In this week's Newsletter: * TeraTech to run Fusebox * TeraTech classes and webinars * Video Survey "What are your thoughts?" * Partial Scholarship Fund for TeraTech Events * CFUnited-06 Alumni- Listen to CFUnited 2006 presentation sound recordings * Interview about recursion in CF with Andrew Schwabe
-------------- TeraTech to run Fusebox Fusebox is a development framework used by tens of thousands of ColdFusion developers worldwide that dramatically reduces maintenance costs. TeraTech has been picked by the founders of Fusebox Inc, Hal Helms and John Quarto vonTivadar, to take over the website and framework. TeraTech will continue to keep the Fusebox core files free and under community development. We plan to improve the Fusebox website and documentation. If you have suggestions on what you would like to see in Fusebox let me know or attend Friday's The Future of Fusebox webinar. Read what Fusebox experts Hal, Sean, Sandy and jeff have to say about this at http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=Press.TeraTechFusebox For the webinar goto https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/382820207 -------------- TeraTech Classes 12/12/2006 - An Introduction to Flex - Hands On â Instructor: Theo Rushin Jr - Full Day 1/9/2007 - Introduction to SQL Server - Instructor: Theo Rushin Jr - Full Day 1/23/2007 - Introduction to ColdFusion - Instructor: Theo Rushin Jr - Full Day 1/30/2007 - Introduction to FliP - Instructor: Ajay Sathuluri - Half Day 1/31/2007 - Intermediate Fusebox 5 - Instructor: Ajay Sathuluri - Full Day Full day classes are $349 and Half Day are $199 Go to http://www.teratech.com/training/ for more information! -------------- * CFUNITED Video Survey We are planning CFUNITED-07 video, specail event and food. We offered a video recording of the 2006 conference. Let us know what you liked and how we can improve. Also give us feedback on the special event, food etc. Please respond by 12/12/06 http://www.cfunited.com/survey.cfm -------------- * Partial Scholarship Fund for TeraTech Events We are offering 10 people the chance to receive a partial scholarship to CFUNITED or Frameworks. To apply email liz (at) teratech.com explaining your situation and why you should get the scholarship. Also full time students can receive 60% off the current price by sending us a copy of their student id and a list of classes they are currently taking for the semester. Unemployed developers get the same discount - email liz (at) teratech.com for details. --------------- * CFUnited 2006 sound recordings The MP3 recordings from this past conference are now available to 2006âs alumni for free online. Go to http://www.teratech.com/cfunited06/ and use your login and password from the main event. --------------- * Interview about recursion in CF with Andrew Schwabe Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Andrew Schwabe about his CFUNITED-06 talk "Recursive functions in CF". So why should a developer see your session Andrew? Andrew Schwabe: The concept of functions that call themselves (recursive functions) seems to be a foreign topic to a surprising number of developers in all programming languages, not just CF. Recursion isn't an every day tool, but in certain cases, it is the fastest, easiest or even the only option for a given problem. We'll talk about the concept of recursion, and then show how to apply the concept to a few real world problems, and then we will solve those problems with recursive functions written in CFML. MS: What problems will you solve? AS: The concept of recursive functions is that you can break a large problem into smaller, more manageable problems. A great example of this is if you need to process a directory of files from a server directory (maybe you need to read them into a db, or delete them, etc.). The directory may contain any number of nested sub-folders. Writing a ColdFusion function to do this [without] recursion would be a very difficult task. In my talk we will look at recursive code in cfml that does this exact task in a way that is easy to understand. MS: Isn't there a speed problem with recursion? AS: There certainly can be speed issues. While my talk is not specifically about code optimization, we will discuss techniques to make sure your recursive functions are lean, and as a result keep speed and memory usage at a minimum. MS: How is CF at recursion? Is there a depth limit? AS: Comparitive to other programming languages, CF may be a bit slower than say, native java or c++ code, however learning how to use recursion is more of a necessity for when a situation calls for it, rather than a lesson in performance. Technically the number of recursive calls that you can make should only be limited by your server's hardware and software capability, but having an idea of how many iterations (or recursive calls) will be done will help you predict performance. This is precisely why it is necessary to have an idea of how recursion works, and apply concepts for keeping your function calls minimal. --------------- * Event Facts and Details Summary CFUnited 2007 - Bethesda North Marriott - June 27th - 30th 2007 Prices: $749-$849 until January 5th (Ask for discounts! [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * First 100 people to register get a CFUnited hat! http://www.cfunited.com/2007/ Frameworks 2007 - Bethesda North Marriott - February 1st & 2nd 2007 Prices: $399 until January 5th (Ask for discounts! [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.frameworksconference.com/ CFUnited Europe 2008 - London - Tentative Dates March 12th - 13th 2008 New site, prices, call for speakers, location and information will be announced early in 2007. -- Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm) TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers! CF/ASP Web, VB, Math, Access programming tools and consulting 405 E Gude Dr Ste 207, Rockville MD 20850 USA Please check out http://www.teratech.com/ - email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or call us for more information; in the USA at 1-800-447-9120, +1-301-424-3903 International, Fax 301-762-8185 Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. 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