For our April monthly meeting, we have two presentations planned which you will find below.  The meeting will start at 6:30 in the Paladin Inc offices.  For meeting directions and info go to the Meetings link above.

• Tom Woestman  - Application Logic Management:   While developing an internal travel application servicing over 14,000 trips a year, we found we needed to manage a complex web of roles and states to determine whether a particular user may perform operations such as: submit the travel request to the next approval step, cancel a travel request, send the travel request back for more information, etc.  After initially creating the complex web of logic to manage this complex set of criteria, we developed an alternative approach that moved handling the logic of this from the programmer to the business analyst and made updating this logic trivial.  I would like to share this approach with you and hope that you find it as useful as we do.
• Robert Gatti - Database Indexes:  One of the too often overlooked performance bottlenecks with database driven applications comes from either the lack of use, or the misuse of database indexes.  Robert will be showing some examples of how proper database indexing can benefit your systems.  The examples will be using MS SQL Server, but the principles apply to most DBMS.

I look forward to seeing you all there.

Adobe is delighted to offer the Dallas Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group (DFWCFUG) members special pricing on Adobe software. Place your order before March 2, 2009, in order to save 20% on all Adobe products in the North America online Adobe Store.

Here are the simple steps required to get your discount:
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2) A custom Adobe Store URL with an embedded coupon code will be e-mailed to you.
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If you have additional questions or would prefer to place your order by phone, contact Adobe at 800-585-0774.

Make sure to join use on Tuesday February 9 at 6:30 at our regular meeting location at the Paladin Consulting Inc office.  Peter Farrell, who is perhaps best known for his work on the Mach-II framework, ColdSpring framework and formerly as one-half of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast, will be joining us remotely to offer a presentation on using ANT in your development.  For those that were at the January meeting and got a small taste of ANT in the intro topic on using cfcompile, this will be a much more in depth look at the topic of automated builds.

As always we will have training topics in the first our as well.  I will be updating the group on Monday with what exactly those topics will be.

Lastly, there are currently several job postings within the group.  Aaron Lynch, Adrian Moreno, and Mike Jr. all have positions open within their companies.  I know that at least Aaron and Adrian will be present, and have not received work back from Mike at the time of this posting.  If you are looking for a position, I urge you to come that night with resume in hand.  We are going to have the second conference room availble if you would like to sit and chat with these guys one-on-one about the positions.  Don't forget the power of networking within our group!

As always, I am looking for volunteers for presentations on both advanced and intro topics.  If you have anything at all that you would like to share, please me know.

See you at the meeting!