Here is the ColdFusion and Fusebox news:
* ColdFusion 8 public beta released
* Only 19 days left until CFUNITED-07! New attendee videos
http://cfunited.com/go/interview-videos
* CFUNITED/Express Chicago announced 9/30/07
* CFUNITED-07 pre-conference classes iPod raffle - 7 days left
* CFMeetup Thur 12:30pm - Peter Bell, "Practical Code Generation: By
Example"
* New CFUNITED podcasts released http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/podcast
- Grant Straker - Troubleshooting and Optimizing CFMX Performance
- Maxin Porges - Secrets of Top Notch Development Teams
* CFUNITED-07 pre-conference classes iPod raffle - only 7 days left
* Fusebox YouTube video competition ends 6/22/07.
* Fusebox 5.5 alpha released
* Interview with Patrick Quinn on "Application Server Analytics"
"The ColdFusion landscape is changing very rapidly and those
developers who don't stay
"up-to-date" will be left "in-the-dust". CFUnited is a great opportunity
to catch up with all the
latest and greatest enhancements in ColdFusionMX and especially the
upcoming Scorpio release!"
-Patrick S.(CFUNITED attendee)
Other great quotes from attendees about "Why people should attend CFUnited"
http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/30/Survey-Contest-Winner
* ColdFusion 8 public beta released
ColdFusion 8 codenamed Scorpio has released a public beta - see
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/ for details. You can learn all
the new features in
ColdFusion 8 in the many Scorpio topics at CFUNITED.
* Only 19 days left until CFUNITED-07!
If you would like to ride share your trip to CFUNITED, go to
http://wiki.cfunited.com/
then login and click "Share a Hotel" and place a request or view a request.
* CFUNITED/Express Chicago announced 9/30/07
We have renamed CF_Underground this year before Adobe MAX to be
CFUNITED/Express Chicago. Speakers
include Charlie, Ray, Michael and Patrick.
http://cfunitedexpress.com/go/chicago/2007/topics.cfm
* CFUNITED-07 pre-conference classes iPod raffle - 7 days left
Everyone who signs up before Friday 6/15/07 5pm EDT will be entered in a
raffle to win one Apple
iPod Nano. The iPod will be selected at random on Monday 6/18/07 from
one of the people who are
registered for the class. Each class registration counts as one "ticket"
in the raffle.
Registration and more info at http://cfunited.com/go/classes
Monday 6/25
CU221 Rob Gonda Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Developers
CU222 Ajay Sathuluri CF Server Administration for Security and More
CU223 Oguz Demirkapi Multi Language Applications in CF in Theory and
Practice
CU224 Nate Nelson Advanced Database
Tuesday 6/26
CU225 Peter Bell Practical Code Generation: By Example
CU226 Simon Horwith Architecting and Optimizing CF Applications for
Performance and Scalability
CU227 John Paul Ashenfelter Best Practice Bootcamp for Developers
CU228 Charlie Arehart New in CFMX 6 and 7: What Did You Miss?
* How to get your boss to send you to CFUNITED
Having trouble getting authorization to attend CFUNITED - check out
these top reasons for coming!
http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/15/Top-Ten-Reasons-to-Attend
* User Group Manager Meeting Tues 6/26/07 - http://ugmm.cfunited.com/
Learn how to run a great user group and network with other UG managers
and Adobe staff.
* CFMeetup Thur 12:30pm - Rob Gonda Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Developers
CFMeetup is a weekly half hour technical talk from CFUNITED speakers. It
is hosted by Raymond Camden
and Charlie Arehart of the Meetup virtual CFUG. The current schedule is
every Thursday at 12:30pm -
1pm EDT.
* 6/7/07 Peter Bell "Practical Code Generation: By Example"
* 6/14/07 Patrick Quinn UI design concepts
* 6/21/07 Mark Drew "CFeclipse Plus!"
* 6/28/07 Live from show
You can get details on each talk, as well as RSVP, at:
http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/.
The URL for each Acrobat Connect meeting will be
http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/, where you
would sign in as a guest.
The talks are on Adobe Acrobat Connect so you can listen in remotely via
your PC with sound via the
internet. We are planning to record the talks and will provide URLs for
later viewing after each
event. Looking forward to seeing you there!
* New CFUNITED podcasts released
- Grant Straker - Troubleshooting and Optimizing CFMX Performance
- Maxin Porges - Secrets of Top Notch Development Teams
Grant Straker - Troubleshooting and Optimizing CFMX Performance
Find out how to optimize and troubleshoot CFMX driven applications. You
will learn how to quickly
debug and identify issues such as the server CPU going to 100%, what
causes out of memory errors and
how to track memory leaks. The session will also cover how to optimize
your application for
performance and scalability as well as how to monitor what is going on
in the underlying java
architecture. Grant is an experienced ColdFusion Developer who runs
Straker Interactive, a
successful ColdFusion software development house with offices in New
Zealand, Australia and the UK.
Many of the lessons you will learn in this session have been learnt the
hard way and in 50 minutes
you could save yourself many hours of head scratching and frustration
down the track.
http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/6/Grant-Straker--Troubleshooting-and-Optimizing-CFMX-Performance
Maxin Porges - Secrets of Top Notch Development Teams
Max has been leading software development teams for most of his career.
In this session, Max will
share his many secrets for success in all areas of successful team
management. If you're a Team Lead
or Development Manager, you'll learn how to maximize the potential of
your existing team, as well as
how to build a successful new team from scratch. Topics covered in
detail include the following: -
How to hire and retain the best talent (regardless of budget), including
step-by-step coverage of an
incredibly effective interview process - Using an open collaboration
environment to achieve constant
improvement with very little effort - Growing the skills of your team
through tactical use of
mentoring and delegation - Proven techniques for the creation and
enforcement of development
standards - Getting the most out of your team with peer review cycles -
Striking the documentation
balance: how much is "just enough"? - Effective distribution of new code
and maintenance work for
maximum throughput and skills development.
http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/2/Maxin-Porges--Secrets-of-Top-Notch-Development-Teams
* Fusebox YouTube video competition ends 6/22/07
Now it's time for Fuseboxers around the world to showcase their skill
and the framework they love.
Team Fusebox wants you to put together a ten minute YouTube video and
will reward the creator of the
video that gets the most votes with a bunch of good stuff. Confirmed
prizes include a pass to
CFUNITED with more to follow.
The idea behind the competition is to generate some buzz around the
framework and get some Fusebox
demos out there to illustrate the power of the framework. We realize
that a good deal of the power
of the framework comes from ColdFusion's extensive, simple tagset, but
the same can be said for many
frameworks.
If you have an existing open source Fusebox app you want to demonstrate,
that works too, just
remember that the code has to be publicly available.
Deadline: June 22nd 2007 at 12pm (noon) CDT
More at http://www.fusebox.org/
* Fusebox 5.5 - it's official!
The polls on the Fusebox 5 mailing list are now closed. The next major
release of Fusebox will be
called 5.5. Accordingly, the mailing list will remain fusebox5. Members
of that mailing list now
have access to a very early Alpha build ...
http://corfield.org/entry/Fusebox_55__its_official
* Interview with Patrick Quinn on "Application Server Analytics"
Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Patrick Quinn about
his CFUNITED-07 talk "Application Server Analytics". So why
should a developer come to your session Patrick?
Patrick Quinn: Well, because Application Server Analytics is the
most important development in the Web world in recent years! Ok,
I admit it--I have a penchant for exaggerating. But all kidding
aside, this new area of focus, which we at Webapper have labeled
"Application Server Analytics" (ASA), is ever more important for
Web sites and applications. Sure, it's not nearly as sexy as
other recent "hot topics", like AJAX, Rich Internet Applications,
and all things "Web 2.0". But, ASA is all about understanding the
internals of your sites and applications in MUCH better and
clearer detail. In short, ASA is all about up time and
performance, and as developers, those things are what allow us to
sleep at night. See, what could be more important than more sleep
for beleaguered developers!
MS: So is ASA analyzing web logs with a tool such as Web Trends?
Or is there more to it?
PQ: Excellent question! As it turns out, ASA is directly
analogous to Web analytics, but rather than focusing on traffic
patterns and other user behaviors on your Web server ( i.e.,
information you can glean from Web logs), ASA instead focuses on
application server internals--requests, threads, memory
utilization, etc. Web analytics is a very mature niche. If you
ask the marketing department about the traffic patterns and other
user behaviors on your company Website, they'll be able to give
you mountains of detailed information exactly how many people
bought toothpaste on Tuesdays at 2pm.
But, for years now, we as
developers have largely been blind to the analytics that we care
about--is my application running out of memory, suffering from
hung threads, running slowly, etc.? Ben Forta famously commented
several years ago that ColdFusion and other application servers
were "black boxes" relative to these crucial internal metrics.
So, ASA is focused on giving developers and system administrators
a detailed understanding about application server internals--
i.e., how is my application behaving? And, if there's a problem,
how do I fix it quickly? And in my talk I cover some of the
tools, methodologies, tips and tricks for doing good ASA.
MS: Ok, thanks for explaining. What tools are available for ASA?
PQ: Well, one of the interesting things about this talk is the
part where I discuss what ASA is NOT. In fact, there are tons of
tools (especially for Windows servers) that are in the category
of "monitoring" tools. But, virtually all of these fall short of
telling you what's going on inside your ColdFusion server(s) and
application(s). Virtually all of the network, CPU, memory and
other monitoring tools look at ColdFusion from the outside-in.
The truly useful information, however, is on the inside, which
none of these tools can see.
Remember, ASA is all about
application server internals. As many people know, we're the
creators of SeeFusion, which is specifically designed as an ASA
tool--it monitors and troubleshoots ColdFusion from the inside
(specifically, inside the JVM). We were the first to create such
a product (in 2004), and there are competitors in the niche now
(FusionReactor, ColdFusion 8, etc.), and more coming, which in
our opinion is an endorsement of the idea that ASA is an
important new concept that needs more attention. So, there's an
increasing number of choices for tools that allow you to do ASA,
and there are more and different ones coming, and, more
importantly, the ASA knowledge base will continue to grow, which
translates to faster, more stable applications and servers, and
much faster troubleshooting processes when problems do occur.
MS: So now I can see what is going on inside ColdFusion server
what can I do with it?
PQ: This is really the most important part of ASA. In our
opinion, as ASA evolves, and the tools and methodologies improve,
solving problems with your application(s) will become much more
efficient. We see ASA evolving to where, when you have a problem
with an application (performance and/or stability),
troubleshooting and fixing the problem will consist of a series
of clicks, rather than a series of days. Specifically, you'll be
able to move fluidly from notification of the problem to
identification of the cause (and then, of course, to fixing). If,
as they say, 90% of the cost of an application is in lifetime
maintenance, then this will result in huge savings of time and
money.
But, ASA isn't only about what's possible in the future. There
are lots of very clear ways that you can use ASA tools and
methods today to fix problems faster, and that's what I'll be
talking about.
MS: Great! Can you give me an example of a problem that ASA helped
solve?
PQ: Well, even though we're only just now attempting to apply a
name to this niche, and to the
work it entails, the fact is that we've (along with lots of other
people) been doing ASA all along.
Through our consulting practice, we use these ASA concepts and tools to
solve performance and
stability problems every day for our customers. Nowaday, with tools like
our SeeFusion product, and
competing products like FusionReactor and ColdFusion 8, ASA will only
get faster and easier. To
answer your question, one concrete example was a bug we discovered in
the tag, which
Adobe verified a while back. We were monitoring a server with SeeFusion,
and generating stack traces
on the fly for hung requests, and we found that the stacks were always
stuck in the same spot inside
a tag within a tag. We further determined that the problem was related
to string
expressions in the tag. So, we switched the affected statements to
equivalent
/ blocks, and the severe performance and stability problem disappeared
immediately.
All of this took just a few short hours using ASA. That's the promise of
good ASA work.
MS: Wow! I will look forward to seeing you at CFUNITED.
PQ: In the proudest Webapper tradition, first round of drinks are on us!
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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Application Server Analytics
*************************
Application Server Analytics (ASA) is an evolving niche in Web-based
software development. It consists of a combination of tools and
methodologies for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting of Web sites
and applications. The goal of ASA is to improve performance and
stability (and thus uptime) for Web applications by helping developers
and systems administrators "see" application server internals much more
clearly, and also by allowing for much easier use of ASA metrics to fix
and even prevent problems.
Speaker Bio:
As an employee at Allaire/Macromedia, Patrick served as a technical
consultant on some of world's largest Web application projects at
leading companies such as Bridgestone-Firestone, Clear Channel
Communications, Cable & Wireless, Intuit and The United States Postal
Service, among others. Upon leaving Macromedia in 2001, Patrick
embarked
upon forming his own software company, starting as an independent
consultant for companies such as Napster and ProductionPoint Global
Network, and later partnering with a group of former Macromedia
consultants to form Webapper Services LLC. As a Founder and Lead Web
Architect at Webapper, Patrick has lead his company in specializing in
all aspects of Web application development, from programming and
user-interface design, to architecture design and review, application
debugging and deployment, and also including business strategies
for the
Web. Webapper has provided Web application expertise to premiere
clients
such as Ernst & Young, Sempra Energy, NASA, Visa and US Federal
Government.
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