Category: Meetings

August Meeting: Railo US Tour

Railo Technologies will be visiting us for our August 1st meeting. They will be showcasing their CFML engine plus their big plans on joining JBOSS.org.  If you are close to Pomona, please drop by, this will surely be an incredible night. We will also head out for dinner and drinks after the presentation, so please come in around 7PM sharp.

Railo (www.railo-technologies.com) is a CFML engine that runs on a wide variety of Java servlet engines, and provides a cost-effective, high performance alternative to using Adobe's ColdFusion engine. As you may have heard, at the Scotch on the Rocks ColdFusion conference in Scotland in June, Railo announced that they are partnering with JBoss to convert their software to a completely free, open-source offering.

Ben Forta (Adobe) had some very nice things to say about it on his blog recently: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/8/An-Open-Message-To-Gert-Franz-and-Railo.

Gert Franz, CEO of Railo and member of the recently founded CFML advisory committee, will be visiting to present an overview of Railo, and what the advantages of using Railo are for CFML developers. He’ll also be talking about the upcoming open-source conversion of Railo, and what that means for the community and the developers. Of course, Gert will have some free versions of the Railo software to hand out, and some other goodies as well.

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Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998, somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system architect, engineer and DBA where one of his favorite web projects was for instance www.zinodavidoff.com. He's addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). Gert is a father of three and boyfriend of one. He studied Physics in Munich some (many :-)) years ago

CFUG Meeting this Friday: Brian Kotek + Connect URL

Brian Kotek will join in via Connect to talk about a range of ideas and tools. Starting with unit testing with MXUnit and ColdMock, moving through some of his other RIAForge projects like Form Utilities and ColdSpring Utilities, and ending with a general discussion on OOP and ColdSpring if anyone in the audience would like to bounce ideas or concepts around.

This will be more of an open discussion and a walkthrough of using some useful tools.  

The url for this meeting is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r58475944/ So please connect at 7pm Pacific Time.

July 11th Meeting - Brian Kotek

We will have the privilege of having Brian Kotek present to us at our CFUG July 11th via Connect.  He will be presenting on OO techniques, his mock framework, coldspring, code generation and more. So please bring in your thinking caps and lots of fluids. Brian is an incredible software engineer and we will need the extra neurons to capture all of his presentation. So get ready, next friday 11th at 7:00 pm at Cal Poly Pomona. Brian will be sending a primer containing more in depth of what his talk will be and it will be posted here. We will also be releasing the Connect URL by Monday of next week.

So please mark your calendars for next July 11th.

ColdBricks Presentation This Friday + Connect URL

Oscar Arevalo will be presenting on ColdBricks CMS this friday at 7PM Pacific Standard Time.  The connect url for the presentation is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r81631736/

You are more than welcomed to attend virtually and if you are in the area, please stop by.

ColdBricks Primer

ColdBricks is a new open source content management system for the ColdFusion platform. ColdBricks specializes in creating sites that are highly modular in nature such as portals and dashboards. The underlying architecture of the sites created and managed with ColdBricks is the HomePortals framework.

In this session we will provide an overview of ColdBricks and HomePortals, see how they relate to each other and what role each one has. The focus will be in providing a general view of what can be done with ColdBricks, what features it offers for content management, site management and site creation. We will also look at the "SiteTemplating" feature, which is an extensible mechanism to create sites based on "blueprints" or templates.

Depending on time availability we will go through the process of building a sample website from the ground up using only ColdBricks