In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Order a DVD copy of CFUNITED 2005 recordings and materials/laptop bag * Adobe Press offers attendees 35% off a selection of books! * Win a FREE extravagant lunch with your favorite speaker! * Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED! Talk to other Attendees. * CFLive - Simeon Bateman Thursday 12:30pm * Coming Soon - NEW scheduler program * Interview with Tom Link on "Flex 2.0 Event Model - 202"
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 "It 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." - Attendee from CFUNITED 2005 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 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! * Order a DVD copy of CFUNITED 2005's recordings on MP3 http://www.cfunited.com/dvd_recordings.cfm All sessions were recorded at CFUNITED-05, but there were technical problems that left a portion of the session's MP3 recordings inaudible. This disc includes all the audible recordings. We apologize if any of your favorite sessions are not available for your listening. Also, you can order your own copy plus the 2005 bookbag and materials! -Limited Supply- * Adobe Press offers CFUNITED attendees 35% off books! Register for CFUNITED and use your login to receive benefits. http://www.cfunited.com/attendeepage.cfm Develop your ColdFusion chops with the best books for the web development community! Adobe Press is a world leader in high-quality books for visual communicators and the official source of training materials for Adobe and Macromedia software. Adobe Press books are published, marketed, and distributed by Peachpit Press. With top-notch books for both developers and designers covering the latest in Web technology, Adobe Press offers expert training, straight from the source. Choose from Macromedia Official Documentation titles, books by noted ColdFusion and Dreamweaver experts, such as Ben Forta and Joseph Lowery, as well as step-by-step project-based tutorials in the Training from the Source series. www.adobepress.com * CFUNITED SPECIAL EVENTS ColdFusion Celebration Hosted by Adobe, TeraTech, and Hostmysite Drinks, games, raffles. Join us for another year of ColdFusion Fun. Location: Bethesda North Marriott Terrace Starting time: 7:15pm Thursday, June 29th MiniMAX 4 http://www.minimaxconference.com/ Can't go to CFUNITED? Come to this FREE event! Hosted by Adam Bell Location: Brookside Room, Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center, Lower Level Starting Time: 8:00pm Attendee Get Together http://www.cfunited.com/attendee_dinner.cfm See old CFUNITED buddies before the big show! Make new friends! Hosted by CFDynamics Location: Dave and Busters, Approximately 3 blocks from Bethesda North Marriott Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm * Win a free extravagant lunch with your favorite speaker! Anyone who has registered before May 1st is eligible to win a lunch with his/her speaker of choice. Pick their brains while you enjoy a delicious meal and dessert. HURRY and REGISTER NOW! Speakers currently participating: Glenda Vigoreaux Sandy Clark Sean Corfield Selene Banium Ray Camden Joe Rinehart Simon Howrith Jeff Houser * 22% of our Pre-Conference Classes are full. Be sure to reserve your seat today! http://www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm * The First 750 registrations will get our cool new laptop book bag, courtesy of our platinum and gold sponsors! Don't settle for the tote, register today! See photo at http://www.cfunited.com/bag.cfm * Fusetalk Forum now on CFUNITED! Start talking to other registered conference attendees today. If you are registered as an attendee, login into http://www.cfunited.com/login.cfm Discuss topics, arrange ride sharing or meeting at the event. Thanks Fusetalk for letting CFUNITED use your cool message board! See http://www.fusetalk.com/ for more info. -- Our Common Interest page is coming soon too! * 492 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 overflow hotels: Bethesda Marriott (approx. 1.5 miles from conference center) $170 per night 5151 Pooks Hill Road Bethesda MD 20814 To make reservations call: 1.800.228.9290 Use the group code: CFU The only dates that are provided under the group rate are June 27th - July 1st, 2006 A shuttle bus will be available back and forth from the conference center to this location. Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center Rockville (approx. 2 miles from conference center) $249 per night 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville MD 20852 To make reservations call: 1-301-468-1100 or go to http://www.doubletree.com/ Use the group code: TER The only dates that are provided under the group rate are June 27th - July 1st, 2006 The metro line is located across the street. Take the metro line from Twinbrook to White Flint for the conference center. *CFLive Hear CFUNITED speakers from your office via breeze talks every Thursday 12:30pm - 1pm EST. Learn new tips and ask questions live. CFLive! Simeon Bateman CFEclipse Thursday, Apr 20, 12:30 PM US/Eastern http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893547/ Future talks 4/27/06 Rob Gonda CLASS Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers 5/4/06 Steve Ritler Farcry 5/11/06 Maxim Porges Secrets of Top Notch Teams 5/18/06 John Paul Ashenfelter Agile Programming 6/1/06 Nate Nelson Advanced SQL Programming * We have a new Schedule program COMING SOON created by Joe Danziger: "I've been working on a new AJAX-Based Scheduler for the CFUNITED team. You can add a session to your schedule by either clicking on the time it is given or by dragging-and-dropping onto the correct day." Check back soon to CFUNITED's website and see when we announce this new feature. * Only 10 more weeks until CFUNITED (68 days). * 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 Tom Link about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Flex 2.0 Event Model - 202". So why should a developer come to your session Tom? Tom Link: I'm going to talk about events and how they relate to creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with Flex. In working with customers, Universal Mind has found the event model can be a bit mysterious for ColdFusion developers who have primarily worked with HTML and are building their first Flex applications. For simple applications, developers can sometimes hack together a solution without really understanding how it's all working. By really understanding the event model and how it relates to building applications with Flex, developers can build better structured and more scalable applications. MS: That sounds interesting. Tell me more about events. TL: An RIA is more of a living, breathing thing in comparison to an HTML presentation layer. In an HTML application, the server usually returns new pages based on user interaction; the client doesn't have to "react" to much of anything. In an RIA, the client is more independent and capable of reacting to user interaction without necessarily interacting with the server. For example, an RIA user interface might change its layout or present different detail records from a master list based on user interaction - all without talking to the server. In the HTML world, the browser would just request different pages that represent these views. Events are used as the mechanism for the application to communicate that "something happened" such as a user clicking on a region of the application, a component coming into view, or data being returned to the application. When creating Flex applications, we instruct our code to "listen" for events that will be "broadcast" to tell us that something happened. MS: You mentioned that using events properly can make an application more scalable. How so? TL: A Flex application can be comprised of a single file. As an application becomes more complex, it is usually broken up into individual components. This helps to make the application more maintainable and reusable. Ideally, each component focuses on doing a specific thing (like "display a product catalog item") and it knows as little about the rest of the application as possible (like where it will gets its data from or how the rest of the application will react if a user clicks on it). MS: That is a common idea in software development... TL: Yes, for many ColdFusion developers, this is not a new concept and is accomplished in ColdFusion using ColdFusion Components (CFCs) or custom tags. The difference is that in Flex, this communication all happens on the client and the components need a way to pass data to each other and to tell each other what happened. While there are many ways to accomplish this, using events is the preferred method primarily because it allows the components to be as loosely coupled as possible. This means that the components have the best chance of being reusable throughout the application or in other applications and have the least chance of being adversely impacted by changes to other components in the application. MS: I see. That makes sense. Will you demonstrate these concepts to attendees in your session? TL: Of course! First, I'll demonstrate how events are used in the core Flex user interface (UI) components, and how we can have our own code react to those events. (This should be a review for anybody who's done any work with Flex.) Then, we'll look at a monolithic Flex application, where all the code is in a single file, and break it up into some logical components. I'll show some ways for those components to communicate without using the event model. Then, I'll show how to refactor this application to use the event model and we'll discuss why this is an improved approach. MS: Are there any pre-requisites for your session? TL: Being familiar with Flex at a beginner level having built or reviewed code for some very simple applications will be helpful, but not really required. MS: Thanks - I will look forward to seeing you at CFUNITED. --- Flex 2.0 Event Model - 202 ************************* Understanding the Flex event model is critical to developing powerful Flex applications. Further, using the event model to build your own components and architect your application, while not required, is considered an important best practice for building scalable and maintainable applications. While developers experienced with other languages that utilize the DOM event model (e.g. Java and JavaScript) are usually familiar with concepts related to the event model, many ColdFusion developers struggle with this important concept. This session will discuss the event model, why it is important, how it is implemented in Flex's core architecture, and how custom components and application architecture can utilize events to foster scalable and maintainable Flex applications. This session will also discuss a related conceptual hurdle for web programmers - the asynchronous nature of Flex applications. We'll discuss how this relates to both the event model and integration with backend systems like ColdFusion. Beginner experience with Flex applications is suggested for this session. Speaker Bio: Tom Link is the CTO of Universal Mind, Inc. He recently joins Universal Mind following over five years at Allaire and Macromedia. As Principal Consultant for Macromedia, Tom has worked onsite with over 100 of Macromedia's (now Adobe's) largest and most strategic customers helping to plan, code, review, tune, and troubleshoot some of the largest and most critical applications in the world based on Adobe server products. **************************************** * 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 price is $849 for all four days of CFUNITED-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 Be one of the first 750 registrations and you will get the Awesome Laptop Bookbag instead of the average tote. Plus you'll be in a raffle to win a lunch with your favorite speakers if you registered before April 30th. 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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