In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED! * CFLive - Ray Camden Thursday 12:30pm EST via breeze * Only 16 days left on timely bird price - ends 3/31/06 * Interview with Raymond Camden - Introduction to ColdFusion Components
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 "[CFUNITED] is, by far, the single best conference for ColdFusion Developers and JRun/ColdFusion server Administrators. Not only do you get to meet and greet all of the top names in the field, you get to see where ColdFusion stands today, and see where it is going tomorrow." - Damon G. (previous year Attendee) 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 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! Location: Bethesda North Marriott and Conference Center 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! * Fusetalk Forum now on CFUNITED! Start talking to other register conference attendees today. If you are registered as an attendee, login into http://www.cfunited.com/login.cfm -- Our Common Interest page is coming soon too! * Over 300 people are already registered for CFUNITED-06 and the main hotel is full! (That is more people than the same time last year). * 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. Ray Camden on Intro to CFCs and Verity Searching Secrets Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:30 PM US/Eastern To sign up for this week's talk go to: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4874951/ Future talks 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 4/13/06 John Paul Ashenfelter Agile Programming 4/20/06 Simeon Bateman CFEclipse 5/4/06 Steve Ritler Farcry CMS 5/11/06 Maxim Porges Secrets of Top Notch Teams * Only 3 months until CFUNITED (103 days). * Only 16 days left on timely bird price - ends Friday 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 Raymond Camden about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Introduction to ColdFusion Components". So why should a developer come to your session Raymond? Raymond Camden: ColdFusion Components are really the main way a developer can take his or her code to the "next level" of development. In this extended session I will cover both the syntax as well as show numerous examples and suggestions for using CFCs. MS: How will my code be better if I use CFCs? RC: Beginning developers tend to rebuild code they have used before. They do this because their earlier code wasn't properly abstracted, so it's not reusable. CFCs are one way within ColdFusion to reuse code. MS: What do you mean by "abstracted" - that sounds complex! RC: It really isn't. Here is a simple example. The total value of a shopping cart is each line items unit price times the quantity. That is one simple business rule. However - you use this logic in multiple places on your site. You "abstract" it by simply packaging it up into one file. Then every place that needs this logic calls that file. Let's then say that on Mondays you want a 10% deduction applied to the total. If you modify that one file, every place that uses it will see the new logic. MS: So are CFC hard to learn? RC: Like most things in ColdFusion, they are easy. Using them right though takes a bit of time. Once you learn the basic syntax, there is a lot of thinking that needs to take place on how to organize them. MS: What tags do I need to use to write a basic CFC? RC: There are a few tags involved: CFCOMPONENT, CFFUNCTION, CFPROPERTY, CFARGUMENT, and CFRETURN. MS: Is there anything people need to know before they come to your talk? RC: Nope! MS: Will you have any code sample or demos in your talk? RC: Heck yes. I'm a big believer in code examples. MS: Cool - 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/ --- Introduction to ColdFusion Components ************************* This three hour session will delve into the basics of building ColdFusion Components (CFCs) as well as discuss various methods of CFC development. We will have many examples that you can take home with you to help you start building your first site with CFCs! 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 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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