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February Monthly Meeting: The Facade and Adapter Patterns - HFDP Chapter 7 Adam Presley
Speakers: Adam Presley, Dave Shuck
Agenda:
This month, we continue our quest to work though the Head First Design Patterns book, taking each chapter apart and seeing how they relate to us as ColdFusion developers. This month Adam Presley will be presenting Chapter 7, covering the Adapter and Facade Patterns. Make sure to join us!
In addition, Dave Shuck will be presenting a beginner's intro to ColdSpring and the benefits of dependency injection during the first hour.
Posted on February 5, 2010 | Read More »
January Monthly Meeting: The Command Pattern - HFDP Chapter 6 Guillermo Cruz
Title: January Monthly Meeting: The Command Pattern - HFDP Chapter 6 Guillermo Cruz
Date and Time: January 12, 2010 at 06:30pm
Address:
Paladin Consulting, Inc.
3030 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1140
Dallas, TX 75234
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Speakers: Guillermo Cruz
Agenda: This month, we continue our quest to work though the Head First Design Patterns book, taking each chapter apart and seeing how they relate to us as ColdFusion developers. This month Guillermo Cruz will be presenting Chapter 6, covering the Command Pattern. Make sure to join us!
Topic Description:
Throwing things over the fence - The command pattern is a pattern that allows us to be able to encapsulate method invocation and know that what needs to happen will. Simply by sending a command object to an Invoking object (who knows nothing of how the receiving object does its work) it can call an encapsulated method that will set of what you wanted done. Think of how logging is important but does not have to happen real time (in most cases) but it must be done. Why not throw it over the fence knowing that it will be done and you can continue with what you need to get done.
Posted on January 11, 2010 | Read More »
Big End of Year Meeting! 12/8/2009
HFDP4CF - Chapter 4: The Factory Pattern - In this presentation, Dave Shuck will be walking through the topic of the Factory Pattern in the HFDP book and covering the examples using ColdFusion. This presentation will include real world examples of how his development team employees this pattern in their enterprise today.
HFDP4CF - Chapter 5: The Singleton Pattern - Tom Woestman will be covering the chapter explaining how the Singleton Pattern can be used in the CFML world. As with the other chapters in our series, Tom will be demonstrating the samples using ColdFusion.
Remember that if you would like to read ahead a bit, you can see much of the HFDP book for free on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=LjJcCnNf92kC&printsec=frontcover
GIVEAWAYS!
As a year-end wrapup, we will have a number of giveaways. We will be giving away one software license for any Adobe project worth up to $2000 to one attendee (CF9 Standard definitely applies!). Additionally, our sponsor Paladin Consulting will be giving away electronic goodies, gift cards and more.
As always we will be meeting at the Paladin Consulting offices at Webb Chapel/635 in the ClubCorp building at 6:30. Food and drinks will be provided.
Posted on November 19, 2009 | Read More »
November Monthly Meeting - CFHFDP Chap 3: The Decorator Pattern
This meeting will be a continuation of our series: Head First Design Patterns for ColdFusion (CFHFDP). We are taking each chapter out of the HFDP book and writing ColdFusion implementations of each pattern that is covered. So far we have broken down the Strategy Pattern and the Observer Pattern. November brings us to Chapter 3 - The Decorator Pattern. Adrian Moreno will be presenting this topic as our main session of the night.
We have had some great feedback on this series, so make sure to join us as we continue. If you wish to catch up on Chapters 1 and 2, you can watch the recordings of those sessions at the links below:
Dave Shuck - CFHFDP - Chapter 1: The Strategy Pattern
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p50727167/
Adam Presley - CFHFDP - Chapter 2: The Observer Pattern
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p34878675/
The intro topic for the first hour is currently TBA as of the time of this posting. If you have a topic you would like to share, please contact Dave Shuck.
Additionally, we may be tackling 2 chapters, so if you are interested in presenting on Chap 4 - The Factory Pattern or Chap 5 - The Singleton Pattern please contact Dave Shuck.
Posted on November 5, 2009 | Read More »
October Monthly Meeting - HFDP for CF Chap 2 & ColdBox
I just returned from a *fantastic* week at Adobe MAX, and realized that I have not made the "official" announcement for the October monthly meeting. Additionally, I we are adding to the agenda, so here goes!
First off, next Tuesday night (10/13/2009) is our regularly scheduled monthly meeting. This month, we will continue our progress in what I am coining Head First Design Patterns for CF as Adam Presley will be covering Chapter 2 - The Observer Pattern.
Secondly, I spent some time chatting with ColdBox creator Luis Majano this week. He has just released a new version of the framework, and will be in town offering ColdBox training in November. After some very gentle twisting of his arm, he agreed to repeat the session that he gave at the ColdFusion Unconference at MAX via Connect exclusively for the DFWCFUG.
In addition to these great two topics, I will be giving away a few of the extremely limited "Zombie ColdFusion" shirts that say "ColdFusion Lives!!!" They were hard to get at the conference, but I was able to sneak a few off for the group.
So, here is the schedule for the night:
6:30 - intro, open discussion, t-shirt giveaway (hint: brush up on your CF9 info)
7:00 - Luis Majano - ColdBox
8:00 - short pizza break
8:15 - Adam Presley - HFDP4CF - Chapter 2 - The Observer Pattern.
Also, I have had a number of people ask about the URL for the recording of last month's meeting in which I covered Chapter 1 of HFDP (the Strategy Pattern). If you are interested in watching this and getting up to speed, you can do so at:
| Title: | DFWFUG - Head First Design Patterns for CF - Chapter 1_0 |
| Duration: | 00:38:45 |
| URL for Viewing: | http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p50727167/ |
| Uploaded on: | 09/08/2009 7:53 PM |
I look forward to seeing you all next Tuesday!
Posted on October 8, 2009 | Read More »