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 if register by 4/30/06! * Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED! Talk to other Attendees. * CFLive - Thursday 12:30pm * Coming Soon - NEW scheduler program * Interview with Sandy Clark on "CSS - Relative and Absolute Positioning"
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 "CF developers are a hot commodity. The demand for fast, reliable web applications is on the rise. Now is the time to be a ColdFusion developer if you want to be on top of the game. CFUNITED is the place to be to see the latest feature sets of ColdFusion and what it can do for you and your company. Be the first to witness it all." -Jeff C., CFUNITED Alumni 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 * 25% 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! * 504 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! TBA Thursday, Apr 20, 12:30 PM US/Eastern http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893547/ (Sorry, Rob Gonda will reschedule his talk for Breeze soon) Future talks 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 9 more weeks until CFUNITED (61 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 Sandy Clark about her CFUNITED-06 talk "Cascading Style Sheets - Relative and Absolute Positioning". 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 of how to position items on a web page via both relative and absolute positioning. Positioning rules are very different depending on whether a developer decides to position an object absolutely or relatively. I intend to cover the rules of these types of positioning MS: Why would I want to position relatively? SC: Well a relatively positioned item stays in the document flow. Other items cannot overlap it, and it cannot overlap other items. Positioning isn't necessarily, "I will only position relatively", all types of positioning can be used on a page, it depends specifically on what you want to achieve. MS: That sounds cool - what is an example you would use that for? SC: Positioning, relatively or absolutely can be used for anything, from a text box holding a quote to a 3 column layout complete with header and footer. Its only limitation is what the person designing it wants to achieve. MS: So is CSS positioning as flexible as say the positioning is in MS-Word or other desktop applications? SC: Its very flexible. However, the way it renders depends on the browser that is being used to view it. Layouts are very affected by the rendering mode that a browser users, standards or quirks. It can also be affected by the box model that is used. (IE 5.x and IE6 in quirks mode use a box model that is incompatible with the standard. MS: Box model - what is that? SC: For display purposes, every element in a document is considered to be a rectangular box which has a content area surrounded by padding, a border and margins. Margins are always transparent. Borders come in various styles. Background settings for an element apply to the the area just inside the borders which includes both the padding and content areas. Margins, borders and padding are all optional but for purposes of calculating positions and sizes they are given a default width of zero if not specified. A box can contain any number of other boxes, creating a hierarchy of boxes that corresponds to the nesting of page elements. The browser window serves as the root element for this hierarchy. MS: You mentioned IE, does this stuff work with other browsers too? SC: Cascading Style Sheets is as good as the browser that supports it. Firefox is a very CSS Standards compatible browser, Opera 9 recently passed the Acid 2 test (a test verifying CSS Standards compliance). Safari is also very standards compliant. (Since Netscape is based on the Gecko engine used by Firefox, it is also very standards compliant.) / Internet Explorer 6 is probably the least standards compliant engine out there, and while Microsoft promises to do some work updating the CSS standards compliance in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 (along with fixing the most egregious bugs), it is still not going to be totally CSS 2 compliant. MS: You mentioned web standards - why do you think these are important to CF developers? SC: Theres a lot of reasons they are important. As much as most of us like to think we are programmers, most of us do code HTML for the front end of our applications. As more and more people start using their mobile phones, blackberries and PDA's to explore the web, the more important web standards (and structural HTML) become. I'm a lazy programmer, I don't want to code a web site 3 different ways for 3 different types of user agents or have to recode my site if all of a sudden a new browser or user agent starts to show up. If I code to Web Standards, I only have to write my site using simple HTML markup and all the different user agents will be able to read my content. I can choose to send different CSS style sheets to the different user agents (or none at all) and still have users read and be able to understand my site on all these different mediums easily. Coding to web standards (separating content from presentation) allows me to serve more users over the same bandwidth, speed up the page loading for users and overall give my users a better experience. It also helps with search engine optimization. Within a few weeks of relaunching my web site, (www.shayna.com), my web site comes up as the number one link on Google when typing in my name, (either Sandra Clark or Sandy Clark), it comes up 8th on Google when typing in CSS Training. While I do use keywords, the fact that my site is structured properly means that google can index it correctly as well and fast. Also if anyone happened to come upon my site on April 5th (CSS Naked Day), they saw only my content and none of my styles. The site itself was still extremely readable without the style sheets even though it was plain. MS: Neat - 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 - Relative and Absolute Positioning ************************* Positioning is one of the main situations that people want to know about CSS. Building on last years, Box Model talk, Sandra Clark will introduce positioning including the differences between relative, absolute and fixed. If you want to understand how to lay out your CSS, this talk is a must! 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. 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