I’ve updated my presentation archive to include all of my presentations from cf.Objective() 2012, it was so awesome seeing everyone this year! If anyone has questions or suggestions feel free to send me an email or hit me up on twitter (@ElliottZ). Also if you want to use the awesome AngularJS powered slide deck I […]

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Presentation This presentation will discuss the AngularJS framework which brings the power of Flex to JavaScript and a browser near you. Now that Angular has hit 1.0 many things have changed, APIs have been simplified, and tons of new features have been implemented. This presentation talks about the advantages of using AngularJS and how it […]

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Presentation Now that web applications are bigger and more complex than ever before we need to think about how to scale our code bases and what it means to write production ready JavaScript. This talk discusses the issues with building large scale JavaScript applications. During this presentation we’ll take a hypothetical app through testing, deployment, […]

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Presentation In the enterprise world we often think about building applications as large monolithic servers. For example most CF applications live inside a single JVM instance and the “backend” of your application is the database. As your system gets larger and you have more users with higher availability requirements there are a lot of advantages […]

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I’ve updated my presentation archive to include my two presentations from cf.Objective() 2011. If anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free to contact me either by email or posting on here. I’m going to put up ColdFusion examples for the server side components for people without node.js soon. It was great getting a chance […]

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Presentation Code Samples Test Driven Development (TDD) and it’s cousin Behavior Driven Development (BDD) are certainly not new, but the way we write tests and how easy they are to run is! Jasmine is a fantasticJavaScript BDD testing framework that has a simple syntax with lots of expressiveness when you need it. Combined with JavaScript […]

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Presentation Code Samples Angular is a new kind of JavaScript framework. Built for creating complex ajax applications the framework supports an MVC development model and integrated dependency injection system. In addition a client side template compiler with customizable language and syntax support makes designing and creating applications a breeze. You can create custom tags that […]

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One of the most popular presentations at CFUnited 2010 was my presentation I bet you didn’t know you could do that with ColdFusion, and due to the popularity I’m going to be giving it again this Thursday (Nov 4th) for the CFMeetup! This is a really fun presentation and I’m super excited about getting a […]

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Today I’m excited to release the ColdFusion CFML2009 Core Test Suite. The test suite is far from complete, but it generally covers most of the basic language level and syntax features. If you’d like to contribute more tests please checkout the code and submit a patch. I’d encourage anyone who uses ColdFusion to download this […]

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If you live in a Terminal window like I do and frequently connect to servers and other machines through ssh you’ve run across an issue where the delete key doesn’t seem to work when connected to a remote server in OS X with ssh. I find this happens when you ssh to an Ubuntu machine […]

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