In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: * Take our survey and win a free ticket! * CFUNITED 2006 will be available on video after the event! * Prizes from our sponsors * Coming Soon - NEW scheduler program and Saturday sessions * Order a DVD copy of CFUNITED 2005 recordings and materials/laptop bag * Adobe Press offers attendees 35% off a selection of books! * Winner of FREE extravagant lunch with their favorite speaker * Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED! Talk to other Attendees. * CFLive - Thursday 12:30pm - Steve Rittler on Farcry * Interview with Dave Ross on Inversion of Control and ColdFusion: Using ColdSpring
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 "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 Ma., CFUNITED Alumni 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 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 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! * We want to see what you think about our topics this year. Take our survey (even if you haven't registered for the event) and submit by May 12th and you will be entered into a raffle to win a free ticket! http://www.cfunited.com/survey.cfm * 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 * We apologize for the inconvenience. Our scheduler program has been slightly delayed and it will be running very soon. See the CFUNITED site for information about this new feature coming soon! We will also have all Saturday sessions picked on May 15th. Again, sorry for the delay. * 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 * Winner of free extravagant lunch with one of our speakers is JASON SUMNER. Congrats! * 32% of our Pre-Conference Classes are full. Be sure to reserve your seat today! Class CU214 is almost 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 * 530 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. -- Our Common Interest page is coming soon too! * We have overflow hotels: Bethesda Marriott (approx. 1.5 miles from conference center) --This hotel has about 35 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) --Plenty of space in this hotel still left-- $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! Steve Ritler Farcry Thursday, May 4, 12:30 PM US/Eastern http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893551/ Future talks: 5/11/06 Maxim Porges Secrets of Top Notch Teams http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893860/ 5/18/06 John Paul Ashenfelter Agile Programming http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893861/ 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 8 more weeks until CFUNITED (55 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 Dave Ross about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Inversion of Control and ColdFusion: Using ColdSpring". So why should a developer come to your session Dave? Dave Ross: To learn about Inversion of Control (or IoC, also known as Dependency Injection) and how it can be useful when developing with CFCs. MS: What the heck is Inversion of Control? DR: Inversion of Control is a programming pattern in which the creation of your objects and the resolution of their dependencies is lifted out of the code (inverted). A "container", like ColdSpring, then becomes responsible for managing the lifecycle of the objects within your model. I actually like the term "Dependency Injection" a little better because it describes how ColdSpring works: as ColdSpring creates your objects, it injects their dependencies (which could be other objects, configuration, etc etc). MS: And how is IoC useful when developing CFCs (ColdFusion Components)? DR: ColdSpring/IoC's main benefit is that it removes the burden of "assembling" your model. For smaller apps, this is hardly ever a concern, but for larger apps with many developers, the task of "supplying" objects with everything they need becomes increasingly difficult. It's ColdSpring's job to make it easy. Another benefit is that ColdSpring encourages you to write a loosely-coupled model, because you expose all of your CFC's dependencies in such a way that they can all be supplied from outside the CFC. This means that, even in a very complex application, one can completely isolate a single component and test it, without ColdSpring or any other framework becoming involved. Thus, by using ColdSpring, you'll likely end up coding a more "maintainable" model. MS: Cool - so what will you cover in your talk? DR: I'll cover the history of IoC, why it's so popular in the Java development world these days, and also introduce ColdSpring, an IoC "container" inspired by the Spring Framework for Java. Additionally, I'll cover Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in the context of CFC development,as ColdSpring now includes an AOP framework. MS: Do we need to know Java to come to your talk? DR: Absolutely not. The Spring framework for Java was born out of developer frustration with some of the heavier J2EE technologies, namely EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans). The programming practices encouraged by Spring, however, are not new, and they are grounded best practice from those "in the trenches". I personally found Spring extremely impressive and thought that a lot of the problems it tackled were also present in CFC-based development, thus ColdSpring was born. As a side-note, there's also Spring.NET which is another offshoot of Spring for Microsoft's .NET framework. MS: BTW what is Aspect Oriented Programming? DR: While this answer probably deserves a book chapter, Aspect Oriented Programming is a new(er) programming paradigm is which common pieces of functionality that "crosscut" your application are refactored into aspects and then applied to various places in the application's execution flow (those places are called "joinpoints"). Say for instance, you check a user's permissions before issuing any database-modifiying calls. You may find that you have to place this check throughout your application, over and over again. AOP would allow you to remove this code and have a single aspect that could be applied such that any time a database-modifying action was taken, your aspect fires and runs the database check itself. It's an extremely powerful way to refactor redundant code, and you can add functionality like logging, caching, or security to an existing model (without ever actually touching the model's code). ColdSpring has a very impressive AOP framework and I'll attempt to cover as much of it as I can. MS: Wow - I will look forward to hearding more at CFUNITED! --- Inversion of Control and ColdFusion: Using ColdSpring ************************* ColdSpring's core focus is to make the configuration and dependencies of your CFCs easier to manage. ColdSpring uses the "inversion-of-control" pattern to "wire" your CFCs together. Inversion-of-control provides many advantages over traditional approaches to assembling your application's model. Also part of ColdSpring is the first Aspect-Oriented-Programming (AOP) framework for CFCs. This presentation will be a hands-on look at ColdSpring and how it can help you write larger CFC-based applications. Speaker Bio: Dave Ross has been developing web-based applications in CFML for over seven years. He also regularly works with Java, C-sharp, and a variety of other tools and technologies. He is the creator of ColdSpring, a framework for CFCs inspired by the J2EE Spring framework. 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 $849 until 6/16/06 then $949. For more information on CFUNITED see http://www.cfunited.com/ **************************************** * 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. Plus you'll be in a raffle to win a lunch with your favorite speakers if you registered before April 30th. -- Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm) TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers! 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