For our April IECFUG meeting we're happy to have Joseph Lamoree here to tell us about Nginx.

Nginx (pronounced "Engine-X") is a high-performance, cross-platform, open source web server that can replace Apache or IIS and works nicely with CFML web applications. I've been using Nginx in production deployments for several years with great results. It has many features that make it an attractive choice as reverse proxy in front of a CFML engine running in a JEE server such as Tomcat. Using HTTP headers, Nginx can communicate important data about the connected user agent to the application. I intend to provide all the information necessary to deploy Nginx successfully, showing demos and real-world examples. The following are the topics I will cover in detail:

• Installing Nginx as a managed service
• Creating public and private paths
• Enforcing SSL
• Virtual hosts and hostname aliasing
• URL rewriting for SES and resource mapping
• Using Sendfile to replace CFCONTENT and free engine threads faster
• High availability web apps using failover
• High performance web apps using load balancing
• Using upstream HTTP headers
• Enhanced logging
• Server monitoring
• Suppressing superfluous response information
• Content compression and caching
• Sending client caching instructions
• Passing geolocation data to an application

There will be free food, drinks, and opportunities to network with other CF developers from the area.  We also have some goodies to give away, so don't miss out!

Details:
April 11th, 2013 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

For its February meeting, the IECFUG is fortunate to host Greg Moser.  He will be telling us about the awesome, open-source, eCommerce platform Slatwall. 

I’ve seen Slatwall in action and it’s very impressive.  So come out and learn about Slatwall, have some fun, eat some pizza, and reconnect with the local CF community.

Details:
February 21st, 2013 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

For our August user group meeting we will be hosting Jeff Coughlin who will be speaking about scheduling services in ColdFusion 10.

Scheduling Services in ColdFusion 10

The scheduling task manager has been given a complete rework in ColdFusion 10.  We'll cover new aspects like conditionals, ranges, triggers, chaining, priority, grouping, and more.  You'll see examples of how the new scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 will make you re-think how you use cron jobs in your applications.

About Jeff Coughlin

Jeff Coughlin is the owner of Versatile Internet Solutions (http://versatileinternet.com), a web application solutions provider. At Versatile Internet Jeff manages and develops applications primarily in the healthcare industry to meet clients' needs using Adobe- based products such as ColdFusion and Flex.

[Update]
Thank you everyone that came out last night for Jeff's wonderful presentation; and a big thank you to Jeff Coughlin for sharing with us.

For anyone interested, you can watch Jeff's presentation here: http://vimeo.com/43959682 and download the related source code here: https://github.com/jeffcoughlin/preso_cf10scheduler

For the month of July the IECFUG will be hosting the illustrious Mark Mandel, who will be talking about closures in ColdFusion.

Getting closure on Closures

It seems like all the cool kids are getting on the Closure bandwagon these days.  ColdFusion is no exception with Closures coming to ColdFusion 10 in the near future, but what is the hype all about?

Are closures really the programming nirvana that we've all been looking for, a well marketed snake oil of fancy programmatic syntax, or something in between?

We'll look at exactly what Closures are, and how the can help you out with your day to day programming tasks, as well as other real world examples that will help show off the power of closures for those more tricky problems.
 

About Mark Mandel

Mark Mandel is a full time consultant and lead developer on several open source projects, most notably ColdSpring, JavaLoader, Transfer ORM and ColdDoc and has been has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com back in the late 90's.

Mark can often be found blogging at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion, Java and various aspects of software development for several years.  He can also be found as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists, causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network and podcasting on www.2ddu.com.

When he's not too busy writing open source software and consulting he enjoys spending his extra time training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.

We’ll be meeting this Thursday, July 19^th, starting at 6:30PM.  As always, there will be free pizza, drinks, and opportunities to connect with fellow members of the CF community.

Details:
July 19th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

[Update]
Thanks for coming everyone - and thanks again to Mark Mandel.  Here are some links related to last night's presentation.

Slides (Getting Closure on Closures) : https://github.com/markmandel/closureonclosures
Sesame library : https://github.com/markmandel/Sesame
Underscore.cfc : http://russplaysguitar.github.com/UnderscoreCF/

For the month of May, the IECFUG will be throwing a launch party to celebrate the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud.  This will take place on May 24^th at Cal Poly Pomona (more details below).  We will have some swag and other goodies to give away for the evening.

Also, James Barcellano has graciously agreed to give a presentation on dynamic stylesheets. If you’ve never worked with dynamic stylesheets before, like LESS, then you’ll be in for a treat.

It’ll be a fun night of learning, networking, and winning free stuff.  And of course, there will be free pizza and drinks for all, so don’t miss out.

Details:
May 24th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

For the month of March, the IECFUG is pleased to announce that we'll have Joseph Lamoree presenting on workflow automation with ColdFusion.

Joseph will demonstration how automation can improve application development, testing, and deployment, and will be focusing on the lifecycle of crafting a CFML application using a workflow that automates and standardizes several aspects:

• Prerequisites, considerations, and problem description

• Creating a CFML app that Ant can build for any environment

• Using Ant to prepare a path with all dependencies (frameworks, libraries, etc.)

• Using Jenkins to trigger builds when a Git branch has new commits

• Setting up Jenkins master/slave nodes on multiple platforms

• Deploying a CFML application to multiple servers/platforms

• Automating MX Unit and Selenium tests and monitoring failures

• Working in a development team using Git branches

So don't miss this free opportunity to learn about automation, enhance your skills, and network with other local developers.

Details:
March 15th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

For our February meeting, I'm please to announce that our own Luis Majano has agreed to speak about his latest endeavor – ContentBox.

ContentBox is a modular platform that is a content management system (CMS), blog, and much more all wrapped into one.  From what I’ve seen ContentBox looks amazing and I can’t wait to see what Luis has to show us.

So don’t miss this opportunity to learn about an awesome product from one of the best in the business.  And, as always, we'll have free pizza and drinks for all attendees and time for networking before the presentation.

Details:
February 9th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

Come join us this Thursday, November 17^th, at the IECFUG for a fantastic presentation by Dave Ferguson on mobile application development with ColdFusion.

"Mobile development is a largely moving target. New devices and device sizes are appearing almost daily. This makes application development for mobile devices difficult. This is where mobile browsers come in to save the day. This session will focus on creating browser-based apps for virtually any mobile device. This session will show you how to create a basic browser-based application. Then, utilizing ColdFusion, we will enhance the features of the application."

We will have prizes to give away along with the usual free food, drinks, and networking. Don’t miss out, it should be a great night full of ColdFusion goodness.

Details:
November 17^th 2011 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

UPDATE 

We will meeting virtually this month instead of meeting on campus like we typically do.  Please join us at 7:00 PM using the following URL for an Adobe Connection session:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r9mp0liuoq5/

- Thanks

This Thursday, September 8th, the IECFUG is proud to host Jim Spoonmore, who will be talking to us about CouchDB.  For those who are unfamiliar with CouchDB, this is a wonderful opportunity to get a free crash course on what it is, and how it can work for your applications.

"Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution.  CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests."

For more information on CouchDB, please check out: http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html

This Thursday, July 14th, Jospeh Lamoree with be talking to us about Jenkins, which is an amazing set of continuous integration services.  If you're doing integration testing for your apps Jenkins is an invaluable tool that helps automate the testing process.

I definitely recommend this session for anyone who's interested in automating their test processes.  Proper testing is a fundamental for creating enterprise level high-grade applications, and Jenkins makes the process quite manageable.

As always, there will also be free food, drinks, and networking for all.  Don't miss out.

Details:
July 14^th 2011 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts