In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * NEW Scheduler Program is here and ready! * SATURDAY REPEATS ANNOUNCED!!!! * Popular sessions Survey WINNER announced. * AJAX pre-conference class is now full. * CFUNITED 2006 will be available on video after the event * Order a DVD copy of CFUNITED 2005 recordings and materials/laptop bag * Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED Talk to other Attendees. * CFLive - Thursday 12:30pm - John Paul Ashenfelter on Agile Programming * Interview with John Paul Ashenfelter on Testing CF Applications
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 Q: How [CFUNITED] will help in my current job? CFUNITED Alumni Tony W. said: 1. Networking opp. with the HIGHEST Rated CF'ers in the business. 2. New techniques for legacy functionality 3. New applications for the new features 4. industry partners with lots to offer will be there 5. Q&A Sessions, BOF Sessions, Roundtable Chats with Industry experts It's a highly valuable event that will connect you with the ColdFusion community like no other event. - Tony Exciting Opportunity Available! TeraTech is seeking a creative and energetic PT or FT ColdFusion Developer to help maintain the CFUNITED website. For more details: http://cf.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.JobDetail&JobID=11 Conference and training news **************************** * Upcoming TeraTech classes Cost $59 - $349 see http://www.teratech.com/training/ for more details and registration FB101 - Intro to Fusebox May 23 2006 FB201 - Intermediate Fusebox Jun 6 2006 CF209 - Upgrade to CFMX 7 Jun 13 2006 * CF209 - Upgrading to CFMX 7 (new class) Are you new to CFMX 7? Do you want to learn all the new features fast? This class will get you upto speed on it all: Flash forms, XML forms, PDF generation, headers and footers, the report builder, sub reports, event gateways, CFC new features, Web Services, Verity enhancements, CF Application Framework, CF Administrator API and what is new in CF Administrator. * 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 (FULL!) 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! * We are excited to present our new AJAX based SCHEDULER PROGRAM!! Personalize your schedule and reserve the sessions you want to attend. http://www.cfunited.com/scheduler/ You must be registered for CFUNITED to use this program. This program was created by Joe Danziger. * SATURDAY REPEATS ANNOUNCED! We have finally decided on our repeat sessions for Saturday based on your survey responses. Thanks for your patience. The Saturday Schedule will also be added to the Scheduler soon. For now, view repeats at http://www.cfunited.com/schedule.cfm * SURVEY WINNER OF A FREE TICKET TO CFUNITED IS.........Casey Dougall from New York! Congrats! Claim your prize at info @ teratech.com Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey we can't wait to see you in June! * CFUNITED/Video! http://www.cfunited.com/video_recordings.cfm Can't make it to the event? Attending but want to see sessions that you can't get to? Want to see a favorite session again to learn even more? Buy CFUNITED/Video and watch whenever you want from you own computer! $649 includes the show bag and goodies that attendees receive. Sample video and more information coming soon. This price is a license for one named individual to view the video - if you need a site license for multiple viewers contact Liz at liz (at) teratech.com CFUNITED 2006 Attendees get $400 off the price! Already registered for CFUNITED but want the videos too? Upgrade for just $200 to both attend and get videos of all sessions. * See list of prizes from our sponsors. http://www.cfunited.com/prizes.cfm * 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! * 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 * 48% of our Pre-Conference Classes are full. Be sure to reserve your seat today! Class CU214 is full 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 * 588 people are already registered for CFUNITED-06 and the main hotel is full! See overflows. (That is more people than the same time last year). * 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. * We have overflow hotels: Bethesda Marriott (approx. 1.5 miles from conference center) --This hotel has about 10 rooms left per night-- $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! John Paul Ashenfelter Agile Programming Thursday, May 18, 12:30 PM US/Eastern http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893861/ Future talks: 5/26/06 Simon Horwith Architecture 6/1/06 Nate Nelson Advanced SQL Programming http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893862/ 6/8/06 Rob Gonda CLASS Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4919519/ 6/15/06 Doug Ward Fundamentals of Good Usability http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4919541/ * Only 6 more weeks until CFUNITED (41 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. * We still have opportunites for sponsorship available to companies. ****************************************************** And now our CFUNITED spotlight interview. Michael Smith: This time we are talking with John Paul Ashenfelter about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Testing CF Applications". So why should a developer come to your session John Paul ? John Paul Ashenfelter: Well, in my experience very few CF applications are comprehesively, routinely, and *automatically* tested. And as Bruce Eckels (author of Thinking in Java among other classics) says, "If it's not tested, it's broken". The goal of my session is to show developers what kinds of testing they can (and should be doing), what tools are available for testing their applications and how they can use those tools to make sure their own applications are not "broken". MS: What kind of testing do you think developers should be doing? JPA: Web applications can be tested at a number of different levels -- from unit-testing individual components up through load-testing the entire application. I think CF developers are becoming more aware of unit-testing at the CFC level using tools like CFUnit and CFCUnit, especially with the growing awareness of test-driven development methodologies like Extreme Programming and SCRUM MS -interjection about the CFUnit/CFCUnit talks if there are any- JPA: My focus though, is on testing larger chunks of the application, methods that operate on individual pages or a multi-page path through part of a web application. This is the kind of testing that many developers (and QA teams) do in an adhoc fashion by clicking through an application. Some of the tools in the talk are focused on automating this sort of testing -- tools that let you capture an entire chunk of user behavior, standardize it, and automate it so that developers can spend more time on development and QA folks can spend more time on, well, quality. MS: You're talking about functional . JPA: Exactly. Functional testing ensures that the application functions as intended. Whenever a developer clicks through the registration process or makes a purchase to see if the application "works", they are doing functional testing. I personally think it's better to let the computer do that sort of boring, repetitive work because that's what computers are good at -- doing the same thing over and over, exactly the same every time. MS: Sounds like you're also talking about regression testing. JPA: That too. Regression testing is running the same set of tests against a new version of the code to ensure that functionality is still the same. Once you've got functional tests, bundling those up into a suite of tests that you can run over and over gives you regression testing. MS: That sounds pretty complicated. These tools must be expensive and complicated! JPA: Well, there *are* expensive tools for this sort of thing, but as anyone who's seen me speak knows, I'm really focused on the open source world and there are excellent open source tools for doing functional and regression tests on CF applications. We're going to focus on using the open source Selenium tool for building functional tests and then automate those tests to create a regression test suite. MS: Wow! But what about load-testing? JPA: Well, there's plenty of expensive tools for that, and a number of open source tools. One of the standard load-testing tools is an application called Grinder. MS: So you're going to show us how to put our applications *through* the Grinder. JPA: Um. Yeah. Exactly. MS: So is there anything else you'll cover other than functional testing with Selenium and load testing with Grinder? JPA: I'll be lucky to cover all of that in an hour! But I will mention a few other tools like DBUnit for setting databases back to a standard state, which is very important when testing web applications. And I'd also mention integrating validation tools into the testing process to ensure that your web applications generate valid (X)HTML pages. MS: Sounds like you'd need a whole day to talk about those things! JPA: Hey, great idea. How about I teach a full-day class before CFUnited on testing CF applications? MS: Sounds like a plan, we have scheduled a whole day class on this! http://www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm Looking 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/ --- Testing CF Applications ************************* Test-driven development is very popular in the Java and Ruby worlds and becoming moreso in the ColdFusion world. This session covers the tools that are available to test ColdFusion applications and discusses how to implement them into your existing workflow. We'll specifically cover: * CFCUnit/CFUnit for testing ColdFusion code * Selenium for testing web pages * DBUnit for managing the database during testing * Grinder (and similar) load-testing tools Together, these tools can provide unit, functional, regression, and load tests for your applications. Finally, we'll touch on automating these tests so you can ensure that you are delivering higher-quality, well-tested code. Speaker Bio: John Paul Ashenfelter is CTO of TransitionPoint.com, where he builds web-based business applications using a mix of open source tools, ColdFusion, and Java. He has been the technical lead on a number of ColdFusion projects for startups as well as regularly serving as an architect for existing ColdFusion sites converting to Fusebox. A ColdFusion developer since version 2.0, John Paul has written several books covering ColdFusion, contributed articles to CFDJ, and spoken at several ColdFusion conferences. **************************************** * 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. Register today at http://www.cfunited.com/ -- Due to TeraTech's growth we are seeking winning sales people to sell custom software. For more details: http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.JobDetail&JobID=3 Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc 405 E Gude Dr Ste 207, Rockville MD 20850 Voice: +1-301-424-3903 x110 Fax:301-762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com/sig/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 66057682 Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. 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