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My Presentation slides from cf.Objective, NCDevCon, and CFUnited

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:14:00 -0500

I keep forgetting to do this. Sorry :( I have given three presentations so far this year, and I will have 2 or three more et before the end of the year. Here are the slides for the first three in both Keynote and PDF formats. [More]

cf.Objective() preview presentations tomorrow night at Twin Cities CFUG

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:56:00 -0500

Tomorrow night at the Twin Cities CFUG meeting, Kurt Wiersma and I will each be presenting one of our cf.Objective() presentations. I think we each have three presentations to give at cf.O(). This is your opportunity to see two of the six early (or at all if you are not going to the conference for some bizarre reason). :) [More]

We have a winner!! cf.Objective() Pre-Conference Secure CMFL training

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:02:00 -0500

We had a great response to our contest to give away a seat at our "Building Secure CFML Applications" training at cf.Objective() next month. A total of 42 entries.

And the winner is

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Win a seat at Secure CFML Training at cf.Objective() in Minneapolis

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:10:00 -0500

Would you like to win a seat at the "Building Secure CFML Applications" pre-conference training at cf.Objective()? In case you don't know, Pete Freitag and I are offering a full-day training on writing secure applications with CFML at cf.Objective() 2010 in Minneapolis. The training will be on Wednesday the 21st of April, 2010 (which is the day before cf.O() starts). We are going to give away one seat at this training. [More]

cf.Objective() Preview

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:22:00 -0500

In April I will be presenting a lot of things at cf.Objective(). Here is a short list:

Secure CFML training

Pete Freitag and I will be doing a full-day training on building secure CFML applications. We are going to be taking a fun, pragmatic approach to the topic. We will start with an application that is full of vulnerabilities and we are going to hack that applications. We are actually going to deploy real attacks against the application to see how it works. We'll even use some hacker tools to automate attacks. By doing this we can better learn how to think like a hacker, which better enables us to code while thinking "how could this be exploited?". [More]

cf.Objective Preconference Training Opportunities

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:17:00 -0500

I hope everyone is aware of the cf.Objective() conference that takes place in Minneapolis/St. Paul every year. In case you are not, you should know that it is an absolutely AMAZING event. cf.Objective() is touted as "The World's Only Enterprise Engineering Conference for ColdFusion Developers". I have been to two cf.Objective() conferences so far, and this year will be my third. I am very excited about it. Two years ago, there was a two-day pre-conference training session held on the Mach-II framework. It was a very successful training (I believe they sold out every seat), but beyond that, it was a fantastic training. I attended it, and I loved it. I learned a lot. Last year they had ColdBox training prior to the conference. I did not attend that one, but I hear it was also great. This year, the organizers of cf.Objective() are trying the pre-conference training again, but with more training sessions. This year there will be six! [More]

I will be speaking at cf.Objective() 2010 on Security Topics (duh)

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:13:00 -0500

I received word last week that two of the topic proposals I submitted to the cf.Objective() planning committee were accepted. I am very excited and honored by this. It's nice to know that people think what I have to say is worth while. You may have guessed that I will be talking about security, since that seems to be what I enjoy talking about most. But this year will be a little different. [More]

Cross-Domain Requests in Adobe AIR - Security Series #13

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:33:00 -0500

At cf.Objective() this last week, one of the topics of discussion after Samer Sadek's excellent Adobe AIR presentation was about cross-domain restrictions in Adobe AIR applications written with JavaScript. I do not know if this discussion is relevant with AIR applications written with Flex. As many may know, and if you don't you should read up on this, most browsers implement a "same-origin" policy on JavaScript run within the browser. This means that JavaScript is free to use any resource available from within the domain that it is running, but it cannot use remote resources. [More]

It's almost time for cf.Objective()

Tue, 12 May 2009 15:05:00 -0500

I don't know about you, but I am REALLY excited about cf.Objective(). I only get to go to one conference a year, at cf.O() is it! I went last year, for the first time, and it was incredible. The sessions were fantastic, the networking was unparalleled, and the people there were so much fun to talk to and learn from. I am anticipating that this year will be even better. Last year, I did not know anyone in the community. There were only one or two people there that I knew before the conference began, but that changed quickly. This year, it will be like getting back together with old friends. This year I will be more involved with the conference, I have one presentation, and I will be "hosting" (if that is the right word) one Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session along with Bill Shelton. I am really looking forward to both. [More]

Geeks' Night Out - Star Trek at IMAX during cf.Objective()

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:56:00 -0500

One of the best times I had during last year's cf.Objective() conference was when a large group of us went to see Iron Man. This year, Troy Pullis (The manager of the Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group) is organizing an outing to see the new Star Trek movie at the IMAX Theater at the MN Zoo. I think this is a great idea and I have already signed up. It will be next Thursday Night @ 9:00, I plan on driving so I will be more than happy to take up to 5 people out there with me, so hit me up if you want a ride. Here are the details: http://www.webdh.com/startrek/

Looks like I'll be presenting at cf.Objective()

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:30:00 -0500

Last year, after attending cf.Objective(), I became really excited about blogging and learning more, and presenting something at cf.Objective() 2009 because a personal goal. I even added it to my list of goals for 2009 on my annual review at work. Now it looks like I will achieve that goal. Sweet. [More]

cf.Objective() short review. Wow!

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:27:00 -0500

cf.Objective() ended yesterday and I have to say that it was an amazing experience. I have never been so overwhelmed by info and yet excited about it all at the same time. The sessions and the speakers were outstanding, the accommodations were good, and the camaraderie was the best around. I got to meet many of my favorite bloggers, meet some of the super-talented experts in the field, and make some new friends. I really had a great time and I can hardly wait until next year.

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cf.Objective() Day 1

Sat, 03 May 2008 08:07:43 -0500

Well day 1 is over and it was great!

I spent the entire day at the conference and I was able to hear some great presentations and mingle with some really knowledgeable and friendly people.

As I said yesterday, Kurt Wiersma's Local Dev Presentation was great. It showed me a few things about setting up multiple CF environments about which I was not previously aware.

I then went to John Paul Ashenfelter's Agile boot camp and it was incredible. I'm not sure I have ever crammed in that much learning in so little time. I am already sold on Agile Development, and I am definitely going to try to put some of the practices into my personal projects.

I finished the day with Mark Drew's ~~Dreamweaver~~ CFEclipse Reloaded presentation (those brits are a funny bunch). He showed a great many tips and tricks and advanced features of CFeclipse. If you are using CFEclipse, you should attend this session.

I am still trying to sort out my schedule for today. We'll see how that goes.

cf.Objective().. so for, so awesome!

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:51:42 -0500

So far cf.Objective() has been awesome. I spent Wednesday and Thursday in Mach-II training with Kurt, Matt and Peter. That was great. I have been looking at the CF frameworks for a while, but I have been unable to hit the ground running becasue I could not get over the hump of learning how the control interacted with the model. Well, Team Mach-II really helped clear those things up for me and helped make much of this OO stuff just "click" with me.

Today begins the breakout sessions of the conference. The Adobe keynote was OK. Someone had a medical issue during the keynote, I hope he is OK. I'm not sure what happened, and since it is none of my business I am not going to inquire, I just really hope he is OK.

Kurt Wiersma is presenting on setting up a local production environment this morning. Really a great presentation. Some great resources on Source Code Control, Web Server setup and Multi-instance CF installs.

Getting ready for cf.Objective()

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:33:01 -0500

Sean Corfield says I need to get ready for cf.Objective(). Well, when Sean talks...

So I am getting ready for the several hands on sessions at cf.Objective(). Additionally, I am getting ready for the pre-conference Mach-II training with Matt, Peter and Kurt.

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