This is the presentation from the ColdFusion Unconference session at Adobe MAX 2011 in Los Angeles. This covers a brief look at implementing the ESAPI project into your ColdFusion applications and what methods it has available to help secure your sites.

This is my presentation about 5 Ways To Improve Your App with ORM given at the Adobe MAX 2011 Unconference

This a presentation that I did for local tech networking group, SuperMondays (http://www.supermondays.org/). It was a lightning introduction to ColdFusion in its many forms.

The world of device development is one where rules and approaches can shift rapidly, but also one where excitement is high and there is huge potential for innovation.

In this session we'll be covering why, as a ColdFusion developer, you may want to build mobile applications, and how ColdFusion is a great platform to power them. Using real world projects as examples we will explore the development process from brief to completion, examining the challenges you may face along the way.

This is a presentation I gave at cfObjective 2011. Taffy is a framework I wrote for creating REST web services in ColdFusion. In the presentation I cover REST 101 briefly, before showing you other REST frameworks for ColdFusion and why I created my own, and then how to use Taffy.

CFObjective 2011 Presentation on using Jenkins, ANT, and MXUnit for your ColdFusion projects

CFObjective 2011 Presentation on ColdFusion ORM. See http://bit.ly/cformzen for all code

This is my presentation about Using Apache Derby - The built-in CF8 Database.

As businesses become more sophisticated in their use of the Internet, a single web site in a single language is becoming less common and the trend is toward multiple languages and often to multiple, regional and/or branded web sites. Supporting multiple sites (multiple domains) on a single code base is known as "multi-tenant" architecture. Multi-tenant and multi-lingual web platforms present a number of interesting challenges.

I've helped build two such systems, a content management system at Broadchoice and more recently a dating platform at World Singles. In this deep dive, we'll look at the pros and cons of many of the decisions my teams had to make as we faced and overcame a variety of technical challenges. We'll cover different approaches to web, application and database infrastructure, authentication and security, skinning, content management in multiple languages, and more!

Software development has cycles. In the 1980's, functional programming languages were "hot" but somehow they never became mainstream. Instead, object-oriented languages took over the mainstream and that has shaped how most of us program today. However, functional programming languages have started to get more attention recently, partly because Moore's Law has begun to stall and instead of chips continuing to get more powerful, we are moving to multiple cores - and we need to take advantage of concurrent processing in order to leverage those cores.

Functional programming languages focus on immutability of shared data and higher order functions. The former makes concurrent programming much easier and the latter allows for small "pure" functions to be easily composed into sophisticated algorithms. In addition, the nature of functional programming allows for much easier testability - in the absence of side effects.

In this session, you'll learn about some functional programming languages that are making waves these days as well as some techniques you can apply to solving your own problems in a way that's easier to test, easier to reuse and easier to leverage concurrency.