Last night at BACFUG

Thanks to everyone that came out to the BACFUG meeting last night. I hope the talk I gave on "Introduction to ColdFusion Components" was helpful to those in the audience. The slides and source code have been added here, and there is a recording of the presentation at UGTV. Just like the last time I gave an introductory talk, we had a bigger percentage of new faces in the meeting. Perhaps this is a sign that we need to have more presentations that go over introductions to various topics. As an example, one attendee at last night's meeting was not familiar with the "var" scope! That's not even a topic specific to CFCs ("var" is just as useful when building regular CFfunctions), but there are still folks that haven't had to dive into the "newer" scopes in ColdFusion, and could benefit from a presentation on these topics, and last night is proof that these folks are willing to attend meetings when the topic is of interest. I'll be back at BACFUG in July to give a talk on "Intermediate Uses of CFCs" -- it goes over some common uses of CFCs that don't require using a full fledged framework, nor do they require knowing more than just a very basic understanding of CFCs and object oriented thinking. We'll go over Beans, DAOs, Gateways, and maybe a few similar items. Thanks again, especially to Sean and Luke for having me as a presenter, and for their assistance in getting the laptop/network issues squared away. :) --nolan