I spoke with Elena Aminova, an attendee of CFUnited and ColdFusion developer who is looking forward to the improved security features of ColdFusion 8.

Charlie Arehart joins us to discuss some of the hidden features in ColdFusion 6 and 7, what he's excited about in ColdFusion 8, and life as an independent consultant.

Whether you're new to CF or have been using it a while, if you've wished you understood more about the ColdFusion Administrator, this bootcamp session is for you. Veteran CFML developer Charlie Arehart will review and discuss the key features of the Admin and how to use them, including CF performance and security features.

About Charlie Arehart

A veteran ColdFusion developer since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Expert. He's a certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for CF 4/5/6/7 who served as tech editor of the ColdFusion Developers Journal until 2003. Now an independent contractor living in Alpharetta GA, Charlie provides high-level troubleshooting/tuning assistance and training/mentoring for CF teams. He helps run the Online ColdFusion Meetup, an online CF user group, is a contributor to the CF8 WACK books by Ben Forta, and is frequently invited to speak to developer conferences and user groups worldwide.

How does one test for accessibility? What are the requirements of a tester? What tools are out there for testing? Is there one tool that will do it all? Sandra Clark, will go through the process of testing for accessibility and try to provide a ray of light in the murkiness that is testing for Accessibility

About Sandy Clark

Sandra Clark, an advanced Macromedia Certified ColdFusion developer, is a Senior Software Developer with the Constella Group in Bethesda, Maryland. She has contributed material to the ColdFusion 5.0 Certified Developer Study Guide published by Syngress Media/Osborne McGraw Hill and to the ColdFusion Developers Journal. She has also spoken at various CFUGS and ColdFusion User Conferences around the country. Sandra is an active proponent of applying accepted and proven web standards to development as a way of improving accessibility as well as making life easier on developers. She can be reached at sclark at constellagroup dot com. Sandra also maintains a website and blog at http://www.shayna.com/", where she shares information on CSS, Accessibility, Fusebox, Coldfusion and also offers training classes.

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This presentation will introduce the concepts of the Model-View-Controller pattern that can [and should] be used in Coldfusion and Flex projects. While each technology [Flex and Coldfusion] has its own endorsed MVC framework, they can be used together to create superior code and applications. The audience will learn how the MVC frameworks in Coldfusion & Flex patterns are conceptually similar... learning one immediately means the other will be easy to implement.

• Review how business logic can be separated from your view logic
• Review how business logic can be reused; make your components independent of "request" scopes, etc.
• Review the Coldfusion MVC pattern provided in Mach-ii
• Review the Flex MVC framework provided in Cairngorm
• Review how the two frameworks can be co-joined to create expandable, clean code and production-ready applications

About Thomas Burleson

Thomas Burleson is a Universal Mind principal architect for Flex, Coldfusion, and Java web solutions. With over 20 years development and leadership experience, he has delivered applications and custom business solutions for numerous commerical and vertical markets. He has significant experience with user-interfaces, database and software architectures, product delivery, and technical leadership and mentoring. Most recently he lead the development efforts for the online Flex applications at Sherwin-Williams; now available for public use. He has also lead development efforts to create Flex-based CRM tools for clients in the health and manufacturing markets.

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George Murphy, an attendee at CFUnited, discussed his experience learning CFC's, and making the transition from procedural to object-oriented programming with ColdFusion.

Design Patterns are some of the most misunderstood and misrepresented concepts in application development. Together, we'll learn the true meaning of "Design Pattern," find places you're already using patterns without realizing it, and explore Design Patterns useful in everyday programming scenarios.

About Joe Rinehart

Joe Rinehart is a developer who's becoming increasingly focused on making object-oriented ColdFusion development a reality. By blogging at clearsoftware.net, writing for ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and authoring the Model-Glue Framework, he may be making progress.

Conference attendee Jeff Coughlin discusses his contributions to the FarCry Framework and CMS, and how he is enjoying CFUnited 2007.

Flex 2 gives you several ways to customize the look of your application's components. You can keep the same theme and style it using CSS or you can redesign the appearance of components drastically. In this session, learn how to dramatically change the appearance of components using Flex’s styling, and skinning mechanisms.

About Rob Rusher

Rob Rusher is a certified ColdFusion MX instructor and one of only a few certified Flex instructors in the world. He is the co-author on ColdFusion articles and books, including the Advanced Web Application Construction Kit. Always entertaining and chock-full of knowledge, Rob is a frequent speaker on ColdFusion and Flex technologies around the world. He has worked with dozens of Macromedia's largest and most strategic customers every year since 1997. His dynamic personality and wealth of experience help to architect, build, tune, and troubleshoot some of the largest and most critical ColdFusion and Flex applications in the world.

I sat down with Nicholas Tunney of AboutWeb to learn how Object-Oriented approaches in ColdFusion can make your applications easier to scale and maintain, and to also pick Nic's brain on what he finds so exciting about ColdFuion 8.