In this week's Newsletter:
*Frameworks Special Offer
*Vote for the Framworks Conference Topics!
*Flex training and help
*Michael Smith - Interveiw
*CF_Underground and MiniMAX
*CFUNITED video
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Frameworks Conference Special OFFER!
If you register by October 31st 2006 you can attend for only $299!
Date: February 1 & 2, 2007
Location: Washington DC
REGISTER NOW
http://www.frameworksconference.com/
Alumni and User Group Members: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for discounts!
Topics from last year were:
*Advanced*
Using Fusebox with CFCs: An OO Approach - Hal Helms
Leveraging the Fusebox 4 XML Vocabularies - Jeff Peters
Migrating Applications Between Frameworks - Joe Rinehart
Taming Framework XML files with XSLT and Xdoclet - John Paul Ashenfelter
Layouts in Fusebox 4 - Sandy Clark
Lock/key security plugin - Sandy Clark
Best Practices and Frameworks - Simon Horwith
Creating Your Own XML Verbs in Fusebox - John Quarto-vonTivadar
*Basic*
Introduction to Fusebox - Simon Horwith
Fusedocs for Better Code - Hal Helms
Building your first FB application - Jeff Peters
Optimizing Architectures for Search Engines - Jon Rowny
Strategies for Successful Development with FliP - Maxim Porges
Using FLiP to streamline your distributed development business model
Workshop - Michael Smith
This Glue Dries Fast - Joe Rinehart
*Keynote*
The Psychology of Frameworks - Jeff Peters and Hal Helms
*Other*
Managing Your Career as a Developer - Scott Knaub
Mach-II Architecture: Under the Hood - Ben Edwards
Power onTap - Isaac Dealey
Ruby on Rails for CF Developers - John Paul Ashenfelter
TheHUB - A ColdFusion Application Framework - Neil Ross
Tartan Framework and Service Architectures - Paul Kenney
Head First Mach-II - Matthew Woodward
Easy Java/J2EE with ColdFusion and the Spring Framework - Maxim Porges
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*VOTE for 2007 Frameworks Conference Topics!
Go to http://www.frameworksconference.com/survey.cfm
Voting closes November 15th
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*Flex training and help*
Adobe Flex is a way to develop Flash RIA (Rich Internet Applications)
that give desktop user
interfaces with the easy of online applications. Our recent Flex class
was a big success. If you
need Flex project mentoring, an onsite Flex class or want us to create
you next Flex application
email me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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*Michael Smith Interview - Testing*
This talk will be presented at www.cf-undeground.com
MS: I see that your are speaking on "Top notch testing techniques" at
CF_Underground. Why is that
important to developers?
MS2: You can write the cleverest code in the world but if there are bugs
in it your clients won't be
happy! Top notch testing lets you find bugs before your clients do.
MS: Ok we all need happy clients. So what are the best ways to test your
code?
MS2: There are many approaches and I will be sharing some of my
favorites at my talk. But also I
will open up the discuss to everyone present to learn what other methods
people use. On a larger
project I will write a test plan that give various scenarios for the
tester to follow. That way they
can repeat the test the same way when a new version of the code is done.
Also it is important when
testing to document the exact steps to recreate a bug - that way when
the fix comes in you can be
certain it is really fixed. Also the steps help the developer to
reproduce the bug - there is
nothing more frustrating that having a bug that you can reproduce that
users keep reporting!
MS: Yes sometimes users don't give all the steps to reproduce a bug - or
even give page that it is
on! How do you deal with that?
MS2: Partly it is a matter of training your users how you want bugs
reported so you can fix them.
Having an online bug tracking system like the one TeraTech uses works
better than phone or email
because the online form prompts the user for all the info we need on the
bug. Additionally we always
make sure that we include an error handler in our systems - that way
users don't see CF error
message - instead we get a nicely formated email with all the details
that we need. That also deals
with the problem that way less than 100% of users bother to report bugs!
MS: Is there anything new on the testing front?
MS2: In the last 10 years we have seen automated testing tools - where
you script the test plan in a
test program and it runs your code for you and reports bugs. Load
testing tools often include some
of this functionality... More recently test driven development has taken
advanced of automated
testing to write the tests first then write the code and immediately
test it. We will discuss some
of the impacts of this approach.
MS: Cool - see you at CF_Underground
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*CF_Underground and MiniMAX events before MAX in Las Vegas!*
CF_Underground
When: Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 Time: 9am-5pm
Where: The Beach 365 Convention Center Drive Las Vegas, NV 89109
Sign up today! http://cf-underground.com/
MiniMAX
When: Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 Time: 7:00pm
Where: The Beach 365 Convention Center Drive Las Vegas, NV 89109
Sign up today! http://www.minimaxconference.com/
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*CFUNITED 2006 was a huge success! Now we are making the presentations
available online!
go to www.cfunited.com for more information.
Alumni get the whole video package for only $200!
Thanks and we hope to see you at the next TeraTech event!
www.teratech.com
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Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm)
TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers!
CF/ASP Web, VB, Math, Access programming tools and consulting
405 E Gude Dr Ste 207, Rockville MD 20850 USA
Please check out http://www.teratech.com/ - email
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED],
or call us for more information; in the USA at 1-800-447-9120,
+1-301-424-3903 International, Fax 301-762-8185 Thanks!
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