August 2008 Meeting
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
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 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
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.
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
Tuesday Jan 10th 2006 @ 12:30
Topic: Flash Forms in ColdFusion by John Benson
Tuesday Dec 13th 2005 @ 12:30
Topic: AJAX by Pete Freitag
Tuesday Nov 8th 2005 @ Noon
Topic: FLEX 2 Pete Freitag
