David Harris's Technology Blog - CFUG

Adobe Community Road Show Coming to Auckland!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:32:00 -0500

This Thursday http://www.cfug.org.nz/ and http://www.fxug.org.nz/ are hosting an Adobe Roadshow event with http://www.markszulc.com/blog/2009/06/22/flash-catalyst-builder-cf-tour-headed-to-auckland-nz/,Mark Szulc. Come along to hear more about Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst and CF9! I will attempt to broadcast the meeting on http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/nzcfug/, all going well! Related Links: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/1b5f77b054 http://nzroadshow.eventbrite.com/ http://labs.adobe.com/ See you there!

NZCFUG this week: Mango Blog 101

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:20:00 -0500

Just a quick note to announce what this months NZ CFUG topic. I'm going to do an intro to http://www.mangoblog.org The meeting will be broadcast live @ 6pm NZ time, so feel free to log in an watch if you like! I'll put the Connect link up here: http://cfug.eventbrite.com/ before the time, so watch that space!. The reason we are covering this is that there was a general interest in the group to review (free) pre-baked CMS solutions. While Mango is really a blogging tool, it can be used as a CMS too. In the upcoming months I am hoping to get Presentations from http://www.getmura.com/,Mura( CMS formally known as ~~Prince~~ Sava) and http://www.farcrycore.org/,Farcry. If you know of other free ColdFusion CMS solutions, please let me know so I can include them in the line up!

NZ CFUG: Mark Mandel on Transfer

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:27:00 -0500

Only 2 days till the next NZ Cfug meeting. This month we are going to have Mark Mandel giving us his "Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM" presentation live via Adobe Connect. We attempted to have this last month, but due to technical issues last month [cough]VPN[cough] Mark agreed to give it this month. This month we are meeting for the first time at http://projectpartner.com/,ProjectPartner, so a big thank you to them! The meeting will be broadcast via Connect on the URL http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/nzcfug/, so feel free to sit in if you are round @ 6pm (NZ time) on the 6th November. If you RSVP (remote or in person) and are based in NZ, you'll be in the prize draw too! RSVP: http://nzcfug.eventbrite.com/ See you there!

CF8 Ajax Goodness - Ray Camdens Recording

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:07:00 -0500

Tonight we had the honor of http://www.coldfusionjedi.com,Ray Camden staying up till 1am his time to present to us @ 6pm NZ time. The meeting was the http://www.cfug.org.nz,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 http://carehart.org/ugtv/list.cfm,UGTV Enjoy!

Ray Camden Presenting to New Zealand CFUG

Fri, 30 May 2008 21:52:00 -0500

With great appreciation, I am happy to announce that Ray Camden will be presenting to the http://www.cfug.org.nz,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)

Transfer 1.0 ORM is released!

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:56:00 -0500

Just noticed this on a mailing list: http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=303,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!

I know what DSL is now, thanks to Peter Bell!

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:22:00 -0500

Last Thursday at the http://www.cfug.org.nz,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 http://www.carehart.org/ugtv/, 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 "http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/,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 http://www.pbell.com,Peter Bell for this and also http://www.carehart.com,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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA,TLA's in the world! *NEVER*!

RIA conference In Queenstown, New Zealand - Web on the Piste - take2

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:09:00 -0500

http://www.shadocms.com,Straker have just announced that http://www.webonthepiste.com,Web on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piste,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 http://www.rhjr.net/,Robert Hoekman Jr, author of the best selling book "http://www.rhjr.net/dto,Designing the http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032145345X/sr=8-1/qid=1152842482/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1533809-8419167?ie=UTF8,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!

Disclaimer: at this stage I am currently employed by Straker, but only for one more week! ;-)

RSVPs open for Special New Zealand Flex User Group Meeting!

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:17:00 -0500

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!

NZ Flex User Group Meeting you won't want to miss!

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:11:00 -0500

At the end of February, the http://www.fxug.org.nz,New Zealand Flex User Group, in association with the http://www.cfug.org.nz,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 http://groups.google.com/group/nzfxug,mailing list too!

Kay's CSS recording

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:48:00 -0500

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of having http://kay.smoljak.com/,Kay Smoljak present to the http://www.cfug.co.nz,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

Kay Smoljak @ CFUG NZ tomorrow - all systems are go! (and you are invited)

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:51:00 -0500

I just did a quick "Connect" test run with http://kay.smoljak.com/,Kay in preparation for tomorrow's http://www.cfug.co.nz/,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 to visit Downunder

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:59:00 -0500

http://www.forta.com/blog/,Ben Forta (aka Mr ColdFusion) is coming down under! He is going to be in http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/25/Australia-Here-We-Come,Australia in November. Dates:
* November 20th: Sydney
* November 21st: Brisbane
* November 22nd: Melbourne
* November 27th: Perth

Geoff Bowers of http://www.webdu.com.au/,webDU fame announced this on the cfAussie Google group http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie/browse_thread/thread/6707f2065557984f,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!

Web on the Piste, the debrief.

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:01:00 -0500

Well, it's all over for this year... http://www.webonthepiste.com,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 http://www.cfug.co.nz,ColdFusion and http://www.fxug.org.nz,Flex User groups. [More]

One hour out from "User Groups on the Piste"

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:50:00 -0500

One hour till http://www.cfug.co.nz/wotp,User Groups On The Piste kicks off! Sorry everyone, I didn't get the name tags done in time! :-( Don't forget, you can attend remotely if you can't be here in person!