We started early today. We left town at about 6:00 a.m. to get to the McCormick Place at 8:00 a.m. Today was for hands-on classes that were for an extra fee. We saw some classes of interest and the company paid for us to go in early.
Mental note: The Convention Center at McCormick Place is in the north side of the complex, not the south. We pulled into the parking deck and did not see anyone. The attendant said she didnt know anything about a conference going on. We parked walked through a few barren hallways and seen that we were on the extreme opposite side of the property. We drove around and then parked in the right place.
My class was Creating ColdFusion Applications Using Design Patterns, taught Joe Rinehart. Joe is one of the creators of Model-Glue methodology and a veteran CFer. I had a full day ahead of me, eight hours of new concepts.
The class was great, Joe had us break into groups and create a small application with given specs. I have been using ColdFusion components but this class dug much deeper into how they were used and how powerful they are. The objective was to minimize processes and create a more OOP-style application. I was able to flesh out the application logically, but didnt have the syntactical knowledge to get it to run. He went over the application and gave us the working source code to go over later.
We are looking to offer multiple languages on our web site and I will be using these methods to create that functionality.
On a side note, the food was much better last year in Las Vegas. Its not bad here, but its definitely not the Venitian.
Tomarrow, I have the following classes:
- Building a ColdFusion Multilingual Application
- Search Engine Optimization (should be a good chuckle)
- Leveraging ColdFusion Components
- Image Manipulation in ColdFusion
