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August 2010
Title: Intro to Flex 4 & Flash Builder 4 Speaker: Dan Vega

Meeting Description:
The Cleveland ColdFusion User Group will meet August 17, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at New Horizons in Garfield Heights. The topic for the evening is an introduction Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. Our presenter for the evening will be Dan Vega. Dan is an expert developer, Adobe Community Professional (ACP) and the co-manager of the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group. In this introduction, we will explore the free and open source Flex 4 framework. We will also take a look at the Flash builder IDE that was built on Eclipse. Armed with these two amazing tools in your tool belt, you will be able to build expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems. We will begin the presentation by looking at some of the new features in Flex 4. Along the trip down new feature row, we will look at some of the differences between 3 and 4. We will also look at Flash Builder 4, which will help you rapidly develop cross-platform rich Internet applications. In the end the presentation will be informative, full of code samples and a great introduction to the Flash family of products. This meeting is in a joint meeting with the Cleveland Adobe User Group.

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June 2010
Title: ColdFusion on Wheels Speaker: Chris Peters

Meeting Description:
Join Chris Peters as he demonstrates how ColdFusion on Wheels brings the fun back to ColdFusion development. This live in-person demo will cover some of the tools that Wheels provides for making your development process agile and light--without skimping on functionality. Learn the benefits of the built-in ActiveRecord-inspired ORM, building easy and accessible forms, and the benefits of convention over configuration.
  • Chris will be coming up from Columbus to present to us in person.

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    May 2010
    Title: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Speaker: April Clark

    Meeting Description:
    Join the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group, the Cleveland Adobe User Group, the Cleveland InDesign User Group and the Cleveland Flex User Group to show you the new Adobe Creative Suiteﾮ 5.
  • Adobe Creative Suiteﾮ 5 is here

    Adobeﾮ Photoshopﾮ and Adobe Illustratorﾮ software are the tools of choice for cross-media designersthose who create images for the web, mobile devices, interactive experiences, and virtually everywhere else. Now with CS5, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Explore new creative possibilities with breakthrough tools that let you select, paint, manipulate, and adjust images with unprecedented freedom and precision. We'll cover those, as well as Dreamweaverﾮ and several other titles within the suite.
  • This meeting will be held at the convenient offices of Dealer Tire, LLC, just east of downtown and I-90 and close to CSU, Tri-C's downtown campus and not too far from Case.
  • We will be giving away our semi-annual software giveaway, as well as CS5 goodies and ColdFusion schwag.
  • Also, Adobe InDesign CS5, will be presented at the Cleveland InDesign User Group meeting at the Cleveland Institute of Art on Tuesday, May 18th. Please sign up for that event at: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/cleveland/events/1406/
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    April 2010
    Title: ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder Speaker: Various Speakers

    Meeting Description:
    Our ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder launch event! Join the Cleveland CFUG, AUG and Flex UG in the launch of ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder. Several of us will be presenting on both of these programs.
  • We will be drawing copies of Flash Builder Premium, which includes ColdFusion Builder with it, as our prize! We also have swag to give away.
  • This month, we meet at a new location: Seekers Coffee House at the corner of Smith and Pearl Road in Middleburg Heights. Join us!
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    February 2010
    This meeting was canceled.
     

    December 2009
    Title: Holiday Social/Toys For Shots Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    For several years now, all of the Adobe based user groups have gotten together for a big end of year holiday social. Also for several years, those socials have been held at the Winking Lizard in Independence. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the Winking Lizard this year, so we had to scramble to find a different location... until we got a better idea!
  • This year, we thought we would combine our Christmas party with one that is going to help out local area children. Dan Vega, co manager of the Cleveland CFUG, is the organizer for the 2nd annual Toys for Shots Event. The name toys for shots came from a mix between toys for tots and shots. The reason for this is because if you bring just 1 toy to donate we will give your 2 drink tickets that you can use. We thought we put out a nice little incentive for attendees to bring a toy. I hope you can come out and join us for an event that is going to be a lot of fun on top of contributing to a great cause.
  • We will be doing our semi-annual software giveaway that night as well.

    • Event Details:

    Who: Anyone interested in having fun and helping out a good cause.
    What: Toys for Tots Fundraiser Christmas Party.
    Where: McCarthy's Downtown
    1231 Main Avenue
    Cleveland OH 44113
    Phone: 216.344.9099
    When: Saturday December 12, 2009 8:00 PM - 2:30 AM
    More Info: www.toysforshots.com
    RSVP at http://www.toysforshots.com/rsvp for your free raffle ticket.

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    November 2009
    Title: Using Regular Expressions Speaker: Gabriel Hyter

    Meeting Description:
    Gabe will be presenting on Regular Expressions. That might not sound too sexy, but if you don't know how to use regular expressions, you probably aren't performing efficient searches, finds and replaces.
  • Whether you're a CF developer or not, you will find this presentation on regular expressions useful.
  • This month's meeting will be held at the offices of Dealer Tire.
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    October 2009
    Title: CF9 & Other Assorted Tidbits Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    This meeting's going to be fast and loose, with no particular agenda. We'll be starting after the AUG finishes their topic. We'll discuss ColdFusion 9, CF Builder, more on Brian's new LightFront framework (if you want) and possibly Dan's new Hyrule validation framework for CF9, or maybe we'll discuss none of those things! It's up to you! We'll have drinks after we're done at the Winking Lizard.

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    September 2009
    Title: Intro to ColdFusion Frameworks, including LightFro Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    Brian will be presenting his minimalist ColdFusion framework called LightFront, as well as an intro to ColdFusion frameworks in general. The Adobe group is also presenting on frameworks that night - JavaScript frameworks - and will present right after Brian. We're back at Lodestone this month, but on the last Wednesday of the month, instead of our usual Thursday night.

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    August 2009
    Title: Set up a ColdFusion dev environment the easy way! Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    Brian will present on a highly requested topic, particularly with new developers, how to set up a fully featured ColdFusion development environment in a few minutes.
  • Developers not so new to ColdFusion might also learn a few things, as there are some new tricks he's learned over the last few months, some which you should find interesting.
  • Using a few shortcuts, Brian will install Apache, MySQL, PHP (he ducks as he types this), several helpful apps such as PHPMyAdmin, and then also setup ColdFusion on that environment. He will also show you how to set things up so that you have virtual hosts on your machine, so that your Apache server talks to ColdFusion, and may even show you Subversion and some very quick ways on how to set that up.
  • Time permitting, Brian will also show a preview of his new MVC framework, called LightFront. If we don't get to this, he will feature this in an upcoming meeting.
  • This meeting will be at Dealer Tire rather than Lodestone this month.
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    July 2009
    Title: Improving Client Side Performance in ColdFusion Ap Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    Brian is doing a recent CFUG presentation for the ColdFusion Meetup this week, so that's going to serve as this month's meeting, as we don't have a location for this month.
  • In this session, we'll be looking pragmatically at Yahoo's Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site. Brian will go through the best practices, and share his own research on what works, what will give you the best bang for the buck, and where he disagrees with Yahoo's guidelines. This was originally presented at the MAX 2008 unconference and will be serve as a ColdFusion Meetup. You can join in online!
  • The public betas for CF9 and ColdFusion Builder are out now, so we may cover some of this after the meetup ends, if anyone wants to stay online.
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    June 2009
    Title: A very special ColdFusion and Flex event! Speaker: Adam Wayne Lehman

    Meeting Description:
    On Wednesday, June 17th, join us for what will be the biggest Adobe user group event in Cleveland history! All of the official Adobe groups: The Cleveland ColdFusion User Group, the Cleveland Flex User Group, the Cleveland Adobe User Group and the Cleveland InDesign User Group join forces for this big event!
  • Come learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework, Flex Builder 4 and the newest Adobe product -- Flash Catalyst. See product feature demos, and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content.
  • We'll also hear about Centaur, the next version of ColdFusion, and Bolt  code name for the highly anticipated first ColdFusion IDE from Adobe. Learn about exciting new features and discover how Centaur and Bolt will accelerate your ColdFusion application development.
  • Join us for this very special event!
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    May 2009
    Title: cf.Objective() Session Previews Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    The time, date and location are tentative. There are two presentations on tap for May:
  • Brian Meloche will present a preview of his cf.Objective() presentation "What to Do When OO Fails You in ColdFusion", which is all about dealing with some of ColdFusion's constraints when trying to build object-oriented applications in ColdFusion.
  • Dan Vega will present a preview of his cf.Objective() presentation "Advanced CF8 Ajax", where he will cover some of the basics you can do out of the box in ColdFusion 8. Then, he's going to dive deep into the inner workings of the controls and take a look at things that we can do by taping into the underlying framework.
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    April 2009
    Title: Meeting is canceled, due to a scheduling issue. Speaker: No Speaker

    Meeting Description:
    Our April meeting has been canceled, due to a last-minute scheduling issue. We're planning to have our May meeting in two weeks (around May 7th), but the day and time has not been finalized. Check back soon.

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    March 2009
    Title: SlideSix Speaker: Todd Sharp

    Meeting Description:
    This presentation will give an overview of SlideSix.com with a very loose format. We will walk through the features of the site with a focus on the technology used to power them. We'll also take a look at the code that powers those features. ** We will be meeting around 7:15 for about an hour this month. The Adobe Group has a presentation from 6:00 - 7:00 that should be pretty exciting so show up early if you want to check it out.

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    February 2009
    Title: AJAX Made Easy Speaker: Dan Vega

    Meeting Description:
    This presentation will give you a better understanding of how to spice up your applications using Ajax. First we will dive into all of the new built in Ajax in ColdFusion 8. We will cover the UI controls, , data binding and debugging. We will also take a look at how easy it is to add the same functionality using the jQuery framework. Finally we will take a look at some tools that are vital to Ajax development such as firebug & coldfire. With the variety of content we have to cover I am sure you can walk away with this presentation with some great ideas. As always we will save some time at the end for questions / answers. Hope to see you all there!

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    January 2009
    Title: Improve Client Side Performance in ColdFusion Apps Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    In this session, we'll be looking pragmatically at Yahoo's Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site. Brian will go through the best practices, and share his own research on what works, what will give you the best bang for the buck, and where he disagrees with Yahoo's guidelines. This was originally presented at the MAX 2008 unconference, and was rescheduled from January 8th. The Cleveland Adobe User Group will be having their meeting at the same time on the same night, but in the other classroom at Lodestone.

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    December 2008
    Title: Holiday Party! Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    Are you looking for THE holiday IT networking event in Cleveland? Then look no further! The Cleveland-area Adobe User Groups will be hosting their 1st Annual (hopefully) Holiday Networking Social on December 18, 2008, at 6:30 p.m. at the Winking Lizard in Independence. The evening will feature a huge raffle for tons of Adobe swag, along with prizes from other vendors.

    The evening will start off at 6:30 p.m. with a cash bar and an opportunity to network with your fellow user group members from all of the local Cleveland Adobe user groups: The Cleveland CFUG, the Cleveland AUG, the Cleveland Flex UG and the Cleveland InDesign UG. Throughout the evening, we will have drawings for cool prizes from Adobe and other sponsors. The night will conclude with a huge drawing for Adobe software. The top prize is a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4 of your choice (Master Collection is not an option) valued at $2,100.

    Don't miss this opportunity to win the latest and greatest in Adobe software and the opportunity to meet and greet with other like-minded professionals. The topic for discussion is completely up to you!

    See you at the Winking Lizard in Independence!

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    November 2008
    Title: ColdFusion Components - Intro to CFCs Speaker: Dan Vega

    Meeting Description:
    This presentation will cover the basics of ColdFusion components. Learn why they exist, what problems they solve and how they can organize and reduce development time. Components are an essential tool for today's CF Developer and after this presentation you will have a better understanding of when and how to grab this tool from your tool belt. This meeting was postponed from September.

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    October 2008
    Title: How To Architect Flex Applications Speaker: Joey Lott

    Meeting Description:
    We are very pleased to welcome Joey Lott to present to a combined Cleveland Flex User's Group, Cleveland ColdFusion User Group, and Cleveland Adobe User Group audience.
  • When building Flex applications the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You may know how to work with the pieces of Flex (layout, styling components, data components, etc.) but it's still rather easy to get tangled up and frustrated when trying to stitch the piece together into a coherent application. In this presentation we'll look at strategies you can use to build Flex applications in the best way possible. Rather than presenting one boiler plate solution as the "right way" this presentation looks at the bigger picture and common patterns you can employ..
  • This meeting is at a new location, Brulant, Inc. (recently acquired by Rosetta) in Beachwood, as our normal Lodestone location is unavailable for the date of our presentation.
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    September 2008
    Title: It's going to be brilliant! Speaker: Adam Pratt

    Meeting Description:

    It's Going To Be Brilliant.

    Be one of the first to see the next big thing from Adobe on September 25, 2008. Join in to see and hear first hand how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Save the date and get a good look at whats to come.

    Be one of the first to hear directly from Adobe! On September 25, 2008, Adam Pratt will be in Cleveland to discuss how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Come hear Adam Pratt speak. The meeting has been moved to the Cleveland Institute of Art, Room TBA. We will be joined by the Cleveland InDesign User Group, the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group and the Cleveland Desktop Publishers User Group.

    At 6:00 p.m., we will meet to discuss the election of a new co-manager to the Adobe User Group (NOT the ColdFusion User Group). We will then join the rest of the group at 6:30 p.m. for the presentation by Adam Pratt. After Adam's presentation, everyone is invited out to a networking social at Jillian's Billiard Club where to can also network with Adam from Adobe.

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    July 2008
    Title: jQuery with ColdFusion Speaker: John Farrar

    Meeting Description:
    jQuery is a JavaScript library similar to the SPRY JavaScript library maintained by Adobe. jQuery can be used for AJAX as well as other JavaScript controls. Come learn how to implement jQuery, particularly with ColdFusion.
  • This will also be a joint meeting with the Cleveland AUG. Due to limited attendance over the summer, we will be combining the Cleveland AUG and Cleveland CFUG meetings over the next few months.
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    June 2008
    Title: To Be Announced Speaker: To Be Announced

    Meeting Description:
    We don't yet have a speaker or topic for this meeting, but we're looking for one. Check back soon.

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    April 2008
    Title: cf.Objective() Conference Preview Speaker: Raymond Camden, Todd Sharp and Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    We are going to talk a little bit about the cf.Objective() conference coming up in May. If you are not familiar with this conference the details are below. We are lucky enough to have Raymond Camden, Brian Meloche & Todd Sharp presenting to us at the meeting. All of our presenters will be speaking at the conference and this meeting will give you a preview of their presentations. All of the presentations are short previews designed to show you what the cfObjective conference has to offer.

    Topic 1: Introduction to Model-Glue

    Raymond Camden - http://www.coldfusionjedi.com

    • This is an introduction to the Model-Glue framework. Basics will be covered but time will also be spent looking at real world Model-Glue.

    Topic 2: Integrating ColdFusion 8 AJAX with Model-Glue Applications

    Todd Sharp - http://www.cfsilence.com

    • This presentation will examine several aspects ColdFusion 8 Ajax capabilities and how they can be leveraged to simplify adding Ajax functionality to your Model-Glue applications. A short introduction to the CF8 Ajax features will show Data tools and UI components and will highlight appropriate uses of these elements. The heart of the presentation will examine best practices for utilizing ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality within your Model-Glue application. This section will examine when it is appropriate to route Ajax requests through your controller and when you should create and utilize a remote facade. Also included will be a short section demonstrating how to tap into the underlying raw Ajax frameworks on which the CF8 elements are built to extend them to meet your particular application.

    Topic 3: ColdFusion as a Different Type of "Glue"

    Brian Meloche - http://www.brianmeloche.com

    • Is ColdFusion really "the glue" that Adobe says it is? We always hear about functions like PDF generation, image manipulation, Outlook integration and all of the new functionality, but is that all that ColdFusion is good for? Is ColdFusion for intranet use only? Can ColdFusion be a different type of glue? This topic will cover using ColdFusion as the front end to an enterprise-level, customer facing application, integrating it with a business object back-end from enterprise-level systems. This will cover what types of things you would need to integrate, levels of integration, ways to integrate, including MQ Series and WebMethods, WSDL vs. REST, direct vs. indirect integration, integrating with external applications, and data replication. Note: Despite the title similarities, this presentation has NOTHING to do with Model-Glue.

    If you are unable to attend the meeting in person you will be able to watch our 3 presenters by way of the ColdFusion Meetup. If you would like to join the meeting online, please go to http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/.

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    February 2008
    Title: RIA Special Event! Speaker: Kevin Lynch

    Meeting Description:
    Join the Cleveland Adobe Users Group, the Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group and the Cleveland Flex User's Group for this "can't miss" meeting!

  • Adobe's RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The Cleveland AUG, CFUG and Flex UG are jointly hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe's platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You'll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways.

  • Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event.

  • The event is a combined meeting of the Cleveland Adobe Users Group, Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group and Cleveland Flex User's Group, and is on a special night: Monday night, and we're back at Lodestone for this meeting.
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    February 2008
    Title: Flex 3 and AIR Speaker: Kevin Hoyt

    Meeting Description:
    Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Kevin Hoyt and other members from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team are traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and help prepare us for this exciting launch.

  • Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

  • Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

  • Don't miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!

  • So, join us! It's a special combined meeting of all three Cleveland Adobe product user groups: The Cleveland Adobe Users Group, the Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group, and the Cleveland Flex User's Group, and at a special time and location: 1:00pm at Dealer Tire, LLC, located at 3711 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44114.
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    January 2008
    Title: Lesser Known ColdFusion 8 Goodies Speaker: Ben Forta

    Meeting Description:
    We are pleased to have Ben Forta returning for a special daytime meeting on Thursday, January 10th, at a special time and location: Dealer Tire, LLC, located at 3711 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114. Ben will be presenting on Lesser Known ColdFusion 8 Goodies, and taking Q&A. Adam Wayne Lehman of Adobe will also be present at this meeting, and will help answer any questions.
  • We will have a number of drawings at this meeting. We'll be giving a copy of Adobe software away, as well as books, magazines and special Adobe swag! There will also be refreshments provided! You won't want to miss this meeting!
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    December 2007
    Title: Annual Holiday Social Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    This will be our 3rd Annual Holiday Social held at the Winking Lizard. Every six months Adobe grants the users groups the opportunity to raffle off a software package. This is the meeting to attend if you wish to claim your opportunity to participate in the software raffle. Everyone in attendance is eligible for the raffle. If you have attended meetings leading up to the raffle, you have also received tickets that have been entered into the drawing, so you have more of a chance to win. Winner must be present to claim the software package. Additional items will be raffled off as well. There will be a cash bar available. Please RSVP early so I know how many people to expect so I can determine the size of the room I need to reserve. Both the Cleveland AUG and the Cleveland CFUG will be there! Will you???

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    November 2007
    This meeting was canceled.
     

    October 2007
    Title: Transfer ORM, MAX Report Speaker: Mark Mandel

    Meeting Description:
    Mark Mandel will be presenting on the Transfer object relational modeling (ORM), a ColdFusion Object Relational Mapping Library.

    From the Transfer website:

    "Transfer ORM's main focus is to automate the repetitive tasks of creating the SQL and custom CFCs that are often required when developing a ColdFusion application.

    "Through a central configuration file Transfer knows how to generate objects, and how to manage them and their relationships back to the database."

    Following Transfer, Brian Meloche will do a report from MAX 2007, where there were big happenings, news, people, and lots of cool stuff.

    Time permitting, Dan Vega and Brian will give you a progress report on the new website and how that's coming.

    Meeting Recap:
    Mark's presentation on Transfer was recorded with the following two URLs:

    http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p25924495/
    http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p22834186/
     

    September 2007
    Title: ColdFusion 8 Speaker: To Be Announced

    Meeting Description:
    This meeting is tentative, and will possibly be a day time meeting.ﾠ More information to follow.

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    August 2007
    Title: Intro to CFEclipse Speaker: Mark Drew

    Meeting Description:
    Mark Drew will be presenting how to get a grip with the basics of CFEclipse, speeding up your development with Snippets and SnipEx and finally focusing on the CF Frameworks explorer.

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    July 2007
    Title: Open Source ColdFusion Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    Our previous speaker was unable to present this month, so Brian is going to do a quick and dirty presentation on open source ColdFusion. This will include editors and other tools, ColdFusion engines, applications, custom tags and CFCs. This won't be a structured presentation, so bring your favorite open source CF resource of your own to share!

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    June 2007
    Title: ColdFusion 8 - A deeper dive... Speaker: Adam Wayne Lehman

    Meeting Description:
    After May's Ben Forta visit, we are pleased to have another Adobe speaker live and in person to talk about Scorpio, also known as ColdFusion 8. Adam Lehman from Adobe will present again on Scorpio. This time, Adam will do a "deeper dive", and show us some things Ben only touched on. It's worth noting that we'll also be having our semi-annual software giveaway at this meeting!!! NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!!!

    Meeting Recap:
    Unfortunately, due to a scheduling screw up, Adam was unable to speak, but has agreed to come back in July. We still went ahead and did our software giveaway, and drawings. The group members that stayed talked about ColdFusion and AJAX, Flex, Apollo, and issues that they are experiencing developing their CF applications.
     

    May 2007
    Title: Scorpio: Introducing ColdFusion 8!!! Speaker: Ben Forta

    Meeting Description:
    It is with great pleasure that the Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group, Cleveland Adobe Users Group and Cleveland RIA User Group announce that Ben Forta, Adobe Systems Inc's Senior Technical Evangelist, will be speaking to us on Scorpio, the codename for ColdFusion 8.
  • Even before the release of the highly successful ColdFusion MX 7 two years ago, the ColdFusion team was already hard at work scheming, experimenting, planning, building, creating ... and the result is "Scorpio", the highly anticipated 8th major ColdFusion edition. Building on top of the powerful platform introduced in ColdFusion MX, and the solid feature set of ColdFusion MX 7, "Scorpio" piles on new features and technologies for developers, administrators, technical decision makers, and more. The official "Scorpio" release is scheduled for mid-2007, but you don't have to wait until then to see it for yourself. Ben Forta will be demoing lots of Scorpio throughout an extended user group tour in the spring, where attendees will get to see "Scorpio" in action, as well as gain access to the pre-release beta, and get the chance to win Adobe software. And since our user group is part of the Scorpio tour, plan on coming out for this special meeting!!
  • The time of this meeting is tentative, and the location is to be announced. Stay tuned... And RSVP NOW!!!
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    Meeting Recap:
    It was a WILDLY successful meeting for both the Cleveland CFUG and AUG, on this historic day! We were very honored to have Ben Forta present to us! The meeting started a little late, as Ben's flight was delayed, but we managed to have a very successful meeting, and everyone who attended left the meeting pumped about ColdFusion 8!

    May marked the 3rd anniversary of the Cleveland AUG, and we blew away our attendance record! 51 people attended this great meeting! Thanks to Lodestone for the facility, food and drink, and to Ben from making time during his busy Scorpio launch tour to come to Cleveland to see us!
     

    April 2007
    Title: DataMgr Component Set Speaker: Steve Bryant

    Meeting Description:
    Steve Bryant demonstrates his free DataMgr component set. This is a tool to help with common database interactions. It reduces the amount of redundant work needed to accomplish basic tasks and helps bring about a more efficient workflow by separating database interactions from programming logic.

  • Unlike ORM solutions, it does not enforce a certain programming approach but rather allows you to program in whatever style you prefer (OO or not). It currently supports Access, MySQL, PostGreSQL and SQL Server. Adding more database support should be easy.
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    March 2007
    Title: The OFFICIAL launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3!!! Speaker: Adobe Adobe

    Meeting Description:
    Join us for a very special joint meeting of the Cleveland ColdFusion, Adobe and RIA user groups for this can't miss meeting!
  • A new era in creative expression is about to unfold, freeing us to color outside the lines, to think in multiple dimensions, to engage audiences like never before. The Cleveland Adobe Users Group, Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group and Cleveland RIA Users Group will be hosting a live-broadcast event for the official launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3!! Please join us at this special meeting that will include presentations by Adobe executives, product demonstrations, and a chance to win one of the first copies of the new CS3 suite when it starts shipping!
  • Come join the rest of the creative industry and be part of the buzz and excitement by participating in this very special launch event.
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    February 2007
    Title: To Be Announced Speaker: To Be Announced

    Meeting Description:

     I have tentatively scheduled this as a joint meeting with the Cleveland Adobe Users Group, although the time, date and location may change.  Stay tuned!

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    January 2007
    Title: Integrating Spry and ColdFusion Speaker: Andrew Powell

    Meeting Description:
    Spry is the new Adobe framework for AJAX. It was intended for designers, but the ColdFusion Community has adopted it with open arms. This presentation will discuss what Spry is, how and when it should be used, how developers can leverage ColdFusion to make Spry more powerful, and cover how Spry and Flex can co-exist.

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    December 2006
    Title: Holiday Social Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    This meeting will be another combined with the Cleveland Adobe Users Group. We'll be having a social meeting for the holidays. Each group will be giving away copies of its software, and we'll also get our goody box from Adobe by then.
  • The date, time and location of this meeting HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED.
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    November 2006
    Title: ColdFusion 101 Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    By popular demand, we're doing a "ColdFusion 101" topic. Anyone who is interested in doing dynamic web sites for the first time, or has used other languages and would like to give the ease of ColdFusion a try, this topic will be for you. Brian will present it in a "cookbook" style, in a very how-to presentation and it will be totally interactive - what you want to see is what you will see.

    We'll also have some more advanced tips during the meeting.

    We've also moved the meeting to a new night - Tuesday nights, and at a new location - Tri-C West.

    This meeting is a combined meeting with the Cleveland Adobe Users Group.

    Meeting Recap:
    Brian Meloche built a small but database driven website in less than two hours using ColdFusion. This website had a login/logout, had roles, showed code reuse and allowed you to see different things according to whether or not you were logged in or not and what role you had if you were logged in. The audience were generally impressed with what you could build in a short time with ColdFusion.

    This meeting was a joint meeting with the Cleveland Adobe Users Group.
     

    October 2006
    Title: Informal Meet and Greet Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    This month, rather than have a formal meeting and topic, we're going to have a less formal meeting. We'll talk ColdFusion, Adobe, Flex, CFEclipse, the job market and what have you. This is a networking event!
  • We'll also talk about the CFUG, topics you would like to see, and formats you like and don't like. Brian will be there and be asking for your feedback. We'd love to have CF developers of all levels at the meeting.
  • We'll be at a new location - the Panera at Tiedeman Road & 480. Although West Side, it's conveniently located for you East and South siders. See you there!

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    September 2006
    Title: Head First Mach-II Speaker: Peter J. Farrell

    Meeting Description:
    Peter J. Farrell will be giving a presentation on Mach-ii via Breeze. Although this is an overview, Peter will also touch on features that will in version 1.1.1 (which is currently in Beta 1 afterwards). If you have ever been interested in learning about this MVC, OO framework for ColdFusion, don't miss this presentation.

    Meeting Recap:
    Peter did a presentation on Mach-ii. The meeting recording can be viewed here:

    http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p34305376/
     

    August 2006
    Title: Design Pattern Safari Speaker: Peter J. Farrell

    Meeting Description:
    Embark down the Objectazon River with Peter J. Farrell, your jungle guide, on a design pattern safari. During the adventure, you'll learn all the basics you need to know about common object-oriented design patterns and how they are implemented in ColdFusion. You'll encounter real live objects in the wild - Beans, DAOs, Gateways, Services and other notable beasts. Begin your object-oriented journey with an experienced guide and collect safari loot for good questions. Don't get gobbled up by any objects!

    Peter will be presenting to us via Breeze, and the meeting will be recorded.

    We're back to our regular meeting place for the August meeting - DeVore Technologies. Mick will be out of town this month, so Cleveland AUG manager and CFUG co-manager Brian Meloche will be running the meeting in Mick's absense.

    Meeting Recap:
    Peter went through a crash course in OO as well as the basic design patterns used like Beans, DAOs, Gateways and Services. The meeting was recorded.

    http://adobechats.breezecentral.com/p89541382/
     

    July 2006
    Title: Flex 2.0 - Nuts to Bolts Speaker: Kevin Hoyt

    Meeting Description:

    Please join Kevin Hoyt, Senior Flex Specialist at Adobe, LIVE AND IN PERSON, along with fellow Adobe colleagues Steve Kastner and Johne Brennan, for an evening of fun and learning at a combined Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group and Cleveland Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Users Group meeting. Kevin will be giving a technical overview of Flex 2 from a code perspective - starting with client side basics and working his way up to coding server side with Flex Data Services. This session will be interactive - Kevin has volunteered to, as he goes through the overview, stop to discuss, code, and explain whatever other features our attendees would like to know more about. At the end of the meeting, one lucky attendee will win a copy of the new Flex Builder 2!

    Meeting Recap:
    The combined AUG and CFUG meeting was a big hit, with the most people ever attending a CFUG meeting and the second highest number at a Cleveland AUG (MMUG) meeting. The audience thought the presentation was a big hit! Judith Golare won a copy of Flex Builder, and other attendees won prizes. The attendees had pizza and pop, courtesy of Adobe. A big thanks goes out to Kevin, Steve, Johne and Ed from Adobe, as well as Mick, Mike and Brian for putting on this event!
     

    June 2006
    Title: Getting Started with Flex Speaker: Mick Keily

    Meeting Description:

    Flex is a major part of Adobe's future and rightfully so.ﾆ Besides offering the tools to create web-based applications that look and perform great, it runs on both J2EE and .NET infrastructures.ﾆ If you have not yet visited labs.adobe.com, you really should take advantage of the free Flex beta program while it is still available and download the components of Flex.ﾆ It is very straight forward and will not take long to download.

    Our meeting this month will essentially be a nuts and bolts introduction to getting started with Flex, starting with the installation process on a Windows XP computer.ﾆ The components of Flex include

  • Flex Builder 2.0
  • Flex Data Services 2.0 (formerly Flex Enterprise Services 2.0)
  • ColdFusion/Flex Connectivity
  • Flash Player 9 (formerly Flash Player 8.5)
  • Flex SDK 2.0
  • Flex Charting 2.0

    • We will actually go through the installation process of these components and, depending on the time, discuss the process of getting started with Flex.

    Don't forget to login and RSVP if you are planning to attend.ﾆ The meeting starts at 6:30pm.ﾆ We will also have some Adobe promotional items to give away.

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    Meeting Recap:
    Get started using Flex. Let us give you a nudge to get the process rolling. We will go through the install of the Flex components and discuss the basic layout.
     

    April 2006
    Title: Adobe Flex 2.0 Overview Speaker: Zach Stepek

    Meeting Description:
    Zach Stepek will give a presentation on Adobe Flex 2.0 via Breeze. The Breeze presentation will begin at 6:30 and is planned to be about 90 minutes in length. It will be an overview of Flex for those taking a serious look at it for the first time. Zach will touch on these subjects: Flex Application Framework, Flash Platform Overview, Eclipse and Flex Builder 2.0, ActionScript 3.0, ColdFusion/Flex Connectivity, and Flex Data Services

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    March 2006
    This meeting was canceled.
     

    February 2006
    Title: Introduction to ColdFusion Frameworks Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:

    Brian will be talking about frameworks, which are ways to structure your applications. Specifically, he'll be talking about ColdFusion frameworks. Since this is an intro to the subject, he'll start with a couple of the simpler frameworks - one that isn't that well known (TheHub, which this website is based upon) and Fusebox (in our case, version 3). He'll also cover Fusebox 4.1 (the latest version, which has a steeper learning curve), Mach-II, Model Glue and other frameworks.

    NOTE: This meeting was originally scheduled for January 11th, but had to be postponed, due to a personal scheduling conflict.

    Meeting Recap:
    Brian Meloche presented an intro to frameworks. The presentation went a little long, and we were only able to cover TheHUB, Fusebox 3 and Fusebox 4.1. We'll cover the other frameworks in follow-up presentations.
     

    January 2006
    This meeting was canceled.
     

    December 2005
    Title: Social Speaker: Everyone in Attendance!

    Meeting Description:
    We're having a combined social meeting with the MMUG for the month of December, at Winking Lizard in Independence. Someone in attendance will win a copy of Macromedia Studio 8, courtesy of the Cleveland MMUG!

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    November 2005
    Title: SeeFusion and BlueDragon Speaker: Charlie Arehart

    Meeting Description:
    Charlie Arehart will be speaking on two topics:

    1. Introducing SeeFusion: CFML application monitoring for ColdFusion and BlueDragon - Frequent CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will set aside his BlueDragon hat for a discussion of a tool that will be of interest to users of both ColdFusion and BlueDragon. SeeFusion is a powerful tool for monitoring CFML web applications and database traffic coming out of either ColdFusion or BlueDragon. It offers a free development edition that may satisfy your needs, and the commercial edition is very inexpensive.

    2. BlueDragon/.NET: Native Integration of CFML and .NET - Do you know how Macromedia proposes to integrate ColdFusion MX with .NET? Via web services. But what if you need more? lots more! Would you like to be able to share session, application, and other variables between CFML and ASP.NET? Would you like to be able to include the output of CFML pages in ASP.NET, and vice-versa? How about calling .NET objects from CFML--without web services?! How about calling a CFC from ASP.NET, again without web services?

      There are even benefits without changing your CFML code at all. .NET is simply a better platform for CFML than J2EE. In this hour, Charlie will show ample examples and explain the many benefits of integrating CFML and .NET.

      He'll also introduce the other Java editions of BlueDragon, including the Server and Server JX editions for deploying CFML on Windows, Linux or OS X, and the J2EE edition for deploying CFML on any J2EE server, far more easily than with CFMX. Along the way, he'll also answer the common questions and misconceptions about BlueDragon.

    We will be giving away a copy of BlueDragon Server JX, an $899 value!

    Meeting Recap:

    As usual, Charlie did two fantastic presentations to a very interested audience.

    Charlie Arehart's presentations on SeeFusion by WebApper and BlueDragon/BD.NET are now available. Download the SeeFusion presentation here and the BlueDragon/BD.NET presentation here. Mick and Brian would like to thank Charlie for taking the time and the expense to come up from Atlanta to present to us!!!
     

    October 2005
    Title: CF Show N' Tell Speaker: To Be Announced

    Meeting Description:

    This meeting will be used to spotlight applications that have been authored by our members. Robert Cepek will discuss the details of a help desk tracking application that he wrote for himself at work. Next Brian Meloche will give a presentation on using middleware and mainframe calls in ColdFusion.

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    September 2005
    This meeting was canceled.
     

    August 2005
    Title: Associative Arrays Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:

    Rick Bierregard will be making a presentation on Associative Arrays.

    Meeting Recap:
    Rick Bierregard will be made a presentation on Associative Arrays.
     

    July 2005
    Title: To Be Announced Speaker: To Be Announced

    Meeting Description:

    ColdFusion's 10th Anniversary! - We'll be having a joint meeting with the Cleveland MMUG to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of ColdFusion! Join us as we take part in a worldwide celebration, with Allaire founders J.J. and Jeremy Allaire, as they reminesce about the old days, and we celebrate where ColdFusion is today. We'll have refreshments, food and a very special drawing!

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    June 2005
    Title: Creating a ColdFusion Development Environment Speaker: Rick Bierregard

    Meeting Description:

    Rick Bierregard is doing a presentation on creating a ColdFusion development environment.

    Meeting Recap:
    Rick Bierregard did a presentation on creating a ColdFusion development environment. After his presentation, we also had some questions and an open discussion.
     

    May 2005
    Title: CFMAIL Speaker: Justin Kozuch

    Meeting Description:
    Recent Powered by Detroit presenter and regular contributor to Community MX, Justin will present on the use of CFMAIL, including new enhancements in ColdFusion MX 7. Justin hails from Toronto, Ontario, Canada and will present at both the CFUG and the MMUG in May. We are fortunate to have him!

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    April 2005
    Title: ColdFusion Components Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    ColdFusion Components (CFCs) were released with CFMX. They allow CF developers a chance to use object oriented programming concepts, allow ColdFusion to interact with Flash Remoting and Web Services, and promote code re-use and scalability. Brian will introduce CFCs, show some real examples, and we will produce a CFC in this session.

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    March 2005
    Title: ColdFusion MX 7 - What's New? Speaker: Brian Meloche

    Meeting Description:
    As it is the first meeting of the Cleveland CFUG, we will begin with a meet and greet. This will be followed by an overview of ColdFusion MX 7. ColdFusion MX 7 is one of the most significant upgrades in the 10-year history of the application server. Brian Meloche will show you what's new. We will be giving away a copy of CFMX 7 Standard Edition!

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