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July 2009 Meeting

Monday July 13th 2009 @ 12:30

Topic
Mura CMS: What's in it for me?

Special Guest Speakers from Sacramento, CA:

  • Sean Schroeder - Mura Product Manager
    After starting his own Internet services company six years ago (Studio Squared Inc.) with Blue River's Matt Levine, award-winning designer Sean Schroeder joined Blue River with a unique focus on solid design principles applied to the user experience. In collaboration with Matt, Sean is the founder and developer of Mura CMS, Blue River’s popular open source content management system.
  • Matt Levine - Lead Developer Architect of Mura CMS
    Matt is the architect of and lead developer of Mura CMS. Matt's expertise lies in best-practice, object-oriented programming. He leads the technology team at Blue River as CTO, blending a pragmatic approach with robust, scalable frameworks to create top solutions for Blue River clients.

We'll provide an overview of the Open-Source (and free) Mura CMS and show how to leverage Mura's built in functionality to quickly build your site and handoff site content management tasks to other stakeholders, allowing you to customize your site by extending Mura or by integrating your existing CFML applications.

Location
ITT Technical Institute - Please Sign in at the Visitor Desk, Meeting will be held in Room Theory 1, 2, or 3. more info
235 Greenfield Parkway, Liverpool, NY 13088


Past Meetings


Tuesday June 9th 2009 @ 12:30

Topic
Hardening ColdFusion, Pete Freitag

Pete will show you how to configure your ColdFusion server to be secure by going through the ColdFusion adminstrator, and other various settings. He will also demo a new product from his company, a Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion.

Tuesday April 14th 2009 @ 12:30

Topic
Using ColdFusion's Many Integration Features to Build a Custom Portal by Mike Sprague

Overview
This presentation will demonstrate the many integration capabilities that ColdFusion has. Hamilton College built a custom portal called My Hamilton that uses several of these features. Several examples will be demonstrated and code samples will be shown. Integration features include:

  • CFLDAP
    • LDAP for login and account storage
    • The starting point for acces to various systems based on user's ID
  • Java Libraries
    • IMAP for an email reader and a Gmail channel
    • UiObjects for interacting with Unidata and legacy systems
  • RSS
    • For an aggregate new readers, news channels, and weather channel
  • XML
    • For custom integration with Calendar system
    • Facebook API
  • CFDIRECTORY AND CFFTP
    • For web access to internal file shares

Tuesday March 10th 2009 @ 12:30

Topic
Part 2 of our CF OOP series focused on learning some basic design patterns by learning the best-practices for Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion, including:

  1. Encapsulate what varies.
  2. Favor composition over inheritance.
  3. Program to the interface, not the implementation.
  4. Strive for loosely coupled designs between objects that interact.
  5. The Open-Closed Principle

Presented by: Brian Love

Slides & Code

Tuesday February 10th 2009 @ 12:30

Topic
Part 1 of our CF OOP series started with learning the basics of Object Oriented Programming in ColdFusion. Staring with the ColdFusion syntax, tags, and functions that enable the use of Components in our applications. Next, we'll learn basic OO principals like inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and method overriding in ColdFusion.

Presented by: Pete Freitag

Slides & Code

Tuesday January 13th 2009 @ 12:30

Topic
Project Management and Time Tracking for Development Projects Having great information before, during and after a project are the keys to a successful project. This presentation discusses building estimates to encapsulate important project information and improve communications. The presentation then discusses how time tracking can be an easy habit and powerful tool for generating great information.

Presented by: Mark Phillips

Tuesday December 9th 2008 @ 12:30

Topic
We will split the meeting into 2 parts again this month:

First, we will have a show-and-tell, where you can earn points for showing us what you're working on.

Secondly, we will have an informal 'stump the manager', where you bring questions and try to stump either Pete or Brian.

Tuesday November 11th 2008 @ 12:30

Topic

We will split the meeting into 2 parts:

First, Mike Sprague will give us an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library along with an introduction to his very cool CFjqAjax custom tag library that allows you to implement jQuery functionality in a similar way to ColdFusion 8's Ext library tags - basically a replacement to <cfgrid>, <cfwindow>, and <cftooltip> using jQuery!

Second, ColdFusion Jeopardy - Come test your ColdFusion knowledge with out first ever ColdFusion Jeopardy challenge!

Tuesday October 14th 2008 @ 12:30

Topic

Source Control

A introduction to source control, getting started with Subversion, and a demonstration on Surround SCM.

Tuesday August 15th 2008 @ 12:30

Topic

Best of CFUnited 2008

Couldn't make it to CFUnited 2008? We'll have 5 short presentation to recap some of the favorite sessions attended at CFUnited:

  • Mike Sprague: "ColdFusion 9" from Ben Forta's and Adam Legman keynote
  • Jason Quatrino: "Ajax Usability" by Rachel Lehman
  • Catherine Tuxbury: "Google Maps" by by Steve Nelson
  • Mike Sprague: "Fresh AIR" by Mark Drew
  • Brian Caufield: "Prototyping for Smarties" by Hal Helmes and Clark Valberg

Tuesday July 8th 2008 @ 12:30

Topic

Introduction to Google Gears

Why can't web applications be just as powerful as a desktop application? We'll learn how Gears is aiming to expose new modules and capabilities that provide general-purpose building blocks for web application to unlock the capabilities of the local desktop in a safe manner.

Presented By: Brian Love

Tuesday June 10th 2008 @ 12:30

Topic

Writing Secure CFML

We will take a look at what it takes to write secure CFML code, and best practices.

Presented By: Pete Freitag

Tuesday April 8th 2008 @ 12:30

Topics

Image Manipulation with ColdFusion 8

We will start with the CFIMAGE tag and show you how to resize images, get image dimensions, and create captcha's. Moving on we will take a look at the many image manipulation functions that ColdFusion 8 provides covering more advanced topics such as: drawing on existing images, creating images from scratch, and more.

Presented By: Pete Freitag

Tuesday March 11th 2008 @ 12:30

Topics

Working with Ext.js

Brian Caufield will present A brief overview of Ext and the various ways of integrating Coldfusion with the Ext javascript library including:

  • Server side versus client side JS frameworks
  • Consuming XML data using the Ext.data.XmlReader
  • Consuming JSON data with the CFJsonReader
  • Issues with other JSON serialization approaches such as CFJson and Jason.cfc.

Ext.cfc

Learn how to create a data grid similar to <CFGRID>, but without CF8, by leveraging the power of the Ext JS 2.x library and ColdFusion. Presented by Brian Love

Monday February 25th 2008 @ 12:30

Join the Central New York ColdFusion Users Group for this "can't miss" meeting!

As you may have heard, Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will be the focus of our February 25th special meeting! Adobe is sponsoring this meeting with food, giveaways and a raffle copy of Adobe Flex Professional (and an iPod Shuffle with 2 iTunes Gift Cards).

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, delivering rich applications on the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write RIAs on the desktop using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR at this meeting.

Tuesday January 8th 2008 @ 12:30

Topics

Model-Glue and CFTemplate

Boyan Kostadinov will present on setting up and using Model-Glue, and application prototyping with scaffolding in Model-Glue.

Brian Caufield will present on Code Generation using CFTemplate by Peter Bell.

Presenter: Boyan Kostadinov & Brian Caufield

Tuesday December 12th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

An overview of Ajax features in ColdFusion 8

The presentation will cover the layout elements that interact with Ajax (CFDIV, CFLAYOUTAREA, CFGRID, and others) as well as the new tags that import and utilize interactive Ajax features. Using these tools, a simple Ajax application will be built that demonstrates the most powerful new features. Code samples will be provided.

As always our meetings are free of charge, and open to the public.

Presenter: Michael Sprague

Tuesday November 13th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

Mixed Bag of Short Presentations

  • Round table discussion on Error Trapping in ColdFusion - Led by Catherine Tuxbury
  • The using interactive debugger in ColdFusion 8 - Brian Love (slides)
  • The CFMenu tag in ColdFusion 8 - Jim Papaleo (code)
  • Tips for Upgrading to ColdFusion 8 - Michael Sprague (slides)

As always our meetings are free of charge, and open to the public.

Presenters: Catherine Tuxbury, Brian Love, Jim Papaleo, and Michael Sprague

Tuesday October 9th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

Bracketology

Brian Love will present the hidden wonders of using and understanding brackets in your CFML code.

Bracketology - noun - The science of efficiently using [brackets] in <CFML>.

  • What is this bracket thing all about?
  • Object.property notation
  • Associative array notation
  • How it all works
  • Embedding brackets
  • Mixing it up
  • Avoiding Evaluate()
  • Looping over arrays, structures, and queries
  • Using brackets with objects

Presenter: Brian Love

Wednesday September 19th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

Amazon Web Services with Amazon's Mike Culver

We are pleased to have a special guest speaker Mike Culver the Web Services Evangelist for Amazon Web Services come to Syracuse to speak with us about Amazon Web Services. Mike will be giving demo's of Amazon Web Services offerings, as well as show us how to setup a server on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).

Tuesday August 14th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

ColdFusion 8 Launch Event

You won't want to miss the ColdFusion 8 Launch Event. We will have pizza, wings, salad and the following giveaways:

  • A copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition
  • ColdFusion 8 & Scorpio T-Shirts
  • A copy of Foundeo's new CFImage Effects component
  • More Adobe Branded Stuff

Tuesday June 12th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

CFCs & Object-Relational Mapping Slides

   Presenter: Brian Hoke

Tuesday May 8th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

Building RSS Feeds in ColdFusion

   Presenter: Pete Freitag

Tuesday April 10th 2007 @ 12:30

Topics

Building Secure Applications with ColdFusion - Pete will be presenting a preview of his topic for the CFUnited Conference. Learn about several web application vulnerabilities, and how to prevent them.

   Presenter: Pete Freitag

Introduction to Eclipse & CFEclipse

Learn about the Eclipse development environment, and its ColdFusion Plugin CFEclipse.

   Presenter: Brian Caufield

Tuesday March 27th 2007 @ 3:00 PM

Topic

A new era in creative expression is about to unfold, freeing us to color outside the lines, to think in multiple dimensions, to engage audiences like never before. The Central New York ColdFusion User Group will be hosting a live-broadcast event for the official launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3!! Please join us at this special meeting that will include presentations by Adobe executives, product demonstrations, and a chance to win one of the first copies of the new CS3 suite when it starts shipping!

Come join the rest of the creative industry and be part of the buzz and excitement by participating in this very special launch event.

Tuesday, March 27 3:00 PM (broadcast starts at 3:30)

Tuesday Feburary 13th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

Brian Love will present two javascript libraries:

Prototype.js - Ajax interface, Utility functions, Helpers (enumerables, arrays, hashes, ranges), Extensions to core JavaScript classes (String, Number, Array, etc...), The Class object

Script.aculo.us - Visual Effects, Queuing your effects, Sortables

Get the Presentation Slides & Examples Here

Presenter
Brian Love

Tuesday January 9th 2007 @ 12:30

Topic

Top 10 Underrated and Underused Functions in ColdFusion

Presenter
Pete Freitag

Tuesday December 19th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic

AJAX with Adobe Spry

ColdFusion Trivia

Presenter
Pete Freitag

Tuesday November 14th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic

Flex Application Basics

Presenter
Pete Freitag

Tuesday October 10th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic

Regular Expressions in ColdFusion

Presenter
Pete Freitag

Pete will show you that regular expressions are not as hard as they look. If you simply learn the meaning of 12 special characters you can be on your way to writing regular expressions to match or parse out anything.

Tuesday May 9th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic

Introduction to Java

Presenter
Dr. Chan

Dr. Chan will provide an introduction to the Java Programming language, showing you how to compile and run simple java classes.

After Dr. Chan's Presentation, Pete Freitag will show you how to run your java code from inside a ColdFusion application.

Tuesday April 11th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic

Usability Testing

Presenter
Laurie Ferger

Tuesday March 14th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic

Introduction to ColdFusion

Presenter
Pete Freitag

Tuesday Feb 14th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic: Form Accessibility and Usability by Pete Freitag

Presenatation Outline

Tuesday Jan 10th 2006 @ 12:30

Topic: Flash Forms in ColdFusion by John Benson

Slides
Source Code

Tuesday Dec 13th 2005 @ 12:30

Topic: AJAX by Pete Freitag

Outline
Example Source Code

Tuesday Nov 8th 2005 @ Noon

Topic: FLEX 2 Pete Freitag

Example Source Code


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