Speaking at Online ColdFusion Meetup, on August 21, on something

18

Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 08-07-2008 | 2,627 views

I'll be speaking at the Online ColdFusion Meetup on August 21, 12EST. What I'm speaking on is still in the air. I'd love it if folks who are planning on attending could give me some topic suggestions. Anything but ColdFusion 8 and Ajax, which is cool and all, but I've given that presentation about 10 times this year, and don't want to give it again until I have to at MAX.

So - any ideas?

Comments

[Add Comment] [Subscribe to Comments]

Chris said on 08-07-2008 at 7:14 AM #
	I know you are new to Flex, but I would love to see another presentation on Flex, Coldfusion, and Livecycle.

Lola LB said on 08-07-2008 at 7:30 AM #
	Hmm . . . how about CFCs?

Steve Withington said on 08-07-2008 at 7:32 AM #
	Would you be able to share anything you've been working on at Broadchoice?

Dan Vega said on 08-07-2008 at 8:24 AM #
	Well that is my birthday so we could devote an hour to talking about me? HA!

marc esher said on 08-07-2008 at 8:39 AM #
	i'd like to see a step-by-step investigation into a performance or memory problem in a real CF App. Take the problem, use the tools we have available to us (server monitor, java profilers, whatever) and use it as a case study in this kind of problem solving. the presentations i've seen on this topic have been fairly general and have never gone completely from problem to solution.

Brian said on 08-07-2008 at 8:55 AM #
	I second Lola and vote for CFC's. You did a presentation at MAX in 2005 on Application.cfc. How about updating that for CF8? Or maybe focus on remote calls and web services.

Ryan McIlmoyl said on 08-07-2008 at 9:12 AM #
	I know it's not one of your usual topics, but I'd love to see more information about unit testing being put forth to the CF community. I think there's still a lot of developers out there who see it as more work than it's worth.

Raymond Camden said on 08-07-2008 at 10:18 AM #

I'm thinking CFCs or Unit Testing. CFCs would have to be a best practices type one though as my normal CFC preso is 3 hours long or so.

Unit Testing would be nice. It's something I've never presented on, and frankly, I'm new to it. So that adds the extra layer of me being scared to death of royally screwing up, which just adds to your enjoyment. However - I need to check with Charlie as I believe they recently had one... lets see. Bill Shelton did DB pattern for UT. Well, that's not exactly UT 101. I'll chew on this a bit.

David Sammons said on 08-07-2008 at 10:34 AM #
	I agree with the other who have suggested a topic on CFCs. I would specifically like to get more information on kind of a 'best practices' in structuring your applications in regard to CFCs. I've been using the DAO/Gateway/Service model. Is that the best??

Robert Myers said on 08-07-2008 at 11:49 AM #
	Java for Coldfusion developers.

Raymond Camden said on 08-07-2008 at 12:00 PM #
	@Robert: I don't know Java. :) Well I can read it, but I don't "know" it.

Esmeralda said on 08-07-2008 at 12:50 PM #
	I also say CFC's - and perhaps binding using them.

Phillip Senn said on 08-07-2008 at 2:17 PM #
	I wouldn't mind some discussion as to why so many top ColdFusion developers are being hired by Broadchoice. What do they see in the company? Is Broadchoice something that an 'average' developer could sign up for and become a reseller?

Raymond Camden said on 08-07-2008 at 2:22 PM #
	@PSenn - It's the free energy drinks.

shakti said on 08-07-2008 at 4:54 PM #
	another vote for CFCs. mainly about best practices and how to not overuse them, i think i kinda do :) also something about hw far can u take the OOP approach using CFCs would be gr8....

Jared Shields said on 08-07-2008 at 6:40 PM #
	How about... 'usable' or 'useful' uses of Event Gateways... (from a low or high level perspective)

Alan Barlow said on 08-07-2008 at 7:50 PM #

Information relating to scale, server configuration, security, maintenance in regards to delivering SaaS-based applications would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if you want to broaden the brief more then perhaps cover the pro's/con's of individual codebase/database deployment per customer vs. shared codebase/individual database per customer vs. shared codebase/shared database per customer.

Thanks!
Alan Barlow
CTO, ProWorkflow.com

John Barrett said on 08-10-2008 at 12:50 AM #
	I would like to add another vote for cfcs. Especially referring to Application.cfc just a thought,..

[Add Comment] [Subscribe to Comments]