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Meeting October 9, 2012: ContentBox and a new meeting location
Tuesday, October 9th starts another chapter for the CFUG. We are moving our meeting location.
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Meeting Jan 10, 2012: Intro to Rich Application Development with Ext JS
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Meeting Dec 13, 2011: BlogCFC, HTML5 and Twitter Bootstrap, plus an Adobe Software Raffle
In this meeting, I'll show how easy it is to implement HTML5 and Twitter Bootstrap with a ColdFusion application.
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Meeting November 8, 2011: Secure your server and your apps against Cross-site Scripting attacks
If you already use HTMLEditFormat(), that's a start, but it's not enough. ColdFusion 10 adds some new functions to deal with XSS, but did you know you can use these same functions within CF 8 and 9 right now (really CF 6 - 9)?
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June 14, 2011 Meeting: Laying the Foundation for a Modern ColdFusion Application
The main topic for this month's meeting will be "Laying the Foundation for a Modern ColdFusion Application". We'll be putting Rapid Application Development to the test using ColdFusion 9, ColdBox 3.0 (MVC Framework), HTML5, Blueprint (CSS Framework) and jQuery.
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April 2011 Monthly Meeting - Writing JavaScript with ColdFusion and a Conversation about Frameworks
Our monthly meeting will be on April 12, 2011 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm. The How-To Topic will be on Writing JavaScript with ColdFusion. After the break will be a Discussion and Presentation on The Why, Which and How's of Frameworks with ColdFusion Applications.
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March 2011 Monthly Meeting - CFML on The Google App Engine and Effective Unit Testing
Date and Time: March 8, 2011 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Address:
3030 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75234-7744
Suite 1140
Dallas, TX 75234
Speakers: Adam Presley, Steve Good
Agenda:
- CFML on the Google App Engine - Adam Presley
The Google App Engine brings Platform as a Service and "cloud computing" to the masses through free Python and Java application hosting. OpenBD, a free and open source CFML engine, are at the forefront of this technology by offering the only CFML engine compatible with the Google App Engine. See how easy it is to get started using Google's cloud platform and OpenBD!
- Effective Unit Testing - Steve Good
Unit testing is not only important, but highly underused by the average developer. I aim to show how easy it is to unit test and even how it can be automated both locally and on a build server. I'll also cover some often misunderstood aspects of unit testing and Test Driven Development in general.
As always, food/drink will be provided by our host and sponsor, Paladin Consulting!
Meeting URL: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/dfwcfug/ (depending on our network reliability!)
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February 2011 Monthly Meeting - ValidateThis & Railo and OpenBlueDragon on BlueOnyx
Date and Time: February 8, 2011 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Address:
3030 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75234-7744
Suite 1140
Dallas, TX 75234
Speakers: Wesley Cockrum, Joe Kelly
Agenda:
Continuing our series on open source projects in and related to the world of CFML, we have presentations on the following topics:
ValidateThis - Wesley Cockrum
ValidateThis is a framework that allows you to define validation rules for your ColdFusion objects in a single place (either an XML file, a JSON file or in ColdFusion code) and will then generate client-side and server-side validations for you.
Railo and BlueDragon on BlueOnyx - Joe Kelly
I'll explain that which is BlueOnyx and why you should use it to host your CFML sites. We'll use BlueOnyx to set up our sites, users and MySQL databases as well as easily configure Tomcat. Next we'll install and deploy Railo and BlueDragon WARs for fullly functional CFML engines.
Bring your laptop to hack around in my various servers on your own.
As always, food/drink will be provided by our host and sponsor, Paladin Consulting!
Meeting URL: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/dfwcfug/ (depending on our network reliability!)
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New Year kickoff! January 2011 Monthly Meeting - CFGroovy, CFFormProtect, and varScoper
Come out and make DFWCFUG part of your new year!
Date and Time: January 11, 2011 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Address:
3030 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75234-7744
Suite 1140
Dallas, TX 75234
Speakers:
Chris Jordan, Dave Shuck, Adam Presley
Agenda:
As we continue our series discussing all things open source in the world of CFML, we have presentations on the following topics:
varScoper - Chris Jordan
topic description: varScoper is a code scanning tool that can be used to identify variables that are not explicitly scoped to be local or global to a ColdFusion function.
varScoper can be used in ColdFusion Builder as an extension, through a web based frontend, as an ANT task, or by directly invoking the cfc.
By default, variables created within a ColdFusion function are global to the component or .cfm file and not local to the function. Variables that exist outside of their intended scope can cause unintended thread safety issues. varScoper will help you identify these variables in your code.
CFFormProtect - Dave Shuck
topic description: CFFormProtect is a fully accessible, invisible to users form protection system to stop spam bots, and even human spammers. CFFormProtect works like some email spam protection systems, in that it uses a series of tests to find out if a form submission is from a spammer or not. Each test is given an amount of points, and each test that is failed accumulates points. Once a form submission passes the threshold of 'spamminess', the message is flagged as spam and is not posted. The points assigned to each test and the failure limit are easily configurable by you.
CFGroovy - Adam Presley
topic description: CFGroovy is a Groovy-centric, pluggable scriptlet engine for CFML runtimes. It allows you to embed any JSR-223 compliant scripting language into your CFML code with transparent passthrough to your normal CFML data structures (url, form, request, session, etc.). It also provides support arbitrary additional "scopes", assistance with CFML ORM entities, and a few other bits and pieces.
As always, food/drink will be provided by our host and sponsor, Paladin Consulting!
Meeting URL: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/dfwcfug/
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