Contact Name: Darren Hill
Contact Email: jobs@weblinc.com
Contact Phone: 1-215-925-1800

We are looking for someone who is excited about technology.

You'll work with some of the best tech leads and designers to make some of the best ecommerce and content sites on the web. You will report to a Tech Lead who will help you through the rough spots, but you'll have enough rope to, uh, to do the job properly.

You'll be held accountable for your responsibilities, but you'll get the glory when things go well, which they normally do. Your ideas and opinions will be heard and given the consideration they deserve.

We're looking for people with a fair amount of experience building sophisticated systems utilizing ColdFusion. Experience with SQL Server or MySQL is also important. Obviously, if you know other languages that is also useful.

Let us know why you're the right person for this job. We're hiring immediately for positions in Old City. Send your resume to jobs@weblinc.com.

For our March meeting, Adobe Evangelist and Philly local Terry Ryan (blog) will be back in town to demo some of the new goodness that's going to be available in the upcoming release of ColdFusion Builder 2.

I wouldn't miss it if I were you!

We'll be back in our normal building, this time:

This position is based out of Radnor, PA, and they are looking for someone with both Oracle and CF experience:

Our client has a great opportunity for an experienced Application Developer. This individual will be responsible for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of web applications on Windows Servers using ColdFusion and Oracle. The position requires excellent communication and analytical skills and the ability to work with internal clients to recommend and implement new technology solutions.

Skills & Qualifications:

The position requires 2-7 years experience in web and database programming. The following knowledge and skills are required:

• Database development in Oracle PL/SQL, data manipulation, DDL, creating functions, views, stored procedures, and analyzing and optimizing SQL code or experience in other database technologies.
• Development of software in a web environment with current practical experience using ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JavaScript, XML, CSS
• Trouble-shooting, debugging, proofing & testing
• Bachelor's degree in programming or related field preferred
• Team-oriented and work well with others
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Web Services and mobile application development experience a plus

 

Contact: Jon Morse by email at jmorse@jobscss.com or Phone at 610-747-1322.

While we normally meet in Wharton's Jon M Huntsman Hall, we were unable to get space in that building for our February meeting. Instead, we'll be meeting in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, room 1203. A map showing Huntsman Hall (in red) and Steinberg-Dietrich Hall (in green) is below:

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Sorry we didn't have a January meeting. My wife just had our second child and I won't be back in downtown Philadelphia until the last few days of January. We'll just be skipping it and moving on to February.

This time around, Daria will be presenting the MVC framework called FW/1 ("framework one"), a simple yet powerful, convention-over-configuration framework for ColdFusion applications.

We hear a lot about Model View Controller (MVC) and how we should use it in our applications, but how do you apply this practically in your code?  Framework One provides a simple way to use MVC without overwhelming you with features you might not need or want. This presentation will show how you can take your existing spaghetti code and turn it into a robust MVC application.

Daria will cover the basics of MVC and why FW/1 is a great implementation of it. She'll then provide demo code showing how to convert a simple CRUD spaghetti-code app into MVC with FW/1.

Adobe has extended the deadline for the contest I previously wrote about, where writing an AIR app for the Blackberry Playbook could get some cool bonuses for our CFUG. All of the details from the original post are still the same, only the deadline has changed. It used to be Feb 1, now it's Feb 28th. Get those apps in and then fill out this form.

The odds of winning cool stuff are pretty good and just for participating we'll get an extra software raffle ($2,100 value) for this year.

Don't forget that submitting your app and having it accepted to the Blackberry AppWorld will also score you a free Playbook, too!

• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is seeking a full-time ColdFusion developer to "create, enhance, and maintain web-based applications that facilitate in-Hospital workflows as well as those between Hospital staff and current and prospective patients and their families in support of the Hospital’s mission of superior patient care."  More information.
• The Free Library of Philadelphia has a new full-time CF developer position open to work on both their intranet and public-facing websites. More information.
• Tek Systems is recruiting for a contract positon in Newtown, PA to "work with the product development group to develop web applications utilizing ColdFusion 8 and MS SQL 2008 for Talent Lifecycle Management. Design User Interface using CFML, AJAX (dojo 2.0) and JavaScript." Contact Herb at hcourtne@teksystems.com or 610-832-3104.

Happy new year!

With the new year, I'm introducing a small policy change to encourage meeting attendance. Unless and until otherwise noted, the following will hold true for all future raffles (not for smaller swag given away, as we tend to have enough to go around):

We will no longer simply give away the semiannual software raffle gift (up to $2,100) to a raffle winner who happens to show up on the right night. Instead, raffle tickets will be cumulative over the course of 6 months, and a winner will be drawn at the June meeting and the November/December meeting. You must be present to collect raffle tickets. We are occasionally able to stream presentations live via Adobe Connect, but in order to be eligible for raffle tickets for that meeting, you must be physically present. You do not have to be present at the time of the drawing to win (I will contact you). The purpose of these changes is to encourage as much participation as possible, not participation at specific times of the year. You can earn multiple chances to win by doing any or all of the following:

• 1 ticket:
  • Come to a meeting
  • Review a relevant book on this blog

• 2 tickets:
  • Bring someone new to a meeting
  • Present something
    • A development topic (30-60 minutes)
    • A book review (5-10 minutes)
    • A post-conference review, or something along those lines
    • Anything else that you and I agree on (contact me and we can discuss it)

What's this about book reviews? Well, several publishing companies are willing to send us "review copies" of books in exchange for reviews. We get the books for free, and in return they expect a brief, fair review to be posted online or shared with the group. What publishers and what books? Check out the sponsors page. (They all also offer discounts if you just want to buy, but not review.) As an added benefit, if you like, you can either keep or raffle off the book after your review. If you would like to get a review copy of a book, please contact me.

I hope you'll agree that these changes should encourage and reward attendance and participation. If you have any other ideas to accomplish these same goals, I would love to hear them.

So you already know that if you write and submit a Blackberry Playbook application (using Adobe AIR) before the product launch then RIM will give you a free Playbook [official details]...

Now Adobe is sweetening the deal too:

1. Every Adobe User Group that submits at least one application will get an extra software raffle (up to $2,100) for 2011 (so 3 instead of 2)
2. Ten submitters drawn at random will get a free license for Flash Builder 4 Premium ($699 value)
3. Three user groups get "a new mobile device" (no clarification on what device... for all I know it could be a phone, a Playbook or a Samsung Galaxy Tab) to raffle off at a meeting.

Applications must be submitted before February 1, 2011, so get cracking! Once you have completed the submission process to Blackberry AppWorld, fill out this form to enter Adobe's raffle. (Don't forget to enter that you're a member of Philly CFUG!)

Feel free to reply to this post with comments to let other group members know what kind of apps you're working on or would like to see created, or find people to collaborate with -- feel free to say that you are interested in helping or are in search of help for your project.

Happy Holidays and we'll see you again in January. (I'll be posting a meeting announcement for the January meeting soon, stay tuned...)

For anyone interested in Playbook development, here is a collection of useful links:

Webcasts:

• Develop for the BlackBerry® Tablet OS SDK for Adobe® AIR®
• My First App
• Device Integration
• UI Guidelines
• Blackberry App World Submissions

Useful Links:

1. Ask the community a question in the BlackBerry Developer Support Forums
2. Identify any issues or problems with the development software in the BlackBerry Issue Tracker
3. BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK Software, Simulator and Resources
4. Flash Platform Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS
5. ActionScript resources for the BlackBerry PlayBook
6. Adobe AIR Developer Center
7. AIR apps Sample Code
8. Article to use Flex Builder Burrito for the BlackBerry PlayBook

In lieu of a regular meeting in December, we are going to crash (on invitation, of course) the PANMA Holiday Party. See their post for all of the details.

If you're not already aware, PANMA is the Philadelphia Area New Media Association -- a large gathering of Philly area geeks. It's a great group to get involved in, if you can.

You need to register to attend, registrations are capped, and the event is free -- so don't wait, register now! I'll see you there!