API's are becoming common place with all big web sites. Sites such as Google, Yahoo! and Twitter are all giving you access to API's that give you access to their data. Why? Is this something that you should do for your web site? Not only will we discuss why you should create an API we will also look at how you can create one. We will review some different concepts when creating API's and look at some of the things you need to watch out for. By the end of the presentation you will be ready to create a secure and useful API.

A full day hands on introduction to ColdFusion for Developers. We will teach all you need to know to start programming in ColdFusion. This session is aimed at people who are already developers in other languages but want to learn about ColdFusion. We will not go as low level as teaching what structures and arrays are or how to write sql but we will cover all CF realted topics ranging from includes and if statements all the way to components and custom tags. All code will be run on ColdFusion 9 beta and will include the introduction of some of the newer CF9 tags.

In this session we will take a look at all the different features available to developers from setting up projects, setting up servers, creating snippets to creating and using custom extensions. By the end of the session you will have a decent understanding of the different features available to you and how to use them.

With ColdFusion 9’s introduction of ColdFusion As A Service (CFAAS) you can now access a number of ColdFusions features from Flex, allowing you to send email, generate charts and even generate PDF’s, all without writing a single line of ColdFusion code.

Social Networking sites are becoming a dominant marketing force with Facebook being one of the leading Sites. Anyone who has a Facebook account will have seen all the available apps that you can add to your profile. These apps do not reside on the Facebook server, they reside on your server and utilize your code and Facebook code. During this session we will look at how we can create a Facebook application that uses ColdFusion. We will look at the Facebook Code and review any pitfalls we may expect to find on the way.

API's are becoming common place with all big web sites. Sites such as Google, Yahoo! and Twitter are all giving you access to API's that give you access to their data. Why? Is this something that you should do for your web site? Not only will we discuss why you should create an API we will also look at how you can create one. We will review some different concepts when creating API's and look at some of the things you need to watch out for. By the end of the presentation you will be ready to create a secure and useful API.