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Two Important Deadlines for ColdFusion Developers

Posted At : February 12, 2010 2:06 PM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: cfObjective,CFUnited

Update: The early-bird rate for the pre-conference training sessions, has been extended, as has the deadline for CFUnited voting!

Just wanted to post a quick reminder to folks of the following dates:

cf.Objective() Pre-Conference Early-Bird Extended!

The discounted early-bird rate for the cf.Objective() conference fee has expired, but the discounts on most of the pre-conference training sessions, has been extended. You can still save $200 off of Mark Mandel and my two-day hands-on workshop, Developing Applications with ColdFusion 9 Object Relational Mapping if you register soon. So what are you waiting for? Registration is done via the cf.Objective() web site.

And if ORM isn't your thing, there are a whole bunch of workshops from which to choose, most of which are offering discounts:

  • Building Secure CFML Applications (April 21) - Jason Dean and Pete Freitag
  • Coldbox:100 Training (April 21) - Luis Majano
  • Developing Applications with ColdFusion 9 Object Relational Mapping (ORM) (April 20-21) - Bob Silverberg and Mark Mandel
  • Getting Started with Flex and AIR Development with the Flex SDK (April 21) - John Mason
  • Mach-II and OOP from the Ground Up (April 20-21) - Kurt Weirsma, Peter Farrell and Matt Woodward
  • Rapid Development with Model-Glue 3 (April 20-21) - Dan Wilson and Ezra Parker

Voting for CFUnited Ends February 20th

The folks at CFUnited have given the ColdFusion community the opportunity to help choose which sessions will be included by voting on them. Unfortunately the window of opportunity is very small, with the vote closing on February 20th. So get out there and vote, and while you're there please consider voting for Marc Esher's sessions. He's an awesome speaker and no slouch in the brain department, and his proposed End-to-End Testing Roundtable will be a session not to miss.

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Join me at CFUnited and Get a Discount, Now

Posted At : January 5, 2010 11:04 AM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: ColdFusion,CFUnited,ValidateThis,Presentations

I'm delighted to announce (quite late, I might add) that one of my topics has been chosen to be presented at CFUnited 2010 in July. I'll be speaking on Automagic Validations for ColdFusion Objects, which I summarized to the committee as:

Are you confused about where to put the validation logic in your object oriented application? Are you tired of writing one set of validations for the server side and another set for the client side? Are you looking for a way to encapsulate your validation logic, so your business objects do not have to change each time your validation rules change? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then this is the session for you. In this session you will learn about an open source project that delivers all of the above, and is easy to integrate into any project. You define your business rules in a simple XML file and the framework will automagically perform all of your server side validations and generate all of your client side validations. What's more, the framework is flexible and extensible enough to allow you to define an unlimited number of custom validation types and messages, all without touching any of the framework's or your own code. You'll leave the session with an understanding of what the framework can do for you, as well as how to implement it into a new or existing application. This framework is meant to be used in an application that makes use of objects. This would include ones that use Transfer, Reactor, hand-coded beans/DAOs, and, of course, ColdFusion 9's ORM.

If you're thinking about attending, you might want to register this week, as the Early Bird pricing ends this Friday.

I look forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at the conference, and hope to meet some new folks as well. Perhaps I'll see you there?

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