Speaking at Online ColdFusion Meetup, on August 21, on something

I'll be speaking at the Online ColdFusion Meetup on August 21, 12EST. What I'm speaking on is still in the air. I'd love it if folks who are planning on attending could give me some topic suggestions. Anything but ColdFusion 8 and Ajax, which is cool and all, but I've given that presentation about 10 times this year, and don't want to give it again until I have to at MAX.

So - any ideas?

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Chris's Gravatar I know you are new to Flex, but I would love to see another presentation on Flex, Coldfusion, and Livecycle.
# Posted By Chris | 8/7/08 7:14 AM
Lola LB's Gravatar Hmm . . . how about CFCs?
# Posted By Lola LB | 8/7/08 7:30 AM
Steve Withington's Gravatar Would you be able to share anything you've been working on at Broadchoice?
# Posted By Steve Withington | 8/7/08 7:32 AM
Dan Vega's Gravatar Well that is my birthday so we could devote an hour to talking about me? HA!
# Posted By Dan Vega | 8/7/08 8:24 AM
marc esher's Gravatar i'd like to see a step-by-step investigation into a performance or memory problem in a real CF App. Take the problem, use the tools we have available to us (server monitor, java profilers, whatever) and use it as a case study in this kind of problem solving.

the presentations i've seen on this topic have been fairly general and have never gone completely from problem to solution.
# Posted By marc esher | 8/7/08 8:39 AM
Brian's Gravatar I second Lola and vote for CFC's. You did a presentation at MAX in 2005 on Application.cfc. How about updating that for CF8? Or maybe focus on remote calls and web services.
# Posted By Brian | 8/7/08 8:55 AM
Ryan McIlmoyl's Gravatar I know it's not one of your usual topics, but I'd love to see more information about unit testing being put forth to the CF community. I think there's still a lot of developers out there who see it as more work than it's worth.
# Posted By Ryan McIlmoyl | 8/7/08 9:12 AM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar I'm thinking CFCs or Unit Testing. CFCs would have to be a best practices type one though as my normal CFC preso is 3 hours long or so.

Unit Testing would be nice. It's something I've never presented on, and frankly, I'm new to it. So that adds the extra layer of me being scared to death of royally screwing up, which just adds to your enjoyment. However - I need to check with Charlie as I believe they recently had one... lets see. Bill Shelton did DB pattern for UT. Well, that's not exactly UT 101. I'll chew on this a bit.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/7/08 10:18 AM
David Sammons's Gravatar I agree with the other who have suggested a topic on CFCs. I would specifically like to get more information on kind of a 'best practices' in structuring your applications in regard to CFCs. I've been using the DAO/Gateway/Service model. Is that the best??
# Posted By David Sammons | 8/7/08 10:34 AM
Robert Myers's Gravatar Java for Coldfusion developers.
# Posted By Robert Myers | 8/7/08 11:49 AM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar @Robert: I don't know Java. :) Well I can read it, but I don't "know" it.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/7/08 12:00 PM
Esmeralda's Gravatar I also say CFC's - and perhaps binding using them.
# Posted By Esmeralda | 8/7/08 12:50 PM
Phillip Senn's Gravatar I wouldn't mind some discussion as to why so many top ColdFusion developers are being hired by Broadchoice.
What do they see in the company?
Is Broadchoice something that an 'average' developer could sign up for and become a reseller?
# Posted By Phillip Senn | 8/7/08 2:17 PM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar @PSenn - It's the free energy drinks.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/7/08 2:22 PM
shakti's Gravatar another vote for CFCs. mainly about best practices and how to not overuse them, i think i kinda do :)
also something about hw far can u take the OOP approach using CFCs would be gr8....
# Posted By shakti | 8/7/08 4:54 PM
Jared Shields's Gravatar How about... 'usable' or 'useful' uses of Event Gateways... (from a low or high level perspective)
# Posted By Jared Shields | 8/7/08 6:40 PM
Alan Barlow's Gravatar Information relating to scale, server configuration, security, maintenance in regards to delivering SaaS-based applications would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if you want to broaden the brief more then perhaps cover the pro's/con's of individual codebase/database deployment per customer vs. shared codebase/individual database per customer vs. shared codebase/shared database per customer.

Thanks!
Alan Barlow
CTO, ProWorkflow.com
# Posted By Alan Barlow | 8/7/08 7:50 PM
John Barrett's Gravatar I would like to add another vote for cfcs. Especially referring to Application.cfc
just a thought,..
# Posted By John Barrett | 8/10/08 12:50 AM
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