In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Ben Forta Quote on MAX and CFUNITED * Contest Survey Winner * CFLive - Michael Smith Thursday 12:30pm EST via breeze * Interview with Sandy Clark - Cascading Style Sheets - Floating
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 TeraTech classes Cost $59 - $349 see http://www.teratech.com/training/ for more details and registration CF206 - ColdFusion SQL Skills Mar 14 2006 CF101 - Welcome to ColdFusion May 2 2006 CF102 - Intro to ColdFusion May 9 2006 CF201 - Intermediate ColdFusion May 16 2006 FB101 - Intro to Fusebox May 23 2006 FB201 - Intermediate Fusebox Jun 6 2006 * Pre-conference classes Cost $449 see http://www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm for more details and registration Register before March 31st and enter to win a free memory stick! CU210 Leader of the Pack (strategies for building better software) - Simon Horwith - Monday 6/26 CU211 Fundamentals of Relational Database - Kurtis D. Leatham - Monday 6/26 CU212 ColdFusion Server Administration: JRun J2EE Deployment - Adam Wayne Lehman - Monday 6/26 CU213 Testing ColdFusion - John Paul Ashenfelter - Monday 6/26 CU214 Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers - Rob Gonda - Tuesday 6/27 CU215 XML, XPath, and XSLT for ColdFusion Developers - Jeff Peters - Tuesday 6/27 CU216 Domain Modeling - Hal Helms - Tuesday 6/27 CU217 Beyond Basic SQL for CF - Nate Nelson - Tuesday 6/27 CFUNITED NEWS! Recently we asked Ben Forta about MAX: * Q: Will there be a MAX this year? Ben Forta: We're still working through it, we do plan a conference, but details are not finalized yet. Part of what we need to figure out is who the conference is for, and what products it should cover. With the merger with Adobe there are over 70 products in our product line, and so we need to figure which to include, and the type of coverage that each should get. I'd expect that we end up doing something similar to MAX, a company conference dedicated to many of our products, explaining high level direction and vision, providing sneaks at future products, and so on. And that is important to note. When Allaire's DevCon became Macromedia's MAX, some attendees found that there was not as much coverage of specific products as they'd have liked. The truth is there is no way we could create a dedicated DevCon type event for each product. MAX was a Macromedia conference, not a Flash or ColdFusion conference. But there is also a need for those product specific events, conferences than get dedicated far more time to specific products, and that is why we sponsor other events, like CFUNITED for ColdFusion and FlashForward for Flash. * View our new pamphlet for 2006. Download at http://www.cfunited.com/spread.cfm#pamphlet Look out for your copy in the mail in the next few weeks. * 2006 Contest Winner! Congrats to Chris Rockett for winning our survey contest. Here are some quotes from Chris' answers: Q:Why should people come to CFUNITED-06? "CFUNITED is the Greatest Conference of any I've ever been to, Coldfusion or not. It is large enough to have great variety but isn't overwhelming. It has a broad focus without being diluted. And, It has a wealth of information while still being accessible to people of all skill levels. The people you get to meet and interact with are great and the camaraderie of the Coldfusion community is evident. I love how the sessions are given by people in the industry who are approachable and willing to further discuss what they're teaching. I've been using Coldfusion since version 1.5 but I always learn something new at CFUNITED. The things I've learned at each CFUNITED have been put into practice building sites for clients of all types and across many industries. Each year I've attended CFUNITED I can't wait to sign up for the next year to make sure I don't miss out on the valuable information and networking opportunities." Q:Why do you like programming in ColdFusion? "I love Coldfusion because it allows you to focus on the application architecture and not the language. It allows you to make anything from quick and simple forms to complex distributed multi- tier applications and not be bogged down in the "how" of writing web applications but the "why", which is to solve problems and make the users and owners of a web site happy with the solutions that have been implemented." * We have an over flow hotel: Bethesda Marriott (Located about 1.5 miles from the conference center - there will be a shuttle to the conference center all day) 5151 Pooks Hill Road Bethesda MD 20814 To make reservations call: 1.800.228.9290 Use the group code: CFU See http://www.cfunited.com/travel.cfm for more details. *CFLive Hear CFUNITED speakers from your office via breeze talks every Thursday 12:30pm - 1pm EST. Learn new tips and ask questions live. 3/9/06 Michael Smith Mindmapping for better programs To sign up for this week's talk go to: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4869918/ 3/16/06 Raymond Camden CFCs and Verity Searching Secrets 3/23/06 Hal Helms Duck Typing in CFCs, Practical Design Patterns, Variables and Conditions, Celebrity Death Match 3/30/06 Jeremy Kadlec SQL Server tips 4/6/06 Sean Corfield Managing CFCs with Factories, Objects and Persistence * Only 4 months until CFUNITED (110 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 CFUNITED 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 Sandy Clark about her CFUNITED-06 talk "Cascading Style Sheets - Floating". So why should a developer come to your session Sandy ? Sandy Clark: It seems to me that the biggest hurdle developers face with CSS is how to position items on a page without using tables. In both of my talks this year, I cover positioning. This talk is aimed at getting to the nitty gritty of how to position items on a web page via floating. I intend to go into the specific rules of positioning to give developers a programmers way of looking at CSS floating. MS: So what exactly is floating and do all browsers support it? SC: Floating is a way of positioning items outside of the normal document flow (top to bottom, left to right). We've had floating all along in HTML with images. When a developer positions an image in HTML using align="left", they are actually floating that image and text can "wrap" around it. CSS gives us the ability to apply this type of floating behavior to any item which is using the block box model. All browsers do support float. MS: So what other items can use this? Images? Text? Something else? SC: Floating can be used on any item which follows the block box model. In other words, anything other than in-line. If you float something that is in-line such as information in between tags, then that item also assumes the block box model. MS: I assume you can do more than just align left - what other positions are allowed? SC: The same alignments we are used to. left, right, center and none. The real trick comes to understanding how CSS determines what floats and where. There are 9 rules I will go through regarding this during my talk MS: Cool. So what kinds of things can you do with floating in a real world application? SC: Floating can encompass a lot of different objects, any item can be floated, from a news box, to a picture, to divs acting as columns. The only limit is the programmer's imagination and of course their knowing the rules of floating (which will be covered during my talk) MS: Will you have any code samples in your talk? SC: I always have code samples for my talks. While my samples are not beautiful, they fully illustrate the concepts I am trying to teach MS: Cool - I will look forward to seeing 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/ --- Cascading Style Sheets - Floating ************************* Designing layouts with Cascading Style Sheets depends on two separate types of positioning, one of which is floating. In this session, Sandra will discuss all about creating layouts with floats. Speaker Bio: Sandra Clark, an advanced Macromedia Certified ColdFusion developer, is a Senior Software Developer with the Constella Group in Bethesda, Maryland. She has contributed material to the ColdFusion 5.0 Certified Developer Study Guide published by Syngress Media/Osborne McGraw Hill and to the ColdFusion Developers Journal. She has also spoken at various CFUGS and ColdFusion User Conferences around the country. Sandra is an active proponent of applying accepted and proven web standards to development as a way of improving accessibility as well as making life easier on developers. She can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************** * 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 up to $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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