I just posted my Advanced Workshop session given today. It was a great presentation and attendance. If you where not there, you can still check it out by going to the wiki presentations area. The presentation shows all the demos we should have done, I am also uploading the complete workshop source code and the script that was my guide to create the demos. As a side note, I will be translating the demos to screencasts so you can follow along. It should take me a few weeks, but they will get there.
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For organizations running applications built with ColdFusion or CFML, modernization often comes with an uncomfortable question:
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May 04, 2008 21:48:22 UTC
by Jason Dean
Luis,
Thanks! It was a great session. I wish it could have gone 5 hours so we could finish everything you had planned. That said, I really got A LOT out of the presentation. The layout demo was great and helped me wrap my head around some of the concepts around the layout manager.
I look forward to the screencasts.
May 04, 2008 23:24:19 UTC
by Peter Bell
Great presentation - really exciting!
May 05, 2008 20:52:21 UTC
by chris hough
excellent presentation, very informative and I look forward to the walk throughs - thank you Luis
May 06, 2008 11:31:33 UTC
by O?uz Demirkap?
It was great Luis. Thanks! :)