Solr, an open source, enterprsie search platform from Apache, is becoming the standard search engine for use with ColdFusion. In this session, we will discuss how to set up Solr collections, index collections and run searches against those colelctions and some of the differences between Solr and Verity.

Take your application scalability to the next level. This session will take you beyond the basics of caching in ColdFusion 9.0.1, diving deep under the covers of how ColdFusion leverages Ehcache to boost application performance. We'll cover tips and tricks to leverage the newest features of Ehcache in ColdFusion 9.0.1 as well as how to take advantage of advanced functionality not directly exposed to ColdFusion such as replicated caching, distributed caching, and the newest feature being added to Ehcache: Cache search.

A short overview of how I used CFML / ColdFusion to build a little, one-man start-up called Refynr.com. Not much detail, but gives a taste of how I did it in less than 5 months.

Do you know what MURA CMS, an open source ColdFusion based Content Management System, can do for you as a developer? Get yourself introduced to MURA, its architecture, its event model, its API, its extension possibilities and be ready to get started!

Learn simple and effective ways to scale and boost the performance of ColdFusion applications using Ehcache. This session will cover why caching is important, how ColdFusion leverages Ehcache to boost performance, tips and tricks to leverage the newest features of Ehcache in ColdFusion 9.0.1, and how to take advantage of the ability to snap in Enterprise Ehcache to scale out your applications.   

This is my presentation: Getting to Know AntiPatterns-Emergency Backup Edition.

It contains screenshots of my very lame sample app.

Join Rob Brooks-Bilson for a discussion on configuring, securing, and maintaining Adobe ColdFusion servers for optimal performance and stability. Beyond configuration, he'll also discuss the server monitor and the new Adobe AIR based server manager.

Presentation from MAX2010 ColdFusion Unconference.

With new application deployment paradigms, we have more options to get our applications in front of our users, but also create new security vulnerabilities. This session will investigate how to avoid some common security pitfall, and the techniques used to identify and track them.

Testing SlideSix. Have you become tired of the bloated and complex CF MVC frameworks out there today? Feel like you need to take a 2 or 3 day class just to learn how to use some of them? Maybe you are tired of all that XML configuration and just want to be writing code? Whatever the ache Framework One is the latest MVC framework in the CF community designed to be completely convention based and with only a single core file. Reducing the complexity and the bloat is the name of the game. You'll learn what the framework is about, the conventions its based on and be walked through several demos so you can see the conventions in action to get you started right away.

A high-level introduction to the MVC architecture for CFML developers. I used this slideshow in my presentation at the NCDevCon 2010 conference.