Join us Thursday April 17th starting at 7:30pm sharp in the
basement classroom of Element 156 (Headquarters of FITC) at
156 Augusta Avenue
Dan
Wilson will present:
Refactoring In Coldfusion - From Procedural to OO
If you would like to know how to migrate an existing procedurally
programmed application into an object oriented one, grab a chair
and sit for a while. We'll discuss some sensible guidelines
designed to help you make incremental changes towards OO
nirvana.
We'll also look at lots of code samples, we all like code samples,
right?
Bob Silverberg presented An Introduction to Transfer
ORM
When developing an Object Oriented web application, there is
usually a
need to enable the objects in your system to communicate with
a
relational database. This is often accomplished by creating
numerous
cfcs that generate SQL statements (e.g., SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE
and
DELETE). This can be a time consuming task, especially, as is
common
in development, if your database structure changes.
Object Relational Mappers (ORM) were developed to automate this
task,
by generating the necessary SQL for you. Transfer ORM does
this, and
has a number of other valuable features as well, such as a simple
but
robust caching mechanism.
If you are developing an object oriented system, you owe it
to
yourself to become familiar with the use of an ORM. Even if
you are
writing procedural code, but use cfcs, Transfer ORM can eliminate
the
need for you to write much of your SQL code.
This presentation will give you an overview of what an Object
Relational Mapper is, why you might want one, and take you step
by
step through installing and using Transfer ORM.
View a recording of this
presentation online at: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p11291255/
Congratulations to Griff Bowles who was the lucky raffle winner of
a License of Coldusion 8!
Join us Wednesday February 13th starting at 7:30pm
sharp in the basement classroom of Element 156 (Headquarters of
FITC) at
156 Augusta Avenue
Charlie Arehart will present: CF8 Server
Monitor Hidden Gems
Ok, so maybe you've started working with the CF8 Server Monitor or
perhaps seen some demos of, but are sure you really know all that
it can do for you? In this talk, veteran CFML developer Charlie
Arehart will explore and expose some surprising observations about
the CF8 Server Monitor. There are lots of nooks and crannies with
info that may surprise you, including features you may have missed,
or that are more useful than you thought. We'll also explore such
questions as, do you need to worry about using it in production?
The answer is, not always. One of many surprises uncovered in this
talk. This talk does presume that attendees are already familiar
with the CF8 monitor, such as discussed in his "CF8 Server
Monitor Introduction", or his
4 part series at the Adobe DevCenter. If you're new to the CF8
monitor, you'll still learn a lot, but without the introductory
background.
At the end of the meeting there will a prize draw for Adobe shirts
and schwag.
Wednesday January 9th starting at 7pm in the
basement classroom of Element 156 (Headquarters of FITC) at 156 Augusta Avenue
First Meeting of the New Year! Learn how to leverage .NET
and Java code from you CF apps.
Clayton Partridge will demonstrate a few tricks for
leveraging freely available Java class libraries to add even more
functionality to Coldfusion.
Byron Bignell will give a presentation based on his devnet article
showing how to work with .NET objects using CF8 using the new .NET
proxy object.
November 14th starting at 7pm in the basement classroom of Element
156 (Headquarters of FITC) at 156 Augusta Avenue
Regex For Fun and Profit by Byron Bignell, and Member's Show
and Tell by You!
Our own Byron Bignell will give a presentation on useful Regular
Expressions for CF. You'll come away with a arsenal of text
replacement and validation ReGex.
In the second half members are invited to show off the CF sites
that they've launched in the last year, and provide some background
on how they were developed.
October 10th starting at 7pm in Meeting Room 3 of the Metro Central YMCA at 20 Grosvenor Street in
Toronto
Charlie's presentation was recorded, you can view it online at: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p84942934/
Hidden Gems in CF8 - By Charlie Arehart
Prepare to be surprised! In this talk, veteran CFML developer
Charlie Arehart will introduce over 75 hidden gems in CF8
(Scorpio). Sure, we've all heard about the big features, but in
every release there are lots of little things, and in CF8
especially, Adobe has pulled out the stops! Come see if some
long-standing problem has been solved, or learn of some new
technique that's become available. You may be surprised at all the
little things you may have missed!
A veteran ColdFusion developer since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a
longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe
Community Expert. He's a certified Advanced CF Developer and
Instructor for CF 4/5/6/7 who served as tech editor of the
ColdFusion Developers Journal until 2003. Now an independent
contractor living in Alpharetta GA, Charlie provides high-level
troubleshooting/tuning assistance and training/mentoring for CF
teams (carehart.org/consulting). He helps run the
Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group),
is a contributor to the CF8 WACK books by Ben Forta, and is
frequently invited to speak to developer conferences and user
groups worldwide.
Other links
After Charlie's presentation Mark Philips from Vertabase demo a
AIR application that his company Vertabase had just completed.
Check it out at: http://timer.vertabase.com/
People also noticed that Byron Bignell was using a customized
version of Eclipse called Aptana. For more info on Aptana go to: http://www.aptana.com/
Thanks to everyone who came out to the CF 8 launch meeting.
Thanks to Ryan Favro, Byron Bignell, and Laurence Middleton for
their great presentations on the new features of Coldfusion 8.
You can download Laurence's demonstration files here:
CFUG_200708.zip
You can download Byron's demonstration files here:
cfug_cfdotnet.zip
You can view Ryan's DevNet article here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/cfimage.html
Thanks also to Mark Phillips for his presentation on Vertabase, an
enterprise level project management web application built in CF of
course.
Congratulations to Kit Tang who won a copy of Image
Effects for CFIMAGE courtesy of foundeo and to Michelle Messina who won a copy
of Coldfusion 8 Professional courtesy of Adobe.
It's summer time, while it lasts we better spend some time
outside! This month's CFUG meeting (more of an informal gathering)
will be be on the Patio at the Madison Pub
The Madison Pub is at 14 Madison Avenue, just east of Spadina
and just north of Bloor Street. We will be gathering on Wednesday
July 11th around 6:30 for drinks and dinner.
Here is the location on Google Maps.
Wednesday June 13th, Tippet Room of the Metro Central YMCA, at 20 Grosvenor Street
Toronto with the presentation starting at 7:00pm sharp. Door prizes
for the first 10 people to arrive.
James
Eberhardt will give a presentation on Wireless Development for
Coldfusion programmers.
Laurence Middleton, Byron Bignell and Ryan Favro who were all on
the private Beta of CF8 otherwise known as Scorpio (which is
now public Beta so they can talk about it) will take part in an
objective round table discussion of it's new features and language
changes.
The Fiddler's Green Pub, 27 Wellesley St. E.
Gathering around 6:30pm for dinner and drinks. Fiddler's Green Pub
is directly opposite Wellesley station on the Yonge Subway Line. Here is the location on Google Maps.
This month we've chosen to have a nice low key pub night, where
members can talk shop and brag about their recent projects.
Ray
Camden on Spry, plus Ryan Favro
demonstrated how to access a CRUD CFC using Remoting with FLEX the
first in the series of FLEX/CF tutorials
Ray
Camden the prolific opensource CF application developer and
creator of applications such as BlogCFC, Canvas, Galleon and many other
opensource applications will presented a introduction to Adobe's Spry
framework for Ajax. To view a recording of Ray's presentation
click here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p23985384/
Ryan Favro demonstrated how to access a CRUD
cfc using Remoting with FLEX. This was the first of a series of
FLEX/CF integration tutorials suitable for FLEX and CF newbies. To
view Ryan's presentation click here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p71935446/
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