Don Heusman of the Wharton School of Business is looking for a CF freelancer to work on a number of projects, and I offered to pass along his information here. If you're available and interested, please contact him by email or by phone at: 215-898-0320.

Performance Media Group is a company that is redefining business to business media, not just travel trade media. Our forward thinking philosophy, extensive industry experience and unique approach to addressing a rapidly changing business landscape have lead to our remarkable growth.

We are seeking a Web Application Developer to take part in conceptualizing, building, and maintaining web projects for our various initiatives within the travel industry.

Duties of this position include:

• Working independently, and with a team to maintain our ColdFusion and Flash-based platforms
• Build and implement standards based websites to meet project goals and allow for future development
• Assist in product development by performing technical and functional R&D
• Work with and support internal staff and client base on web products
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting of user errors and coding issues
• Code versioning control with SVN and system/site documentation creation

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven programming experience with ColdFusion 8+, Javascript, AJAX Frameworks, Flash, XHTML, and XML/XSLT (.NET a HUGE PLUS)
• Well versed in writing SQL queries for MySQL and MSSQL server environment.
• Development skills in Flex also very helpful
• Experience developing high-availability web sites by producing professional code with minimal bugs
• Experience with both Windows & Linux server environments for administration from the command line(CLI) and GUI, for troubleshooting and performance tuning of applications. 

In addition to the skill set above, the ideal candidate will be a self-starter, capable of working effectively on his/her own and working with a team. Good communication skills are mandatory, as you will be dealing with staff and clients with general support. The candidate also must be reliable, diligent and have a true passion for working in a creative, ideas oriented, fast paced environment where team work is not only encouraged, it's required.

The team you'll be working with is a group of highly energetic and project oriented professionals who enjoy the fun and benefits of our business. You'll be part of the web development team with the ability to grow into other areas of the business.

This position reports to the Web Development Lead and is also accountable to the owner of the company. You will be working directly with other application programmers with similar duties as well as a team of front end designer/developers creating the direction, look and feel of the projects.

Local candidates only please, no telecommuting option. You must be able to legally work in the US with a residence within 50 miles of Westampton, NJ

Candidates only please. Recruiters, staffing companies and freelancers need not contact us.

Please send us a copy of your resume and relative work experience (with links if applicable) to mterkanian@perftech.net

Just a quick reminder that we will be meeting on TUESDAY next week — the 20th. Steve Rittler will be [presenting](http://www.phillycfug.org/post/july-meeting-no-longer-lost-with-coldfusion-orm-with-steve-rittler) on ColdFusion ORM. I've updated the original announcement with the room information, but here it is again for your convenience:

Since CFUnited announced that 2010 will be their last year, a couple of people have approached me with the idea of starting a new ColdFusion conference in the Philadelphia area.

Why not? We have 3 CFUGs nearby: Philly (of course), Pittsburgh, and New York. And the Maryland CFUG (revival in process) isn't that far away, either. Heck… we Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers head down to DC for CFUnited without thinking twice. It should work the other way around too, right?

But creating a conference would be a significant investment, and you know how much I like surveys… so we put one together to gauge interest in our hypothetical new conference. So do me a favor…

Take the survey!

… and then pass it around to every CF developer you know. Even if they're from San Diego or Scotland. If they would consider coming out, then we want their opinions. Share it on Twitter and Facebook, and email it to your grandma with a giant multi-colored font and animated gifs. Either include a threat that if she doesn't forward it to at least 100 of her friends that she'll have bad luck for the rest of her life, or say that if she does forward it Steve Jobs will send her an iPad. Or both. And then try to explain to her what an iPad is…

(P.S. We're thinking about Flex too, so if that tickles your fancy, be sure to take the survey!)

CFUnited is, by far, the biggest ColdFusion conference available in our region. Well, it will be for one more year. They've announced that they are closing up shop. If you weren't already planning on going, I would recommend trying to make it this year. In fact, they even extended early-bird pricing until July 15th to help make that easier.

I suppose all good things must end. I'll be sad to see it go, but happy for the opportunity to check out other CF conferences like NCDevCon and CFObjective without fear that I'm missing something at the CFUnited.

At last week's meeting, we had an attendee who was there in search of potential hires for a company he is starting. I told him I would be happy to pass along his request here on the blog.

The position is part time to start, but could grow into a full time position; doing highly technical email and phone support, answering questions about AIR and Flash, but primarily about AS2 and AS3. See their post on Adobe Groups for more information:

We are looking for someone who can provide highly technical email and phone support for technical questions regarding flash actionscript (mostly as2 and as3) and air development. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years full time experience in flash actionscript. Good communication skills is a key requirement. Our budget is $500 a month for what is expected to be 8 to 10 hours of work. Candidates with a science, engineering, or math degree are preferred but not required.

This is a ground level opportunity with a company that is just getting started. This could grow to a full time position.

The company is listed as a "Stealth Mode Startup." If interested, contact Jack by phone at 215-609-4170.

Former Philly CFUG manager Steve Rittler will be presenting for us once again. This time, he'll be presenting ColdFusion 9's new Hibernate integration.

Unlike every other CF9+Hibernate presentation I've seen, Steve manages to skip over boring fluff and jump right into the interesting, important details, and practical examples. If you are curious about ORM but don't know anything about it yet; or even if you know just enough to get yourself into trouble, this presentation should get you on the right path in no time (well ok, an hour).

Rumor also has it that Steve can answer all of the questions you may have about LOST.

Just a quick note to remind everyone that we're meeting tonight at Wharton's Huntsman Hall at 6:00. David Patricola will present on Model-Glue 3. See you there!

David is one of our local members, and has volunteered to present on Model-Glue 3.

Model-Glue, one of many open source, object-oriented, front-controller MVC frameworks offered in ColdFusion, allows developers to focus more on building the business rules of their applications and less on the boilerplate. Focusing on an Object-Oriented approach, it uses XML markup templates for site configuration tasks like default events, shared functionality, page formatting, and database connectivity. Built-in functionality also allows you to create scaffolding for common CRUD tasks, which you can then edit to suit your needs. Separating the business rules from the presentation of the data (as with any MVC framework) also makes it easy to create multiple themes and easily switch between them. The learning curve is fairly gradual and you can have a website up and running in 10 minutes.

David is a local Philadelphia ColdFusion developer by trade, and dabbles in PHP on the side. He has been working with ColdFusion for 10 years, and considers himself a CSS "wingnut." He is currently a Senior Developer at Thomas Jefferson University, and based on the fact that the head shot he sent me was cake.jpg and the expression on his face, I assume that he comes down squarely on the side of cake in the age old cake vs. pie debate.

Just a quick reminder that our next meeting will be this Thursday, at 6:00pm. We will be in the usual building, but in a different room. Details on that below.

Now that we have a feel for how many people will be attending most meetings, we won't be doing an RSVP every time. That said, the meeting is posted here and if you'd like to RSVP you may do so there (you must be logged in & a member of the group).

Apologies for the short-ish notice. I'll try to get back on my game and provide more notice next time. This month we're meeting a little earlier than usual. Our presenter, Daria, will be presenting at NCDevCon on May 22nd and 23rd, and asked if she could practice her presentation with us before then.

Daria will be presenting An Introduction to Caching.

Caching is such a deep and complex subject that it can be difficult to know where to begin. This session will cover the basics of caching in ColdFusion from using page and query caching to using CFCs to cache data and functions into a persistent scope to create a service, as well as the new caching functions in ColdFusion9. We will discuss the pros and cons of each solution and workarounds for caching and refreshing the cache as you need it. You'll be amazed at the difference caching can make for your websites.

I will also add RSVP details soon. For now, just mark your calendars!