Presentations, Talks, and Meetups

Los Hombres have given a number of individual and combined talks and presentations both in public and on line. Here're some of the the talks we've given:

• CFObjective 2012 – Beyond CFThread: Advanced Concurrency in ColdFusion --May 17, 2012 -- A presentation about Concurrency suffering and eventual enlightenment
• CFObjective 2011 – ORM Zen -- May 12, 2011 -- A presentation about ORM suffering and eventual enlightenment
• CFObjective 2011 – Continuous Integration with Jenkins, ANT, and MXUnit -- May 12, 2011 -- An introduction to Continuous Integration for CF Developers
• RIAUnleashed 2010 – Introduction to MongoDB for CFML Developers -- November 12, 2010 -- What is Mongo, Why it's awesome, and how to use it
• Adobe MAX 2010 -- ColdFusion Skunkworks with Joe Rinehart and Marc Esher -- October 27, 2010  -- Experimentation, learning, and finding joy in what you do
• April 2010 – Online ColdFusion Meetup – Know your tools: Productivity Tips-n-Tricks for ColdFusion Builder / CFEclipse
• CFUnited 2009 – Automate like a Rock Star: Do more work in less time -- August 14, 2009 -- The presentation I'd give myself if I could go back in time
• CFObjective 2009 – Writing Easy-To-Test Code -- May 14, 2009 -- Mo'Betta tips for designing easy-to-test components
• CFObjective 2009 – Approaches To Automated Security Testing -- May 16, 2009
• Adobe MAX 2008: Advanced Patterns for ColdFusion Test Automation -- November 19, 2008 -- How to be a Design-For-Testability Ninja
• Automating the build/deploy process with ANT - CFUnited -- June 19, 2008 -- Copying, Zipping, FTPing, SVN, SQL, macrodef, looping, conditionals, scriptdef. Lots of example code!
• Patterns for ColdFusion Test Automation - CFUnited -- June 18, 2008 -- Basic and advanced patterns for unit testing
• Better living through Testing -- April 23, 2008 -- Intro to Unit Testing and MXUnit.
• Unit Testing w/MXUnit (Part-2) : In the weeds -- April 10, 2008 -- Writing tests principals, design for testability, and test automation
• Unit Testing w/MXUnit (Part-1) - Jump Start -- March 06, 2008 -- Getting started with unit testing, MXUnit, and Test Driven Development.
• Ant on the wire -- February 28, 2008 -- This is a how-to session on using FTP, Email, Subversion, and VSS access in your ANT build files.

Just getting started with unit testing? John C Bland II gave a fantastic overview... watch it here .

Want to learn more about ANT? Watch Jim Priest's CFMeetup presentation