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Todd Sharp is presenting Real Life RIA Powered by the Adobe Stack and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference!

Real Life RIA Powererd by the Adobe Stack

This session will include a short introduction to RIA technologies for newcomers to the Adobe stack. We will take a look at how ColdFusion, Flex and AIR empower developers to easily create engaging Rich Internet Applications.

We'll take a detailed look at how SlideSix.com utilizes these langauages, frameworks and tools to create a multimedia presentation sharing community. This session will include demonstrations on how to convert a presentation file to a browser based SWF using Adobe ColdFusion and Java, creating a powerful management console that allows users to record audio/video narration directly within their browser using Adobe Flex and extending the user experience to the desktop with Adobe AIR.

About Todd Sharp

Todd Sharp is the creator of SlideSix, a multimedia enabled presentation sharing community that has been featured on popular technical blogs such as TechCrunch, Mashable. SlideSix features an all-in-one management console powered by Adobe Flex where users upload and enhance presentations with recorded audio or video and external media.

Todd has been developing rich web applications since 2004. He uses Adobe ColdFusion as his primary server side language and flirts with various client side technologies and frameworks like Ajax and Flex depending on the needs of the project. Todd blogs regularly about the adventures of being a self-funded single developer startup, shares helpful developing tips and otherwise rambles about cool technology at his site http://cfsilence.com.

Todd provides development and consulting services through his company Sharp Interactive, LLC. You can contact Todd via email at todd@cfsilence.com and hear his ramblings on Twitter by following cfsilence and slidesix.

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!

Michael Labriola is presenting Next Generation Testing and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference!

Next Generation Testing

Next Generation Testing is intended for Flex Developers with at least basic language experience. The session will teach you to use the new features of the FlexUnit 4 framework today with your existing projects and demonstrate the integration with Flash Builder 4.

About Michael Labriola

Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Expert, Flex Developer Champion, and co-author of the both the Flex 2 & 3 Training from the Source books and Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR. Michael is an international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for three of the world's ten most recognized brands.

As a consultant, he mentors software development teams using emerging technologies and architects enterprise applications with high business impact. His free time is spent escaping from technology through wine and food.

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!

The third most popular question about CFinNC is "What is the difference between Meat Option 1 and Meat Option 2".

(2nd most popular is: "Is it really free?", Most popular is: "Do you have a schedule ready?")

Well it gives is great pleasure to announce the lunch options, provided by the fine folks at Roly Poly:

Day 1:

1. Ham and American cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard and mayo (Meat Option 1)
2. Sliced chicked and Cheddar, lettuce, tomatoes, mayo (no mustard) (Meat Option 2)
3. Monster Veggie

Day 2:

1. Roast Beef and Provolone, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard and mayo (Meat Option 1)
2. Turkey and Swiss, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard and mayo (Meat Option 2)
3. Monster Veggie

Of course, we'll be paying no attention to your choices on the registration survey and you can choose whichever you like on game day. We'll take your $10 (exact change preferred) and make sure you get your meal on time!

What is really funny is, 15% of the registrants chose Meat Option 2, over Meat Option 1. Perhaps these folks are part of the Men Who State At Goats group. It would be an interesting psychological exercise to try to find out the basis for the choices.

Yancy Wharton is presenting Creating a ColdFusion 9 Virtual Development Environment (VDE) and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference!

Creating a ColdFusion 9 Virtual Development Environment (VDE)

Think about it, Would a doctor perform surgery in the men's restroom at New York's Grand Central Station?   No. So, why should you, a software developer, perform your work in the midst of the infected chaos of your physical machine's operating system, wielding your IDE upon source files which lay along side MP3 music files and a trial installation of the latest first-person shooting game?

Instead, create your own, sanitary, Virtual Development Environment.

About Yancy Wharton

• Owner and Sr. Programmer of ZoobieSoft.
• Worked for Fortune 500 companies like Comcast and Perdue Farms.
• Currently doing work for USMC, Joint Staff, DIA and a bunch of other three and four letter goverment agencies.
• Coding in ColdFusion for 11+ years, and using other languages like .NET and AS3.
• Manager of Eastern Shore of Maryland Users Group.

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!

Mike Brunt is presenting 10 Steps To A High Performing Fusion Application, Clustering ColdFusion and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference!

10 Steps To A High Performing ColdFusion Application, Clustering ColdFusion

If ColdFusion applications were effectively load tested before being put into production, almost all if not literally all subsequent problems could be avoided.  Yet, in my experience less than 3% of CF applications do get effectively load tested, of course this does not only apply to ColdFusion but all other web/application paradigms. What I have found is that many organizations perceive load-testing to either be very expensive to do, mainly due to the high cost of such tools as LoadRunner or SilkPerformer and that creating load test scripts is overly complex and very time consuming.  With the appropriate tools neither is true.

What I will be demonstrating is the creation of a load test and the running of that load test against a real application.  The location of a problem and the mitigation of that problem and the resulting benefit.  Attendees to my session will hopefully go away with the perception that load-testing is effective and easy to configure and that the benefits of load-testing are huge.

About Mike Brunt

Mike Brunt has been coding web applications since 1993 and began using ColdFusion at version 1.54 in 1995-6.  He designed and created the first on-line international industrial equipment mart in 1997 (Power Bank International) at the request of a Cummins Engine Company subsidiary.  In 1998 he worked with Kodak and Lucent Technologies to create a pioneering web based TeleRadiology cross-consult portal when Radiologists and Primary Care Physicians could review patient medical images.  Allaire recruited Mike in 1999 to join a ColdFusion-JRun consulting team.  This team was dispatched world-wide to help Allaire then Macromedia clients design and troubleshoot ColdFusion applications.  In 2001 Mike co-founded – Webapper Services LLC.  He now works independently, helping ColdFusion users worldwide to create strategies which ensure Enterprise level Adobe Server applications can be scaled effectively and efficiently.

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!