In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: 1. CFUNITED News - ColdFusion 10th birthday, CFUNITED-05 now larger than final CFUN-04! 2. ColdFusion Live! Every Thursday 12:30pm 3. Why come to CF BootCamp at CFUNITED 4. "Leveraging Web Services with ColdFusion" interview with Glenda Vigoreaux 5. "Developing Pocket PC Applications using .NET Compact Framework and CFMX Web Services" interview with Dave Watts
Happy coding - Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/ "Creating excellent custom software since 1989" Due to TeraTech's growth we are seeking developers and sales people http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.Jobs "CFUNITED-05 is a great opportunity to launch your career into the next level, allowing developers to learn new tips, tricks and techniques, all while bonding with fellow ColdFusion users many of us only know by name." - Constanty DeCinko 1. CFUNITED News **************** * Only 6 weeks until CFUNITED-05. Regular price $649 expires in 3 weeks 6/10/05 * 583 people have already registered for CFUNITED-05. That is more than CFUN-04 total - and we have 6 weeks left for more registrations! * Did you know ColdFusion is 10 years old? CFUNITED attendees can join in the fun and festivities to celebrate ColdFusion's 10th anniversary at 8:00pm Thursday evening on the Bethesda North Marriott hotel terrace! The Thursday evening event along with free drinks, games, and fun is sponsored by HostMySite and TeraTech. * See CFUNITED presenters at previous ColdFusion Live! meetings at http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/?action=pastlist * New session "What’s Coming Next on the Microsoft Platform?" Geoff Snowman http://www.cfunited.com/topics.cfm#198 * Attendee message board coming soon - to share rides, rooms and interests. * Upcoming classes: FB101 - Intro to Fusebox May 24 2005 FB201 - Intermediate Fusebox Jun 7 2005 FB301H -Hal Helms FastTrack to Fusebox 4.1 Jun 20 2005 CU201 - Hal Helms - Designing and Developing OO Applications with CFCs Jun 27 2005 CU202 - Simon Horwith - Roll Your Own API - Maximizing Code ReUse with CFCs and Custom Tags Jun 27 2005 CU203 - Geoff Snowman - Intro to .NET for CFers Jun 27 2005 CU204 - Nate Nelson - Beyond Basic SQL for CF Jun 27 2005 CU205 - Charlie Arehart - CFML Leveraging .NET Strengths Jun 28 2005 CU206 - Sandra Clark - Advanced Cascading Stylesheets Jun 28 2005 CU208 - Jeff Peters - FLiP and Fusebox walkthrough Jun 28 2005 For more info http://www.teratech.com/training/ * MiniMAX 2! Join Adam Bell, Simon Horwith and four additional speakers for the prelude to the CF United conference on Tuesday Night, June 28th at 7PM ET. http://www.minimaxconference.com/ It is FREE! (but must register online) * Missed an interview? All previous interviews are now posted at http://www.cfunited.com/interviews.cfm 2. ColdFusion Live! Every Thursday 12:30pm ******************************************** ColdFusion Live! A CFUNITED preview every Thursday Two 15 minute "preview" talks from CFUNITED speakers. They will provide an brief introduction to their topic during these sessions. Plus you can ask questions via Breeze chat. This week's speakers: Geoff Snowman - SQL Server 2005 Robi Sen - Advanced Scaling and Tuning 12:30 - 1:00 US/Eastern Time Meeting: http://macromedia.breezecentra l.com/cfliveno5/ (Breeze v.5) RSVP: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4709836/ Future speakers are: 5/26 Glenda Vigoreaux - Leveraging Web Services with ColdFusion Sean Corfield - Enterprise Integration with ColdFusion 6/2 Michael Dinowitz - Consuming popular web services Steve Rittler - Farcry: A Free ColdFusion-based CMS 6/9 Charlie Arehart - Integrating CFML and ASP.NET Server Controls Lou Honick - How to Build, Refresh or Rebuild Your Datacenter on Time and Under Budget 6/16 Jeffry Houser - Creating Sound for Flash Movies David Epler - LAMBDA Boxes: ColdFusion Apps on the Cheap 2. Come to CF Bootcamp at CFUNITED ********************************** At CFUNITED this year we have the BootCamp - this is one of seven tracks we have - the others are Advanced CF, MX Integration, Deployment, CFML Platform Integration, Accessibility and Empowered Programming. CF BootCamp is a 3 day introduction to ColdFusion that will get you programming in ColdFusion fast! If you are new to ColdFusion, or if you have a friend who is learning it, please come to CF BootCamp and get ahead in your career. The $649 price for CFUNITED is a bargin compare to other intro CF classes that cost $1200! ($649 price is valid only until 6/10/05) CF BootCamp Topics include: * A CFML Developers’ Guide to .NET * CF Studio * Content Management: Why It Matters, and How ColdFusion Helps * Database Design Fundamentals * Designing and Coding for Search Engines * Dreamweaver for ColdFusion Developers * LAMBDA Boxes: ColdFusion Apps on the Cheap * Managing Stress and Team Survival In Times of Change * MX Kollection 3 Alchemy – from HTML designers to programmers * Personal Branding * Starting On Your Own * The FLiP Show * THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY of CF Coding * Usable User Interfaces for Intranet Web Applications * User Defined Functions * Variables and Conditions * Welcome to CF * Working with Custom Tags (Details at http://www.cfunited.com/newbies.cfm ) FYI If you attend CFUNITED-05 you can mix and match topics from any of the tracks. 4. "Leveraging Web Services with ColdFusion" interview with Glenda Vigoreaux **************************************************************************** Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Glenda Vigoreaux about her CFUNITED-05 talk "Leveraging Web Services with ColdFusion". So why should a developer come to your session Glenda? Glenda Vigoreaux: Web services can save a developer's time by allowing access to application functionality from a remote computer with very little code. If you've never used web services before, you will learn how to consume a web service. Since the communication can take place regardless of operating system, platform, language or protocol, developers can consume a web service written in ..NET or in Java. You will also learn how to create your own web services and make them available to others for remote access. This is called publishing a web service. MS: Wow that sounds complex! Can you give an example of why this is useful? GV: Expedia is a good example. They don't own the planes or the cars or the hotels. However, they tap into existing web services that provide the information they need. So they become a one stop shop for travel. Web services are useful because you can quickly give a client or a business partner access to data without having to write an application. The person that needs the data can write the application. Both parties can use different development languages and still talk to each other. MS: Is it hard to use or create web services in ColdFusion? GV: Dreamweaver actually writes most of the code for you. To consume a web service, you let Dreamweaver do most of the work, you simply provide the arguments. To publish a web service, you need to know how to write a ColdFusion Component or CFC. This session will show you how to use Dreamweaver wizards to create your own CFC. To attend this session, you need to be familiar with basic ColdFusion code, but you do not need to be an advanced programmer. MS: So is writing a CFC hard to do? Do you have to understand Object Orientation first? GV: I will show you how to create a CFC from scratch. It is not hard to do if you can write basic ColdFusion code. CFC's are object based, they are not object oriented. If you've never used object oriented technology before you will have no problem with this session. I won the speaker award in New Orleans with this presentation by obtaining the highest overall evaluations, so I'm sure all attendees will be pleased. Many attendees in New Orleans commented how easy this session was to follow and understand. MS: That is great! You mention consuming and publishing web services in your topic description. What does it mean to consume a web service? What about publishing? GV: Consuming a web service is making a request to a web service, providing the parameters it needs and then using the data returned in your program. You can request the current temperature of a city by providing a zip code. You then write the interface to make the page pretty. When you publish a web service, you put some process or data on the web accessible by a URL so that other programs can access it and use it in their own applications. You could provide order status to a client in a recordset and have the client write their own interface using your data. MS: So consuming a web service is similar to calling a method in a CFC and publishing is like making a method in a CFC publically available to other developers. Is that right? GV: Yes, it is that easy! MS: So is it easy to consume and publish web services in ColdFusion? And how does that compare to do it in other languages? GV: Yes - it is much easier that in other languages where you may have to write the WSDL description for the web service (a picky file to create). MS: Cool! I will look forward to seeing you at CFUNITED. You can see more interviews at http://www.cfunited.com/interviews.cfm CFUNITED-05 is Wed 6/29/05 - Fri 7/1/05 in Bethesda MD, just outside Washington DC. It costs $649 until 6/10/05 then $749. For more information on CFUNITED see http://www.cfunited.com/ --- Leveraging Web Services with ColdFusion ************************* Web services promise to radically change the way we build and deploy applications. But what exactly are web services and how are they used? How are they built? In this hands-on session you will learn how to consume and how to publish web services. Speaker Bio: Glenda Vigoreaux is a Macromedia Certified Master Instructor with over 10 years experience as a technical trainer. She has been teaching Macromedia technologies since 1998. Most of her career has been devoted to technical training, application development and public speaking. She has a Master of Science degree in Information Systems and is also a certified facilitator and coach in the processes of developing leadership and management skills. Glenda is a featured speaker at Macromedia MAX Conferences, where she won the MAX 2004 speaker competition, receiving outstanding ratings from attendees of her sessions. Glenda currently manages the training facility for roundpeg in Phoenix. roundpeg is a premier Macromedia Authorized Training Partner that specializes in web development, offering Enterprise, Web, and Wireless solutions. 5. "Developing Pocket PC Applications using .NET Compact Framework and CFMX Web Services" interview with Dave Watts ***************************************************************** Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Dave Watts about his CFUNITED-05 talk "Developing Pocket PC Applications using .NET Compact Framework and CFMX Web Services". So why should a developer come to your session Dave? Dave Watts: Everyone attending the conference already knows how to develop CF applications with HTML interfaces. Some even know how to build rich client interfaces with Flash and CF. But there's a whole world of devices out there, for which Flash or HTML may not be the best solution in many cases. The Windows Mobile platform used by Pocket PC PDAs and cell phones is a good example of this. You can build Flash solutions for it, but there are quite a few limitations there. So why not use the native forms toolset for building truly rich client interfaces? While Windows Mobile is not the only player in the PDA space, it is quickly gaining on Palm OS, so it's definitely worth considering for development. MS: Is Windows Mobile similar to Flash from the programmers point of view? DW: Windows Mobile is a platform, and like any platform you have many ways you can program for it. You can even use Flash with it! Windows Mobile supports Flash 6, so you can do a lot of the same things with Flash on Windows Mobile that you can do with Flash on your desktop. However, the way you use a Windows Mobile device tends to be a little different than the way you use your desktop. You might have a constant network connection on your desktop, but you probably won't on your PDA, even if it's also a phone. While Flash can persist some data locally, you might find that a more traditional client-server approach is a little more powerful and flexible in this case, and that's what .NET Compact Framework gives you. MS: So does it provide support for intermittent network connectivity or do you have to write special code to handle that? DW:Yes, and yes. Because it's a local application, it has access to any kind of local storage options that any other application might have. This even goes as far as running a mini version of SQL Server! However, just like any local application, you have to write the code to manage that storage. Likewise, your application will have to determine the state of network connectivity and act accordingly. MS: So what language do you develop the front end in? DW: Since the .NET Compact Framework is really just a reduced-size version of the .NET Framework, a lot of things work the same way in both. You can use C- sharp or Visual Basic.NET for .NET Compact Framework development just like you can for regular .NET applications. MS: And how does ColdFusion fit into this? DW: I think the presentation title kind of gives this away - web services! MS: Aha - makes sense. Sounds like a really cool topic - see you at CFUNITED. You can see more interviews at http://www.cfunited.com/interviews.cfm CFUNITED- 05 is Wed 6/29/05 - Fri 7/1/05 in Bethesda MD, just outside Washington DC. It costs $649 until 6/10/05 then $749. For more information on CFUNITED see http://www.cfunited.com/ --- Developing Pocket PC Applications using .NET Compact Framework and CFMX Web Services ************************* This topic will examine a Pocket PC application developed using .NET Compact Framework, which allows the development of Windows Forms applications for the Windows CE/Pocket PC platform. The application will take advantage of intermittent network connectivity to synchronize client data with server data through a CFMX web service interface. Speaker Bio: Dave Watts, Chief Technology Officer, Fig Leaf Software Dave founded Fig Leaf Software with Steve Drucker in 1992, and shares Steve's vision of Fig Leaf Software as a world-class development and training company. As Chief Technology Officer, Dave Watts drives the technology vision and enhances Fig Leaf's competitive edge by developing the company's best practices, covering server configuration, performance tuning, application development, and application deployment. Recognized as an expert in the ColdFusion community, Dave has been developing browser-based applications with ColdFusion since version 1.5. He coauthored the best-selling ColdFusion book, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, first and second editions with Steve Drucker and Ben Forta. Along with Steve Drucker, Dave co-founded the first ColdFusion Users' Group in Washington, DC. He has been the most prolific poster on the CF-Talk mailing list for the last several years, having answered several thousand questions on ColdFusion and related topics. He regularly speaks at industry events, such as Macromedia MAX, and writes articles for various trade publications. As one of the first Macromedia-certified instructors, Dave combines exceptional teaching with course development. He received a perfect score on his ColdFusion MX Certification, and regularly pursues new certifications in other areas of interest. When not developing or teaching for Fig Leaf Software, Dave enjoys playing with new gadgets and technologies. In addition, he has served as an expert witness on IT and internet issues in Maryland's civil court system. Tell your friends about CFUNITED-05 - pass this email on ---- Check more about CFUNITED at: http://www.cfunited.com/ We have: * 3 days * 7 tracks * 20 sponsors * 64 sessions * 1000+ attendees * 100% nicer hotel * Includes lunch each day and open bar reception We have seven tracks this year: * Bootcamp - Basic ColdFusion and Flash topics * Advanced - Advanced ColdFusion topics (Blackstone included!) * Manager/Empowered - Fusebox and Project management topics * Integration - Flash, Flex and other technologies integrated with CF topics * Accessibility / usability - section 508, CSS and disabled access * Deployment - tuning, install issues, OS, picking a database * CF Platform Integration - interop with Microsoft and other technologies The timely bird price of $549 for CFUNITED-05 ends 4/30/05. 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