February Meeting - Luis Majano Presenet ContentBox

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, 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

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December Bash and Meeting: Cloud Apps

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:

November Meeting - Dave Ferguson on Mobile

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

UPDATED: September Meeting - James Spoonmore presents CouchDB

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

July Meeting - Joseph Lamoree Presents Jenkins

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