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Sept 7th – Next CFUGBE event: Using ColdFusion in the real world

Steven Peeters — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:35:22 +0000

For this event the ColdFusion User Group is working together with Ordina, who have been kind enough to let us use their facilities that are located right next to the E19 highway (Blarenberglaan 3B) in Mechelen

As for the topics of this event, we have found a community member to come over and share their history in the ColdFusion world.

	Claude Englebert is the EMEA ColdFusion Specialist working for Adobe. He’ll briefly introduce ColdFusion to the non-ColdFusion developers out there and talk about how to leverage your PHP, .NET or Java application with ColdFusion without writing a single line of CFML.
	Prosteps is a company that has been working with ColdFusion for quite some time and they are coming to tell you all about the cool stuff they’ve been doing with it.

PROGRAM:

19h00: Writing ColdFusion without CFML – presentation by Claude Englebert.
20h00: ColdFusion in the real world – presentation by Prosteps.
21h00: Free drinks and networking

The event is free of charge, but seats are limited. Make sure you register quickly!

CFUGBE event aftermath – Meet the ColdFusion team

Steven Peeters — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:47:13 +0000

On May 26th we held our second ColdFusion User Group event in Belgium. This time we had the nice apportunity to have some international speakers come over, because they were in the area after all after being at SOTR2010.

We started off with Ben Nadel who talked about session management and component lifecycles in ColdFusion. I learned tons of new stuff that I (as a beginning ColdFusion developer) wasn’t even aware of. Stuff like how ColdFusion pages are constructed and when the session scope becomes available. This can be very useful to implements some extra security checks and such. Thanks Ben!

Then we let Ray Camden take the stage. (Well, it wasn’t really a stage, but you know what I mean, right?.) He had some interesting stuff to talk about as well. He showed us some really cool stuff you could do with the snippets panel. But then I was wondering how the hell you start writing your own snippets. And just as I was thinking that, Ray actually explained how it works. So now I’m definitely going to be digging into that as well (assuming I can find the extra time of course).

After a well-deserved short break Terry Ryan talked and demoed a bit more about Flash Catalyst. This was probably quite interesting for most people in the room, but I had seen this a thousand times before, so for me that was not really the highlight of the evening, unfortunately. Sorry about that, Terry.

Since we were running a bit late by then, he had to hurry up and gain some time, because as a last treat we had our “meet the team” session with Claude Englebert, Terry Ryan and Alison Huselid. As usual here in Belgium, there were some difficulties getting the conversation started. We’re all quiet and shy here in Belgium, you know… But after a few hesitations we got something going on, with most of the questions regarding pricing (which I had anticipated).

Although it was a great event, I was a bit disappointed by the number of attendees. Lots of people registered, but too few actually showed up. All of you who didn’t show up, you deserve a spanking! You’d better be there next time. Yes, that’s right. We are already working on our next event, so keep an eye out for it and make sure you don’t miss it, ’cause it’s going to be a technical session this time with lots fo jaw-dropping stuff.

Ben Forta is coming to Belgium

Steven Peeters — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:18:48 +0000

For those of you who don’t know Ben Forta, he’s the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books about ColdFusion (nad other technologies). He’s also the director of the evangelism team.

Every once in a while you get the chance to meet with him at some ColdFusion event, but not often in Belgium. Well, here’s your chance now, because on March 9, 2010 he’s coming to Liege/Luik in Belgium. This event will not be about ColdFusion alone. There will alo be presentations on Flash Builder 4 and AIR 2.0. Tickets are free, but seats are limited, so hurry up and secure your seat at http://rialiege.eventbrite.com/.

I hope to see you guys there…