Past Meetings
September 25th, It’s Going To Be Brilliant.
It’s Going To Be Brilliant! Adobe has officially launched Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 featuring awhole new User Interface, 3D Object Painting in Photoshop, Multiple Artboards in Illustrator, Live Preflight in InDesign, Live View of Websites in Dreamweaver, Interactive PDF creation in Fireworks, even Inverse Kinematics in Flash! And that's just some of the highlights. Come join The Orange County ColdFusion User Group at the CS4 Launch Party this Thursday night at 6:30PM.
As an added treat, were having a very special presenter on
Creating ColdFusion API to Excel and using Java classes from within ColdFusion
The goal is to give an overview of how to create your own custom Java classes and exploit them from within the ColdFusion. We’ll also talk about when, why and, most importantly, what does it take to be able to use all that Java power in your ColdFusion applications. After a generic overview we will focus how to build an API to Excel using jexcelapi (http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net), which recently seems to be a popular research subject for a lot of CF developers, since <cfcontent>, <cfheader> and <cfdocument> do not give you a lot of flexibility to dynamically create binary spread sheets. We will see how to store data onto multiple sheets of an Excel workbook, put various styles around it as well as see how to save <cfchart> report as in image in a workbook.
On-line attendees are not elegible for prizes and don't earn earn raffle points ask Steve for details
July 17th, The Coldfusion Guy on CF Ajax
At this months meeting Scott Bennett will be giving a presenting on the the AJAX features that were introduced in ColdFusion 8. Scott will give an overview of each of the new AJAX functionalities and show how a ColdFusion developer that knows very little about JavaScript can easily add AJAX functionality to their application. Scott will also show how developers who are more proficient in JavaScript can get under the hood and really customize these functionalities to take them to the next level.
June 19th ~ Flex email interface
Steve Farwell will be presenting a Flex interface that invokes a email cfc. He will walk you through the steps and explain the MXML, Actionscript and CFML that makes it all happen.
Steve will also be talking about his custom 301 redirect file. If you don't know what a 301 status code is or you don't know why you would need to use it, come and find out why...
If we have time, we'll discuss Acrobat.com.
See you Thursday...
May 22nd, We're giving away an Adobe $1200 software package
It's that time again! We're giving away an Adobe $1200 software package to one lucky winner.
We'll also be discussing best practices and resources in the Coldfusion community.
April 17th, Google Maps API by Scott Bennett
The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.
The Google Maps API is a free beta service, available for any web site that is free to consumers.
Scott will be making a Google Map custom tag in Coldfusion. You can download the custom tags from his site http://www.coldfusionguy.com
March 20th, Application.cfc security framework!
Application security has always been a concern for developers. From displaying invoices and purchase orders to making sure that only some users can edit a record.
In CF8 you can easily setup an application to use security. We'll cover the basics of application.cfc, security, role based security and also other ways to keep people out.
~Michael Dejonghe
February 28th, Join the Orange County Coldfusion User Group for this "can't miss" meeting! *
Win a copy of Flex Builder 3!!!
Adobe's RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The OCCFUG is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe's platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You'll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways.
Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event. Thursday, February 28th *. Food and drinks will be provided at the meeting.
* (We've changed the meeting for this month to the last Thursday of the month)
January 17th Meeting
Happy Holidays! I hope everyone had a great holiday season, now back to the grind!
January's meeting will be devoted to planning speakers and topics to come. We've got many great speakers to choose from and are looking for your input.
November 15th Meeting
Webassit will be joining us via Adobe connect to demonstrate thier Dreamweaver Extentions, specificly "Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor" One lucky member will walk away with this powerful tool.
To ivew the presentation via "Adobe Connect" Go to http://connect.webassist.com/usergroup/.
The meeting room will be open about 6:00PM PST, the presentation will start at 7 PM PST.
All the rest can take advantage of our user group discount of 20% off. by following the link on our sponsors page.
This will be one of the most exciting meetings of the year. We will be raffling off a $2100 Adobe software package of choice! YES, any single Adobe product with a value of $2100 or less to the winner of the raffle! Don’t miss this meeting! Other prizes will be given away at the meeting as well.
Calling all book reviewers! Your book reviews are due! If you have accepted a book at one of the previous meetings, please do one of the following, bring the book review, bring the book or bring cash to this meeting. It is extremely important for us to complete the book reviews so the group can get new books.
October 18th Meeting
Ray Camden will be presenting via Adobe Connect on am intro to using SPRY with CF join us for all the fun. More...
The connect meeting space will open about 6PM PST
Connect Recording URLhttp://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p55988899/
September 20th Meeting
Ryan Favro of New Media Team has volunteered to do a Live Adobe Connect Presentaion for our group. Ryan is the lead systems architect and managing partner at New Media Team Inc. and has several articles in the ColdFusion Developers Center on Adobe.com
The recorded meeting is here http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p41022922/
Ryan will be discussing a CRUD (create read update delete) application with ColdFusion and Flex. He will also discuss a login with Flex states and value pairs, time permiting.
All are welcome.
Wel will also have a give-away from Pete Freitag of Foundeo.com Image Component which is quite cool.
New User Group
The Orange County ColdFusion User Group is re-forming. We will have our organizational meeting this month on Aug. 23 6:30 PM at Traveland USA.
We will discuss the direction of the group. All are welcome.
Our group is focused on Coldfusion and will also cover all related Adobe technologies including: Flex, Flash, AIR, as well as Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator for developing front ends.
