DFWCFUG
  Dallas / Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group

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/