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Today was the final day of CFUNITED 2006.

This year they had 3 “normal days” and an optional 4th day consisting of repeat sessions from the first 3 days.  The idea is that since you can’t go to all the sessions, they repeated some of the popular sessions so that we attendees get the chance to see as many sessions as possible. 

Last night, I went out with several people and we didn’t get back to our room until after midnight.  I didn’t end up going to sleep until almost 4, so it goes without saying that I slept through most of the morning sessions!  I went to 4 sessions today.  I will review them below.

At 10:30, I attended Charlie Arehart’s “Creating and Consuming Web Services in CFML”.  Wow!  My client is on CF 5, so I haven’t been exposed to CFCs at all yet, and I am really impressed to see the amount of things that can be accomplished very easily and efficiently in ColdFusion 7.  I have used web services in the past working on a personal project interacting with the eBay API using PHP.  The tools provided by CF 7 blow everything else I have seen out of the water!

At 1, I attended Mike Nimer’s “Flex 2.0 & CF Integration”.  This was a great demo of the power of utilizing Flex from ColdFusion.  The CF team has done a great job of integrating Flex and CF.  Mike showed us very easy ways to build quick master/detail applications.  I believe this link is to the same presentation http://stevenerat.breezecentral.com/p97229365/.

At 2:15, I was in Sean Corfield’s “Managing ColdFusion Components with Factories”.  This was a bit over my head since I do not use CFCs at the moment, but I was able to follow most of Sean’s logic.  He was preaching the greatness of ColdSpring, and after seeing demos of Model-Glue Unity, I definately understand why.

At 3:30 I attended the last session of the day for me, Grant Straker’s “Troubleshooting and Optimizing CFMX Performance”.  My client will be moving to CF 7 in the very near future, so any help I can get in the process of optimizing and tuning our new server is great!  He went into some good details of tools and methods of debugging a stressed out server.  Honestly, I hope I never have to use this new knowledge!!!

I definately had a great day today!