Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday May 20 will be "Living in the Cloud: CFML Apps on Google App Engine", with Matt Woodward begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting & Peter Farrell.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

If you want to take advantage of the power of cloud computing but want to focus on applications instead of server infrastructure, you owe it to yourself to check out Google App Engine. Google App Engine lets you deploy applications to Google's infrastructure with the push of a button, and the best part is that for many applications it's entirely free of cost.

In this presentation we'll discuss both the benefits and downsides of living in the cloud, outline how Google App Engine differs from other cloud solutions, and demonstrate how to build and deploy a simple CFML application to Google App Engine using Open BlueDragon, which is the only CFML engine compatible with Google App Engine.

If you're interested in running your CFML applications in the cloud come get in on the ground floor, because with a few simple tips and tricks, it's all clear skies.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acroba...
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.col...

SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Matt Woodward

Matt Woodward is Principal IT Specialist for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms at the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nebraska, a Master of Music degree from Wichita State University, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.

Matt has been working with CFML since 1996, and is a member of the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, the CFML Advisory Committee, the Free Software Foundation, the League for Programming Freedom, and the Association for Computing Machinery. Matt lives with his girlfriend and a menagerie of four-footed friends in Bothell, WA.

Peter Farrell

Hailing from the frigid tundra of Minnesota, Peter J. Farrell has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While studying music, Peter took his life-long interest with computers to a new level and started learning about web development technologies. He has been working with CFML since 2001 and is the lead developer of the Mach-II framework since 2005.

Peter is a Senior Technologist for GreatBizTools, a human resources consulting firm. He and his wife, Allyson, live together in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

WHEN: Thurs. May 20, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

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