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Ever wondered what Pair Programming is like? Ever been interested in how Test Driven Development really works? In this special connect session, Ben Nadel (http://www.bennadel.com) and Peter Bell (http://www.pbell.com) will be pair programming using a Test Driven Development process - live from NYC and without a safety net! :-> They'll start with a simple set of requirements for an object and using MX Unit will use a Test Driven Development approach to come up with a working design. The approach/naming will be strongly influenced by Behavior Driven Design - one of the most interesting recent developments in developer testing. The session will start with a five minute introduction to the ideas behind pairing, TDD and BDD and the rest of the time will be a spontaneous pairing session to give a sense of how pairing and TDD really work in practice.

From the 2008 Adobe Developer Week

During this session you will learn how to code responders to Instant Messaging and SMS clients using ColdFusion 8.

During this session we will explore the many tools at your disposal to interactively display data. Topics include DHTML, Native CF Graphing Techniques, Google Maps, Google API charting, ChartFX and xCelsius.

With all the fantastic new features in ColdFusion 8 you could be forgiven for overlooking the CFInterface tag. But with the introduction of CFInterface Adobe has given us a fundamental concept of most object oriented programming languages that has been missing since the introduction of components in CFMX, a concept used to great effect in many key design patterns and extensible software frameworks like Eclipse. In this presentation Robin explains what an interface is, how they're used in software design and how to use CFInterface to bring them to your ColdFusion applications. It's a lot simpler and cooler than you might think.

Are you using the RDS-enabled features in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, or HomeSite+? If not, you could be missing out on a lot of increased productivity, from the query building tools it enables, to the component browsing tools, to enabling file access across the web, and more. Perhaps it's been disabled on your server, or people may argue that it's insecure. If you could be shown how it could be secured, might you (or your admin) reconsider it? I think it's a tragedy how many developers suffer without leveraging RDS, certainly on their own machines, and even on shared servers. Whether you think RDS evil or a blessing, or are unaware of what it enables in your favorite CFML editor, and whether you use CF 8 or earlier, there may be more to RDS than you realize. And there are solutions to security concerns, especially in CF8 but even beforehand. In this talk, frequent CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will show you all the ways that RDS can be used to make you more productive in Eclipse, Dreamweaver, or HomeSite+. He'll also address (and in some cases resolve) common security concerns, especially the multi-user RDS security available in CF 8 (and CF 4 and 5), as well as how to enable it if it's been disabled (assuming you have the right to make configuration changes, of course).

KCDevCore - An Adobe RIA User Group in Kansas City presents Ray Camden for the first time on Open Source and RIAForge. It is time for more CFers to start contributing to Open Source, for the benefit of the Community and the product. Ray provides us a road map for getting started, the information you seek on a topic few CFers know anything about. All that’s left after this recording is your will-power to get started contributing. Enjoy.

A code centric walkthrough of using Transfer basic features, to get you up and running

This event was a simulcast of the CF Meetup with the Cleveland CFUG, who offered a preview of 3 of many sessions from the cf.objective() conference coming up in May. The speakers were Ray Camden, Todd Sharp, and Brian Meloche, each offering a preview of their presentations (about 30 minutes), to give you some insight into what the conference has to offer. The topics were: Introduction to Model-Glue: Raymond Camden Integrating ColdFusion 8 AJAX with Model-Glue Applications: Todd Sharp ColdFusion as a Different Type of "Glue": Brian Meloche You can find more details at the meetup page for the event: http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/7791147/

Transfer's main focus is to generate and manage the CFCs that represent the data in your application, and it provides a slew of capabilities that work with this aspect and provide you with some very powerful functionality. This talk will cover some of Transfer's 'extra' functionality above and beyond the basic Object Relational Mapping aspects, including: Caching: Transfer has a caching layer that is intergrated with it that can provide significant performance gains. How and why to configure it's different options, and how to use the various cache related methods will be covered. Observable Events: Transfer provides a variety of Events that it fires when certain operations are performed. By utilising these events, other CFCs in a system can be notified of changes, TransferObjects can be manipulated, and so much more. Decorators: If extending the functionality of generic TransferObjects is needed, Decorators are the answer, but there are all sorts of interesting ways to use them. Transfer Query Language: An easier way to write an application's Gateway SQL by leveraging the already built object configuration. Doing a SQL statement that joins three tables with one statement and six keywords? Yes Please! Extending the previous presentation's Calendar application will also be used to demonstrate some of these capabilities.