1/23 CFUN-04 Report Michael Smith TeraTech, Inc x110 Copyright TeraTech 2004

2/23 Speaker Information Who am I? Michael Smith President of TeraTech, Inc Rockville MD ttWebReportServer, CFXGraphicserver MDCFUG, CFUN-04, Fusebox Conf Articles in CFDJ, Fusion Authority Winner CFDJ award Best Consulting

3/23 Programming Experience 25 years programming 8 years with ColdFusion 5 years with Fusebox Also work with SQL, JavaScript, HTML, VB, Oracle, Access Teach one-on-one and custom classes On site and custom development Fusebox and Process Methodology

4/23 CFUN overview 575 attendees 46 sessions including BOFs 37 speakers 5 tracks

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6/23 What Ben had to say “…what I saw was incredible, and the buzz was phenomenal. CFUN has become the premier CF specific event, and Michael Smith and his team deserve all sorts of praise for their hard work in pulling it all off yet again.” - Ben Forta

7/23 MMUG manager meeting Learning how to run a better group How to find good speakers How to get more members What is new at Macromedia

8/23 Great speakers

9/23 Five Tracks Mix and match talks from each track Advanced Topics MX Integration Empowered Programming Accessibility CF_Bootcamp

10/23 Saturday 8:30am Key note Steve Shapiro “SpeedInnovating™: Breakthrough Solutions at Breakneck Speed “

11/23 Saturday 9:30am Welcome To CF - Simon Horwith Deploying CFML on J2EE:Opportunities and Challenges - Charlie Arehart Application Blue Printing - Neil Ross Utilizing Web Services - Matt Liotta

12/23 Saturday 10:35am Variables & Conditions - Hal Helms CFC Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks - Raymond Camden Managing Project Conflict - Mark Gorkin CF and.NET - Geoff Snowman

13/23 Saturday 11:30am Lunch & BOF Sessions Hosting Problems BOF - HostMySite How to Market Yourself BOF - Joe Coleman Entrepreneur Coaching Clinic BOF - Margarita Rozenfeld Methodologies BOF - Hal Helms et al

14/23 Saturday 1pm Loops - Neil Ross Integrating CF with Microsoft Office - Samuel Neff Managing CF Projects - Shlomy Gantz Leveraging Macromedia Flex and ColdFusion MX - Steve Drucker

15/23 Saturday 2:05pm Database - Charlie Arehart Oh Grow Up! “Kiddie scripter" to "software architect" - Simon Horwith Want to succeed, Here's the one thing you need - Jeff Peters Flash Remoting - Tom Muck

16/23 Saturday 3:10pm What's New in CFML - Matt Liotta XSLT for Data Manipulation - April Fleming How NOT to FB - Lessons from the Trenches - Rey Muradaz Fusebox and Outsourcing - Hal Helms

17/23 Saturday 4:10pm CFDJ panel – Robert Diamond

18/23 Saturday 5:00pm Networking Party

19/23 Sunday 8:25am CF Studio Tips - Jo-Belyea Doerrman CFMX XML Tricks & Traps - Jeff Tapper Become An Accessibility Expert in 50 Minutes - John Hamman Component Dev in Flash MX Chafic Kazoun

20/23 Sunday 9:30am Flash for CFers - Christian Cantrell How to be a Guru Coder - Michael Smith How Disabled People Use the Web - Larry Hull Dreamweaver and the MX Kollection - Bogdan Ripa

21/23 Sunday 10:35 User Defined Functions - Jo Belyea- Doerrman Working with Remote Data - Michael Dinowitz CSS for Better Sites - Sandra Clark Mach II at Macromedia - Sean Corfield

22/23 Sunday 1:00pm Keynote - Ben Forta

23/23 Sunday 2:05pm Security - Matt Liotta Intro to SQL Server 2000 Security - Dave Watts HTML Markup for Better Access - David Epler Fusebox - Jeff Peters

24/23 Sunday 3:10pm CF Admin - Nate Nelson SQL Server Reporting Services - Geoff Snowman Accessible Web Forms – Sandy Clark Java for CF Programmers - Hal Helms

25/23 ColdFusion news CF Updater: o Not required - "if you need it and what to assume the risk of updating your server" o 60+ fixes (most of which are already hotfixes) - bundling hotfixes into one updater Improved database drivers (DataDirect 3.3) - main feature

26/23 Blackstone Code name for CF 7 In alpha Macromedia wants feedback on ideas for Blackstone now before it goes into beta

27/23 Blackstone schedule Blackstone is in alpha testing right now. Public beta testing is scheduled to begin in the fall, starting with a small beta and gradually increasing the participant count. Product release is currently planned for early 2005.

28/23 The Future of CF Millions of new CF pages found on google each year Sales solid More people moving to CFMX 6.1 Macromedia committed to CF

29/23 Blackstone goals Make new users far more successful New features for programmers New features for end users Improve reliability and deployment options

30/23 Data entry CFFORM skins using XFORMs CFFORMGROUP Flash date picker, tree and grid applets <CFTREE FORMAT="flash" <CFINPUT TYPE="datefield" complete Flash forms (a la Flex)

31/23 CFDOCUMENT HTML issues with page breaks etc CFDOCUMENT wraps HTML, CSS, and CFML content to render printable versions headers and footers, multiple page sizes, configurable orientations, the ability to save output to disk <CFDOCUMENT FORMAT="pdf|flashpaper"

32/23 CFREPORT CFREPORT generates reports from CFQUERY and a CFR file ("ColdFusion Report"). (Has report writer) CFR = XML definition of a banded report with database columns, groupings, sums and other calculations, dynamic and static text, images, charts, and more

33/23 Event gateway CFCs create and receive events from Java Listen to non-HTML events File creation JMS (Java messaging services) listening to sockets responding to database changes firing asynchronous CFML processing,

34/23 Deployment Compiled code (no source) Java EAR or WAR including CF runtime Multiple instances easier via CF admin rather than Java admin

35/23 DreamWeaver Extensions New Wizards such as Login Wizard Select directory / application to secure Pick simple security, LDAP, nt authenticate Generates a.cfc for business logic and some.cfm pages for views Makes it very easy for newer users to implement login's to secure certain sections of their website Access CFAdmin functions from within DreamWeaver (common "beginner" things)

36/23 More goodies Programmatic access to ColdFusion Administrator functionality Serialized CFCs (so that you can replicate CFCs in SESSION) Access to CFC code from Java The ability to embed images inside HTML messages

37/23 Even more XML validation (against DTDs or schemas) Improved charting and graphing Pluggable encryption (allowing all ColdFusion encryption/decryption functionality to use 3rd party crypto APIs) Verity enhancements

38/23 Resources ives/ cfm 4_06.html# mode=e&entry=1219

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