May CFUG Meeting: Creating a Twitter / Google Maps Mashup with CF and Open Source Tools
Posted At : May 12, 2010 11:23 AM
| Posted By : Admin
Related Categories:
Meetings
Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, May 19th at 7:00pm, at One Pixel Off Incorporated's offices at 219 Dufferin Street (Dufferin and Liberty). Enter at the South Entrance, which is the one with the ramp. We will be meeting in suite 306B. Directions will be posted on main entrance door - if you have any difficulty finding the suite just call (416)831-5558
Here is the location on Google Maps
At this month's meeting Bob Silverberg will be giving us a preview of a talk that he'll be presenting at NCDevCon at the end of May. NCDevCon is a free web development conference in North Carolina that has a ColdFusion track, as well as other general web development tracks, including a hands-on "Learn ColdFusion" track. Bob's session is suitable for CF developers of all levels, and is sure to be interesting.
It's called "Creating a Twitter / Google Maps Mashup with CF and Open Source Tools", and is described as:
Do you want to see how easy it is to create something really cool using ColdFusion? In this session I'll demonstrate how I was able to use some freely available tools to generate a map that shows the location of all of my Twitter friends. I'll walk through the code, which makes use of three APIs: Twitter, Google Geocode and Google Maps, all of which were easy to integrate via pre-existing open source projects. You'll leave with an understanding of how to find tools such as these yourself, as well as some ideas of how to integrate them into new or existing projects.
This session is suitable for beginners with a minimal familiarity with ColdFusion, but will be of interest to anyone who is interested in learning about working with open source libraries or who is just interested in seeing some cool stuff that can be accomplished with ColdFusion.
See you there! Clayton and Bob
There are no comments for this entry.
[Add Comment]