Tonight we had the honor of Ray Camden staying up till 1am his time to present to us @ 6pm NZ time.

The meeting was the NZ ColdFusion UG June meeting, and the topic was CF8 Ajax Goodness

After a couple of technical issues (involving screen issues and incorrect Connect meeting rooms on my part...*cough*) we got the meeting under way.

Ray, as always, gave a great presentation which promoted good discussion in the group afterwards.

So a big thanks to Ray for his continued giving of time and energy to the community!

The recording URL is https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p21985414/ and I have also added it to UGTV

Enjoy!

With great appreciation, I am happy to announce that Ray Camden will be presenting to the New Zealand ColdFusion User Group live via Adobe connect.

He is going to sacrifice sleep at 1am his time to present to us on Thursday 5th June.

The topic is yet to be confirmed, so keep an eye on http://www.cfug.org.nz for the topic.

The meeting will be broadcast ,recorded and open to all to join, so check out the CFUG website for details!

This is the second time Ray has done this for us, and last time was a great success!

Meeting Details:

This month is being sponsored by Shift.co.nz and will be held at their offices

RSVP: http://nzcfug.eventbrite.com/

Date Thursday, June 5, 2008

Time 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm

Location Shift Offices, Level 3, National Equity House 75 Queen Street Auckland, 0100 New Zealand (Aotearoa)

Just noticed this on a mailing list:

Transfer 1.0 Release Candidate - Out Now!

Well done Mark!

Mark presented to the NZCFUG last year on TransferORM.

I'll be downloading Transfer 1.0 soon to have take it for a spin!

Last Thursday at the NZ CFUG group we tried something new.

For the first time we watched a recording of a Connect meeting and had discussion about it once it finished.

After voting by the CFUG members for the topic, "Practical Code Generation" by Peter Bell was chosen.

About this Presentation (taken from UGTV):

A 20-30 minute preview session of my full session where we'd learn how to generate your applications in a fraction of the time by using the latest techniques proven to reduce application development times - from Software Product Lines to Domain Specific Languages.

The meeting was given to the "Online ColdFusion User Group" a couple of months back.

I've heard the phrase "Domain Specific Languages" (DSL) thrown round a bit and generally I nodded my head hoping the person using it wouldn't ask me about it, as I didn't really know what it meant...

In the presentation Peter took some pains to explain what a DSL is and how they can be used in code generation.

I found it to be a highly information presentation, so kudos to Peter Bell for this and also Charlie Arehart for running (and recording) the meeting

The link to the recording is here: https://admin.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p26665304/, so have a look when you get a chance!

PS: there can *never* be enough TLA's in the world! *NEVER*!

Straker have just announced that Web on the Piste is happening again.

The conference is a deliberately smaller conference of only the low hundreds of attendees available. This means you get get access to the speakers to talk to between sessions etc.

The years theme is "Usability and Rich Internet Technologies" and one of the speakers that has been secured at this stage is Robert Hoekman Jr, author of the best selling book "Designing the Obvious" with more speakers to come.

So it could be good.

Last year I organized User Groups on the Piste which was a chance to get the Adobe Development community together to hang out and talk geek. If you are coming this year, keep an ear out for this event, as I am hoping to organize (or help organize) something similar again.

New Zealand has 2 official Adobe User groups:

- http://www.cfug.org.nz

- http://www.fxug.org.nz

so WOTP is a good chance to get us all together in one place!

Just a follow up on a previous entry to let all interested know that the RSVP for Wellington and Auckland are open for the special FXUG meeting at the end of the month!

http://nzfug.eventbrite.com

See you there!

At the end of February, the New Zealand Flex User Group, in association with the New Zealand ColdFusion User Group are having a special event!

Seats will be limited, so be ready to RSVP ASAP when you can! The RSVP site will be announced soon! (promise) See http://www.fxug.org.nz and http://www.cfug.org.nz/fxug for more details! I'd suggest signing up on the Flex User Group's mailing list too!

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of having Kay Smoljak present to the NZ CFUG group.

For those of you who's legs fell off and couldn't make it, here is the recording URL: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p60587015/

We had a great virtual turn out!

Thanks again Kay

I just did a quick "Connect" test run with Kay in preparation for tomorrow's CFUG New Zealand meeting, and it's all good!

Another heading for this topic could be "CSS for Developers".

The meeting connect meeting room will be open @ 5:45pm, and the main event kicking off @ 6pm.

To Attend remotely, use the URL http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/newzealandcfug/ (All you need is Flash Player installed on your system and a good Internet connection)

See you there!

Topic:

CSS and Web standards

Meeting Details:

Thursday 1st November

Start time: 5:45pm (New Zealand time)

End Time: 7:30pm(approx)

Location: Straker Interactive Ltd,

Suite 5B Cathedral House,

48-52 Wyndham Street, Auckland,

New Zealand

Ben Forta (aka Mr ColdFusion) is coming down under!

He is going to be in Australia in November.

Dates:
* November 20th: Sydney
* November 21st: Brisbane
* November 22nd: Melbourne
* November 27th: Perth

Geoff Bowers of webDU fame announced this on the cfAussie Google group here

If you are round, make sure you go and take as many of your friends as possible!

In the mean time, I'll see if there is anyway us in NZ can connect it to at least one of the meetings... will keep you posted!

Well, it's all over for this year...

Web on the Piste has come and gone.

Day 0

I flew in to Queenstown on Tuesday, and we had "User Groups on the Piste" @ 4pm - 6pm that evening.

This was an event put on by New Zealand's ColdFusion and Flex User groups.

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