I gave an 8-hour class last week at CFUnited, geared towards Ajax Development for ColdFusion. As promised, you can find here all the material used, including slides, additional listings, and source code.
CFUnited if nothing else embraced new discussions like Duck Typing, IoC, AOP, and TDD. You may catch up or follow up with these links...
Duck Typing:
Model-Glue:Unity gets faster!
Duck Typing Preso / Code Available
Duck Typing and Documentation
Duck Typing is not about Performance
Duck Typing for Performance
Vy a Duck?
More on Duck Typing
CF Live! presentation on duck typing
Toward a New Orthodoxy
Duck Typing Ant Script
Duck Typing: Stop the Insanity
Duck Typing Dichotomy
ColdSpring and AOP:
How ColdSpring Implements AOP using a Decorator
Implementing AOP in CF using mixins
Blue Dragon 7 Features:
BlueDragon 7's New Features: A Detailed Look
Flash Extensibility:
flashextensibility.com
Flex 2:
RAD Flex 2 Development for CF Developers
Unit Testing:
CFUnited wrap up, Unit Testing and RHH
cfcUnit to get ant builder
Unit Testing Love Affair
Just landed in D.C. and traffic is horrible. It took me about an hour to get a cab, and now I'm seating in it moving at 5mph.
CFUnited's agenda looks amazing, though it has a strong competitor, the World Cup... See you all there.
Just a quick reminder for the South Florida people: I'll be speaking tomorrow at the CFUG, topic, more on Ajax. You'll have a chance to get the best from the last few conferences I've been, especially, the Ajax Experience, which was fantastic! Hope to see you all there.
If you didn't assist to my last session please get the slides here, and if you wish to be prepared and ask nice questions, you may find enclosed the slides I'll use tomorrow.
I'll be out for a few days for the Ajax Experience. The conference looks great and I'm really looking forward to meet some West Coast Ajax Gurus, which I haven't had a chance yet. I'm staying an extra couple of days, so if you're in the Bay area, drop me an email or stop by the conference.
I'll post my slides and a small review after the conference is over; probably this weekend.
So, for those who didn't know yet, I'm going to CFUnited! yeah! but not only that, I'm teaching a pre-conference class: CU214 - Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers. I was supposed to do a Breeze presentation tomorrow, and for those who RSVP'ed, I'm sorry... I postponed it to 6/8 ... I don't have the time right now.
The class has only 10 seats left, so if you are thinking of attending, hurry up ... it will sell out soon.
Hope to see you all there, I know you'll enjoy the session as much as I will.
You must check out this amazing hands-on agenda... There's almost too much content to grasp in a single event. The Ajax Experience is a must-assist event for the West Coast. Unlike Sys-con's Real World Ajax Seminar more generic level sessions, which are great btw for management level delegates, the Ajax Experience is geared towards developers with 90 minutes technical sessions.
see you all there.
Rob Gonda in AJAX101 session. This was the first session in room 135. This was originally a lab, but man, they did a great job with it some this conference. Two huge screens, perfect quality, built in mics, and room for over 100 people... 
Rob Gonda in AJAX301 session. This was the second session in lobby area... It wasn't as nice as the first room, the sound has having issues, there was too much bright for the screen, oh yeah, and it was right after lunch :) but anyways, the delegates were great, they asked good questions, and the conference as a whole was great! I'll definitely be there next year too.
yeah, I know ... those are the two best pictures, trust me... I was hoping to get more, but at least I'm glad we could salvage these ones.
We're still three month away from CFUnited, and there're only 20 spots left in my Ajax intensive class. The class is limited to 30 seats, which have never been sold out to-date, but IMO they will this time; and soon! If you are attending CFUnited, you must come in a day early and attend this class. Reserve your seat now before it's too late.
By the way, if you have any doubt of the material, please do not hesitate to drop me an email. I will also be giving a brief preview at CFLive, using Breeze next month. More details to be posted soon.
I just got back from dinning with Jeremy Geelan, a really nice guy I must insist. He gave a keynote at the conference, and I had two sessions. We had about 300 delegates, not bad at all. It was indeed the best conference and value ever for the $25 cover fee ;)
My first session was ajax101, a kickstart providing you all basic information on AJAX. The second, was an ajax301 (yes, I skept one) providing a higher level AJAX solution, using ColdFusion, Model Glue, AjaxCFC, and optionally XML Sockets. For this second session, I showed how to develop Ajax application without coding a single line of JavaScript (for some basic examples). Furthermore, you could reuse 100% of your traditional html application, including models, controllers, and even the views.
You can download the slides I used for the sessions, and I'll compile the examples I used soon too. Most of the examples are available though my ajaxCFC download, including all the Model Glue examples, sockets, etc ... except the Model Glue framework itself. I should make a copy available anyways, because I use a BER (head version on an svn server) version for all my examples.
I mentioned in my sessions that I will do my best to answer all questions and emails, and I keep my word. Please comment here or if it's too lengthy, just drop me an email.
I hope you enjoyed the sessions as much as I did.
p.s. more on other sessions and pictures to be posted soon.
Download slides for ajax101 and ajax301.
