Mike Henke is going to be covering the art of debugging this month at the Southeast Minnesota ColdFusion User Group. After the presentation we will be giving away a copy of FusionDebug, so don't miss it!

This meeting and presentation will be done through Adobe Connect. Anyone can join the meeting by going to this URL http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r50968001/.

This meeting will take place in the Siebens Building, Nygaard Lecture Hall (Room 4-05) on the Mayo Clinic (Rochester) campus at 10AM CDT on Thursday, November 20th. You must be present or in the Connect meeting (and a SEMN CFUG member) to win the FusionDebug license.

In the past two and a half years since the creation of the Southeast Minnesota CFUG, I have seen the group grow from 10 (yes 10) members to now almost 80! We have on average, 20 people come to every meeting, which is great and very encouraging!

The thing I am struggling with now, is getting presenters and cool, new topics to discuss. My co-manager, TJ, and I have been doing many of the presentations in the past half year or so. Its fun, but quite honestly, I am burned out from presenting.

So, I need some help from this great ColdFusion community that we are in! If you would like to present for the SEMN CFUG, please send me an email at johann (dot) sonnenberg (at) gmail (dot) com. We can use Connect, or if you are in the area of Rochester or Minneapolis/St. Paul and don't mind a drive, let me know! Thanks!

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.