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!

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!

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

This month, Doug Hughes, President of Alagad Inc. presents 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.

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 month, Dan Wilson presents on How to get from Procedural Architecture to Object Orientation.

Description

If you would like to know how to migrate an existing procedurally programmed application into an object oriented one, grab a chair and sit for a while.

We'll discuss some sensible guidelines designed to help you make incremental changes towards OO nirvana.

We'll also look at lots of code samples, we all like code samples, right?

New Location

The meeting begins at 6:30 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!

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Ben Forta from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team will be in Cary, North Carolina to show us some very interesting features of the new platforms and to help prepare us for this exciting launch.

Our meeting host for this special event is Railinc, located at 7001 Weston Parkway, Cary NC. The meeting will begin at 6:00 sharp. Here is A map to the meeting location.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!

Map to meeting location at Railinc

January 23
6:00pm start time

Railinc,
7001 Weston Parkway
Cary NC 27513

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User Group Site: http://www.triangleuserexperience.org

Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe’s Ben Forta

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Ben Forta from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and help prepare us for this exciting launch.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!

Just one of numerous reminders you will receive about Ben Forta's presentation on Adobe's Flex 3 and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

Adobe will be providing some eats and a copy of Flex 3 (upon release) and CS3 Web Premium Suite to be raffled off during the event.

The meeting location is being provided by:

Railinc Corporate Headquarters
7001 Weston Parkway, Suite 200
Cary, NC 27513
Phone: 919.651.5000
Fax: 919.651.5402

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We would really appreciate it if you could RSVP for the event so that we have a rough idea of how many will be attending.

RSVP Link: http://tinyurl.com/389zrs 

See you there!