Speaking at NCDevCon

September 11, 2016

Next weekend I’ll be speaking at NCDevCon in North Carolina.  Going for another “overachiever” award, I’ll be giving two talks: "MVC With and Without a Framework" and "Git Source Control: For The Rest of Us".

"MVC With and Without a Framework" is for ColdFusion people that have been intimidated by the idea of learning an MVC framework. If you’re still using CFIncludes, or are new to CFCs and have avoided that, this talk should be very useful. We’ll start by looking at an older CFInclude-based application, then learn some basic uses of CFCs and see how you can organize your code into MVC without even needing a proper framework.  Then we’ll take that MVC codebase and compare it to the same thing done in Framework-1.  This is basically the same talk I gave at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit last year, with a few minor updates to the code and demos.

"Git Source Control: For The Rest of Us" is an intro to Git using a GUI tool, nothing from the command line.  There are plenty of great demos for learning Git from a CLI, but not as many for people that prefer to work from a GUI.  If you’re a designer, front-end developer, PhotoShop person that now spends a lot of time dealing with HTML files, etc, then you’re the target audience for this talk.  We’ll go over some basic uses of Git and show the standard commands you need to get started.  And we’ll use a free tool that’s available on Windows and Mac so everyone can follow along.

If you haven’t been to NCDevCon before, I highly recommend it; all the usual hassles of conferences are non-existent.  It’s a weekend so there’s no time needed off work, and the cost is very reasonable for 2 days of great content.  For folks on the west coast like myself, you can take an afernoon flight and arrive in NC before midnight.  Attending NCDevCon is one of the easiest decisions to make when it comes to keeping my skillset up to date — hope to see you there!

-nolan