Introduction to ColdSpring

Nolan Erck will be presenting the following:

ColdSpring is a long-standing ColdFusion toolkit that handles all of the "dependency injection" and "inversion of control" for our web apps. Lost already? Perfect. :) We'll give a plain-English intro to these topics, walking through when you might want to use all/some/little/none of ColdSpring while developing your app. It's quite easy to start using ColdSpring, and we'll show some different real-world situations when it can make certain programming tasks much easier! (Some familiarity with CF Components will be helpful, but you don't need experience with full-blown frameworks to use ColdSpring.)

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From Nolan's blog:

Nolan Erck has been developing software professionally for more than 14 years, starting in the video game industry as a Tools Programmer advancing to web development in 1999. He has worked on high profile projects for LucasArts, Maxis, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Schools Credit Union, and Alive N Kicking Magazine among others. His list of credits includes Grim Fandango, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, SimPark, and SimSafari, as well as high-traffic websites for a variety of technology based companies.

Nolan currently co-manages the Sacramento ColdFusion User Group and is an active member of the Web Developer community, giving presentations on Object-Oriented Programming and Web Development for groups across Northern California. Nolan is also certified in Adobe ColdFusion, and is an in-demand consultant, providing training and development experience for a variety of companies.

When he's not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.