Our February meeting will feature the author & maintainer of such prolific projects as: ColdFire, JSONUtil, and the CF9-compatible HTML5 Websocket Gateway (among many others), Nathan Mische. He'll be introducing us to a new validation framework he's written, called simply, "OK!". He describes it as "a ColdFusion 9 ORM entity validation framework inspired by Hyrule."

Please RSVP here so that we can get an accurate head count for food.

Just a reminder that our next meeting is tonight! If you haven't already, please take a quick look at PeepCode and/or UGTV and have at least one nominee in mind before you arrive.

Thanks again to this week's sponsor, Expo Logic, who is hiring by the way.

Expo Logic is sponsoring this week's meeting. If you're local and in search of a full time web development position, have a look.

See you Thursday!

Job Type: Full Time

Description: Expo Logic is seeking a full time Web Application Developer to develop and manage applications implementing key business procedures for both internal processes and external clients.

Your tasks will include:

• Designing, coding, and deploying applications
• Maintaining existing codebases
• Dreaming up new and crazy ideas
• Being awesome

Requirements / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent level of experience / education
• Basic knowledge of SQL databases and design practices
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Strong sense of adventure (some travel may be included)
• Ability to juggle multiple projects
• Local to Broomall, PA
• Must have own transportation

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with a JavaScript framework (jQuery, YUI, etc)
• Experience with ColdFusion, ASP.NET, or PHP
• Basic TCP/IP networking skills
• Understanding of MVC frameworks
• Base knowledge of OOP concepts

Expo Logic is a trade show services provider specializing in custom software to meet our clients ever-changing needs and expectations. This is a great opportunity to play an active role in a casual, uptempo, team oriented environment.

Resumes and cover letters can be emailed to opportunity@expologic.com.

No recruiters please.

Happy 2012, everyone! We're going to start off our meetings for the year with something a little different. This month we'll be watching a recorded presentation. "Of what?" you ask? That will be decided at the start of the meeting with a quick vote. We're going to watch a recording either from Peepcode or UGTV. Both have a variety of recordings available on a huge swath of topics. Please have a look at them and come with at least 1 suggestion in mind. We'll spend a minute or two discussing the nominees and then vote and dive right in.

As usual, please RSVP here so that we know how much food to order. The location is still pending but I will update this post once I know exactly what room we'll be in.

If you'll recall, Nathan presented some cool stuff he was doing with using ColdFusion Event Gateways for HTML5 Websockets, a little more than a year ago. Now he wants to dive more specifically into Event Gateways:

ColdFusion event gateways allow developers handle or create external messages or events in an asynchronous manner. Because event gateways can work with any event a Java application can handle, the applications of event gateways are many. In this talk we will go over the basics of event gateways, look at a few of the event gateways included with ColdFusion, and finally show how to build a custom event gateway.

As always, Please RSVP so we can get an accurate head count for food!

Just a reminder, we're meeting this Thursday to talk about jQuery Templates and Backbone.js. If you're coming, please RSVP here so we can get an accurate headcount for food.

And while I've got your attention, the meeting after that will be on 11/10, which is only two weeks after this week's meeting. It's kind of rapid-fire, I know, but the hope is to get us back to the regularly-scheduled meetings on the 1st/2nd Thursday of the month. I'll be waiting until after this week's meeting to post the details, but save the date!

Would publishing a google calendar you could import or an iCal feed that you can subscribe to be something you would want? If so, let me know in the comments.

This months meeting features regular member Chad Paul, who will be presenting jQuery Templates and Backbone.js. Here's what you can expect:

With the push towards better and more functional interfaces, technologies like AJAX, Web 2.0 and HTML5 are all the rage now. Common practice now asks why do that page reload when you just need a little bit of data. With this shift, those page loads are becoming more and more endangered. To us server side programmers, this can be viewed as a threat or an opportunity. If we choose to make it an opportunity, how do we manage that interaction? Lucky for us the are a lot of client side frameworks that make the data transfer and rendering easier.

In this presentation we will look how we can use jQuery, jQuery templates and backbone.js and how they can work together to make great front end interfaces.

If you're coming, please RSVP so we can get an accurate head count for food.

John Peech of Turnberry Solutions emailed in this job opportunity:

We have a growing client located in the Philly suburbs who is looking for two or three Senior ColdFusion Developers for permanent positions. Good salary and benefits package.

• Development of software in a web environment with current practical experience using ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS
• Trouble-shooting, debugging, proofing & testing
• Experience with developing web applications that access relational databases
• Bachelor’s degree in programming or related field preferred
• Java experience is a plus
• Web Services development experience a plus

Contact John Peech at 215-654-99912 x8838

HTH Worldwide, a growing technology and international health insurance company, is seeking a ColdFusion Developer to build and support web-based applications. The candidate will work in the Application Development team, and will be expected to provide technical expertise for the department. The ideal candidate will have experience working with other developers, users, and business owners in maintaining web-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Experience in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining web-based applications
• Expected to perform and produce in a fast-paced development environment
• Knowledge of relational databases and applications including design, development, implementation and maintenance
• Trouble-shooting, debugging, proofing & testing
• Follow proper coding standards
• Support internal and external clients

Skills

• Strong knowledge of ColdFusion and other web-based technologies including ASP, .Net, or PHP
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JQuery, XML, XHTML, AJAX, XSL, XSLT
• Oracle database programming including PL/SQL, data manipulation, DDL, creating function, views and stored procedures
• Comprehension of business logic and its impact on the databases and applications
• Understanding of Insurance, Healthcare, and Financial systems are a plus

Experience

• 3 years of related IT experience
• Degree from a 4 year college or university is preferred

Contact Dan McFadden by email: dmcfadden@hthworldwide.com or phone: 610-254-8724

For those of you who will be at MAX next week, we're going to try to get together for breakfast on Tuesday. No agenda or anything, just getting the Philly peeps together to hang out over breakfast before heading over to the convention center.

Location and exact time TBD (we'll try to accommodate your morning schedule), but you can RSVP here if you're interested, and we'll share more information as we figure it out.