About

Shawn Dunning is a North Carolina native. He has served the College of Textiles at NC State University for 13 years. In his current role of Assistant Dean for Information Technology, he oversees all IT related activities for the college. He also keeps his hands dirty in web programming trying to make the jobs of the faculty and staff more efficient. He is always interested in how to take the bleeding edge technology to a scalable resource for those in the college and the university at large. On the weekends you can find him with his family riding bikes, on xbox live, or admiring nice shiny new tech toys at the local Best Buy.

QR Code Crazy

If you haven't noticed, QR (Quick Reponse) codes have exploded in the United States. They have been used in other countries for several years, but the US has just recently discovered them. Like any new technology, QR codes have been used in new, creative, and crazy ways. Tombstone QR codes? Billboards? We'll take a look at useful and tacky ways to use them. In addition, the College of Textiles is planning several uses and one of them will be dissected. Come find out and interact with others on how these small boxes may help your university or business.

Presentation Highlights:
• -Short Introduction to QR Codes
• -Good/Bad QR code examples
• -Using QR codes for Computer Inventory (CF,HTML,CSS code included)

About

Birgit Pauli-Haack, co-founder of Relevanza, Inc., brings more than 15 years of web development and web community expertise to the company. With her other company, Pauli Systems, LC, also headquartered in Naples, Florida she has been providing interactive, user-friendly, web-based business applications and server administration services to an array of corporate, nonprofit and private clients, both international and domestic.

In addition to leading her companies, Birgit is an active member of the web community, and provides pro bono technology products and services to local non-profit organizations. She has been a technology leader with the Naples Free-Net since 1998, and is the current President. She also served on their Board of Directors from 2000 – 2003, and has been their Webmaster and Chair of the Web team since 2002. She is a frequent presenter on Internet topics at conferences worldwide, and has worked on open-source projects in the ColdFusion Community, and for social services agencies. Birgit has a degree in business management, specialized for Tourisums & Resort Management, and extensive technology experience.

Beginners' Guide to Application Load Testing

Now you have finished your site and someone asked you the question: How many users can we serve before we need more power and muscle on our server environment? Good question! And if you don't know how to find that out, how to measure it, and find the bottle necks, come to this session. You’ll find out how to get started and learn more about tools for Coldfusion application load testing and how to use them.

About

David is a veteran CF/Java/Javascript developer with a passion for finding "a better way" to build and maintain software. By day he is a Senior Software Engineer for the American Kennel Club and at night he is a freelance developer doing business as ColdFusion Powered Consulting. You can find his occasional writings at http://coldfusionpowered.com/ .

Build a Better Functional Test Suite with Selenium RC, JUnit, and jQuery

This hands on tutorial covers how to extend Selenium's reach with JQuery selectors, build a test driver for your application to abstract and reuse the hard parts of web testing, and finally build JUnit tests that read like a test plan in plain English.

Recommended Prerequisites:
• - Know how to select DOM elements with JQuery or CSS
• - Know simple Java syntax: functions, if/else, looping
• - Know what a JUnit test is
• - A Laptop with an Eclipse based IDE

About

Dave Ferguson has been working in information technology for over 15 years. He has spent the majority of that time specializing in large enterprise-class systems, system security, and mobile . Dave currently holds a Master ColdFusion Developer certification as well as many other information technology certifications. In his current employ he a Principal Programmer for the Walt Disney Company. He has also written a couple articles for the ColdFusion Developers Journal as well as running his own ColdFusion blog, blog.dkferguson.com. He is also one of the voices of the CFHour podcast www.cfhour.com. The podcast, just like his blog, is mostly focused on ColdFusion but dabbles in to other technologies. Dave is also a member of the Adobe Community Professional group.

Application Intrusion, Detection and Tracking

When there was just a browser the attack vectors on a system were simple. But, with mobile, AIR, and now set top development, the number of vectors is growing. This in itself is not the issue. The problem is that for most applications security is an after thought. If any security is added it is usually to protect form submission. In this session we will look at the anatomy of an attack. We will look at some basic examples of how secure code is not. We discuss good and bad practices on what will and will not work when protecting your application. We will look at ways to know you are being attacked. We will also dispel some common misconceptions of what is secure.

About

Denard Springle is a freelance software systems engineer with more than a decade of ColdFusion development experience and over 20 years of progressive IT and development experience in numerous languages including Perl and Java. As host of the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User's Group (NVCFUG), Denard frequently presents on advanced topics of interest to ColdFusion developers and facilitates social and code camp gatherings for networking and more intense instruction in development techniques.

jQuery, CSS3 and ColdFusion

Most CF developers have switched gears away from the Ajax library provided with ColdFusion and towards jQuery as their framework of choice for not just Ajax but so much more. We'll explore the basics of jQuery selectors, methods and plugins and how they work together with the new CSS3 standards and ColdFusion to produce truly interesting web applications and visual effects. We'll explore Ajax functionality and how to implement a single Ajax API to handle all web application requests.

About

Brian Kotek has been developing web applications for over 13 years, using ColdFusion, Java, Groovy, Flex, and AIR. He's worked as a consultant or employee on a wide range of projects for private companies and government agencies. Brian is an Adobe Community Professional, a member of the Adobe Enterprise Advisory Board, a regular speaker at industry conferences, as well as a blogger and author. He has contributed to a number of community endeavors, including Fusebox, ColdSpring, Swiz, and several RIAForge projects.

The Swiz Enterprise ActionScript Framework

Swiz is a popular framework for building Flex, AIR, and ActionScript applications. It works with the Flex 3.x, 4.x, and mobile SDKs. This presentation will introduce developers to the Swiz framework: what it is, what problems it solves, and its core features. It will also include an introduction to dependency injection to set the stage. We'll wrap up with a quick look at some of the great IDE and tooling support available for building Swiz applications.

If you're already a Flex developer, great. If you've avoided it because you think it's too complicated, come see how easy Swiz makes it.

About

Bilal Soylu is the CTO of Verian Technologies. He is a supply chain expert and enterprise software architect. Bilal has worked in a variety of technologies building enterprise applications before he discovered his love for the web and web based applications in the mid-90s. He has been developing web based applications using a variety of technologies ever since. His involvement with ColdFusion goes back to version 1.5 and the Allaire days. He has been an avid supporter of ColdFusion and has converted generations of Developers to the CF platform. Bilal is a Certified Advanced ColdFusion developer and a member of the Charlotte Adobe User Group.

He contributes regularly to training and open source projects. A selection of projects he has contributed to include:
• Railo
• PGP for Coldfusion
• Tomcat to IIS connector
• Mura

Blog: http://BonCode.blogspot.com

Client Side MVC: Building Modern Smart Phone Apps with ColdFusion and Sencha Touch

Smartphones are becoming more popular. Writing apps for each of them is very time consuming and in some cases, the arbitrary approval process, makes the deployment cycle long.

Creating one smartphone app in a modern application framework makes it easier to reach many customers more quickly. In this presentation we will focus on using ColdFusion as the backend to a Sencha touch app. Heavy focus is on how to get started with a Javascript MVC (Model-View-Controller) as an organization approach to reusable client side code.

Applied application security

As recent hacks into Sony, Sega, and Nintendo has shown us, application security is important and simple things can make a big difference. The coding platform does assist, but many times the developers still have to think about holistic application security.

In this presentation we will focus on practical steps that each developer can take to make the application more secure. We will share simple code snippets and security frameworks like OWASP. Even look into the implication of next generation of ColdFusion with some of the OWASP principles baked in and their impact on developer coding in the future.

About

Cole is currently works at IBM as a software engineer focused on javascript and the Dojo framework. He started writing javascript in 1999 and never looked back. He enjoys working on the server using nodeJs as well as scripting in the browser. His most recent open source contributions can be found in the popcornJs library. Cole was recently selected by Mozilla to travel to Berlin this fall and reinvent the way we all consume the news with Al-Jazeera, BBC and Zeit Online.

jQuery Mobile Music Discovery with the Bandcamp API

jQuery mobile is a simple way for javascript developers to get web apps out on many mobile platforms. Cole's session will dive into basics of jQuery mobile and show you how to create a simple music discovery tool using the jPlayer and the bandcamp api.

About

Terry Ryan is a Worldwide Developer Evangelist for Adobe. The job basically entails helping developers using Adobe technologies to be successful. His focus is on web and mobile technologies including expertise in both Flash and HTML. Previous to that, he spent a decade working in various technical roles at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Lately, Terry has been speaking at the “No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS), conference series, as well as, speaking on mobile application development with Adobe Flash Builder. Terry will be running the NCDEVCON Hands On Lab (HOLs-BYOL) Mobile App session.

Terry is also the author of Driving Technical Change, a Pragmatic Bookshelf title. It's about convincing reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and ideas.

He blogs at http://terrenceryan.com/blog and is @tpryan on Twitter

Building Your First Mobile App with Adobe Flash Builder

Description: The latest releases of Flash Builder and Flex are all about mobile. For the first time it is possible to create high performance mobile Flex apps across Android and IOS. This hands-on-Lab session (bring your own laptop) will take you through the basics of building and deploying applications on to these devices. The in's and out's of the framework will be discussed, as well as how to properly target both Android and IOS with these tools.

Anticipated Duration: Sunday Sept 18th 10:00 – 14:00 -- 3.0 hours with (1) 15min break + Lunch; break @11:00am; Lunch @12-1; resume 1pm – 2pm; more time as needed after 2pm for questions

About

Josh Adams is the Senior System Engineer & ColdFusion Specialist at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In this role, Josh is actively involved with ColdFusion customers and the ColdFusion community. Josh is passionate about ColdFusion and the ColdFusion community: he has presented to User Groups and conferences throughout North America and is a longtime member, past President, and current Director of the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group. Josh has previously delivered NCDECON hands-on labs (HOLS-BYOL) sessions on ColdFusion/Web Development. Josh can be found on twitter: @jladams97

Beginning with ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder 2

Description: Join in this BYOL (bring your own laptop) lab to learn how to get started developing for ColdFusion 9 in the official ColdFusion IDE, ColdFusion Builder 2. After we have installed ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder 2, we'll see how easy yet powerful ColdFusion is as we begin building rich, dynamic web applications. There are no hardware prerequisites for this lab, however, if you want to get a jump on things, download and install ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion 9 Update 1, and ColdFusion Builder 2.

Anticipated Duration: Saturday Sept 17th 10:00 – 14:00 -- 3.0 hours with (1) 15min break + Lunch; break @11:00am; Lunch @12-1; resume 1pm – 2pm; more time as needed after 2pm for questions