In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED! * CFLive - Jeremy Kadlec Thursday 12:30pm EST via breeze * Only 3 days left on timely bird price - ends 3/31/06 * Interview with Steve Rittler - CFAJAX
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 "You come to meet people. You come to learn new things. But in the end, you come for the experience. CFUnited is something you will not forget. " - Peter F. (previous year Attendee) 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 Register before March 31st and enter to win a free 8 GB memory stick! 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! * 10% 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 register 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! * 360 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 an over flow hotel: Bethesda Marriott (Located about 1.5 miles from the conference center - there will be a shuttle to the conference center all day) 5151 Pooks Hill Road Bethesda MD 20814 To make reservations call: 1.800.228.9290 Use the group code: CFU See http://www.cfunited.com/travel.cfm for more details. *CFLive Hear CFUNITED speakers from your office via breeze talks every Thursday 12:30pm - 1pm EST. Learn new tips and ask questions live. CFLive! Jeremy Kadlec on SQL Server 2005 Thursday, Mar 30, 12:30 PM US/Eastern http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4874963/ Future talks 4/6/06 Sean Corfield Managing CFCs with Factories, Objects and Persistence 4/13/06 John Paul Ashenfelter Agile Programming 4/20/06 Simeon Bateman CFEclipse 5/4/06 Steve Ritler Farcry CMS 5/11/06 Maxim Porges Secrets of Top Notch Teams * Only 3 months until CFUNITED (89 days). * Only 3 days left on timely bird price - ends Friday 3/31/06 * 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 Steve Rittler about his CFUNITED-06 talk "CFAJAX". So why should a developer come to your session Steve ? Steve Rittler: As web professionals, we undoubtedly have heard more than enough "buzz" about using AJAX to create some really great systems. AJAX itself is just the rebranding of a set of technologies that have been around for quite some time - Javascript and XML - combined with the use of browser technology that allows for asynchronous communication. Now that the name "AJAX" has been re-appropriated (much to Colgate-Palmolive's chagrin), we're hearing a lot more about it. CFAJAX is a set of scripts that make using AJAX from ColdFusion much easier. I'm going to talk a bit about what AJAX is and show some examples of ColdFusion applications using CFAJAX, both simple and more complex. You'll know enough to be dangerous when you walk out of my session! MS: Why would someone want to use AJAX? SR: Well, there's a great trend in web development right now that is pushing us developers toward a greater appreciation for user experience. The "legacy" model of filling out a form, clicking a button, then waiting through a blank screen just doesn't cut it anymore. It's too slow and honestly quite jarring, no matter how accustomed to this we have become. AJAX removes the blank screen and allows the developer to modify the user interface at runtime, not just on initial page load, much like you can do with Flash and Flex. MS: What kind of sites use AJAX? SR: I see some AJAX functionality on my Yahoo homepage, Google maps, pretty much anything from 37signals...well, pretty much anything that calls itself "Web 2.0". In my company, we're using it to streamline a lot of administrative functions in our applications. Use it wherever you want to provide a more responsive interface to your users. MS: So why use AJAX instead of Flash and Flex? SR: It depends on the project! Use AJAX if you can't be certain the user has Flash player installed either through some fear of Flash or corporate policy. It could also be that you don't want to learn ActionScript 3 (which I encourage anyway - Flex rocks!). You can add AJAX to an existing HTML application pretty easily - that's not always the case for Flash and Flex. MS: How much does AJAX cost to buy? SR: Nothing. Really! MS: Is AJAX hard to learn? SR: I believe the more work the early adopters do to encapsulate the complexity of working with AJAX, the easier it will be for newbies to learn the technology. It took us a few weeks to get spun up on it, but that was using really early versions of CFAJAX. Even now it's easier than ever to get started with recent versions of ajaxCFC and CFAJAX. MS: Will you have any code samples in your talk? SR: Naturally! This is a coder's convention after all. We'll show some easy examples to whet your appetite and some more complicated ones to show what the capabilities of CFAJAX are (as well as the kind of effort required to get it working). MS: Great - 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/ --- CFAJAX ************************* Join us for this presentation as we rehash old techniques and package them as something new and sexy with a catchy name: Ajax! Not yet tired of solving cross-browser Javascript and CSS issues? This is the session for you! We've all seen Ajax-powered applications built using Ruby on Rails and other non-CF tools. Have you wondered how to create them using ColdFusion? This presentation will show some basic examples using the latest CF-powered packages for doing so and also include the demonstration of a cfAjax- powered application. We'll also discuss security, usability and cross-browser compatibility concerns. Once we're done, you'll be able to look around at all the "Web 2.0" pundits and laugh at how simple it is to emulate their techniques using your favorite programming language: ColdFusion. Speaker Bio: Stephen Rittler is the owner of Countermarch Systems LLC, a consulting firm specializes in business process automation and content management solutions using Macromedia technologies. His company has developed effective solutions for clients in education, government, publishing and manufacturing. He is a Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX developer and has contributed to the CF community through his writing, leadership of the Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group and presentations on a variety of topics. Steve is a musician at heart but has yet to figure out how to play his saxophone and code at the same time. You can read his blog at http://www.countermarch.com/blog. ************************** * 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 early bird price of $649 for CFUNITED-06 ends 1/31/06. 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 Save up to $400 by registering now! Register today at http://www.cfunited.com/ -- Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm) TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers! 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