Here is ColdFusion and Fusebox news * CFUNITED/Express Chicago (aka CF_Underground) early bird ends 8/31/07 * CFUNITED/Europe-08 call for speakers ends 8/24/07 * Adobe's Damon Cooper on ColdFusion 8 and CFUNITED * CFUNITED podcasts - Simon Horwith - Object Think - Common Sense Software Architecture * Fusebox 5 documentation update * Fusebox core file help and bug reports * CFUNITED Interview - with Andrew Powell on "Integrating Spry and ColdFusion".
* CFUNITED/Express Chicago (aka CF_Underground) early bird ends 8/31/07 Ever experienced CF_Underground? The pre-MAX ColdFusion meeting held by TeraTech has renamed its event to CFUnited/Express Chicago-07 this year. We are holding this event in CFUnited fashion and we are bringing to you some great speakers and time to get to know other developers like you. Date: Sunday Sept 30th, 2007 Where: downtown Chicago Cost: $149 before 8/31/07 (and get a $50 discount as a user group member) Plus If you register for CFUnited Express Chicago before August 31st you can use 100% of your registration towards CFUnited 2008! After that you can only use 50% of your registration cost towards CFUnited 2008 Register now! Limited Seating. Great materials, goodies, free lunch, drinks, and more. http://cfunitedexpress.com/go/chicago/2007/ Speakers: * Charlie Arehart * Raymond Camden (Tentative) * Adam Howitt * Patrick Quinn * Michael Smith * CFUNITED/Europe-08 call for speakers ends 8/24/07 The call for speakers for CFUNITED Europe ends today 8/24/07. More info and how to suggest a topic or speaker at http://europe.cfunited.com/ CFUnited/Europe Date: March 12-13 2008 Location: Novotel London West, UK. Cost: $749 plus VAT until 10/31/07, after that it will be $849. ($749 USD is approximately UKP 374 or Euros 565) Registration: http://europe.cfunited.com/ * Adobe's Damon Cooper on ColdFusion 8 and CFUNITED Thanks Damon for your mention of your CFUNITED experience in your blog entry about the making of ColdFusion 8 "Members of our team recently attended the CFUnited Conference, and after breakout session on Ajax,they were mobbed," recalled Cooper. "Many of the 600 developers who attended those sessions, as well as others at the conference, wanted to know how ColdFusion 8 was built, how we did it. Some of our guys felt like rock stars." Full article at: http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=22197BB5-4E22-1671-5276250EC40723FD * CFUNITED podcasts - Simon Horwith - Object Think - Common Sense Software Architecture Object Think is a technique for object modeling applications. It is the foundation for designing applications using S.A.M., a methodology that Simon adopted largely from the techniques taught in Streamlined Object Modeling and "purist" theories on OOP. Object Think is, in Simon's own words, "the most important skill that a software architect could have at their disposal". Its goal is to demystify design patterns and lead to better software design by teaching architects how to think and by making common sense out of architectural best practices. http://cfunited.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/4/Simon-Horwith--Object-Think--Common-Sense-Software-Architecture * Fusebox 5 documentation update Thanks to volunteers including Joe Craven for updating the Fusebox 5 documentation on the wiki. If you want to read or contribute go to: http://fusebox.org/go/learning-fusebox/documentation * Fusebox core file help and bug reports Also if you want to contribute to the core files see http://trac.fuseboxframework.org/fusebox/wiki/FuseboxCoreFiles Although we believe that adding custom lexicons is the way to go because additions and/or changes to the core XML language should be rare and considered extremely carefully. Adding verbs or even attributes makes Fusebox more complex and harder to learn (as well as making the core files harder to maintain). That page also talks about contributing patches and what is involved in becoming a committer. You can also report bugs on the trac site. * CFUNITED Interview - with Andrew Powell on "Integrating Spry and ColdFusion". Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Andrew Powell about his CFUNITED-07 talk "Integrating Spry and ColdFusion". So why should a developer learn Spry Andrew? Andrew Powell: Anyone who wants to leverage the power of AJAX, but is JavaScript adverse, needs to learn about Spry. I will show developers how to leverage the Spry framework for AJAX to create dynamic new user interfaces for their ColdFusion applications with a minimal to no JavaScript required to be written by the developer. Developers will learn techniques that they can use as soon as they leave the session to enhance their user experiences and quickly bring the power of AJAX to their applications. MS: That is good as JavaScript can be a bit picky at times! What is AJAX and why would I want to use it in a web app? AP: AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) is nothing new. It is just a fancy name that was put on existing technologies. JavaScript and XML have been around for a long time. AJAX is simply a newly named concept in how to leverage these existing technologies to create dynamic user interfaces within the browser. AJAX is a part of what people are calling "Web 2.0", a revolution in web interfaces. It is being used, in conjunction with other technologies like Flex, to help deliver powerful, dynamic, near desktop user-interfaces to the browser. If you are a developer who is interested in leveraging some "Web 2.0" functionality in your application, then a framework like Spry is a good entry point. MS: Thanks for explaining. What are some example sites that use AJAX what in particular do you like about how they use it? AP: The most obvious site that uses AJAX right now is GMail. Their entire interface is powered by AJAX. As far as Spry powered sites go, your best bet is going to be to go to Adobe Labs; where a list of sites using Spry is maintained. This is really the best resource for all things Spry. MS: Neat stuff. So how hard is it to create sites like this using Spry? Can you show use some sample code? AP: Creating web applications using Spry is a snap. It really takes the pain out of AJAX and simplifies it for the server-side developer. Spry is AJAX for the JavaScript adverse crowd. Most of us ColdFusion developers, being server-sided, are somewhat JavaScript adverse. We tend to like our things nice and simple. Well, Spry brings the simplicity and power of a tag-based language like ColdFusion to the client-side environment. As far as code samples, well, you'll just have to come to my session at CFUnited for those! -- Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm) TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers! 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