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Speaker/Topics List

Below you will find brief summaries of each presentation. Click the presentation title or presenter's name to get more details. We will continue to update this list as we finalize these sessions.

Josh Adams

Hands on Intro to ColdFusion - (HANDS ON) Join this hands-on session to tap into the power of ColdFusion, building on top of your existing HTML/CSS skills to take your websites to the next level. Still the easiest programming language to learn, the tag-based CFML in ColdFusion is the perfect complement to HTML. You'll learn how to dynamically create pages from a database and build Ajax-powered interfaces with the built-in UI controls in ColdFusion.

Charlie Arehart

Hidden Gems in CF Builder - In this session, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will share dozens of tips and tricks (and a couple traps) for working with Adobe's new ColdFusion Builder IDE

Scott Boggs

Tour Bus Through Flatland: Visual Design Principles for Websites and Systems - Computer screens are flat. When building interfaces we create illusions of navigable spaces. Design principles can help us to best "guide" users through flatland. This presentation explains principles of effective visual design and how they can be used in websites and applications.

David Brown

ColdFusion & SharePoint: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together! - As SharePoint quickly becomes the ubiquitous corporate online team collaboration and document management tool, ColdFusion developers find themselves needing to work in a SharePoint enviornment and are often asked to integrate legacy ColdFusion apps into a SharePoint portal. With the latest version ColdFusion, Adobe has moved forward with tools to help a ColdFusion Developer work on that challenge.

Mike Brunt

10 Steps To A High Performing ColdFusion Application, Clustering ColdFusion - 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.

Sean Corfield

ColdFusion and the Open Source Landscape - Once upon a time, if you wanted to develop applications in ColdFusion, you had to pay for any third party tools you needed - and you rarely got the source code. Things have changed!

Paul Cormier

Building RIAs using ExtJS 3.0 and ColdFusion - In this session, you will learn the basics of the Ext JS v3.0 framework for building Rich Internet Applications. This will include a quick review of the available UI widgets and a basic Ext app implementation.

Jason Dean

Intro to Securing CFML Applications - This presentation will be an introduction to application security and an introduction to securing CFML applications. We will look at what it means for an application to be "Secure", we'll discuss several general principles of application security, and we'll look at some of the basic threats against our applications and countermeasures to mitigate the risk of those threats.

Sam Farmer

One Liners in ColdFusion - ColdFusion is all about making the hard things easy. This topic will explore this concept by showing examples of what can be done with one line of ColdFusion to produce compelling results in AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, Converting Files, PDF and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).

Simon Free

Working with CFAAS and Flex - With ColdFusion 9’s introduction of ColdFusion As A Service (CFAAS) you can now access a number of ColdFusions features from Flex, allowing you to send email, generate charts and even generate PDF’s, all without writing a single line of ColdFusion code.

An Introduction to ColdFusion Builder - In this session we will take a look at all the different features available to developers from setting up projects, setting up servers, creating snippets to creating and using custom extensions. By the end of the session you will have a decent understanding of the different features available to you and how to use them.

Shannon Hicks

Search using Apache Solr - Solr is now included with ColdFusion 9, but are you using it to it's full potential? Explore using Solr directly, instead of using CF9's built-in search tags & functions.

Doug Hughes

Using Ant to Deploy ColdFusion Applications - Ant is a fantastic tool for deploying applications. It's widely used in the Java world, but is under utilized by ColdFusion developers. What can it do? Pretty much all the tedious steps you currently do when manually deploying applications! In this presentation I'll give an overview of Ant's capabilities and limitations. I'll also demonstrate CFAnt, an open source and extensible suite of Ant tasks that implement all of the features of the ColdFusion admin API!

Brian Kotek

Object-Oriented Design Principles - Object-oriented programming is quickly becoming a hot topic among ColdFusion developers. Unfortunately, OO can be hard to wrap one's head around, and confusion is rampant. Join Brian Kotek as he explorers OO modeling and design.

Swiz - In this session, Brian Kotek will discuss Swiz, a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods and a true MVC architecture. Swiz represents best practices learned from the top RIA developers at some of the best consulting firms in the industry, enabling Swiz to be simple, lightweight, and extremely productive.

Michael Labriola

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.

Adam Lehman

Adobe Sessions

Andy Matthews

jQuery & AIR: Desktop Development for the Front End Designer - This session will help developers who have skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript leverage those abilities to build robust desktop applications using the jQuery JavaScript library and the Adobe AIR framework.

Design to Deployment - Building a BlogCFC Monitor in jQuery & AIR -  During this session you'll learn how to design, develop, and deploy a Blog CFC monitor in 50 minutes. We'll design the interface in Fireworks, export the HTML, CSS, and images into ColdFusion Builder, write up a CFC to power the app, and wire in some interface functionality using jQuery.

Adrian Pomilio

Flex and Javascript - This presentation will walk the audience through the basic ways of leveraging Javascript through Actionscript and the Flex Framework.

CSS in the DOM, CSS in my Flash - This presentation covers the basics of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and how it is used in xhtml applications as well as Flex based applications.

Andy Powell

Intro to Flex - (HANDS ON) This session will be a four hour hands-on session aimed at giving developers an introduction to FlexBuilder and building an application with the Flex SDK.

Joe Rinehart

CF Inspirational Session

Rick Root

Using Java in Coldfusion Applications - Coldfusion is a java application, running on a J2EE platform, and developers can take advantage of this by extending their applications with core java functionality and third-party java classes. The purpose of this session will be to show how this is done, and to provide some examples for the Coldfusion newbie. Previous experience with Java is not required.

Todd Sharp

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.

Bob Silverberg

CF9 ORM - Part 1 and 2 - We've all heard the buzz about CF9 ORM integration, but exactly what is it, and how can I use it? This session will demystify the idea of ORM by introducing the concepts that you need to know to get started using it right away.

Dan Skaggs

Intro to ColdSpring: A Solution to a Problem You May Not Know You Have - Learn how to use the ColdSpring framework to take away some of the pain of developing CFC-intensive ColdFusion applications.

Bilal Soylu

Advanced Debugging Techniques: From simple output, to step-by-step debugging and everything in between.

Shane Trahan

Using CF Services to Manage Large File Transfers - This topic showcases how to integrate .NET and CF based webservices into a complete application and also presents a methodology for managing the transfer of large audio files that have been recorded on laptops in the field.

Yancy Wharton

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.

Jim Wright

Excel and CF, Options and Techniques - This presentation will take us through the various methods of interacting with Excel spreadsheets through ColdFusion. Using the example of importing a large, multi-sheet data collection spreadsheet, we will look at the various methods for getting the data into the system and explore the advantages and limitations of each method.