CFUG Meeting moved to February 15

Due to scheduling snafus, we are going to reschedule the CFUG meeting for Feb 15. We will be having “API Rodeo”, show or tell about your favorite CF API’s and mashups. There will be pizza and beverages.

Meeting with be at 4900 North Lamar (Brown Heatly Building), from 1-3 PM. Check in with security desk for room assignment.

CFUG Meeting Jan 11, 2012

Austin CFUG meeting, Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012 @ Brown-Heatly Building, 4900 North Lamar, Austin. Speaker and Topic: TBA

Austin CFUG Meeting Oct 12- UPDATE

Austin CFUG Meeting, Wednesday, October 12, 1-3 PM. 4900 North Lamar Blvd @ Brown Heatly Building.
Co-manager Todd Sanders will discuss Adobe Max 2011, NCDevcon, and The BigTexas Android BBQ.

He will be talking about tons of new and exciting stuff going on adobe and the new features of CS 5.5 and about the new Adobe Cloud, Creating Mobile Apps cross platform with Adobe tools. You don’t want to miss this.

Here are a few key areas

ColdFusion 10 (Zeus)
CF9 Enhanced Caching
Creating CF Based Facebook Applications
Using Dreamweaver to Create a Mobile App
The Adobe Creative Cloud and what’s news with Adobe
Adobe and the Mobile Space
HTML5 vs Flash Don’t Believe the Hype.
Sneak Peaks of Adobe tools that will blow your mind.
And Many More.

You can either try to read a thousand blog posts or just come to the meeting and see the newest and greatest things going on in the CF/Adobe World.

Where else will you get 7 days of conference information in less than 2 hours, Don’t Miss Out!!

Thanks to Hal Helms

A big thank you to Hal Helms for the presentation and mention on his blog… http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/7/29/A-ColdFusion-Developer-Examines-Ruby-on-Rails-A-Night-in-Austin#more

CF Job Opportunity in Austin

Knox Technology Inc. is looking for a full time CF developer in Austin who can immediately begin contributing to our business.  We are a small software shop that specializes in talent management systems within the restaurant industry.  We have a 12 year history in this industry and plan to continue extending that.

Some of the high-level expectations for a developer on our team are as follows:
1.  Manage your time effectively so as to meet release schedules and client driven deadlines.  Use tools such as Assembla, Firebug, Xmarks, LastPass, Mylyn, etc. to create efficiency within your workflow.
2.  Work as efficiently and quickly as possible while maintaining a high level of quality.
3.  Write clear, clean, and concise code based on our standard coding principles.
4.  Contribute to the maintenance of Wiki/Code documentation to help developers understand the system and its processes more thoroughly.

Here are the more detailed technical requirements:
1.  Advanced CFML knowledge (up to version 9)
2.  Experience with CF 9 Enterprise and clustering
3.  Advanced T-SQL knowlege
4.  Basic knowledge of Fusebox 5
5.  Basic knowledge of MVC architecture
6.  Ability to translate business objectives into technical requirements
7.  Basic Ant script knowledge
8.  Basic Selenium + CFSelenium knowledge
9.  Intermediate ExtJS + javascript knowledge (up to version 4)
10.  Intermediate HTML + CSS knowledge (up to HTML 5.0 and CSS 3.0)

Here are the “bonus” technical skills that would be beneficial:
1.  Advanced Eclipse + CFEclipse + Subversive + Mylyn experience
2.  Management of SQL Analysis services
3.  Advanced knowledge of Hudson CI
4.  Intermediate to advanced knowledge of VMWare
5.  Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Flex 4
6.  Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Coldbox is a plus

If you live in the city of Austin and can fully meet the expectations and requirements of the position, please email your resume to micah@knoxtechnologyinc.com.  Cheers.

Hal Helms – CF Programmer’s Investigation of Ruby on Rails – July 27th 7pm

The World Famous and One of the Original
ColdFusion Guru’s in Austin One Night Only.

The Legendary Hal Helms
http://halhelms.com/

Speaking on
“A ColdFusion Programmer’s Investigation of Ruby on Rails”

July 27th at 7pm

MicroAssist, Inc.
8500 Shoal Creek
Building 4, Suite 225
Austin, TX 78757

http://www.microassist.com/contact-us/office-location/

CFUG/Flex Meetup, Wednesday, June 15

The Austin ColdFusion and Flex user groups are going to have a joint meetup at the Gingerman on June 15th at 7 pm. Come out, have a cold beverage and discuss all things CF and Flex.

The Gingerman is located at 301 Lavaca St.

CF Objective Presentation Archive

http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2011/5/19/cfobjective.presentations

Austin CFUG Meeting April 13th

Austin CFUG meeting April 13th, 1-3 pm at the Brown Heatly Building (4900 North Lamar).

Corey Butler will be covering recent work on the CFAmazon project. CFAmazon is an open source ColdFusion library designed to help integrate Amazon payment services into CF-based systems. The project supports Checkout By Amazon and the more recent addtion of Marketplace Web Services. The presentation will cover the basics of getting Amazon payments working with your site as well as how to quickly overcome some of the hurdles that have faced CF developers using Amazon services.
Read more here.

The slides have been posted at http://www.slideshare.net/goldglovecb/cfamazon-7608436 and the blog entries are available at http://www.coreybutler.com.

CFAmazon: MWS Support

An update to CFAmazon was just released on RIAForge and GitHub. The open source library was originally designed to help CF developers integrate Checkout By Amazon into their websites. The most recent update supports Marketplace Web Services (aka MWS), focusing on feed submission, reports, and scheduling. MWS is powerful and fairly in-depth, so feedback would be appreciated. Knowing how developers are using it (or want to use it) will only make the library better!