessions * All conference sessions including repeat sessions on Saturday * Entrance to Expo Area * Networking Events * Badge and Badge holder with bar scan code * Free Lunch for each show day (Dinner is not included) * Access to all presentations after the event, including all the recordings. * Promotional bag with materials including show guide, CD, coupons, etc. * Opportunity to participate in all raffle drawings * Can't stay 4 days Wed - Sat? Optional 3-day and Saturday only packages available too. Saturday will consist of repeats the most popular sessions from the week - something many attendees asked for last year! * The early bird price of $649 for CFUNITED-06 ends 1/31/06. Price expires 4-day 3-day Saturday-only Early Bird 01/31/2006 $649 $549 $249 Timely Bird 03/31/2006 $749 $649 $299 Regular 06/16/2006 $849 $749 $349 Late 06/28/2006 $949 $849 $399 Door 06/29/2006 $1049 $949 $449 Save upto $400 by registering now! Register today at http://www.cfunited.com/ -- Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm) TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers! 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