For the month of May, the IECFUG will be throwing a launch party to celebrate the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud.  This will take place on May 24^th at Cal Poly Pomona (more details below).  We will have some swag and other goodies to give away for the evening.

Also, James Barcellano has graciously agreed to give a presentation on dynamic stylesheets. If you’ve never worked with dynamic stylesheets before, like LESS, then you’ll be in for a treat.

 

It’ll be a fun night of learning, networking, and winning free stuff.  And of course, there will be free pizza and drinks for all, so don’t miss out.

Details:
May 24th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

For the month of March, the IECFUG is pleased to announce that we'll have Joseph Lamoree presenting on workflow automation with ColdFusion.

Joseph will demonstration how automation can improve application development, testing, and deployment, and will be focusing on the lifecycle of crafting a CFML application using a workflow that automates and standardizes several aspects:

• Prerequisites, considerations, and problem description

• Creating a CFML app that Ant can build for any environment

• Using Ant to prepare a path with all dependencies (frameworks, libraries, etc.)

• Using Jenkins to trigger builds when a Git branch has new commits

• Setting up Jenkins master/slave nodes on multiple platforms

• Deploying a CFML application to multiple servers/platforms

• Automating MX Unit and Selenium tests and monitoring failures

• Working in a development team using Git branches

So don't miss this free opportunity to learn about automation, enhance your skills, and network with other local developers.

Details:
March 15th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

For our February meeting, I'm please to announce that our own Luis Majano has agreed to speak about his latest endeavor – ContentBox.

ContentBox is a modular platform that is a content management system (CMS), blog, and much more all wrapped into one.  From what I’ve seen ContentBox looks amazing and I can’t wait to see what Luis has to show us.

So don’t miss this opportunity to learn about an awesome product from one of the best in the business.  And, as always, we'll have free pizza and drinks for all attendees and time for networking before the presentation.

Details:
February 9th, 2012 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about our monthly meetings and to reserve free event parking.  Signing up is easy and can be done via the Mailing List widget on the right-hand sidebar.

This December meeting is the last of 2011 and we want to make it real special.  We will be hosting a 2 hour event with prizes, food, drinks and lots lots of schwag.  We also have an incredible presentation lineup for the night.  Peter Amiri of Alurium Cloud Computing will be presenting for us:

 

Alurium Cloud Computing

Alurium is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider and it's flagship product the Alurium aCloud™ simplifies the creation, deployment and management of cloud servers. The Alurium aCloud™ offering mixes the instant scalability potential of the cloud with the powerful benefits of industry leading hardware based load balancer and firewalls. Founded in 2004 by Peter Amiri who was an early pioneer in the social media industry and latter a fixture in the online advertising industry. For more information, go to www.alurium.com.

 

Running Your Web App in the Cloud

We'll take a brief look at the history of virtualization technologies and look at the typical use cases for cloud computing from a developers perspective. We'll then look at how to structure your application to take full advantage of the fluid nature of todays elastic cloud computing environments. We'll finish up with a demo of the Alurium aCloud™ environment and see how easy it is to build a robust web environment.

 

Everyone attending will get a coupon code redeemable for $500 worth of cloud hosting.

 

Details:

December 8th, 2011 @ Cal Poly Pomona

Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)

6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking

7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

 

Come join us this Thursday, November 17^th, at the IECFUG for a fantastic presentation by Dave Ferguson on mobile application development with ColdFusion.

"Mobile development is a largely moving target. New devices and device sizes are appearing almost daily. This makes application development for mobile devices difficult. This is where mobile browsers come in to save the day. This session will focus on creating browser-based apps for virtually any mobile device. This session will show you how to create a basic browser-based application. Then, utilizing ColdFusion, we will enhance the features of the application."

We will have prizes to give away along with the usual free food, drinks, and networking. Don’t miss out, it should be a great night full of ColdFusion goodness.

Details:
November 17^th 2011 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

UPDATE 

We will meeting virtually this month instead of meeting on campus like we typically do.  Please join us at 7:00 PM using the following URL for an Adobe Connection session:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r9mp0liuoq5/

- Thanks

 

This Thursday, September 8th, the IECFUG is proud to host Jim Spoonmore, who will be talking to us about CouchDB.  For those who are unfamiliar with CouchDB, this is a wonderful opportunity to get a free crash course on what it is, and how it can work for your applications.

"Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution.  CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests."

For more information on CouchDB, please check out: http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html

 

 

 

This Thursday, July 14th, Jospeh Lamoree with be talking to us about Jenkins, which is an amazing set of continuous integration services.  If you're doing integration testing for your apps Jenkins is an invaluable tool that helps automate the testing process.

I definitely recommend this session for anyone who's interested in automating their test processes.  Proper testing is a fundamental for creating enterprise level high-grade applications, and Jenkins makes the process quite manageable.

 

As always, there will also be free food, drinks, and networking for all.  Don't miss out.

Details:
July 14^th 2011 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

We are pleased to announce that Dave Ferguson will be talking about ColdFusion security. 

Security is something that all ColdFusion developers should be concerned about and Dave will be educating us about how to make our servers and our applications more resistant to online threats. It will definitely be a session that you'll take a lot away from, and will likely impact the way you think about application security.

Dave is an Adobe Community Professional and a security expert.  To find out more you can visit his blog: http://blog.dkferguson.com. And don't forget to catch the CF Hour podcast (http://www.cfhour.com).

Details:
June 9^th 2011 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C (campus map)
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

Our own Luis Majano will be talking about WireBox dependency injection and AOP.  It promises to be a great evening filled with WireBox and AOP goodness, free pizza, drinks, networking, prizes and more. Don't miss out.

We will be meeting Thursday May 19th, 6:30PM @ Cal Poly Pomona in room 5-16 of building 98C (the C/L/A building)

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Hope to see you then.

This April meeting is targeted to be a great one.  We have two speakers that will be doing great presentations back to back.

BlackBerry Playbook + Adobe Air by Kalen Gibbons
Kalen will be speaking about mobile application development with Adobe AIR. He'll discuss how Adobe AIR makes it easy to develop a single application for multiple platforms, including Android and iOS. In particular, he will talk about his recent experience with developing an application for the BlackBerry playbook. There will be a short demonstration of the application and a Q & A period.


Basic Load Testing with Apache JMeter by Rex Vincent
Rex Vincent Aglibot currently works as a Performance Engineer for Webapper, specializing in Performance and High-Availability installations.

The presentation is on Basic Load Testing with Apache JMeter, which is an open-source Java application that is designed to simulate http requests and measure performance via response times.

So hope to see you there.  Our usual agenda is as follows:

6:30-7:00 Networking, Pizza and Drinks
7:00-7:15 Introductions
7:15-7:45 Blackberry Playbook
7:45-8:15 Load Testing

Where:
Cal Poly Pomona starting at 6:15 pm to around 9 pm. We meet in room 5-16 of building 98C  (the C/L/A building):campus map