CFUnited RoundUp and Recap

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CFUnited RoundUp and Recap

• Charlie Arehart, Moderator

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Participants

• Josh Adams
• Precia Albrecht
• Teddy Payne
• Any others?

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Topics

• About the Conference (overview)
• News and Notes
• Common Concerns
• Almost Being There
• Any Other Thoughts?

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About The Conference

• Rain, lots of rain (early in week)

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About The Conference

• Hotel and facility
• http//marriott.com/property/viewallphotos.mi?mars
  haCodewasbn

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About The Conference

• Meeting folks, gurus and fellows
• http//www.flickr.com/search/?qcfunited
• http//www.flickr.com/groups/cfunited/pool/

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About The Conference

• Pre-conference classes
• http//www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm
• Leader of the Pack (strategies for building
  better software) - Simon Horwith
• Fundamentals of Relational Database Design -
  Kurtis D. Leatham
• ColdFusion Server Administration JRun J2EE
  Deployment - Adam Wayne Lehman
• Testing ColdFusion - John Paul Ashenfelter and
  Paul Kenny
• Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers - Rob
  Gonda
• XML, XPath, and XSLT for ColdFusion Developers -
  Jeff Peters
• Domain Modeling - Hal Helms
• Advanced SQL Programming NEW TITLE - Nate
  Nelson
• Bootcamp sessions
• http//www.cfunited.com/topics.cfm?Boot20Camp
• Birds of a Feather
• http//www.cfunited.com/topics.cfm?Birds20of20F
  eather
• General Sessions
• http//www.cfunited.com/topics.cfm
• Saturday Repeats
• Presentation Book, and CD as well
• Vendor and community areas

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News From the Conference

• Adobe Presence and news
• OO, Frameworks, and Open Source Projects
• FusionAuthority Quarterly Update
• BlueDragon News

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Adobe Presence and News

• Many Adobe folks present
• Giving presentations, in booth, attending
• Jason Delmore, new Product Mgr
• Tim Buntel back, Marketing Mgr
• Flex 2
• Flex Builder 2 costs 499
• Flex 2 SDK is free. Compiler and framework
• Flex Data Services Express is free. Single CPU,
  no clustering
• CF 7.02
• Updated Flash Remoting
• New Flex Data Services adapter
• New Flex Messaging gateway
• Flex Builder 2 CF extensions
• Updated reporting engine
• Bug fixes/patch rollup
• CF 8 preview (showed just 2, more to come)
• CFPDFORM (populate, extract from PDF forms)
• CFPRESENTATION (create Breezos from CF)
• Spry

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Open Source Projects

• Model Glue Unity
• Announced http//www.model-glue.com/
• CFHibernate
• POC ready http//groups.yahoo.com/group/cfhiberna
  te/
• ColdSpring http//www.coldspringframework.org/
• CFEclipse
• 1.3 beta http//www.cfeclipse.org/beta/
• Fusebox 5
• http//corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/e
  ntry/Fusebox_5_RC1_Publicly_Available

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BD 7 News Features

• Features not in CF7
• CFTHREAD and CFJOIN (multithreading)
• CFQUERY enhancements
• "null" keyword and IsNull() function
• CFC interfaces via CFINTERFACE tag
• Support for and Enhancements to
• Application.cfc
• CFDOCUMENT
• CFCHART
• CFSEARCH
• Support for
• CFTIMER tag
• SOAP-related functions
• MySQL 5 support including Stored Procs
• 64-bit Windows and Linux support

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Some Common Concerns

• Unreliable internet connection
• Often chilly rooms
• Hal Helms new job couldnt come
• Hands-on sessions sometimes challenged getting
  online for s/w
• Contention with World Cup! ?

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Sessions Attended

• Any attendees care to share their experiences of
  sessions attended?
• Precia recommends Maxim Porges presentation on
  good development practices (paired programming,
  SBA CF coding guidelines)
• Maximporges.blogspot.com

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Almost Being There

• Wish you could have come? There are some options
• Audio/Video Options for Listening to the
  Conference
• Lots of blogging , both during and after the
  conference

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Any Other Thoughts?
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Additional Info for the Flex/Ajax Talk

• http//seminars.breezecentral.com/p87192085
• Christophe Coenraets did a similar talk (only 2
  slides!)
• http//www2.sys-con.com/webinararchive.cfm?registe
  redonpid55
• With more FABridge examples
• http//www.coenraets.com/index.jsp
• More on FABridge
• http//labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Framewor
  kFABridge