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WHEN: Thurs. Nov 5, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
What time is the meeting in your timezone? (shows the time as US ET, and you can choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone)

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our noon (US ET) talk on Thursday Nov 5 will be Brian Meloche presenting, "LightFront: Go From Zero to Hero in 60 Minutes or Less".

TOPIC DESCRIPTION:

You may not have heard of LightFront yet. It's a new MVC framework for ColdFusion - http://lightfront.riaforge.org/. It's a pragmatic framework designed with a combination of computer science, street smarts and fundamentals. Unlike all the other MVC frameworks, LightFront is designed to be easy to understand and simple to use. This framework is simple enough that a junior developer can pick it up.

After attending this session, you will literally know everything there is to know about LightFront, and, if you follow along, you can have a small LightFront application built at the end of this session. I know, I know, it sounds crazy... but trust me, you'll be able to do this in under an hour. Just download a copy of LightFront and install it at your webroot... and we'll get you going by the end of the session.

There's more to LightFront than that... but you'll have to wait until the meetup to find out... unless you go to http://lightfront.riaforge.org/ to find out more before then.

SPEAKER:

A veteran ColdFusion developer since 1998, Brian Meloche is a longtime contributor to the Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire community. He's probably best known within the ColdFusion community as the producer and host of the CFConversations podcast. He has been an Adobe Community Expert in ColdFusion since 2007. He's been involved in user groups since 2003. He is the co-founder and current manager of the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group. He is the founder and is both the former manager and co-manager of the Cleveland Adobe Users Group (formerly the Cleveland Macromedia Users Group). He is also the founder and was the original manager of the the West Virginia Macromedia User Group, now called KVWILD. He has also been involved in several efforts to help bring the user group communities closer together, and has mentored several user group managers get their groups going. Brian has also written several articles for the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and Fusion Authority.

A Windsor, Ontario, Canada native, Brian moved to the U.S. in 2000 late in the dot-com boom, and survived the dot-com bomb, working as a consultant at various companies throughout the mid-west and Southern U.S. Since 2004, Brian has worked at a successful wholesaler in Cleveland, where he was recently promoted to the position of Senior Technical Analyst. Brian has been involved in several large enterprise web projects using ColdFusion. Brian lives in Cleveland with his wife, Julie, as well as several dogs and cats they have rescued.

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

PODCAST/DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:
We are still attempting to make this meeting available as a downloadable recording. If/when available, they will be listed on the recordings page within a few days of the meeting. Until then, you can find discussion of the challenges creating such downloadable recordings here.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE "LOGIN AS GUEST" option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it's not mandatory and it's not a commitment. But there's no need to RSVP if you can't make it let alone explain why you can't. With over 1,900 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? See link on the right of the event page saying, "Add this meeting to your calendar", which offers links to get calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars.

WHEN: Thurs. Oct 29, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
What time is the meeting in your timezone? (shows the time as US ET, and you can choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone)

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our noon (US ET) talk on Thursday Oct 29 will be Doug Hughes presenting , "Using Ant to Deploy ColdFusion Application".

TOPIC DESCRIPTION:

Ant is a fantastic tool for deploying applications. It's widely used in the Java world, but is under utilized by ColdFusion developers? What can it do? Pretty much all the tedious steps you currently do manually! In this presentation I'll give an overview of Ant as well as demonstrate CFAnt, which is an open source suite of Ant tasks that implement all of the features of the ColdFusion admin API!

SPEAKER:

Doug Hughes is a veteran programmer and the president of Alagad Inc (http://www.alagad.com), a successful small business specializing in web and application development, services and consulting. Doug also publishes a popular blog covering ColdFusion and other technical topics at http://www.doughughes.net.

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

PODCAST/DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:
We are still attempting to make this meeting available as a downloadable recording. If/when available, they will be listed on the recordings page within a few days of the meeting. Until then, you can find discussion of the challenges creating such downloadable recordings here.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE "LOGIN AS GUEST" option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it's not mandatory and it's not a commitment. But there's no need to RSVP if you can't make it let alone explain why you can't. With over 1,900 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? See link on the right of the event page saying, "Add this meeting to your calendar", which offers links to get calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars.

WHEN: Thurs. Oct 15, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
What time is the meeting in your timezone? (shows the time as US ET, and you can choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone)

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Oct 15 will be Doug Boude presenting , "Coldbox App. Development: Twelve Step Program".

TOPIC DESCRIPTION:

This presentation is actually a distillation of an 8 hour training session that Doug did for a local San Antonio company. In it, Doug shares his own personal thought processes, approaches, and methodologies for going from idea to a Coldbox application, and will provide a high level overview of the Coldbox framework and some brief code demonstrations to illustrate the implicit nature of Coldbox.

SPEAKER:

Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud') is the Senior Developer for Mason Catastrophe Claims Services based in the quaint hamlet of Boerne, Texas. He has been in the IT industry since 1992, hung ten on the first internet wave when it came his way in 1996, and has been crafting web based solutions with Coldfusion since version 4.0. His super powers include most any flavor of SQL, Javascript, Ajax, VB, and OOP with Coldfusion.

Some fun facts about Doug:
· He was organically grown in the wooded farmlands of north central Missouri;
· At the age of 19 he joined the Air Force, moved to the Great State of Texas, and disarmed bombs for the military and Secret Service for the next 5 years;
· He has reproduced 7 times (one of those being a clone), inherited 4 step kids, has one grandchild, and a new baby of his own on the way;
· Is and has always been an autodidact;
· Harbors a great appreciation for the processes of anaerobic respiration and distillation;
· Was born in the sign of water on a frigid Sunday morning in 1966;
· Is greatly intrigued by human language and makes it a point to learn at least a pinch of as many as possible;
· Is an outdoorsman who is more at home trapping beaver in the frozen woodlands than anywhere else;
· Tends to be much more of an "arthropod man" than a cat or dog man (which is why I LOVED "District 9"!!);
· Oh, and he adores solving problems of all kinds!
Doug blogs at www.dougboude.com, is on Facebook at facebook.com/dougboude, twitters at dougboude, (seeing a pattern here?) and chats on Digsby and gtalk at dougboude as well.

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

PODCAST/DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:
We are still attempting to make this meeting available as a downloadable recording. If/when available, they will be listed on the recordings page within a few days of the meeting. Until then, you can find discussion of the challenges creating such downloadable recordings here.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE "LOGIN AS GUEST" option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it's not mandatory and it's not a commitment. But there's no need to RSVP if you can't make it let alone explain why you can't. With over 1,900 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? See link on the right of the event page saying, "Add this meeting to your calendar", which offers links to get calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars.

There will be no meeting on Oct 8, in either the noon or 6pm US ET time slot. Max and other conflicts have precluded the planned meeting (no fault of the planned speaker).

We will have two sessions on Oct 15, and I'll post that announcement late next week.

As always, we welcome having speakers on any topic related to CF, new or old, advanced or beginner. Drop me a note at charlie at carehart.org if interested, and see speak.coldfusionmeetup.com for more information.

WHEN: Thurs. Sep 24, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
What time is the meeting in your timezone? (shows the time as US ET, and you can choose your city from the list offered to see what time that is in your own timezone)

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Sep 24 will be Sidney Maestre presenting , "Mango Blog Skinning Start to Finish".

TOPIC DESCRIPTION:

Mango Blog is an open source blogging engine. You can customize the look through downloadable "themes". This presentation will focusing on taking a WordPress theme and adapting it for use in Mango Blog. Our focus will be the mango tags and mango extra tags used in themes. The techniques in this presentation can also be applied to your own designs as well. http://www.mangoblog.org/

SPEAKER:
Sid Maestre
sid.maestre@designovermatter.com

Graduating with a History degree I never thought I'd have a career in programming. I discovered ColdFusion in 1998 (version 3.1) and was immediately impressed with the power of a few simple tags. I've done consulting over the years through my company design over matter. I also worked for roundpeg consulting in 2000-2002.

I joined the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group as co-manager in July 2008 and became the manager in April 2009.

Follow me on Twitter at "SidneyAllen".
Company site: http://www.designovermatter.com

When I'm not coding you'll find me playing with my two daughters Madeleine (age 4) and Olivia (21 months). Those rare moments I get for myself are spent mountain biking, snowboarding or running.

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

PODCAST/DOWNLOADABLE RECORDINGS:
We are still attempting to make this meeting available as a downloadable recording. If/when available, they will be listed on the recordings page within a few days of the meeting. Until then, you can find discussion of the challenges creating such downloadable recordings here.

LOGGING IN: When you login to the Connect room (the experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup link above) to view the meeting, PLEASE USE THE "LOGIN AS GUEST" option, and USE YOUR NAME, but do NOT attempt to use your meetup.com username/password or any Connect account. Just sign in as a guest.

RSVP, but only if coming: We do appreciate folks RSVPing if they plan to come (using the link on this email or at the meetup site), though it's not mandatory and it's not a commitment. But there's no need to RSVP if you can't make it let alone explain why you can't. With over 1,900 members, no worries. :-)

FEEDBACK/MEETING DISCUSSION: Members will receive an email after the meeting or can click a link on the event page to offer. Note also the meeting-specific discussion area there at the bottom, in addition to the one-chance feedback feature on the right. Feel free to engage in discussions about the meeting topic.

ADD THIS TO YOUR CALENDAR: Want to add this event to your own personal calendar? See link on the right of the event page saying, "Add this meeting to your calendar", which offers links to get calendar downloads for Outlook, iCal, Google, and Yahoo calendars.