One of the Triangle's best recruiters, Ginger Tuck, let us know of a new opening with a great organization. Description:

Requirements

• 2 plus years of experience with Cold Fusion (Minimum of one year MX preferred)
• 2 plus years experience with Java Scripting required.
• 3 plus years general website development required.
• Experience with DHTML/CSS required
• Experience with JBOSS, Tomcat or Websphere experience required
• Familiarity with CVS or other Source Code repository required
• Understanding and working with Oracle relational databases is required

Nice To Have's

• Experience in development of web applications that interface and interact with a Java-based middle-tier environment highly desired
• Experience in an object-oriented architecture highly desired
• Knowledge of Perl highly desired
• Experience with PL/SQL, specifically reference cursors, highly desired.
• One plus years of package and procedure development using PL/SQL highly desired
• Experience with AJAX a plus
• Experience with Flash Programming a plus.
• Experience with PHP a significant plus.

Other Requirements

• Proven ability to create web interfaces and sites using the technologies listed above.
• Develop specifications and designs for projects
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to refocus priorities and schedules to meet changing business requirements
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting with staff, vendors, and users
• Four-year or advanced degree in a technical field

If you meet the requirements and want to find out more, then contact Ginger Tuck 919-293-0111/gtuck[at]cdsrtp.com. Tell her Dan sent ya.

Are you a ColdFusion developer in the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) area?

We've put together a brief survey to find out more about our members and what their interests are.

Your time is appreciated, and we also encourage you to share this link with others in the Triangle ColdFusion community.

The renowned and prodigious author Joey Lott will be coming to the Triangle to share his wealth of knowledge on Flex!

Saturday - 10/25/08 12:00-1:00 PM

Topic

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.

About the Speaker

Joey Lott is the author or co-author of "Flash 8 Cookbook", "Programming Flash Communication Server", and "ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook" (all O'Reilly titles). Joey has worked in the Internet industry since 1996 including co-founding RightSpring, Inc. and consulting for YourMobile/Premium Wireless Services (J2EE B2C application) and Ads.com (leading the development of a J2EE B2B application). He has been teaching Flash and ActionScript since 1999.

About Adobe Flex 3

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. More about Flex 3 at www.adobe.com/products/flex.

Location Beard Hall - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
301 Pharmacy Lane, Chapel Hill, NC, North Carolina 27599

Suggested parking and building location can be seen on this Google map.

Note: It is a gameday so parking will be hard to come by - arrive early!!

Please RSVP

This month Dan Wilson presents on Fun with ColdSpring. ColdSpring is a wonderful framework used when working with CFC based applications. Using ColdSpring effectively reduces the complexity of CC based applications, saves time, makes applications easier to understand and adds a nice tool to the Rapid Development toolkit. You should attend this meeting if you have an interest in CFC based architectures, or are currently working with CFCs.

If you think you might come, leave a comment on this article so I know how much Pizza to get.

The meeting begins at 6:00 and will be held at PStrat in a new Location:

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!

This Thursday, Jim Priest will present on "Introducing jQuery - a brief introduction to jQuery and unobtrusive JavaScript". Afterwards, I'll give a brief rundown of the interesting announcements from CFUnited and will take any questions.

If you think you might come, leave a comment on this article so I know how much Pizza to get.

The meeting begins at 6:00 and will be held at PStrat in a new Location:

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!

Our May meeting will be held Thursday May 22nd at 6:00PM. Dave Powell will be speaking on "Skinning Your Flex Applications".

Skinning your Flex Applications The purpose of the RIA is to present the user with a "rich" experience within your application, but Flex and AIR apps present a the highest level of potential (and complexity) for the Adobe developer. How do you balance complexity with the need to differentiate your application from every other Halo themed Flex app? From buttons to transitions and backgrounds, identify the highest impact mods to set your application apart.

Dave has been doing graphics and web design since WAY back...ok...since '97 or so. Starting with print design for major retailers and manufacturers such as Target, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, The Banana Republic, Fruit of the Loom, Vassarette, and Peds.

Not wanting to miss out on the dotcom "boom", he defected to a web startup company where he became an Art Director. Dave got tired of the developers breaking his designs, and so he picked up ColdFusion and never looked back. Seeking a bit of job security, and the familiar halls of his alma mater, he returned to the University of North Carolina where he currently manages IT projects of all types, and develops applications using Cold Fusion and Python. He also manages the Carolina Adobe User Group, and is an active member of the Triangle Area User Group.

The meeting begins at 6:00 and will be held at PStrat in a new Location:

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!

The inaugural CFLunch was a success! The next one will be on Friday, May 16th, 11:30am at the Chili's near Streets at Southpoint Mall. A CFLunch, as you know is a friendly, casual meeting for us to get together and shoot the breeze on a Friday. No agenda, no responsibilities, just good people having a good meal.

The restaurant address: 6917 Fayetteville Rd #102
Durham, NC
(919) 572-7878

If you are interested, leave a comment so we have a loose idea how much room to reserve!

Just a friendly reminder, Doug Hughes, President of Alagad Inc. presents tonight on Patterns and Techniques for Data Persistence and Access.

Virtually all web applications depend on storing and retreiving data of some sort. The most common place this data is stored is a database, however developers also may use other systems such as flat text files, web services, and more. Furthermore, the ways in which data are stored tend to be different from what our applications require. The way in which we interact with this data can have a dramatic impact on our applications. As a result, a number of design patterns and techniques have arisen to help make data interaction more manageable. In this presentation we will cover some of the more basic data access design patters such as Data Access Objects and Gateways as well as more advanced techniques and patterns like Active Record and metadata based persistance techniques.

10 Laboratory Drive, Building 2
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Directions: From I-40, take the Davis Drive exit (280).
Turn right at the end of the ramp.
Turn right onto Laboratory Drive (if you reach Cornwallis Road, you've gone too far).
Turn right at 10 Laboratory Drive.
Veer left and drive around back to get to the main entrance for the building on the left (Building 2).
The meeting space is on the second floor.

See you there!

Friday April 25th at 11:30, we'll be having a CFLUNCH at the Sunset Grille in Durham, about a half mile from the Southpoint Mall. This will be a friendly, casual meeting for us to get together and shoot the breeze on a Friday. No agenda, no responsibilities, just good people having a good meal.

The Sunset Grille has a really good Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, probably the best in the Triangle. You can see the rest of the Lunch Menu here.

To help us get an idea of which tables to reserve, if you wanna come, please leave a comment on this posting.

Credit to the illustrious Jim Priest for getting this started

To help keep folks informed of the TACFUG meetings, we've established a public Calendar. We'l put our meetings and any other important CF related stuff on there and you can keep up using:

• XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/calendar%40tacfug.org/public/basic
• iCal: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/calendar%40tacfug.org/public/basic.ics
• HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/tacfug.org/embed?src=calendar%40tacfug.org&ctz=America/New_York

There is also a page up on TACFUG at http://tacfug.org/blog/page.cfm/Meeting-Calendar