Toronto ColdFusion User Group - Meetings

June CFUG meeting canceled due to summer!

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:47:00 -0500

We've elected to cancel June's CFUG Toronto meeting due to pleasant weather. I hope you get some time to enjoy it. See you next month for our regularly scheduled CFUG meeting.

May CFUG Meeting: Creating a Twitter / Google Maps Mashup with CF and Open Source Tools

Wed, 12 May 2010 11:23:00 -0500

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

April: Coldfusion Builder Launch Meeting

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:44:00 -0500

Please join us for a special CFBuilder Launch meeting on Wednesday, April 14th at 7:00pm, at One Pixel Off Incorporated's offices at 219 Dufferin Street (Dufferin and Liberty). Enter at the North entrance on Dufferin Street, which is the one without the ramp. We will be meeting Suite 306B. There will be pizza and soft drinks, and we will be watching recordings of recent CFBuilder Presentations. Take this opportunity to get up to speed on this powerful new tool and compare notes with your felow CFML developers. We also have Raffle Prizes to give away! We will be raffling off two prizes: first a ticket to attend Flash In the Can Toronto and then a combined Flash Builder 4 Premium and Coldfusion Builder prize package. Thanks to the People at Flash In the Can for providing a ticket for Raffle. Flash in the Can Toronto runs April 25th to 27th - for more information visit: http://www.fitc.ca/toronto As always we'll adjourn to a nearby establishment for food, drinks and talk (both shop- and non-) after the presentations.

March CFUG Pub Night

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:59:00 -0500

This March we've decided to keep things low key and have a pub night instead of our regular meeting with presentations. Please join us Thursday March 18th at 7pm for dinner and drinks at the Brazen Head Irish Pub (http://www.brazenhead.ca/) at 165 East Liberty Street, in Toronto. See you there! Clayton and Bob

February CFUG Meeting: Sean Corfield's FW/1 Framework

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:06:00 -0500

Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, February 24th 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 We will be watching a recording a of a presentation previously given to "The Online Coldfusion Meetup" (http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/) - which is a great resource for Coldfusion developers. The recording we will be watching is: "FW/1 - The Invisible Framework", with Sean Corfield (http://corfield.org/) Here is the description from the CF Meetup Site: ColdFusion has always been about simplicity and "getting stuff done". I created Framework One (FW/1) in that same spirit: with just one file and some simple conventions, you won't even notice you're using it! If the learning curve, code bloat and XML have put you off other frameworks, find out why developers are saying "FW/1 is perfect" and how you can use it to just focus on your code, be productive and stop worrying about "the framework". Sean is currently CEO of Railo Technologies US. He has worked in IT for over twenty five years, starting out writing database systems and compilers then moving into mobile telecoms and finally into web development in 1997. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years and is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of CFML frameworks and was lead developer on Fusebox for two years. Sean will be joining us via video conference after the presentation for a Q&A session. Don't forget that every person who attends the meeting will get 1 entry for our next software raffle, and anyone who brings someone new will get an extra ticket. As always we'll adjourn to a nearby establishment for food, drinks and talk (both shop- and non-) after the presentations.

No January 2010 CFUG Meeeting

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:34:00 -0500

We'll be back in February, see you then.

December CFUG Pub Night, and Prize Draw

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:46:00 -0500

On December 23rd we will meet at the Brazen Head at 7pm to talk tech and enjoy some eggnog. December is always a bit hectic what with the holidays, so we are playing it low key this year and just having a pub night for December. As added enticement to come out, we have a lot of software to give away. We will be raffling off a copy of CS4 Web Standard or ColdFusion 9 Standard, as well as a copy of FlexBuilder 3 Professional. We hope to see you there! We'll be on the ground floor and should be easy to spot, just look for a group of people with notebook computers.

No November CFUG Toronto Meeting

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500

We generally hold our CFUG meetings monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month. We're taking a break this month, so there will not be a CFUG meeting in November. We will be back in December. Stay tuned for more details next month.

October CFUG Toronto Meeting: Dmitry Broytman on Bluedragon

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:58:00 -0500

Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, October 21st 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 the shared confrence room, Suite 115C. Directions will be posted on main entrance door. Here is the location on Google Maps Dmitry Broytman will give a presentation on BlueDragon. BlueDragon - a family of server side products for CFML deployment on different platforms (stand-alone, .NET, Java EE). Experience of developing CFML applications on BlueDragon platform. Open BlueDragon - open source CFML runtime engine. Don't forget that every person who attends the meeting will get 1 entry for our next software raffle, and anyone who brings someone new will get an extra ticket. As always we'll adjourn to a nearby establishment for food, drinks and talk (both shop- and non-) after the presentations.

September CFUG Toronto Meeting: Coldfusion Builder and CF9 ORM

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:11:00 -0500

Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, September 16th 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 the shared confrence room, Suite 115C. Directions will be posted on main entrance door. Here is the location on Google Maps Ryan Favro will give a presentation on the upcoming Coldfusion Builder IDE. Bob Silverberg will speak on the new CF9 Hibernate (ORM) Integration. Don't forget that every person who attends the meeting will get 1 entry for our next software raffle, and anyone who brings someone new will get an extra ticket. As always we'll adjourn to a nearby establishment for food, drinks and talk (both shop- and non-) after the presentations.

Ben Forta, CF9, BOLT, FLEX4, and FLEX Catalyst in Toronto... Oh My!

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:41:00 -0500

Adobe ColdFusion and FLEX User Group Tour 2009 A Joint CFUGToronto and TorontoFLEX user group meeting. Date: June 25th, 2009, 6:30pm Location: Oakham House, 63 Gould Street, Toronto Ben Forta will be discussing Centaur, the next version of ColdFusion, and Bolt - code name for the highly anticipated first ColdFusion IDE from Adobe. Learn about exciting new features and discover how Centaur and Bolt will accelerate your ColdFusion application development. There is lots of new FLEX stuff too. Learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework, Flex Builder 4 and the newest Adobe product -- Flash Catalyst. See product feature demos, and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content. Seating will be limited so please RSVP, you will also get an extra entry in our next software raffle if you do.
RSVP here: http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/dkj3w468y5kykh46x See you there. Clayton and Bob

May CFUG Meeting

Fri, 08 May 2009 09:50:00 -0500

Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, May 20th at 7:00pm, at the Metro Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor St, Toronto, ON (near Yonge and Wellesley). Our own Bob Silverberg will recap his adventures at cf.Objective(), where he is set to present a session entitled "Building an Object Oriented Model". Find out about the latest news, cutting edge technology, and about the larger the CF community. Don't forget that every person who attends the meeting will get 1 entry for our next software raffle, and anyone who brings someone new will get an extra ticket. As always we'll adjourn to a nearby establishment for food, drinks and talk (both shop- and non-) after the presentations. See you there. Clayton and Bob

Pub Night/CFUG Toronto Meeting April 15th

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:32:00 -0500

We will be meeting at the Foggy Dew at 803 King Street West(click here for a map) at around 6pm for dinner, drinks, and shop talk. Come out and meet your fellow CFers, speculate on the features of Centaur, and argue the merits of your favourite framework. See you there. Clayton and Bob

CFUG Toronto March Meeting: ColdFusion + Flash Spectacular!

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:06:00 -0500

Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, March 18th at The Jester on Yonge Tap and Grill, 1427 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, near the corner of Yonge and St. Clair (a two minute walk from St. Clair subway station). We will have a number of short presentations about using ColdFusion with Flash. The presentations will start at 7:00pm, but feel free to come to the pub anytime after you finish your work day to grab a bite to eat before the meeting. We'll be meeting in the back room of the pub. Note that we still have room for some presenters at this meeting. If you've used the flash platform with a Coldfusion project, or vice versa, and you give a 15 minute presentation about it at the meeting you will have a 1 in 3 chance (maybe even better) to win a ticket to Flash In the Can (a $600 value). Simply send us an email to book your presentation slot. Don't forget that every person who attends the meeting will get 1 entry for our next software raffle, and anyone who brings someone new will get an extra ticket. Hope to see you there!

CFUG Toronto February Meeting: Pub Night!

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:10:00 -0500

Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, February 18th, starting at 5:30pm, at The Jester Pub and Grill, 1427 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, near the corner of Yonge and St. Clair (a two minute walk from St. Clair subway station). We will be having an informal get together where we can enjoy a beverage, a bite to eat, and each other's company. Come and talk shop, or talk about anything really. Feel free to come by any time after 5:30pm. No doubt a number of us will be there for a few hours. Also, don't forget that every person who comes will get one entry for our next software raffle, and anyone who brings someone new will get an extra ticket. We hope to see you on the 18th. Would you like a free ticket to Flash in the Can? Have you used the flash platform with your Coldfusion projects, or vice versa? If you have and you give a 15 minute presentation about it at the March 18th CFUG meeting you will have a 1 in 3 chance to win a ticket to Flash In the Can. Simply send us an email to book your presentation slot, and feel free to invite your friends too. There are 6 presentation slots available. Two winners will be choosen by raffle.