Monthly Archives: July 2011

Charlie Arehart at RIAcon: CF911 ColdFusion Performance Report 2011

Date: July 31, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion, Seminars, Training
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I’ll be presenting at RIAcon next weekend: “CF911 ColdFusion Performance Report 2011″

URL: http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2011/7/30/speaking_at_riacon
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be presenting at next week’s RIAconconference in the DC area, August 6-7 2011.

My session will be “CF911 ColdFusion Performance Report 2011“, a new talk/concept I’ve created. Here’s the description:

Starting a new tradition, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will present a review of the performance aspects of making various choices when working with ColdFusion, especially in recent version(s) of ColdFusion. Leveraging the important value of real load testing (as opposed to the less accurate conclusions from “large loop” testing), Charlie’s annual report will help attendees appreciate the performance-related improvements of new/changed features, as well some older features where choices can make an important impact. Depending on the timing of the release of “CF next”, the session may cover its new features, but it will certainly cover some things new in CF 9 and 9.0.1.

As I note there, I hope this may become an annual event which I might present at this and/or other conferences. (It’s an idea rooted in a similar presentation made by a former colleague, from my first IT career from 1982-1997, where he presented the annual “Jim Damon model 204 Performance Report”.)

About RIACon

As for RIAcon, I hope you’re considering it. Phil Nacelli and the folks at AboutWeb have been working hard to put together the conference, which in some minds is kind of picking up where CFUnited left off. It will be a more intimate event, much like CFunited was when it first started.

Indeed, some will recognize that the location for RIAcon is across the street from one of the hotels where CFunited was held in its early years, right next to the Twinbrook Metro station in Rockville, MD.

A Personal Connection to the Hotel Location

Even more of a delight for me personally is that the hotel (The Legacy Hotel) is right on the land that was once the location of Congressional Roller Skating Rink (until the late 70′s), where my sister and I (and many friends) spent our teen years pretty much whenever we weren’t in school. Yep, I was a skating nerd: dance, figures, freestyle, and more. Here’s incriminating evidence!

ColdBox Connection: Introduction to ColdBox

Date: July 20, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: CFML Frameworks, ColdBox, ColdFusion, Railo, Seminars, Training
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Ben Laube

Ben Laube

This week’s ColdBox Connection will be our first hosted by a ColdBox Community Member! The ColdBox Team is stepping back give Ben Laube an opportunity to help remind us of the basics as he presents “Introduction to ColdBox”.

If you have been thinking about getting started with ColdBox and wanted to know the easiest way to get started this presentation is for you. Ben will start without any CFML engine installed and take us from Installation to Application in about twenty minutes. This presentation will focus on getting started with ColdBox 3.0 and Railo Express Edition.

Join us Thursday July 21 at 10AM PDT / 1PM EDT to learn how to get started with ColdBox. Connection information can be found here: http://www.coldbox.org/media/connection

By Aaron Greenlee

Source: http://blog.coldbox.org/post.cfm/coldbox-connection-introduction-to-coldbox

 

ColdFusion MeetUp: Replace Your Iron with a Cloud, with Barney Boisvert

Date: July 16, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: MeetUp, Seminars, Training
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

What: “Replace Your Iron with a Cloud”, with Barney Boisvert

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 4 will be “Replace Your Iron with a Cloud”, with Barney Boisvert.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

At Mentor Graphics we’ve just completed the process of moving a number of applications, including www.mentor.com, from dedicated hardware resources to Amazon Web Services.  Best of all, there was almost zero modification to the codebases we migrated.

In addition to the code aspect, I’ll discuss how the non-code bits (load balancing, database clustering, backups, monitoring, etc.) convert as well, since those are all still required regardless of whether you have physical hardware or the cloud under your code.

Finally, I’ll delve into how you can start to really leverage the cloud nature from your application after you’ve migrated off the hardware.  Most of us don’t have the luxury of starting from scratch in the cloud, but once you’ve migrated, it’s not difficult to tweak your applications to really leverage that new found flexibility.

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ColdFusion MeetUp: Discover jQuery using the jQuery Matrix, with Phillip Senn

Date: July 16, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion, jQuery, Seminars, Training
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

What: Discover jQuery using the jQuery Matrix, with Phillip Senn

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 4 will be “Discover jQuery using the jQuery Matrix”, with Phillip Senn.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

Are you new to jQuery, or still learning the syntax? If so, Phillip Senn has created the jQuery matrix. In it, he lists every command, along with a corresponding example. In this session, Phillip will offer a tour of the matrix and show its purpose and value.

A challenge with learning jQuery is that you really need to know JavaScript first: but then a challenge in learning JavaScript is that it’s not clear what aspects are replaced by jQuery. The  matrix categorizes every jQuery property and method, and assigns a priority to each: Introductory, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and “Do not use”. Phillip will explain these, and this interactive way to explore the library. We’ll start with a quick tour of the related HTML matrix, and then bridge into how to develop with JavaScript and jQuery.

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ColdFusion MeetUp: Why Git? Why Change?, with Matthew McCullough

Date: July 7, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion, MeetUp, Seminars, Training
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

What: “Why Git? Why Change?”, with Matthew McCullough

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 21 will be “Why Git? Why Change?”, with Matthew McCullough.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

A new wave of version control systems is sweeping the development community. They are grouped under the heading of *distributed version control systems* or DVCSs for short. The three prominent DVCS names are Bazaar, Mercurial and Git. But which one should you choose? I’ll show you specifically what Git has to offer above and beyond its cousins in this 50 minute session. Your appetite for Git will be thoroughly whet through examples of how to think in terms of the very expanded capabilities that Git provides. This session will be filled with live demonstrations and thoughtful diagrams to make Git make sense. You’ll walk away inspired to use Git for both your current and upcoming projects.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour

RECORDING: All meetings are recorded. The URL will be posted after meeting at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a U.S. consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O’Reilly, speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, co-leader of Gradleware training, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Gradle, Maven, Leiningen), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado, USA with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.

WHEN: Thurs. July 21, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

What time is that for you? The following link shows [ what the time would be for you]. Here’s [ another option ] that shows the time as US ET, and lets you choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone.

DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:

In addition to the streaming recording posted immediately after the meeting, we now also post downloadable recordings (FLV, MP3, MP4, and WMV) usually within a few days after the meeting, also offered as a link from the recordings page.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE “LOGIN AS GUEST” option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it’s not mandatory and it’s not a commitment. But there’s no need to RSVP if you can’t make it let alone explain why you can’t. With over 2,600 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? After logging in here, you’ll see an option at the top of the event page, just below the event title,  saying, “Add to my calendar”, which offers calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars. (Note that the calendar entry created will show the event taking 2 hours. That’s a default that meetup.com has chosen, which I can’t change. The meetings are generally about an hour, though often go as much as 30-45 minutes longer with Q&A and chat.)

Syntactically Awesome Style SheetsJosh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications, both independently and for third parties.  He is the co-creator and voice of Screencasts.org, which provides free educational screencasts on web technologies.  A designer and programmer, Josh has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a software technician/engineer, where he contributed to the development of Serial ATA. He has contributed to several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including main title design and web design.

Check it out!

ColdFusion MeetUp: Online CFMeetup 200th Episode, Special Event

Date: July 7, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion, MeetUp, Seminars, Training
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

What: Online CFMeetup 200th Episode, Special Event

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 21 will be a special event, the 200th Episode of the Online CFMeetup.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

Join your host Charlie Arehart and fellow members of the Online CFMeetup as we celebrate the 200th episode. There will be no presentation, but instead Charlie will:

  • review what’s happened over the past 4 years (honoring various speakers for various achievements, and noting other highlights)
  • review some of what goes on behind the scenes for each meeting
  • identify some changes coming for the group
  • offer the semi-annual giveaway to a randomly chosen attendee
  • and perhaps have some other special topics

Here’s to another 200 episodes!

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour

RECORDING: All meetings are recorded. The URL will be posted after meeting at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Charlie Arehart, a veteran CF troubleshooter and Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion, has run the Online ColdFusion Meetup since April 2007.

WHEN: Thurs. July 21, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

What time is that for you? The following link shows [ what the time would be for you ]. Here’s [ another option ] that shows the time as US ET, and lets you choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone.

DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:

In addition to the streaming recording posted immediately after the meeting, we now also post downloadable recordings (FLV, MP3, MP4, and WMV) usually within a few days after the meeting, also offered as a link from the recordings page.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE “LOGIN AS GUEST” option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it’s not mandatory and it’s not a commitment. But there’s no need to RSVP if you can’t make it let alone explain why you can’t. With over 2,600 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? After logging in here, you’ll see an option at the top of the event page, just below the event title,  saying, “Add to my calendar”, which offers calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars. (Note that the calendar entry created will show the event taking 2 hours. That’s a default that meetup.com has chosen, which I can’t change. The meetings are generally about an hour, though often go as much as 30-45 minutes longer with Q&A and chat.)

Syntactically Awesome Style SheetsJosh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications, both independently and for third parties.  He is the co-creator and voice of Screencasts.org, which provides free educational screencasts on web technologies.  A designer and programmer, Josh has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a software technician/engineer, where he contributed to the development of Serial ATA. He has contributed to several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including main title design and web design.

Check it out!


ColdFusion MeetUp: Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets), with Josh Timonen

Date: July 6, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion, MeetUp, Seminars, Training
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

What: “Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)”, with Josh Timonen

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 14 will be “Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)”, with Josh Timonen.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

Sass has been growing in popularity since Hampton Catlin first introduced it in 2005.  Sass, which stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, helps you write less-verbose code with better organization.

Originally a Ruby technology, Sass can help organize and streamline any web application’s styling that uses CSS, including ColdFusion projects.  You’ll see what Sass has to offer, how to set it up, and how to write it.

Come see what Sass, and it’s new variation SCSS, can do for your styling workflow.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour

RECORDING: All meetings are recorded. The URL will be posted after meeting at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Josh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications, both independently and for third parties.  He is the co-creator and voice of Screencasts.org, which provides free educational screencasts on web technologies.  A designer and programmer, Josh has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a software technician/engineer, where he contributed to the development of Serial ATA. He has contributed to several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including main title design and web design.

WHEN: Thurs. July 14, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

What time is that for you? The following link shows [ what the time would be for you ]. Here’s [ another option ] that shows the time as US ET, and lets you choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone.

DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:

In addition to the streaming recording posted immediately after the meeting, we now also post downloadable recordings (FLV, MP3, MP4, and WMV) usually within a few days after the meeting, also offered as a link from the recordings page.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE “LOGIN AS GUEST” option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it’s not mandatory and it’s not a commitment. But there’sno need to RSVP if you can’t make it let alone explain why you can’t. With over 2,600 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? After logging in here, you’ll see an option at the top of the event page, just below the event title,  saying, “Add to my calendar”, which offers calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars. (Note that the calendar entry created will show the event taking 2 hours. That’s a default that meetup.com has chosen, which I can’t change. The meetings are generally about an hour, though often go as much as 30-45 minutes longer with Q&A and chat.)

Syntactically Awesome Style SheetsJosh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications, both independently and for third parties.  He is the co-creator and voice of Screencasts.org, which provides free educational screencasts on web technologies.  A designer and programmer, Josh has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a software technician/engineer, where he contributed to the development of Serial ATA. He has contributed to several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including main title design and web design.

Check it out!