ColdFusion User Group - New Zealand

Last night we had the first CFUG meeting for the year.

It was a CF_Drinks, which means we meet @ at Bar some where, buy a drink and talk geek.

Sorry I didn't get round everyone to say "hi" personally, but thanks for all coming, and there seemed to be some good discussions going on.

Details for next months meeting will be posted here and on the mailing list, so watch this space!

Sorry for the delay in getting this out, but here is the URL for the recording from the December Meeting:

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p20845789/

A big THANKS to Bob too for taking the time and staying up later to present to us.

It was a great intro to CF9's ORM abilities.

Also thank you to www.bookabach.co.nz for sponsoring the event with venue and refreshments.

We've all heard the buzz about CF9's 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. Not an object oriented developer? No problem! As
long as you know what an object is, and a little bit about cfcs, this
session will help you get past the buzzwords and be productive with
ORM on your next project.

Bob Silverberg

Bob Silverberg has been developing software for nearly twenty years,
the past ten of which have been devoted to web application development
with ColdFusion.  He runs a small development company from his home in
Toronto, where he divides his time between client work, open source
development and taking care of his two young sons. He is an active
participant on a number of ColdFusion mailing lists and blogs at
www.silverwareconsulting.com.

Connect URL to attend remotely: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/nzcfug/

RSVP: http://cfug.eventbrite.com/

See you there!

Don't forget Mura tonight.

RSVP in person here: http://groups.google.co.nz/group/cfugauckland/browse_thread/thread/ad3183b99ba565a6

Attend remotely here: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/nzcfug/

Meeting will be recorded.

Thanks everyone that came along tonight!

We had a good night of having a drink, nibbles and talking about diving, holidays, sailing...

and ColdFusion of course!

Things like:

• Should you output content from a CFC?
• How can you auto-document you custom tag libs?
• Why can't you set up a "Cfimport" at application level so you don't need to do it on a template-by-template basis?
• Railo in production
• CFBuilder, and it's features
• Will you be able to get introspection on Components from an object factory?
• Will there be a manifest.xml for CF custom tags in CFBuilder?
• Is calling a CFC like a custom tag *actually* useful?
•  ...and many more

These are some of the topics discussed, and I'm sure we came up with the *right* answers, but didn't write them down sorry!

See you next month @ APN with a presentation on Mura.