CFinNC

Andy Matthews is presenting jQuery & AIR: Desktop Development for the Front End Designer and Design to Deployment - Building a BlogCFC Monitor in jQuery & AIR and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference! 

jQuery & AIR: Desktop Development for the Front End Designer

This session will help developers who have skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript leverage those abilities to build robust desktop applications using the jQuery JavaScript library and the Adobe AIR framework. The session will provide an overview of both the AIR framework, and the jQuery framework and why one might choose this deployment type over the more popular Flex/Flash method. We'll dive straight into a look at jQuery, covering several of the key areas of jQuery, along with some examples of how, and when to use them. Then we'll look at the various ways the AIR  framework allows you to interact with data including SQLite databases, file system interaction (including encryption options), accessing remote data, and more.  Finally we'll review the steps needed to package your AIR app including building in version control, and certificates.

Design to Deployment - Building a BlogCFC Monitor in jQuery & AIR

During this session you'll learn how to design, develop, and deploy a Blog CFC monitor in 50 minutes. We'll design the interface in Fireworks, export the HTML, CSS, and images into ColdFusion Builder, write up a CFC to power the app, and wire in some interface functionality using jQuery. Candidates for viewable metrics in the final app will be total comments, total unapproved comments, average time on site, and total posts. Feel free to suggest additional metrics that you think might be useful, or interesting.

About Andy Matthews

Andy Matthews is currently a Senior Web Developer for Dealerskins, Inc., anenterprise shop focusing on professional websites for the automotive space.  He manages a recipe website called Coop Cookbook; is the author of several open source ColdFusion libraries: PicasaCFC, and ShrinkURL; has published a jQuery based Adobe AIR Application, Shrinkadoo, featured in the AIR Marketplace, and is available to speak at User Groups or Conferences for the RIA crowd. Andy lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, two children, and two dogs.

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at CFinNC.

In this time of bad economic news and slashed training budgets, you and your team can get timely and relevant information on the world of web development. Space is limited, register today!

Josh Adams from Adobe will be at CFinNC teaching ColdFusion!

We've given Josh his own room and he's ready to roll!  If you've never used ColdFusion bring your laptop and we will take you through getting it installed and covering all the basics. You will build your first ColdFusion application using ColdFusion Builder Beta and the recently released ColdFusion 9!

Synopsis

Join this hands-on session to tap into the power of ColdFusion, building on top of your existing HTML/CSS skills to take your websites to the next level. Still the easiest programming language to learn, the tag-based CFML in ColdFusion is the perfect complement to HTML. You'll learn how to dynamically create pages from a database and build Ajax-powered interfaces with the built-in UI controls in ColdFusion.

Prerequisites

None really… …however, it will help if you have at least some knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and/or a programming language

Skill Level

Beginner

Jim Wright is presenting Excel and CF, Options and Techniques and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference! 

Excel and CF, Options and Techniques

This presentation will take us through the various methods of interacting with Excel spreadsheets through ColdFusion.  Using the example of importing a large, multi-sheet data collection spreadsheet, we will look at the various methods for getting the data into the system and explore the advantages and limitations of each method.  On the export side, we will explore various methods with an eye towards flexiblity in formatting and embedding formulas.  This presentation will look at methods that work in CF7/8 as well as investigating the new cfspreadsheet tag that is coming in CF9.

About Jim Wright

Jim Wright has been building systems with ColdFusion and SQL Server for the last 12+ years.  Jim has worked on projects as diverse as clinical trial data collection systems for multi-national research organizations to content management for the used manufacturing machinery industry.  Currently, Jim is managing the development team at Campbell Alliance, the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Jim graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill many years ago with a degree in Biology, and currently lives in Wake Forest, NC with his lovely wife Janice, three homeschooled kids, two dogs, three cats, ten chickens, a few thousand bees and various other creatures.

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at CFinNC.

In this time of bad economic news and slashed training budgets, you and your team can get timely and relevant information on the world of web development. Space is limited, register today!

Rick Root is presenting A Beginners Guide to Java Intergration in Coldfusion and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference! 

A Beginniners Guide to Java Integration in Coldfusion

Coldfusion is a java application, running on a J2EE platform, and developers can take advantage of this by extending their applications with core java functionality and third-party java classes.  The purpose of this session will be to show how this is done, and to provide some examples for the Coldfusion newbie.  Previous experience with Java is not required.

About Rick Root

Rick Root has been developing applications with Coldfusion for 12 years for employers, clients, and the open source community.  In addition to working with Coldfusion, he has also worked heavily with Flex, PHP, AJAX in various forms (most recently jQuery), and a variety of database engines.  His open source contributions include the popular ImageCFC and CFFM.  Rick has been developing enterprise applications for Duke University since 2002, and freelances for a variety of clients, including Classcreator.com.  Rick is also an avid fan of the Carolina Hurricanes.

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at CFinNC.

In this time of bad economic news and slashed training budgets, you and your team can get timely and relevant information on the world of web development. Space is limited, register today!

Doug Hughes is presenting Using Ant to Deploy Coldfusion Applications and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference!

Using Ant to Deploy ColdFusion Applications

Ant is a fantastic tool for deploying applications. It's widely used in the Java world, but is under utilized by ColdFusion developers. What can it do? Pretty much all the tedious steps you currently do when manually deploying applications! In this presentation I'll give an overview of Ant's capabilities and limitations.  I'll also demonstrate CFAnt, an open source and extensible suite of Ant tasks that implement all of the features of the ColdFusion admin API!

About Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes is a veteran programmer who founded Alagad after briefly flirting with a career in computer animation. Doug has a strong record of achievement with large, complex web applications. His ability to learn and apply new technologies and techniques has helped Doug become one of the web application development industry’s most highly regarded experts.

Doug’s current focus at Alagad is leading an application development team dedicated to helping organizations improve operational efficiency and performance. This commitment to client success has helped Alagad achieve record growth. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and user groups, Doug also regularly contributes to several well-known open source projects. In addition, his articles have been featured in numerous technical publications.

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at CFinNC.

In this time of bad economic news and slashed training budgets, you and your team can get timely and relevant information on the world of web development. Space is limited, register today!