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TeraTech to run Fusebox, CFUNITED video survey
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Michael Smith
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Dec 07, 2006 07:31 PST
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In this week's Newsletter:
* TeraTech to run Fusebox
* TeraTech classes and webinars
* Video Survey "What are your thoughts?"
* Partial Scholarship Fund for TeraTech Events
* CFUnited-06 Alumni- Listen to CFUnited 2006 presentation sound recordings
* Interview about recursion in CF with Andrew Schwabe
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TeraTech to run Fusebox
Fusebox is a development framework used by tens of thousands of
ColdFusion developers worldwide that
dramatically reduces maintenance costs. TeraTech has been picked by the
founders of Fusebox Inc, Hal
Helms and John Quarto vonTivadar, to take over the website and
framework. TeraTech will continue to
keep the Fusebox core files free and under community development. We
plan to improve the Fusebox
website and documentation. If you have suggestions on what you would
like to see in Fusebox let me
know or attend Friday's The Future of Fusebox webinar. Read what Fusebox
experts Hal, Sean, Sandy
and jeff have to say about this at
http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=Press.TeraTechFusebox
For the webinar goto
https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/382820207
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TeraTech Classes
12/12/2006 - An Introduction to Flex - Hands On – Instructor: Theo
Rushin Jr - Full Day
1/9/2007 - Introduction to SQL Server - Instructor: Theo Rushin Jr -
Full Day
1/23/2007 - Introduction to ColdFusion - Instructor: Theo Rushin Jr -
Full Day
1/30/2007 - Introduction to FliP - Instructor: Ajay Sathuluri - Half Day
1/31/2007 - Intermediate Fusebox 5 - Instructor: Ajay Sathuluri - Full Day
Full day classes are $349 and Half Day are $199
Go to http://www.teratech.com/training/ for more information!
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* CFUNITED Video Survey
We are planning CFUNITED-07 video, specail event and food. We offered a
video recording of the 2006
conference. Let us know what you liked and how we can improve. Also give
us feedback on the special
event, food etc. Please respond by 12/12/06
http://www.cfunited.com/survey.cfm
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* Partial Scholarship Fund for TeraTech Events
We are offering 10 people the chance to receive a partial scholarship to
CFUNITED or Frameworks. To
apply email liz (at) teratech.com explaining your situation and why you
should get the scholarship.
Also full time students can receive 60% off the current price by sending
us a copy of their student
id and a list of classes they are currently taking for the semester.
Unemployed developers get the
same discount - email liz (at) teratech.com for details.
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* CFUnited 2006 sound recordings
The MP3 recordings from this past conference are now available to 2006’s
alumni for free online.
Go to http://www.teratech.com/cfunited06/ and use your login and
password from the main event.
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* Interview about recursion in CF with Andrew Schwabe
Michael Smith: This time we are talking with Andrew Schwabe about his
CFUNITED-06 talk "Recursive functions in CF". So why should a developer
see your
session Andrew?
Andrew Schwabe: The concept of functions that call themselves
(recursive functions) seems to be a foreign topic to a surprising number
of developers in all programming languages, not just CF. Recursion
isn't an every day tool, but in certain cases, it is the fastest,
easiest or even the only option for a given problem. We'll talk about
the concept of recursion, and then show how to apply the concept to a
few real world problems, and then we will solve those problems with
recursive functions written in CFML.
MS: What problems will you solve?
AS: The concept of recursive functions is that you can break a large
problem into smaller, more
manageable problems. A great example of this is if you need to process
a directory of files from a
server directory (maybe you need to read them into a db, or delete them,
etc.). The directory may
contain any number of nested sub-folders. Writing a ColdFusion function
to do this [without]
recursion would be a very difficult task. In my talk we will look at
recursive code in cfml that
does this exact task in a way that is easy to understand.
MS: Isn't there a speed problem with recursion?
AS: There certainly can be speed issues. While my talk is not
specifically about code optimization,
we will discuss techniques to make sure your recursive functions are
lean, and as a result keep
speed and memory usage at a minimum.
MS: How is CF at recursion? Is there a depth limit?
AS: Comparitive to other programming languages, CF may be a bit slower
than say, native java or c++
code, however learning how to use recursion is more of a necessity for
when a situation calls for
it, rather than a lesson in performance. Technically the number of
recursive calls that you can
make should only be limited by your server's hardware and software
capability, but having an idea of
how many iterations (or recursive calls) will be done will help you
predict performance. This is
precisely why it is necessary to have an idea of how recursion works,
and apply concepts for keeping
your function calls minimal.
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* Event Facts and Details Summary
CFUnited 2007 - Bethesda North Marriott - June 27th - 30th 2007
Prices: $749-$849 until January 5th (Ask for discounts!
eve-@teratech.com)
* First 100 people to register get a CFUnited hat!
http://www.cfunited.com/2007/
Frameworks 2007 - Bethesda North Marriott - February 1st & 2nd 2007
Prices: $399 until January 5th (Ask for discounts!
eve-@teratech.com)
http://www.frameworksconference.com/
CFUnited Europe 2008 - London - Tentative Dates March 12th - 13th 2008
New site, prices, call for speakers, location and information will
be announced early in 2007.
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Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm)
TeraTech voted Best Consulting Service by CFDJ readers!
CF/ASP Web, VB, Math, Access programming tools and consulting
405 E Gude Dr Ste 207, Rockville MD 20850 USA
Please check out http://www.teratech.com/ - email
mailto:mich-@teratech.com,
or call us for more information; in the USA at 1-800-447-9120,
+1-301-424-3903 International, Fax 301-762-8185 Thanks!
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