Here is the ColdFusion and Fusebox news:
* 10 reasons to attend CFUNITED
* Topic survey - win a ticket to CFUNITED http://cfunited.com/go/survey
* New CFUNITED podcasts released http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/podcast
- Kelly Tetterton - Managing a Project: From the Developer's Point of View
- Kurtis D. Leatham - Arrays Structures Multidimensional Arrays and
Arrays of Structures
* Fusebox.org website prototype in progress
* Interview with Tyson Vanek on "Are You 'Cashing In' on Caching?"
"Application development involves rapidly evolving technologies. Anyone
in the industry who does not actively pursue expanding their
knowledge will
quickly become obsolete. CFUNITED looks to provide the best value
for my
education dollar."
-Clay Mabbitt, (CFUNITED attendee)
* 10 reasons to attend CFUNITED
1. If you take your ColdFusion and web development seriously, this is
the one event you won't want
to miss. Learn what's new, directly from Adobe. Ben Forta calls
CFUNITED, now in its 8th year, "the
premier CF-specific event."
2. Meet other developers who share your interests. Find people who have
already solved that problem
that's giving you headaches back at the office; schmooze with speakers
late-night at the bar;
discuss the future of development. Often putting a face to that email
that you've been chatting with
on lists is the best part of CFUNITED.
3. Are members of your team new to ColdFusion? Then the CFUNITED
bootcamp track will teach them the
basics in a few days. From CFOUTPUT to looping, from SQL to database
design - they'll learn all this
and more from top experts in the field.
4. Flex is hot right now and we have a whole track on Flex, Ajax and
Apollo. Learn Flex and pick up
advanced techniques for Rich Internet Applications.
5. Meet the engineers from Adobe who create ColdFusion, ask them
questions, and give them your 2
cents on what you'd like to see in the future.
6. See the latest tools for web development. We are expecting several
new releases at CFUNITED, so
visit our expo area and be prepared to have your socks blown off!
7. The After Party. Let your hair down, play games with your buddies, or
challenge famous speakers
to a game of pool. You might even have a technical conversation or two
between the beers!
8. A year of info packed into 4 days! If you are hungry for technical
information or want to ask
questions, this is the place for you! We have regular sessions, long
sessions and - if that is not
enough - Birds-of-a-Feather evening sessions that go long into the
night! Basic CF, Advanced CF,
Better SQL, XML, CSS, Accessibility, Usability, Fusebox, security, PDFs,
SMS, CFCs, OO, RSS,
UDFs,debugging, arrays, structures, caching, web services, testing,
charting, Flex, Ajax, Apollo,
ColdSpring, Prototyping, MVC, CFEclipse, Spry, Design patterns, project
management, and more.
9. Want to get your hands dirty? Attend our hands-on pre-conference
classes taught by top speakers.
Bring your own laptop, and code along with the pros!
10. Bags, t-shirts and goodies galore. Printed slides for every talk, so
you don't have to print
them out yourself. Plus online access to presentations, code samples and
audio of any sessions you
may have missed.
* Topic survey - win a ticket to CFUNITED http://cfunited.com/go/survey
Help us pick the most popular topics to put in larger rooms and to
possibly repeat on Saturday.
One entry will be chosen to win a FREE CFUnited 4 Day Pass based on the
best reason for going to the
event (in the opinion of CFUnited staff). The winner will be picked on
Friday 4/20/07.
http://cfunited.com/go/survey
* New CFUNITED podcasts released
- Kelly Tetterton - Managing a Project: From the Developer's Point of View
- Kurtis D. Leatham - Arrays Structures Multidimensional Arrays and
Arrays of Structures
CF = RAD, and there's a Project Manager in charge -- so the developer is
just along for the ride,
right? Wrong! Learn some tips & tricks to make sure your projects go as
smoothly as possible.
http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/1/Kelly-Tetterton--Managing-a-Project-From-the-Developers-Point-of-View
Ever run across a problem where you needed to store data into a
multidimensional array that contains
a multidimensional array that contains a structure? What would the
logical storage container look
like that houses a companies org chart? This topic will show you how to
create such a complex
container, populate it with data, and then get the data back out. We
cover Arrays and Structures and
ways that you can mix and match these containers to create one huge
container for your complex data.
This discussion covers a real world example of an application that uses
a complex container to
automatically generate dynamic reports for several different people at
different times throughout
the year. The complex container that will be discussed houses
information about the report itself,
information about the people getting the report, and the unique
parameters that gets passed into the
report each time the report is generated. A sample applet is provided
that contains all of the
required source code and database tables to implement an auto report
generating applet.
http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/28/Kurtis-D-Leatham--Arrays-Structures-Multidimensional-Arrays-and-Arrays-of-Structures
Thanks CFUNITED attendee Christian Ready for making the podcasts!
* Fusebox.org website prototype in progress
The new Fusebox website is making great progress with an HTML/CSS look
and feel prototype by Sandra
Clark and the Fusebox website team. If you are interested in helping Fusebox
see http://trac.fuseboxframework.org/fusebox/wiki/ for groups and tasks
that we need volunteers on.
* Interview with Tyson Vanek on "Are You 'Cashing In' on Caching?"
Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Tyson Vanek about his
CFUNITED-07 talk "Are You 'Cashing In' on Caching?". So why should a
developer come to your session Tyson?
Tyson Vanek: Because caching concepts apply globally to just about any type
of ColdFusion application, yet they are often under utilized by developers.
And in today's web application world where speed and responsiveness are more
important than ever, developers simply can't afford to overlook the
potential benefits of applying different forms of caching within their web
applications.
MS: Well, why would a developer want to consider the use of
caching within a web application?
TV: One word - performance. Delivering cached content to a web
application user is obviously much faster than generating the content
real-time with every single request. So on the surface, caching offers a
performance increase to the end user, resulting in a more streamlined web
experience. But even more important is the overall health of a
server/cluster. A server that is doing less work and spending less time
serving up individual page requests is a "healthier" server, capable of more
throughput and simultaneous users. We all know that one of the biggest
bottlenecks in any ColdFusion application is the time your application
spends talking to the database. The more often you can avoid this
communication and safely rely on cached data, the better.
MS: If caching offers so many benefits in the context of a web
application, then what do you think contributes to caching being an
underutilized development technique?
TV: When you introduce the idea of caching into a web application,
there are many considerations to be made. For example, there will be an
inherent level of cache management that must take place in order to keep the
cached data clean and up to date. Additionally, developers must be able to
define a caching strategy for different types of content based on how many
variants exist and how often the data changes. I'll be spending some time
talking about how to identify content and data that are good candidates for
being cached, along with various methods and tools available for caching as
they apply in different situations. But, one of the biggest reasons I think
developers often steer clear of caching in their ColdFusion applications is
that the methods that ColdFusion supplies out-of-the-box for caching aren't
as robust as they could be.
MS: What do you mean? There's the CFCACHE tag, and built-in
query caching with CFQUERY using the cachedWithin and cachedAfter
parameters. What makes you say that these methods aren't good enough?
TV: Well in some cases they're enough to get the job done, but in
most cases they fall short. Quite simply, ColdFusion does not provide an
easy way for managing items that are cached using these out-of-the-box
methods. On top of that, CFCACHE is only really useful if you're interested
in caching an entire page of rendered content. If you wanted to cache, say,
a smaller section of content that takes a significant amount of time to
generate but appears within a larger page containing other content that
cannot be cached, then CFCACHE simply can't be used. And if you've ever
done any query caching using the cachedWithin and cachedAfter arguments of
the CFQUERY tag, then you already know how challenging it can be to manage.
Clearing queries cached with this method can be a bit of a challenge since
there's no good way to explicitly flush a cached query other than calling
the exact same query with a cachedWithin value of #createTimespan(0,0,0,0)#.
MS: So, can we assume that you'll be introducing developers to
other caching methods and tools that they can use within their applications?
TV: Absolutely! There are a few great, time-tested tags and tools
out there that every single ColdFusion developer should have in their tool
belt. I'll be covering a few of these, as well as some techniques that I
have personally developed over the past few years. There's a caching
solution for nearly every situation. Developers just need to know about
them and learn how to use them effectively, and then the possibilities are
endless.
MS: 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 6/27/07 - Sat 6/30/07 in Bethesda MD, just outside
Washington DC.
It costs $949 until 3/31/06 then $1049. For more information on CFUNITED see
http://www.cfunited.com/
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Are You 'Cashing In' on Caching?
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The implementation of a well-planned caching strategy can make the
difference between a scalable enterprise-wide application and an application
that crushes under the weight of 3 or 4 simultaneous users. A good caching
strategy should incorporate many facets of caching as they apply to
ColdFusion application design and development. Whether caching simple
rendered content/output or caching complex data objects and variables, the
key to gaining maximum benefit is properly identifying caching candidates
and the proper caching solutions. This session will focus on methods used
for identifying application bottlenecks, further identifying cache
candidates, and designing caching solutions based on those findings.
Speaker Bio:
Tyson Vanek has been building Internet applications for 12 years with an
emphasis on the use of Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe solutions. Tyson has a long
history of implementing enterprise ColdFusion solutions for countless
clients, big and small. Specializing in ColdFusion architecture and
application development, he typically serves as a technical team lead and
mentor. With experience dating back to the initial release of ColdFusion
v1.0 in 1995, Tyson has worked with ColdFusion on every single web project
and application he has been involved in during his 12-year career. In
addition to his former role as a Senior Field Consultant working for Allaire
and Macromedia, Tyson has worked with a number of large clients including
such companies as Footlocker, Eastbay, Lockheed Martin, Abbott Laboratories,
University of Virginia, Adelphia, Williams-Sonoma, Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, the International Broadcasting Bureau, and Discovery
Communications.
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Come to the premier ColdFusion conference of 2007 in Washington DC area
6/27-6/30/07
(Four whole days). Note that you could spend the whole CFUNITED
conference at Advanced CF topics, or
learning CF in the bootcamp or learning Flex and Apollo in our Flex
track. Or deployment issue or
empowered programming or SQL! Plus in depth pre-conference classes from
nationally know experts.
Check it out at
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* 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 (6/27/ - 6/30/07)
* 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!
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