Oğuz Demirkapı

I will present the topic "Flex & i18N Code Samples" at Orange County Flex User Group (ocflex.org) today.

You can find detail information about meeting and location at user group website.

See you there ...    :)

We are having a great conference here Indianapolis, IN and I have presented my topic 'Creating our first i18N Flex Application' yesterday.

I want to share the presentation slides and you can download here.

I will add sample code as new blog entries with lots of details here. Keep focused ...

Thanks to Tom Ortega and John Wilker for organizing such a great event!

See you next time ...

Here is my 360|Flex Indy schedule from 360|Flex schedule.

Monday May 18th

• 8:30a | Keynote
• 10:00a | Ben Elmore - Do you speak Flex?
• 1:00p | Juan Sanchez - Degrafa
• 2:30p | Adam Lehman - What's new with CF and Flex/AIR
• 4:00p | David Hassoun - The Business of a Team instead of an Army
  

Tuesday May 19th

• 8:30a | Oğuz Demirkapı - Creating Our First i18N Flex Application
• 1:00p | Jeff Tapper - How not to Code a Flex Application
• 2:30p | Jeffry Houser - Bullet Proofing your Flex Component
• 4:00p | Laura Argüello - Breaking Down your Applications with Mate Framework

Wednesday May 20th

• 8:30a | Keynote
• 10:00a | Joe Olsen - Creativity is the fuel, process is the engine.
• 1:00p | Paul Robertson - AIR Data Privacy, Encyription, and Security
• 2:30p | Dan Blackman - Building Realtime Applications with BlazeDS and LCDS
• 4:00p | Nick Kwiatkowski - Flex, CF, and LCDS Magic

I am sorry to miss the sessions which are at the same time with my 'long' session/presentation.

The other topic that I will miss is also AFCS one and I will try to catch up this later.

Thanks for the whole organization. Let us have a great conference! :)

We are getting a nice and informative conference here at Minneapolis, MN. We all know topics are great and everything is as we expected. But what I really like is having very interesting and informative conversations between sessions and free times. Probably it is the most enjoyable part of cf.Objective() for me. Getting new ideas, sharing suggestions,thinking together about same problems are really an interactive learning and fun for me.

Tomorrow I will present my i18N topic and it was nice to get some questions before my presentation. I just updated some small part in the presentation depending on coming questions and I hope it will be usefull for you who will attend my session. Please feel free to share any request/question before and after my presentation.

If you would like to get some idea about the atmosphere, you can check the photos from cf.Objective() Flickr group. Please feel free to join the group and put your notes to the photos to share with others.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/cfobjective/

See you at the presentation tomorrow ...

As you know we are going to have a great conference this week with cf.Objective().

There are lots of great topics and it was not easy to pick some of them. I also will present my "Designing & Architecturing Multilingual (i18N) Applications" topic.

Anyway, here is my current cf.Objective() schedule.

Wednesday May 13th

• 5:30 | TCCFUG presentation: Mura CMS - Blue River - RSVP via TCCFUG website
• 7:00 | Opening Reception, sponsored by Blue River / Mura CMS

Thursday May 14th

• 9:00 | Adobe Keynote
• 10:15 | Introduction to OO Modeling and Design - Brian Kotek
• 11:30 | Advanced ColdFusion Server Administration - Adobe
• 1:45 | Rapid OO Development with ColdFusion Frameworks - Mark Mandel
• 3:00 | Writing Testable Code: Real-World TDD - Marc Esher
• 4:15 | Atomic Reactor - Mark Drew

Friday May 15th

• 9:00 | ColdFusion as a Service (CFaaS) - Terry Ryan - Adobe
• 10:15 | Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM - Mark Mandel
• 11:30 | Designing & Architecturing Multilingual (i18N) Applications - Oğuz Demirkapı (Of course! :))
• 1:45 | Object Relational Mapping with ColdFusion - Jason Delmore
• 3:00 | ColdSpring, better living through configuration - Mark Drew
• 4:30 | Mark Drew and Chris Scott's mystery science 3000 ColdSpring session
• 7:00 | BOF: Peter Bell - Requirements and Estimating
• 8:00 | BOF: Russ Johnson - Source Code Control with Git

Saturday May 16th

• 9:00 | Leveraging Enterprise Open-Source Java in ColdFusion - Brian Kotek
• 10:15 | Extending Adobe Bolt with CFML - Adam Lehman - Adobe
• 11:30 | Advanced ORM in ColdFusion 9 - Terry Ryan - Adobe
• 1:45 | Behavior-Driven Development with cfSpec - Sean Corfield
• 3:00 | Hardening Your ColdFusion Server - Pete Freitag
• 4:10 | Closing Remarks

See you there ...

I will present the topic 'Designing & Architecturing Multilingual (i18N) Applications' at upcoming cf.Objective() 2009 conference at Minneapolis, MN between May 14-16, 2009.

Here is the excerpt about my presentation:

This presentation will explain the steps of designing and architecturing multilingual applications and methods in ColdFusion with best practices. The main goals will be explaining the structure of multilingual applications, defining requirements and solutions, and providing best practices with code samples.

Explaining the theory for i18N (internationalization), L10N (localization), g11N (globalization) and other known approaches, defining opportunities to create effective solutions such as Java platform tools usage or designing better database or setting up your environment to make multilingual applications easier to write are some of the topics.

If you have interest to learn more about multilingual approaches on software development with some sample code in ColdFusion, you are always welcomed to attend my presentation.

See you there ...

This is just a reminder that we have our OCDev meeting tonight with the topic ColdBox.

Thanks that we have the first voice on the topic with Luis Majano at our meeting and the meeting will start at 6:30 PM.

More information is on our user group website.  http://ocdev.org

If you want to participate to our ping pong tournament, please arrive at 5 PM.

See you ...

If you can not attend the meeting and would like to see the presentation, please use the following Adobe Connect link for the live presentation at 18:30 PT.

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/ocdev0904/

We have a great news for CFML community! There is a new open source CFML engine now!

Railo open source version has been announced today!

Accelerate Your CFML Development
Railo is a free, open-source alternative for ColdFusion application development.
It's (super) fast, feature-rich, syntax compatible, and did we mention that it's free?

Open source Railo website
http://getrailo.org

Railo professional services
http://getrailo.com

Railo Wiki
http://wiki.getrailo.org

Download Railo
http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/

Go CFML go!

As you all know there are not only "good" people on the net. Luckily we have some of these "bad" guys who are trying to create some extra loads on our servers to help our load testing process. :)

We know these kind of DoS (Denial-of-service attack) attacks already with some old experiences. There were some known solutions for some known types of these attacks. But starting from yesterday we have an interesting one which is known as Layer 7 DoS attack and we have some tough times now.

Here are some extra information about this type of attacks directly from one of the best load balancer tool F5 guys.

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 DoS Attack

Luckily we have a great hosting provider who helped to resolve the most of the issues and our sites are running again after some hours down period. I would like to thank to Edge Web Hosting and their great support team here again for their amazing work!

We would be very happy to hear also your experiences with these kind of DoS attacks. :)

Now it is the time to consider handling more loads on the servers with more sophisticated solutions ...

Get the Java SE 6 Update 13 Now!

Update Release Notes: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u13.html

Download the update: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

I have updated our ColdFusion 8 development and staging servers with JDK 1.6.0_13 and everthing looks ok.