Planet Solutions Podcasts

AJAX is one of the most talked about "new" technologies of recent years but the reality so far has been that writing dynamic, cross-browser applications that leverage JavaScript is a complex, labor-intensive process. Find out how Scorpio will change that reality by providing AJAX functionality built right into our favorite language! About Sean Corfield Sean is currently a freelance consultant. He has worked in IT for nearly twenty five years, starting out writing database systems and compilers then moving into mobile telecoms and then finally into web development about nine years ago. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years. Sean is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice. He wrote C++ coding guidelines for several companies during the 90's and more recently maintaining the Macromedia ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines and Mach II Development Guide, which are also published for the ColdFusion community. He has also given several seminar talks, both in- house and publicly, on these subjects. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of ColdFusion frameworks.

I sat down with Ben Nadel who was attending his first CFUnited conference! An avid blogger at Kinky Solutions, Ben explained his philosophy of being a perpetual student of ColdFusion and of web development, how the ColdFusion community has benefited him, and on making the transition from procedural to Object-Oriented development.

Ever have a slow running application and you know you have gone to all extents to make your code run quick. If you don't have a DBA available to performance tune your database then learn how to do it yourself. There are many ways to improve database performance and you will learn them here. The presentation will include examples of slow peroforming queries on large amounts of data. Watch these techniques improve performance 10 times over. About Nate Nelson Nate Nelson is the President and founder of Xententia, Inc., a consulting firm out of Denver Colorado specializes in ColdFusion and database development. Through his career he has worked with several non-profit organizations and commercial corporations to architect applications to address many diverse needs. Nate has contributed to the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He speaks at ColdFusion conferences and is a Co-Manager and regular speaker at the Denver ColdFusion User Group. Nate enjoys sharing knowledge and adventures with both experienced and new developers. You can see his blog at www.natenelson.coldfusionjournal.com or you can reach him by email at nate at xententia.com.

In this interview, conference attendee Jim Collins discusses his impressions of the conference so far, why he is looking forward to learning more about Flex, and what he hopes to get out of CFUnited.

As server software keeps getting more secure, hackers are focusing on vulnerabilities in web applications themselves. Don't get caught with your pants down - it's your responsibility to make sure that your web application and data is secure. We will take a look at some of the common vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Cross Site Request Forgeries, Cross Site Scripting, and Session Hi-Jacking. About Pete Frietag Pete Freitag, President and Owner of Foundeo, Inc., has been a web developer specializing in ColdFusion since the mid '90s. Prior to starting his own company, Pete co-authored The ColdFusion MX Developer's Cookbook in 2003 and worked as CTO at ActivSoftware. At Foundeo, Pete provides consulting services, constructs web sites, develops products for web developers, and writes for his blog at www.petefreitag.com. Downloads Presentation