In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Hotel 89% full * New Sponsor * Conference Keynotes announced * Win a ticket to CFUNITED with our competition. Deadline 2/28/06 * CFUNITED Sneak Peek 3/1/06 * New Dynamic Schedule http://www.cfunited.com/schedule.cfm * Interview with Raymond Camden - Verity Searching Secrets
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 Have 3 years of CF and love helping other developers? http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.JobDetail&JobID=7 Conference and training news **************************** * Upcoming classes 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! * Confirmed - Ben Forta will be a speaker for Adobe's primary keynote presentation on the conference's first day, June 28th. Also, Microsoft and New Atlanta will be presenting their keynote on Thursday and Friday. See our topics page to find out more. www.cfunited.com/topics.cfm * Check out the CFObjective Conference (http://www.cfobjective.com/conference/) in Minneapolis, MN on March 11-12. Learn about Enterprise software engineering as it applies to ColdFusion. The early bird rate ends 2/26/06. * ColdFusion Developer's Journal is proud to be a sponsor of CFUNITED. * Hotel guest room update. Currently 89% 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. -- Over flow information coming soon -- * 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 * We have a new schedule posted. Recently updated as of February 22, 2006. http://www.cfunited.com/schedule.cfm * Only 4 months until CFUNITED (123 days). * Timely bird price ends 3/31/06 * Can't afford to come for 4 days? Or can't take time off work during the week? Come to our Saturday only event. * Full time students and umemployed programmers substantial discounts available - email liz (at) teratech.com for your discount code. ****************************************************** And now our CFUNITED spotlight interview. Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Raymond Camden about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Verity Searching Secrets". So why should a developer come to your session Raymond? Raymond Camden: While it is simple enough to add a search feature to a web site with Verity, it isn't easy to add a powerful, and relevant search engine. Verity gives you tools to not only add search, but to help yours users really find what they are looking for. MS: So do you have to buy Verity on top of ColdFusion? RC: No - Verity ships with ColdFusion MX. There are certain restrictions to the version that ships with ColdFusion, but if you do purchase Verity, you can use that easily from CF as well. MS: Search coding sounds really complex - how many lines of code does it take to add a good search to a site? RC: One. Ok - one for the search itself, and a few more to actually populate the data, but the API is -very- simple and easy to use. MS: So what kind of extra search tools are in Verity? RC: You have your basic search matching "Find me foo with 'Camden' in it" as well as more particular type searches. You can search within a category. You can search for words close to your initial search term. You can even get suggestions back when your search doesn't return any results. MS: Wow that sounds like the options in the Google Advanced Search screen! When you say search within a category what is an example of that? RC: A typical search will search all of your content. By using categories, you can give you users the ability to find better results. So if you have a review site that discusses movies, music, and video games, you could let the search engine filter by just movies for example. MS: Cool! Any other new Verity features that you will be covering? RC: I'll mainly be discussing basic searching, categories, suggestions, and ways to integrate Verity into your code. I'll touch a bit on the more advanced types of searching as well. MS: So is Verity only used to add a site seach or are there other uses for it in your programs? RC: It is for search. You can use it to spider a local web site - but typically it is just for searching. 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 $749 until 3/31/06 then $849. For more information on CFUNITED see http://www.cfunited.com/ --- Verity Searching Secrets ************************* Do you want to do free text searches like Google in your sites? Are you afraid of ColdFusion's Verity search engine? Come to this Introduction to Verity and learn how easy text searches can be for search database or documents. We will also cover the newest and latest features of Verity. Speaker Bio: Raymond Camden is the Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond is a member of Team Macromedia and one of the managers of the Acadiana MMUG. Raymond is a co-author of the Mastering ColdFusion series published by Sybex Inc, the ColdFusion MX Developer's Handbook, and a co-author to the "ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit". He also presents at numerous conferences and contributes to online webzines. He is a contributor and technical editor of the ColdFusion Developer's Journal. He and Rob Brooks-Bilson created and run the Common Function Library Project, an open source repository of ColdFusion UDFs. You can reach him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raymonds blog is at http://ray.camdenfamily.com. ************************** * Speakers include top names like Simon Horwith, Charlie Arehart, Hal Helms, Michael Dinowitz, Ray Camden, Ben Forta 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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