Sessions

*Keynote* Develop For The Web
The Web is an avalanche that grows with every platform and plugin it demolishes. This talk will explore where the web is headed and how you ...
6 ways to Secure, Tune and Fail-proof your VPS in a snap!
Architecture & Design in Software
One of the most common headaches for managing or operating a ColdFusion Server is efficiently troubleshooting performance related problems. In this talk we'll discuss both un-documented ...
An Introduction to AMD with RequireJS
js.Objective()
As your front-end web applications get larger and more powerful code organization and reuse becomes increasingly important.  One popular way to achieve this is through the ...
AOP For Dummies
Architecture & Design in Software
AOP = Aspect Oriented Programming is a powerful software development technique that can enhance your object oriented applications by providing further separation of concerns, enhanced re-usability ...
Apache Ninja Crash Course for Developers
Integration & Tools
Come on developers, you know you want to become an Apache ninja. It's not as difficult as you might think. There's a handful of very useful ...
Architecting ColdFusion Applications with AWS
Architecture & Design in Software
Have you heard of the cloud Yeah, it's different. No really. Join Aaron Greenlee as he shares experiences earned by him and the entire crew at ...
Automating PhoneGap Build
Mobile & Front End
The PhoneGap build service provides developers with a simple yet powerful way to manage and build their applications for all platforms. In this session we will ...
Bend Minds With CSS and JavaScript
js.Objective()
This presentation will be all about using CSS and JavaScript to skew, rotate, and bend your reality. Find out how the new features of CSS make ...
Beyond Encrypt(): Asymmetric Encryption, Digital Signature, and more
Process, Performance, and Security
  I've seen an increase in the use of Asymmetiric Encryption, i.e., the use of certificates when encrypting and decrypting text, at my work which has ...
Building Modern Web Applications with ColdFusion
Architecture & Design in Software
While ColdFusion does many things well, its integrated UI components are somewhat archaic. Using modern client-side UI libraries in lieu of ColdFusion's server-generated UI widgets, I'll ...
Caching for Performance and Scalability in ColdFusion 10
Process, Performance, and Security
If you’re at all concerned about application performance and scalability (and who isn’t ), caching should be an integral part your ColdFusion application architecture.  Luckily, ColdFusion ...
ColdFusion and eBooks
Integration & Tools
eBooks are becoming common place when offering large chunks of information to your users.  From site content to technical instructions, eBooks allow your users to take ...
ColdFusion Builder - IDE to boost your productivity
ColdFusion Builder is increasingly becoming further integrated with ColdFusion server, making CFML development easier and faster with every release.  This session will focus on areas where ...
ContentBox Modular CMS: Reinventing CFML Content Management
Integration & Tools
ContentBox is an open source modular content application written in CFML that will provide you with blogs, cms, wiki and more. Built on the solid ColdBox ...
Data-Driven Documents: Data Visualization Using D3.js
js.Objective()
  D3.js is an open source JavaScript library for generating data visualizations. D3.js leverages modern web standards (HTML, SVG, CSS) to bind data to the Document ...
Dependency Injection for Dummies
Architecture & Design in Software
In this session we will cover the basics of DI (Dependency Injection), what is the problem behind object oriented design, how to solve the problem, benefits ...
Design MVC Mobile App Visually In Hours
Mobile & Front End
HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript Mobile Apps are becoming more popular. Unfortunately, the tools that we use to design them have not changed much. This talk ...
Enterprise ColdFusion - Technical and Business Metric Monitoring & Analysis
As a platform known for nurturing rapid development, ColdFusion often spreads through an organization. As any technology spreads, it's important to keep up best practices like ...
Errors Are Best When Emailed… Said Nobody Ever.
Integration & Tools
Email was a broken paradigm before you started supporting 20 applications that send you a gentle reminder every time someone fat fingers a form value. And ...
Fuse All the Greatness - Combining Charts, Websockets, and Scheduled Tasks to Present Realtime Data
Architecture & Design in Software
  ColdFusion 10 added some very cool HTML5 tools such as Websockets and Charting.  They also revamped the schedule task engine.  But, the tools are only ...
Git: Choosing Workflows That Make Sense
Integration & Tools
Git is awesome, this is known. Git doesn't restrict how you do things and that can be a two edged sword.  If you are working by ...
Go Node Without Code
js.Objective()
You may already be well aware of what Node offers for server-side JavaScript development. What you may not know is that Node offers a large number ...
Grow a Backbone.js and drag your apps out of the past with JavaScript Templating
js.Objective()
You may not be building Google Docs on your site, but today’s web is filled with more and more sites developing cool front-end functionality driven by ...
How Google uses JavaScript to do the improbable
js.Objective()
  Google Feedback Screenshots in JavaScript   Browsers don’t provide an API for taking screenshots so instead Google Feedback has an implementation of an HTML rendering ...
How Groovy & Grails made me a better ColdFusion Developer
Architecture & Design in Software
In a profession where things change rapidly, web developers who wish to stay ahead of the curve continually need to hone their skills and add more ...
How to be a good open source citizen
Process, Performance, and Security
  Today more and more projects are being released to open source or developed as open source projects.  You might think that there isn’t much to ...
How WebKit Renders Web Pages
Mobile & Front End
Between the markup and a beautiful web app appearing on your user’s screen lies WebKit! This presentation talks about what happens when you go to a ...
HTML Templating with Mustache.js
js.Objective()
Working with and building HTML strings and content in a JavaScript context can be cumbersome and hard to manage. In this session we will explore Mustache.js, ...
Humongous MongoDB
Integration & Tools
MongoDB gets its name from the word "humongous" but most talks only show simple queries and simple installations. What does it take to truly support the ...
IIS 8 Troubleshooting Features for CF Admins
Integration & Tools
While the cognoscenti may run *nix/Apache, it seems that many (if not most) production deployments of ColdFusion do run on Windows/IIS. And while some folks are ...
Invoking the Awesome Power of HTML5 Jedi Powerness with ColdFusion 10
In this class I'll discuss some of the new HTML5-related features of ColdFusion 10. Specifically I'll give an overview of web sockets, the new charting engine, ...
JavaScript Enterprise Workflows
js.Objective()
Creating small and medium size single page applications in JavaScript is becoming easier. Frameworks exist and tooling is getting better. Tackling large projects is not as ...
Learn You a What for Great Good? Polyglot Lessons to Improve Your CFML!
Architecture & Design in Software
"The Pragmatic Programmer", a landmark book by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas, advocates learning a new language every year. Whilst many people think that's an unrealistic ...
Locking Down CF Servers
Process, Performance, and Security
In this session we'll discuss several tips and tricks you can use to make your ColdFusion server installation and configuration more secure. This session will focus ...
Metrics Driven Development
Process, Performance, and Security
Metrics Driven Development can help you make informed decisions during the development process by providing accurate real-time feedback about how your applications are performing and being ...
Mobile but Secure
Mobile & Front End
HTML5 CSS3 applications are becoming increasingly popular for mobile platforms. An assortment of applications makes use of the mobile devices to run, but when it comes to ...
Mobile Web Debugging Tips and Tricks
Mobile & Front End
Mobile debugging and testing is incredibly difficult and cumbersone. In this session I'll discuss some of problems mobile web developers face and how they can work ...
Mura 6 For Developers
Mobile & Front End
Since Mura CMS was launched as an open source product at cf.objective() 2008, Mura CMS has seen huge improvements and tremendous growth. In this session, we'll ...
My SQL Skills Killed the Server
Integration & Tools
  So, you read a book on SQL.  You may have written a stored procedure.  You could have even gotten all crazy and created a few ...
Navigating the Front End Ocean
Mobile & Front End
It's 2013. It's assumed your front-end will use a lot of JavaScript and the concepts known as HTML 5. But beyond the buzzwords and the latest ...
Nginx and CFML Apps
Integration & Tools
  Nginx (pronounced "Engine-X") is a high-performance, cross-platform, open source web server that can replace Apache or IIS and works nicely with CFML web applications. I've ...
ORM, noSQL and Vietnam
Architecture & Design in Software
In 2004, Ted Neward famously coined the phrase "Object-Relational mapping is the Vietnam of our industry". Jeff Atwood reprised the theme in 2006 in his blog post ...
Performance Tuning with Railo
We’ll show you how to make use of several different settings in the Railo Admin in order to improve performance. Discover improved coding styles and language ...
Practical deployment with Git and Ant
Integration & Tools
  This session will include an introduction to Git, an introduction to Ant and a demo on how these highly useful technologies can be combined for ...
Queries and Looping and Grouping ... Oh My!
Architecture & Design in Software
This presentation will focus on generating complex output from information rich data sets in a way that is efficient, maintainable, and easy to read. There are ...
Railo 4.0 - Developing with Railo
Architecture & Design in Software
This session will look at the development workflow with Railo Server and show you how you can get the best out of the language and its ...
Railo Clustering and the Cloud
There are a number of ways to deploy your application using Railo. The key is deciding which deployment option is key to a successful project. We’ll ...
Railo General Session
We'll bring you up to date with all latest Railo Company and product developments. We'll also give you an insight into Railo 4.1, which is due ...
Railo's Top 10 Developer Features
We’ll present some awesome new features in Railo, which every developer will love. Whether it’s selective debugging templates, live debugging, cfml based resources or the command ...
Razuna Digital Asset Management- why you want it and how to use it in your next project!
See what Razuna is and how to integrate it in your next project ...
Real World Load Testing with JMeter
Process, Performance, and Security
  Come see how you can setup the Apache JMeter, a free to tool for load testing. In session we will explain why you should be ...
Responsive Apps using Bootstrap 2.0
Mobile & Front End
People are consuming content on a wide range of devices these days. It is estimated that by the year 2014 mobile traffic will take over desktop ...
REST APIs: Easier Than You Imagined
Architecture & Design in Software
When you expose your company's data to the public, you're enabling serendipity. Everyone with even marginally interesting data should be opening up that data to the ...
Reverse Proxy Caching with Apache Traffic Server
Integration & Tools
In this session, you'll lean how to leverage Apache Traffic Server (an open source HTTP caching engine) to significantly boost the performance and scalability of your ...
Rich Apps with AngularJS
js.Objective()
This talk covers AngularJS, an opensource javascript web framework originally created by Google engineers. The presentation will cover:  Basic structure of an MVC app with Angular ...
Semantic Markup with HTML5
Mobile & Front End
HTML5 is here, HTML5 is sexy, and HTML5 is the most semantic, most awesome markup language ever. In this talk, Christian Ready will discuss how to ...
Slatwall, Beyond eCommerce
Integration & Tools
  Slatwall is an open source transaction management application. Normally Slatwall is pigeon-holed as an eCommerce platform, but actually it can be applied to a much ...
Streaming Video to HTML
Mobile & Front End
Streaming Video drives huge amounts of content across the web, but the options to stream natively to a browser are somewhat limited.  In this session we ...
Sweating to the Web
js.Objective()
This session will cover how to bring the Microsoft Kinect into your web browser!  We'll initially cover what the Kinect is, what hardware it brings to ...
Tales from The Trenches
Process, Performance, and Security
Server in a death spiral Application won't scale Painted yourself into an architectural corner Business owners finally figure out what they want 2 weeks after the ...
Tent.io Be your own Social Network!
Architecture & Design in Software
Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram do sell you their products. *YOU* are the product.  All your status updates, all your photos can be used by a mega ...
The Art Of JavaScript: Level up Your Skills In 60 Minutes
js.Objective()
JavaScript is one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages in the world.  Today, many people are introduced to JavaScript programming through one of the ...
The ColdFusion 10 Advantage
The session will provide introduction and overview of many new features and enhancements added to ColdFusion 10. In this session you will learn: - New features ...
Version Control On The Database: The Final Frontier
Integration & Tools
You finally have your code under source control with git! Congratulations! Pat yourself on the back. To bad you are only half way done. You know ...
Waterfall to Agile: Improve your Project Workflow Without Drowning
Process, Performance, and Security
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in the same cycle of requirements, development, and delivery, but never seeing eye-to-eye with your company’s stakeholders.  Have you ...
Web Hacking Tools
Process, Performance, and Security
Most security presentation to developers are a dry rehashing of OWASP Top Ten; do this and don't do that with terse snippets of code. This session ...
WebSockets in ColdFusion 10
Architecture & Design in Software
Discover what makes WebSockets so appealing to both developers and users alike. Ever wanted to do real-time data tracking or maybe interact with your users with ...
Who let a bum into the kitchen? Using Vagrant and Chef to create development environments.
Integration & Tools
DevOps is all the rage and in this presentaiton I hope to show how we as developers leverage the advances being made in this field to ...
Writing Secure CFML
Process, Performance, and Security
  So if you attended Web Hacking Tools session and are now scared out of your mind that you site will be hacked, this session is ...
[Deep Dive] Building a Single Page App with AngularJS, Bootstrap, and CFML
js.Objective()
  Come learn how a highly interactive, single page app, was built with AngularJS, Bootstrap, and CFML. AngularJS is a full stack MVC Javascript. It has ...
[Deep Dive] Making Your ColdFusion Apps Highly Available
Process, Performance, and Security
Thousands of Web applications run on a single server, and that works great. But what happens when you need 99.999% uptime and you have to move ...
[Deep Dive] The ColdFusion 10 Scheduler
Process, Performance, and Security
ColdFusion 10 includes an entirely redesigned scheduling service built on top of the popular open source Quartz Scheduler.  This fast paced session will provide you with ...
[Deep Dive] Using PhoneGap to Build Mobile Applications
Mobile & Front End
This will be an introductory discussion of the PhoneGap SDK. Topics will include: * What the SDK does and what it doesn't do... * Installation options ...
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