WHAT: Nashville ColdFusion User Group October Meeting

DATE: Thursday, October 23, 2008
TIME: 6:00 PM Food — 6:30 PM Presentation
LOCATION: Produce Alliance (One Vantage Way Suite C-200 Nashville, TN 37228 )

PRESENTATION:
Introduction to jQuery for the ColdFusion developer

J.J. Merrick will give an introduction to jQuery and show some code demonstrations.

** All attendees must RSVP by sending an e-mail to rsvp AT ncfug DOT com. ** Go to our brand spanking new website and use the RSVP mechnism! http://www.ncfug.com

SPEAKER BIO:
J.J. currently works as a ColdFusion developer with almost 10 years of development under his belt. He specializes in UI design and Customer experience. Past projects include managing a CMS/Web Builder for Churches, a loyalty shopping system for non-profits and Back office systems for Multi-Level Marketing companies. He currently works for Otis Technologies in Brentwood, TN where he is a product developer managing an Ordering system for a Big Box retailer and a “Prosumer” project management application called SpotOn! (http://www.spotonpm.com) He recently acquired eChurchOnline.com from a previous partner and is working on growing that company in his spare time. He resides in Nolensville, TN with his wife Elaine and 3 children; Hannah, River, and Evan.

ACROBAT CONNECT INFORMATION:
This meeting will be broadcast via Acrobat Connect. Click the link below to join the meeting.

http://mmusergroup.adobe.acrobat.com/ncfug/

OFFICERS:
User Group Manager: Aaron West (trajik210 AT gmail DOT com)
Assistant Manager: J.J. Merrick (jay AT cyber-jay DOT com)

SPONSOR INFO:
This meeting is sponsored by Dealerskins (http://www.dealerskins.com) and Vaco Technology (http://www.vacotechnology.com). We thank them for their support. Food and drinks will be provided.

GIVEAWAYS:
A few copies of Learning jQuery and the jQuery Reference Guide courtesy of Packt Publishing
Adobe T-Shirts and a ColdFusion 8 hat

COMMENTS/TOPIC SUGGESTIONS:
Please e-mail all comments and topic suggestions to Aaron West (trajik210 AT gmail DOT com) or J.J. Merrick (jay AT cyber-jay DOT com).

DATE: July 31, 2008
TIME: 6:00 PM Food — 6:30 PM Presentation
LOCATION: Dealerskins (404 BNA Dr. Nashville, TN 37217)

Special thanks to Dealerskins and eChurchOnline for providing the meeting space and the pizza.

(Want to sponsor the pizza for a meeting? Contact me via the contact me link and we can talk. It is cheaper then you think!)

PRESENTATION:
Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM

When developing an Object Oriented web based application, it is normal to have a database with relational tables and a series of objects that represent that data. Often, the amount of time and effort it takes to manually map these objects back and forth from a database is large, and can be very costly. Object Relational Mappers (ORM) were developed to cut down the amount of time this process takes, and automate the translation between a relational database and an Object Oriented system. Transfer ORM’s main focus is to automate the repetitive tasks of creating the SQL and custom CFCs that are often required when developing a ColdFusion application. Through a central configuration file Transfer knows how to generate objects, and how to manage them and their relationships back to the database. This presentation will outline the basics of what an Object Relational Mapper is, the use case for using one within web application development, as well as taking a code centric, step by step view of how to install, configure and use the basic functionality of Transfer ORM.

** All attendees must RSVP by sending an e-mail to rsvp AT ncfug DOT com. **

SPEAKER BIO:
Mark Mandel is the author of several open source projects, most notably Transfer ORM and JavaLoader and has been has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90’s. Mark can often be found blogging and consulting at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion, Java and various other aspects of software development for several years. He can also be found as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists as well as generally causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network. When he’s not too busy writing open source software and consulting he enjoys spending his extra time getting beaten up, training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.

ACROBAT CONNECT INFORMATION:
This meeting will be broadcast via Acrobat Connect.

Visit the meeting detail page for the link.

I am a large fan of coffee. I love it just about anyway I can get it. I am also a fan of small businesses so every time I go to a Starbucks it makes me cringe. Living in Franklin, TN you find that there are VERY few independent coffee shops in the Cool Springs area so I was shocked and amazed when one opened up in the new Meridian area off Carothers. My company used to have an office right next to the new development so I was interested to go over and check it out.

I had a few hours to kill before an appointment so I decided to find some wifi. I decided that Panera didn’t sound very cozy so I headed over to the new Paccini’s Tazza d’Oro Caffe to give it a try. I ordered my usual, Americano with White Chocolate Syrup and no room, and sat down for a few hours of coding.

First off the real kicker are how comfortable is the seating? They had nice leather lounge chairs that were scattered throughout the front along with lines of tables in the back. I settled in to one of these lounge chairs and I was very impressed. There was a couple of power outlets and the internet was nice and free.

The coffee was great. It had a nice warm aroma to it that made it not too sweet and very smooth. It was bold but not bitter.

All in all it was a good atmosphere and I look forward to another trip and taste the drip coffee of the day.

Price: $
Power outlets: 3/5
Espresso: 4/5
Coffee: N/A (Will update when I try it again)

Location:

Paccini’s Tazza d’Oro Caffe
2000 Meridian Boulevard, Suite 120
Franklin, TN 37067