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- Architecture & Design in Software
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- Process & Performance
- Front-End Development
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- (Abstraction + CF9 ORM) == "Modeled in Minutes"
- Architecture & Design in Software
- In this session we will explore the topics of abstraction and ORMs (with a specific focus on CF9 ORM/Hibernate), and then demonstrate how to put what ...
- A Git's guide to GITting along
- Integration & Tools
- Most of us know what GIT is. Most people in the ColdFusion community understand that GIT is a distributed source control system that is really fast ...
- Accessibility for RIA's using WAI-ARIA
- Front-End Development
- The WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative for Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a specification developed to create a standard way for browsers, screen readers, and Javascript to ...
- Advanced Solr: Going Beyond the Basics of cfsearch
- Architecture & Design in Software
- Searching in ColdFusion 9 with Solr and cfsearch is great, but what if we told you there was much more to search than there seems Take ...
- Advanced Web Application Security
- Integration & Tools
- Is there more to application security than SQLi and XSS You know there is. You may have even learned about XSRF, path traversal, request forgeries,and more, ...
- Adventures in Code Generation
- Architecture & Design in Software
- Adventures in Code Generation will attempt to address the whys and hows of using code to write code. "Scaffolding and Beyond" will deal with obvious advantages ...
- An Introduction to Solr
- Integration & Tools
- Solr, an open source, enterprsie search platform from Apache, is becoming the standard search engine for use with ColdFusion. In this session, we will discuss how ...
- Animation with JavaScript and html5
- Front-End Development
- HTML5's canvas element has allowed new levels of interactivity and multimedia in native HTML. This presentation will explore how to initialize a canvas context, how to ...
- AOP For You and Me
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- Aspect Oriented Programming has been around for ColdFusion Developers for quite a long time, however not many developers take great advantage of it. The AOP terminology ...
- Application Intrusion, Detection and Tracking
- Process & Performance
- When there was just a browser the attack vectors on a system were simple. But, with mobile, AIR, and now set top development, the number of ...
- Building HTML5 Applications
- Front-End Development
- Summary: Attendees will learn how to develop a standalone application leveraging HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. We will take a deep dive into the features of HTML5 ...
- Code Deployment Shouldn't Only Be FTP - Using ANT to Automate Your Build Process
- Integration & Tools
- ANT isn't just a tool for Java developers. CFML developers can benefit from this powerful and mature software build tool in terms that CFML developers can ...
- ColdBox Platform 3.0
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- ColdBox is an event-driven conventions based ColdFusion Framework. Come learn how ColdBox can increase your productivity, standardize your applications and make you enjoy building ColdFusion Applications ...
- ColdSpring 2.0 Alpha 1 - What's New and Improved?
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- ColdSpring 2.0, codenamed Narwhal, has been in development for over a year now, with an array of new and improved features being brewed in the background.
- Continuous Integration with Jenkins, ANT, and MXUnit
- Integration & Tools
- Perhaps you have some unit tests. Maybe even an ANT build file that runs your tests. And maybe even a build file that packages or deploys your application.
- Creating Extensions with ColdFusion Builder
- Integration & Tools
- In this session I'll describe the extension feature of ColdFusion Builder. I'll then spend most of the time talking about how you write extensions and show ...
- Database Performance Tuning
- Process & Performance
- Most application performance problems are directly related to database access. Learn how to identify and tune problem queries by reading a database query plan to identify ...
- Designing for Scalability in ColdFusion
- Architecture & Design in Software
- ColdFusion provides a great platform for building large scale enterprise applications, but there are a few things to be aware of regarding scalability which are all ...
- Digging Into The Developer Toolbox
- Integration & Tools
- Digging Into The Developer Toolbox - Get Lazy: Automate! Every developer has their basic toolset - a robust IDE, source control and a good bug ...
- Don't Forget About Custom Tags
- Architecture & Design in Software
- With all of the attention given lately to CFCs and Object Oriented Programming, it is easy to forget about the lowly custom tag. They still have ...
- End-to-End Application Design, Featuring ColdSpring/AOP, FW/1, MXUnit, ORM and ValidateThis
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- The goal of this session is to walk through the design and development process of a well-designed real world application, while exploring some great frameworks and application design ...
- Enterprise Development with Mach II
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- If you are new Mach II we will cover some resources to get you started including the helpful dashboard. If you are already familiar with Mach ...
- Everything you wanted to know about REST and more
- Architecture & Design in Software
- There is a very good chance that at one point or another in your programming career you have used an API. If you have not interacted ...
- Flex and ColdFusion, a Love Affair
- Front-End Development
- Drop in to get a overview of all the ways you can feed data to your data-hungry Flex RIA. Flex offers three techniques to obtain and ...
- Flex Component Building 301
- Front-End Development
- Sure, you've read the Flex docs on cmponent building. And you've scoured the internet for tips and clues on just how these rockstar Flex folks build ...
- Forms That Don't Suck (Quick, Easy, & Clean Forms and Data)
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- Does your application involve capturing data input from users Does your object model rely on clean, accurate data If you answered 'yes' to both ...
- From HTML to Flex, how to create ColdFusion powered mobile Applications
- Front-End Development
- Have you ever thought about creating a mobile application for your web site but not been sure if it is the right move to make ...
- Getting to Know AntiPatterns
- Architecture & Design in Software
- This presentation will focus on helping attendees recognize antipatterns by familiarizing them with examples of some common types, including Poltergeist, God Object and Functional Decomposition. These ...
- Holistic Program Quality and Technical Debt
- Architecture & Design in Software
- What really determines the quality of your applications How do you know when you have it right Holistic Program Quality and Technical Debt is a no-code ...
- HTML 5 Accessibility Features and Gotchas
- Front-End Development
- HTML 5 is one of the newest buzzwords to hit the web. While its standard and sexy, it still needs to handle accessibility for the disabled ...
- Implementing an In-Memory Distributed Cache Using ColdSpring AOP and Ehcache
- Process & Performance
- In 2007, Full Sail University launched its online learning platform built on ColdFusion. Since then, its enrollment has increased more than 500% with no sign of ...
- Intro to AngularJS, JavaScript Done Right
- Front-End Development
- Angular is a new kind of JavaScript framework. Built for creating complex ajax applications the framework supports an MVC development model and integrated dependency injection system.
- Intro to Mura CMS for Developers
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- In this session, we'll show how you can quickly create a full-featured website in Mura CMS, providing an overview of features, plugins & plugin development, creating ...
- Introduction to Browser Automation and Testing with Selenium
- Integration & Tools
- How do you test your web-based applications If you’re like most developers you click around you app, following links and filling out forms, visually verifying ...
- Introduction to Dependency Injection
- Architecture & Design in Software
- This session would explain what Dependency Injection is, what problems it is attempting to solve, and why an attendee should consider using it. The focus would ...
- JavaScript Performance Optimization
- Front-End Development
- Building complex JavaScript applications has never been easier, as libraries such as jQuery enable developers to write expressive, simple code that is reliably compatible with a ...
- Just Mock It! : Leveraging Mock Objects
- Process & Performance
- Come and find out the importance of mock and stub objects for your ColdFusion unit testing and even development. This session will show you all the ...
- Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Effectivley
- Process & Performance
- Over the past 11 years we have worked with clients, literally around the globe, helping with performance tuning. Probably our most cherished achievement was building a ...
- Making Legacy Code Testable
- Architecture & Design in Software
- Better design. Ease of adding new Features. Knowing about defects before you check in. All of these are promised by unit testing and test-driven design. At ...
- Maximum Security CFML
- Architecture & Design in Software
- Have you ever written code that can be hacked No matter what your experience level, if you have written any amount of code, the answer is ...
- MediaSlurp and the Adobe Stack
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- MediaSlurp is a popular tool that delivers community-driven content to your desktop. The presentation gives an overview of how it was built by three people, ...
- More Hidden Gems in CFBuilder and CFBuilder 2
- Process & Performance
- In this session, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will share several dozen tips and tricks (and a couple of traps) for working with ColdFusion Builder, in this updated ...
- Multi-screen Development with Adobe AIR
- Integration & Tools
- Good news Flex developers: You can become a mobile developer with just one click of a button. Adobe AIR had extended the reach of ActionScript and ...
- Multiscreen: What is it and why should we care?
- Front-End Development
- Do you hear that That is the winds of change, and they are blowing at gale force. One of the more frequently heard terms when developing ...
- Multi-Tenant, Multi-Lingual Web Platforms - Software as a Service
- Architecture & Design in Software
- As businesses become more sophisticated in their use of the Internet, a single web site in a single language is becoming less common and the ...
- No nonsense RESTful ColdFusion Web Services, with Taffy
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- SOAP is a lie: It's not simple, it's not object-oriented, and it's not a protocol; all it does is give you access to things. On the ...
- NoSQL? No Problem
- Process & Performance
- You don't need to be Amazon or Google to take advantage of NoSQL data stores. Whether you want to develop applications more quickly or scale ...
- ORM Zen
- Architecture & Design in Software
- The month: June. The weather: hot. Brewfests: too far away. My job: brand new. My issue tracker: overflowing. Deadlines: looming. My spirits: sunken. Why I ...
- Pinpointing and Resolving ColdFusion Performance Issues
- Process & Performance
- Sadly, it's a pretty common problem: something makes your CF app go belly up. Either the whole server hangs up sometimes, or perhaps it's some specific ...
- Progressive enhancement: what is it and how do I do it?
- Front-End Development
- You've heard the term "progressive enhancement". But what is it In a nutshell, it's a way to start getting some RIA into your applications without ...
- Refactoring a Legacy Application to an MVC Framework
- Architecture & Design in Software
- For anyone who has ever wanted to refactor a page-based ColdFusion application that uses individual .cfm files into a model-view-controller architecture (or has been given a ...
- Relax with CouchDB
- Integration & Tools
- Are you tired of databases Do you find them too limiting is it LEFT OUTER or RIGHT Inner Is it really that important to break apart ...
- Replace Your Iron with a Cloud
- Integration & Tools
- At Mentor Graphics we've just completed the process of moving a number of applications, including www.mentor.com, from dedicated hardware resources to Amazon Web Services. Best of ...
- Requirements and Estimating
- Process & Performance
- "What will it cost " "When will it be done ". Unfortunately, almost a decade after the agile manifesto was written, these are still questions ...
- Running Mulitple CFML Engines on Apache Tomcat
- Integration & Tools
- Looking for the ultimate in flexibility for your CFML development environment Wanting to try out Open BlueDragon or Railo without destroying your existing ColdFusion installations Interested ...
- Scaling CFML Applications
- Integration & Tools
- Very often applications grow and you need to scale them out. With Google App Engine, Rackspace and Amazon AWS you have great tools in order to ...
- Setting up a Solid Local Development Environment
- Integration & Tools
- Learn about how you can setup a local development environment that closely mimics your production system. In this session we will discuss how to setup ...
- Simple MVC with FW/1
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- We hear a lot about Model View Controller (MVC) and how we should use it in our applications, but how do you apply this practically in ...
- Simplifying Development with ColdFusion on Wheels: An Introduction
- Integration & Tools
- If you're new to the ColdFusion on Wheels framework and want to give it a try, then this presentation is for you. This session ...
- Small Business Ownership for Geeks
- Process & Performance
- Doing side projects Contract work Freelance Should you be a Sole Proprietor, LLC, or S Corp How do you handle your accounting ...
- SQL Performance for the Common Man
- Integration & Tools
- For most web developers, SQL is a term that sends shivers down their spine. Then, ask them about SQL performance, let alone writing queries and ...
- Test Driven Development in JavaScript with JsTD and Jasmine
- Front-End Development
- Test Driven Development (TDD) and it's cousin Behavior Driven Development (BDD) are certainly not new, but the way we write tests and how easy they are ...
- Time Management for Developers
- Process & Performance
- Software developers are regularly subject to tight timelines and heavy workloads, yet it's still widely reported that developers waste over two hours a day. Fortunately, this ...
- Undocumented and Off Script: ColdFusion & Ehcache
- Process & Performance
- Take your application scalability to the next level. This session will take you beyond the basics of caching in ColdFusion 9.0.1, diving deep under the covers ...
- Using jQuery Mobile for your Next Web Application
- Front-End Development
- jQuery is everywhere. It's a JavaScript framework, it's an application development framework, and now it's a mobile framework. Built around the rules of progressive enhancement jQuery ...
- Using oAuth to integrate CF with Facebook/Twitter
- Integration & Tools
- Have you wanted to connect your CF application to Twitter or Facebook but found the new oAuth APIs difficult to work with In this session ...
- Web Single Sign-On and ColdFusion
- Integration & Tools
- Do you or your team maintain multiple ColdFusion applications for your organization If so, chances are each one of those applications has its own login screen ...
- What is Functional Programming? (and why should I care?)
- Architecture & Design in Software
- Software development has cycles. In the 1980's, functional programming languages were "hot" but somehow they never became mainstream. Instead, object-oriented languages took over the mainstream and ...
- What's New in Model-Glue
- Frameworks & OSS Tools
- The most recent release of Model-Glue, version 3.2, adds many new, exciting features for improving productivity during development. This session will demonstrate the latest enhancements to ...
- Working with PDFs in ColdFusion
- Integration & Tools
- We will explore how easy it is to work with, and manipulate, PDF files using ColdFusion. In this talk I will be demonstrating how easy it ...
- Write a Test Once; Repeat Forever – You Don't Have to Be a Unit Testing Guru
- Process & Performance
- Admit it...we've all addicted to “testing” using a browser in the same way repeatedly. What we don't realize is that we only test a fraction what ...
- Writing your first jQuery plugin
- Front-End Development
- In this presentation we will look at developing your first jQuery plugin. We will walk through jQuery plugin development from start to end. After this session ...
