The third installment of OO Code Camp will be this Thursday March 26th at 6:00PM on campus with SRA International.

By now you should have submitted your homework from course 2. Those who submitted their files will have my comments before Thursday. If you've not yet done your home work, shame on you! I'll accept any homework turned in before 6PM today.

This session we'll go over the overall CFC design for our application and look at building Object Oriented structures into our Document Workflow Application. By the end of the class we'll have working functionality using our newly improved OO design.

As always, there will be an after course session at Champps - Southpoint for those wanting to network.

NSCU has a new opening in the Center for Integrated Pest Management.

Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education:

JAVA (using Struts and Eclispe), MS SQL and/or Oracle database development, excellent analytical, writing and verbal skills, project management, customer/client management, developing applications for biological systems, ability to work independently and within a group.

Bachelor of Science in Agriculturally related field (Entomology, Crop Science, Ag. Business Management) or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Experience with CSS and version control desired. 3 years experience developing using Cold Fusion OR 3 years Java, OR 3 years database management.

Essential Job Duties:

Application design and programming using ColdFusion or Java. Java programming using Struts and Eclispe IDE. Administer and manager MS SQL and Oracle databases. Work with clients to gather project specifications. Develop documentation/training materials for clients.

For more information and to apply, go here: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1237390903707

This week we follow Kurt Wiersma, as he takes us through Setting Up A Solid Local Development Environment.

Description

Learn about how you can setup a local development environment that closely mimics your production system. In this session we will discuss why a local development environment is important as well as how to setup a multiple instance install of ColdFusion with Apache virtual hosts. Couple this setup with a test database powered by MySQL and a solid source code control system and you have a powerful development environment setup on your workstation. Several tips and tricks will be presented to help you get the most out of this very important setup task that almost no developer should be without. No prequiste knowledge is required except for general computer skills.

Setting Up A Solid Local Development Environment

This week we follow J.J. Merrick, as he takes us through an Intro to jQuery for the CF Developer.

Description

J.J. Merrick gives an introduction to jQuery and shows several useful jQuery demo's and samples. He further discusses how you might use jQuery within your ColdFusion applications.

Intro to jQuery for the CF Developer

This week we follow Jason Dean, as he takes us through Application Security: Beyond SQL Injection.

Description

Surely there is more to this application security stuff than SQL injection. We've put in our so are we secure now? We are going to talk about some of the other threats against our applications. Things like: - Request Forgeries - Password Security - Cookies - Session Management SQL Injection is only the tip of the security iceberg. We need to be prepared for much more. As hackers become more sophisticated, so must we.

Watch Application Security: Beyond SQL Injection

For Attendees

Note: If you were not at course 1, there happens to be a few (3-4) openings. You must RSVP and previous attendees will be given preference.

The second installment of OO Code Camp is scheduled for Feb 26th. We'll begin at 6:00 PM with networking and Pizza (provided by Alagad) then move into the next phase of learning, designing an application.

In this course, we will design the beginnings of an application. We'll analyze the requirements, go through some Object Oriented exercises then work out the overall object design of the application in a collaborative manner. At the end of the course, we'll have the initial OO Design complete and talk about implementation.

For more details see the TACFUG site

Survey Results

A number of user groups have asked us more about running their own OO Code Camp. We recently took a survey of the course 1 attendees to gauge how we were doing. Here are anonymous results:

Rate The Level Of Content

Will you be continuing with the series?

Would you recommend this course to others?

What application should we build in class?

This was our very first OO Code Camp so we weren't really sure how to put this together or what levels to focus on. It seems we hit mid-market and were useful to most people. Most are going to continue with the series and we appreciate their persistence.

The first course briefly touched on Object Oriented Design principles and on the tools in ColdFusion to build applications in an Object Oriented fashion. The second course will be all about designing and building an application. From the survey results, it looks like we''ll be building a document tracking application.

Regardless, it should be a lot of fun for everyone. We'll report back our findings and how we can improve. As always, the materials will be available for other user groups if they wish to take this on.

This week we follow Josh Adams, ColdFusion product specialist, as he takes us through Scoping in ColdFusion.

Description

In this presentation, we cover the basics of ColdFusion variable scopes: what a scope is, what scopes ColdFusion provides, how you reference these scopes and, most importantly, the benefits of using scopes correctly and of referencing them consistently. We'll explain how, by proper use of ColdFusion's scopes your applications will perform better and more reliably.

Watch The Scoop on Scoping

The second installment of OO Code Camp is scheduled for Feb 26th. We'll begin at 6:00 PM with networking and Pizza (provided by Alagad) then move into the next phase of learning, designing an application.

In this course, we will design the beginnings of an application. We'll analyze the requirements, go through some Object Oriented exercises then work out the overall object design of the application in a collaborative manner. At the end of the course, we'll have the initial OO Design complete and talk about implementation.

For more details see the TACFUG site

Participant Survey

It is very important that previous OO Camp attendees fill out the OO Code Camp Survey for Course 1. We use this to tailor the course material to the student population, so answer honestly and fairly. Also, be sure and vote on the type of application we'll develop in class!

No longer just a cleansing product - AJAX is an important tool for any developer!

Bucky Schwarz will present 'AJAX from 10,000 Feet'. He will cover the basics of AJAX and demo examples using both JQuery as well as the new AJAX features in CF8.

For more details and to RSVP please visit the TACFUG site.

1/29/09 6:00 PM

SRA International

We got a good bit of interest, certainly more than enough to justify running OO Code Camp in RTP. So in 2009, TACFUG will put on a series of courses on Object Oriented programming in ColdFusion. These courses are designed for continuous attendance from the students. Ideally, you'd come to the first class and make all 4 or 5 classes. We know scheduling gets in the way, and we aren't running a concentration camp, we do, however, want the classes to move forward and to cover new material each time.

Jim and I will be teaching the class and we'll do the code camp in a practical hands-on style. The first installment of OO Code Camp will be Jan 29th and we'll begin at 6:00 with Pizza generously provided by Alagad and then move into our first class.

Participants should bring:

If you can not bring your own computer, you are still free to attend and take notes, though learning will be greatly enhanced by doing the exercises in class. We will build upon the lessons and concepts as the courses progress so if you intend to participate in future classes, you are strongly encouraged to attend the Jan 29th course

Our location will be the conference room on the 2nd floor at 2605 Meridian Parkway, Durham, North Carolina 27713.

We'll accept the first 20 RSVP's

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Directions

Map of Location

2605 Meridian Parkway,
Durham, North Carolina 27713

Directions: Park in front of building and enter through front doors. Suite 200 is located at top of stairs.