We just had our July meeting of the Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group. We replayed a presentation that Brian Kotek did for the IECFUG on MXUnit, ColdMock, FormUtilities, ColdSpring, and OOP programming in ColdFusion.

We had a good turnout (11 people) for the meeting. Everyone was very impressed with the presentation and good discussion ensued after the presentation was complete. His presentation and code examples can be found here. I would encourage other Adobe User Groups to use this!

I don't know Brian personally, but thanks Brian for a great presentation!

The Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group will be meeting on Thursday, April 24th, at 10:00 AM on the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus.

This month's presentation will be a continuation of our last meeting on moving from procedural ColdFusion to Object Oriented. Ryan Thompson-Jewell and Johann Sonnenberg are at it again and will discuss using a Service layer (business logic) in our applications and calling other services external to our ColdFusion application. This will build on the Bean, DAO and Gateway presentation in March.

This meeting will be held in the Gonda building, on the 7th floor, in the Gonda 7 Lecture Hall, room 7-103.

For more information go to http://www.bittercoldfusion.com.

The Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group will be meeting on Thursday, February 28th, at 10:00AM on the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus.

At this meeting, Jim Hale, Jr., from the Mayo Clinic, will discuss the technical architecture for the internet applications being written by the Mayoclinic.org Online Services team. The list of technologies includes Websphere Portal Server, Java, Spring, Hibernate, and web services. An actual application will be presented along with its source code so we can compare its technologies to similar ones available in the ColdFusion community such as ColdSpring.

We will be meeting in the Leighton Auditorium (3-11) on the 3rd Floor of the Siebens Building on the Mayo Clinic campus.

For more information go to http://www.bittercoldfusion.com.

The Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group will be meeting on Thursday, January 10th, at 10:00AM on the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus.

At this meeting, Joe Rinehart, the creator of Model-Glue and the owner of Firemoss, LLC, will be presenting on using Hibernate and ColdFusion.

Here is more about what Joe will be presenting. Saving object instances to and from a database is often a tedious chore: the SQL is simple, but there's a lot of it, and it's repetitive. To help out, Object Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks aim to do 90% of the work for you. While many ColdFusion developers are familiar with Transfer and Reactor, not many have explored Hibernate, an industry-standard ORM for Java. We'll be taking a look at how it's easy to begin using Hibernate from ColdFusion with or without having to model your application with Java classes.

We will be meeting in the Hartman Conference room on the 4th Floor of the Centerplace (US Bank) Building.

For more information go to http://www.bittercoldfusion.com.

The Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group will be meeting on Thursday, December 13th, at 10:00AM on the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus.

At this meeting, Ryan Thompson-Jewell, a Senior Web Developer on the MayoClinic.com team, will be presenting on Advanced Charting with CFChart and Styles.

Here is more information on his presentation:

Ever ran into a layout problem with CFCHART or wanted to use a chart type that ColdFusion did not support? We'll explore using the style attribute of CFCHART, what it is for and how to use the included WebChart3d program to create your own styles. We'll also explore using the included WebChart3D Java objects directly to get chart types that CFCHART does not expose such as dials and other types. Other topics covered: - more complex label formatting and layout - putting a data table in the chart with one setting - combining multiple data series into one chart with two different y-axis ranges

We will be meeting in the Centerplace (US Bank) Building, in the Hartman Conference Room on the 4th floor.

For more information go to http://www.bittercoldfusion.com.

The Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group will be meeting on Thursday, November 29th, at 10:00AM on the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus.

At this meeting, Jeff Cookle, Software Architect at Hormel Foods, will be presenting on what he saw at Adobe MAX 2007. Don't miss this meeting to hear about news on ColdFusion, AIR, Flex and more!

Also, at this meeting, we will be raffling off a license of Adobe software (winner's choice) of up to a $2,400 value! You must be present to win.

We will be meeting in the Centerplace (US Bank) Building, in the Hartman Conference Room on the 4th floor.

For more information go to http://www.bittercoldfusion.com.