AJAX is one of the most talked about "new" technologies of recent years but the reality so far has been that writing dynamic, cross-browser applications that leverage JavaScript is a complex, labor-intensive process. Find out how Scorpio will change that reality by providing AJAX functionality built right into our favorite language!Note: this was based on the ColdFusion 8 Public Beta.

As everyone rushes to adopt CFCs as "the" way to build the core of their ColdFusion applications, they have to deal with creating, initializing and linking those components - resolving dependencies and managing their lifecycle. This talk will show how to simplify CFC lifecycle management by using various forms of a common pattern - the factory - including factory frameworks such as ColdSpring.

With tools springing up like weeds in the object / persistence space we could do with a session that goes over some of the options. It could cover automatic tools like Arf! (inspired by Rails for Ruby), Reactor as well as CFC generators. One of the key messages of the talk should be the duality of OO model design vs relational table design and how efficiencies in each area conflict and can be resolved through intelligent mapping. Object Relational Mapping (ORM) is term much bandied about but without much information available aimed directly at CFers.

The natural way to develop software is to start with requirements - the expected behavior - of the system. We work our way down the line through design to implementation and somewhere in there we do some testing. Unit testing focuses on implementation, even if you write the tests first. Behavior-Driven Development is intended to let you write the expected behavior - the requirements - in a testable format so that you can develop software top-down, in a natural manner. cfSpec is a great new framework that supports BDD for ColdFusion. Find out how it can help you develop testable, high-quality software in a natural way.

By now you've heard a dozen times that source code control is good for you. Perhaps you're already reaping the benefits of tracking code changes in a separate system that is nicely backed up. You've heard about tags and branches - most talks touch on them - but you haven't really figured out how to leverage these features to improve your life. Come and find out how the engineering team at Broadchoice use branches and tags in Subversion as part of their daily life to manage parallel development, automate deployment across multiple environments and deal with the complexities involved. At the end of this talk, you should be prepared to introduce more advanced use of Subversion into your own workplace to help streamline team development.

The dream of cloud computing is cheap, scalable, on-demand power. What is it really like to run your production applications up in the cloud? What are the design issues you will face? How could you migrate from a traditional data center? Broadchoice runs its two main products on Amazon EC2 and uses S3 for persistent storage. Come and find out how we did it and the challenges we faced along the way - and why we like Amazon as a hosting environment!