Michael Here is the ColdFusion and Fusebox news:
* Only 8 days left until CFUNITED-07! Managers Guide to CFUNITED. * CFUNITED Europe Call for Speakers OPEN!!!! * Open Source Code Off Results! Winner announced on Friday * CFUNITED-07 Manager's Guide. "Why send your developers to CFUNITED?" * CFMeetup Thur 12:30pm - Patrick Quinn Application Server Analytics * New CFUNITED podcasts released http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/podcast - Rob Gonda: Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Dev - Peter Bell: Practical Code Generation by Example * New Fusebox website due for release at CFUNITED. "Got Fusebox?" t-shirt. * Fusebox YouTube video competition ends 6/22/07 * Interview with Kurtis D Leatham on "Structures, Arrays, and database" * Interview with Thomas Burleson about on "Continuous Testing with Flex and ColdFusion Projects". "After attending CFUnited Express in NYC this Spring, I saw the potential of CFUnited 2007. Its a conference full of information that will get you up to date on all the latest and greatest in the ColdFusion Developers world today. I am not missing any Teratech conferences anymore. Frameworks Conference and CFUnited Express proved that you can get so much more knowledge and training from few days on the conference, versus paying much more attending a class and getting much less for the money. I spoke to CFUnited 2006 attendees who cant stop praising the event. There are sessions for everyone, from developer to the manager. Can't wait for June 27th. Thanks!" -Elena A. Federal Reserve Bank NY (CFUNITED/Express NYC attendee) Other great quotes from attendees about "Why people should attend CFUnited" http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/30/Survey-Contest-Winner * Only 8 days left until CFUNITED-07! Hotel info. Managers Guide to CFUINTED. Need help getting your manager to understand why it makes sense to go to CFUNITED? Download our Managers Guide to CFUINTED at http://cfunited.com/go/managers-guide . Takes less than 5 minutes to read. * CFUNITED Europe Call for Speakers OPEN We've announced the CFUnited Europe Call for Speakers! http://callforspeakers.cfconf.org/?event=suggest&eventId=165 Date: March 12-13th 2008 Location: Novotel London West, UK To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of CFUnited we're going to Europe to share the CFUnited Experience with all the ColdFusion developers overseas. http://europe.cfunited.com/ * CFUNITED-07 pre-conference classes 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? * Open Source Code Off Results Go to the CFUnited Wiki and check out the Open Source Contest Entries. We had some great projects submitted and it definitely shows off our talented community! Winners will be announced on Friday June 15th by the Advisory Board. If you have your own open source project you'd like to share, please list it on the CFUnited wiki! http://wiki.cfunited.com/index.cfm/Open_Source_Contest_Entries * CFUNITED-07 Manager's Guide "Why send your developers to CFUnited?" This question and more are answered in this Manager's Guide to how CFUnited benefits your company and how being an attendee contributes largely to the CF Community. http://cfunited.com/go/managers-guide * ColdFusion is Alive - partial survey results Some of you may have read the Computer World article listing ColdFusion as one of 10 dead languages and Ben Forta's response, Ray's opinions and Adam's rant on this. Obviously ColdFusion is not dying but how do you convice your clients that CF is the right solution? I am giving a talk at CFUNITED-07 on "Selling ColdFusion to Clients" that will cover what strategies to use for selling ColdFusion to clients and how to deal with common objections that clients have. I also have partial results of the survey on your experience with what arguments have been working on the street. Read more and see the survey results at: http://teratech.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/30/ColdFusion-is-Alive-Partial-survey-results (If you haven't taken the survey yet then please do! There is a link from the above page to it) * 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/ * 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. * 6/14/07 Patrick Quinn Application Server Analytics * 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 - Rob Gonda: Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Dev - Peter Bell: Practical Code Generation by Example Rob Gonda: Flex Intensive for ColdFusion Dev In this 20-30 minute preview, Rob will give us a taste of his full day hands-on Flex course, which requires no previous Flex experience. The class promises to be fun, energetic, and saturated with information, examples, and code. It will focus not only on Flex architecture, but also teach you to organize your ColdFusion code in such fashion that you can reuse your business layer across any front-end, including Html, Ajax, Flash, or Flex. Rob Gonda is the CTO for iChameleon Group and Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer's Journal. He is an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, frequent speaker at IT and developer conferences nationwide, co-author of Real-World Ajax, author of ajaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering, an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship, and he specializes in Rich Internet Applications and object-oriented architecture. You can reach him at rob[at]robgonda[dot]com and read his blog is at http://www.robgonda.com/ http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/10/Rob-Gonda-Flex-Intensive-for-ColdFusion-Dev Peter Bell: Practical Code Generation by Example In this 20-30 minute session, Peter Bell previews his day-long class which will show how to generate sophisticated custom business applications - quickly, maintainably and extensibly. It doesn't matter whether you are procedural or object oriented - whether you use simple queries or stored procedures, whether you are an intermediate programmer or a guru. If you would like to spend more time solving new problems and less time writing the same old code, his day-long class will change the way you think about your job. Whether you've been generating code for years or are completely new to the concept, you will learn practical techniques and see real world examples that will allow you to significantly improve your skills. He'll preview how in each section we will use practical code examples that you can use in your real world applications while explaining important principles that will allow you to write more powerful, extensible and maintainable code. http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/7/Peter-Bell-Practical-Code-Generation-by-Example * New Fusebox website due for release at CFUNITED. "Got Fusebox?" t-shirt. The new Fusebox website created by Sandra Clark with help from other members of Team Fusebox will be released at CFUNITED. Included will be a documentation wiki with live docs from Fuseboxers worldwide, put tother by Nat Papovich and the Webapper team. We will be doing a raffle at CFUNITED for any one wearing a "Got Fusebox?" t-shirt which you can get from http://www.cafepress.com/fuseboxgear * Fusebox YouTube video competition ends 6/22/07 You've seen them - the ten minute presentations where Rails enthusiasts make a blog or some other handy application to demonstrate the versatility of the framework. 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 http://www.fusebox.org/ * Interview with Kurtis D Leatham on "Structures, Arrays and Databases" First published in Fusion Authority by Clark Valberg I'm here with Kurtis Leatham to discuss his upcoming talks at CFUNITED 2007 in Bethesda Maryland. Kurtis is owner / operator of KomputerMan.com, a ColdFusion development and consulting company based on Boise, Idaho. Kurtis is presenting two different Boot Camp (beginner-level) track topics, "Databases" and "Structures, Arrays, and practical uses for both". CV: I know a lot of programmers don't work in an environment where they have a dedicated DBA so a Databases session sounds quite helpful. I see you're also doing a session on structures and arrays. Tell me about that... KL: Structures and arrays are two of the most useful tools in any developer's toolbox. I don't think there is even a language out there that doesn't have some version of these tools available. In this section, we will be discussing how to create these containers, how to populate them, and how to get stuff back out of them. We will also have a few real-world examples where structures and arrays are used. We will also be creating a multidimensional array that contains a multidimensional array that contains a structure. The cool thing is that ColdFusion can show you what that looks like! They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I will be showing thousand word pictures depicting structures and arrays. More at http://www.fusionauthority.com/Community/4689-cfunited-2007-speaker-interview-kurtis-d-leatham.htm * Interview with Thomas Burleson about on "Continuous Testing with Flex and ColdFusion Projects". Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Thomas Burleson about his CFUNITED-07 talk "Continuous Testing with Flex and ColdFusion Projects". MB: So why should a developer come to your session Thomas? TB: Thomas Burleson: Developers are becoming more experienced writing internet solutions. With that experience comes the frustration of testing their components and applications. Industry experts broadcast the benefits of continuous testing and the resulting effort/cost/time savings in both the short term and long terms. This session introduces the concepts of "continuous testing" and the impacts on ColdFusion and Flex projects. Then, of course, we jump into code and examples to show the audience how and why testing frameworks can/should be used. MS: But aren't most developer's already testing their code? TB: Usually the test methods are ad-hoc and do not cover "boundary conditions" nor do those testing functions support regression testing. Or even worse, the developer inherits existing code that does NOT have any associated test code. This "inheritance" issue creates significant inertia to configuring a specific test environment. Even worse, is the issue of synchronizing your test code with changes to your application code. And what if the developer "forgets" to run the test code periodically? This session discusses these issues and introduces a code generator called the Synchronizer that continuously synchronizes your test code with your application code. MS: This sounds a little magical! What do you mean by 'synchronizes code...'? TB: Don't infer that this tool writes the test code for you... that is not true. But it creates ALL the shell testCase functions for you. Each new testCase will announce "failure" by default and thus immediately notify you to write the code for that test case. Each public or remote function in every CFC component is continuously watched and the testCases and testSuites are automatically generated if missing. This CRUD [create-read-update-delete] automation for test code like CFUnit, CFCUnit, ASUnit is a huge time saver and eliminates the primary objections to writing and maintaining test code. And with continuously maintained test code, regression testing and continuous integration will constantly verify code quality and functionality. Bugs will be found sooner, quality will improve quicker, and development costs - ultimately - will be lower. MS: What are CFUnit, CFCUnit and ASUnit and how would I get them? TB: CFUnit and CFCUnit are testing frameworks that allow developers to build suites of testcases for Coldfusion components, run those test, and review the test results easily. ASUnit and FlexUnit are testing framework that do provide similar tools and functionality for Actionscript and Flex code (respectively). Allow of these frameworks are based on the renowned JUnit framework used for Java code. The presentation will provide URLs and links to these frameworks and other useful resources for the Coldfusion developer. MS: Is your tool related to ANT automated build utility in some way? TB: Developers should think of ANT as a script tool for external tasks; in a crude way, ANT can be consider similar to a DOS .bat file on super steroids. ANT uses java and xml file [& notation] to specify tasks and their any associated settings/configurations. Traditionally ANT was used to automate the manual efforts of compiling, building, and deploying software. ANT now performs those task and so much more... Since the Synchronizer is a archive of compiled java code (jar), ANT is used to (1) launch the Synchronizer, (2) provide input configuration information to the Syncrhonizer, and (3) report synchronization results to the developer. Without ANT, developer would have to use a VERY tedious batch file or command-line interface to use the Synchronizer. MS: Cool! How is this whole topic related to test driven development? TB: TDD [Test-drive development] is methodology to insure that the code you or your team implements has been thoroughly tested THROUGHOUT all phases of the implementation. As your code becomes more complex and its size increases, your test code also grows corresponding and becomes more robust. And the test code continuous runs ALL registered tests so the testing becomes more comprehensive. The ultimate goal of TDD is to insure that the code you implement is quality, stable, and tested code... before it reaches QA or Production. The Synchronizer assists with that effort by automating the creation of your test cases. And since newly-generated test cases automatically FAIL, then the developer is forced to real-world test code that allows the test case to test the code and report results. The synchronizer serves as a hidden "agent" or code monitor and forces development projects to conform to TDD processes. MS: So to sum it up what are the benefits of continuous testing on a project? TB: Simple really! The benefits of continuous testing are: (1) Delivery of quality, stable, robust application code, (2) reduced discover times for hidden bugs and incompatible components, and (3) faster delivers with lower development costs. With these three benefits, it is amazing to consider that not every development project uses continuous testing. I wonder why... ? MS: I will look forward to seeing you at CFUNITED. TB: Thank you Michael. I presented last year at CFUnited 2006 and am very excited about presenting 2 topics this year at CFUnited 2007. --- 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 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: * Attendance 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? 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