Orange County ColdFusion User Group, or OCCFUG, is an official Adobe User Group, and benefits from Adobe-sponsored software bundle giveaways twice a year. The focus of this Special Interest Group is on Adobe ColdFusion, helping beginners and experts alike. Steve Farwell is the Manager of this SIG, and Cynthia Gordon is the Co-Manager. OCCFUG meets on the third Thursday of every month, and the fee for non-OCMMA members is $10, or $5 for students. Visit the Orange County ColdFusion User's Group website for more information.
Program: Skinning a Website by John Farrar
Are you a designer frustrated about working with developers who are designed challenged? Are you a design challenged developer? Or if you just want to make it easier, come and see how ColdFusion can make this whole relationship better. We will look at simple keys to CSS that make things work. We will be looking at how a skin library in ColdFusion can make your site build faster, update overnight and impress everyone from your grandmother to your boss!
Our speaker, John Farrar, will be joining us live from Michigan through Adobe Connect. John started working with computer programming around 1977. He has had the opportunity to work on projects used by Apple, Blue Cross, Brunswick Recreation, Casio, GVSU, Johnson Controls, Sprint, and many others. This history covers over 30 years of knowledge and experience in the industry.
He started doing web development over 10 years ago. In the early days of the Web ColdFusion stood out to him not just as a way to make web pages into web applications but as a maturing solid platform good for the developer, site owner, and end users. He started at version 4.5 and has been enjoying each version upgrade more and more.
John owns a company called SOSensible. His company does work for large companies but has a special focus on also making sure technology is approachable beyond the enterprise. They have developed a number of Open Source solutions including COOP. COOP is a mix of Custom Tags and CFCs that provides structure while keeping development simpler. It demonstrates his love for the things that make ColdFusion/CFML a delightful language to build websites.
He has spoken at national and regional conferences, online meetings, and area user group meetings. He is also an Adobe User Group manager. John knows that community is a viable and productive tool to build developers and the companies they serve. He has learned much from great resources in the community including bloggers, books, conferences, and resources too great in number to mention here. He blogs at sosensible.com for the community.
OCCFUG meets on the third Thursday of every month, and the fee for non-OCMMA members is $10, or $5 for students.
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