Last week I attended the cf.Objective() 2011 conference (http://www.cfobjective.com/) in Minneapolis Minnesota. The three day conferece was incredible! I was extremely impressed by the depth of the material presented, the wide range of topics and the speakers they had giving the presentations. Many, if not most, of these presenters are the "leaders" in these areas or fields. These are the people you see pop-up at the top of the list when your researching problems or learning about these topics. To have 1 speaker for every 6 conference attendees provided great access for personal discussion with these people.
There were so many sessions I really wanted to attend, but it seems that so many were at the same time and that made it tough to choose. Coming back to work now there are so many things I want to implement and apply that I saw and learned while there. Here is a list of the top things I want to learn, use or apply:
- Trying to replace my current Coda + Versions + Safari viewing JIRA workflow with using Eclipse with Adobe CF Builder 2 installed.
- Connecting Eclipse with JIRA using Mylyn and Atlassian's Eclipse Connector (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/IDEPLUGIN/Atlassian+Connector+for+Eclipse)
- Running Ubuntu server with Tomcat 7 and multiple CFML engines, namely OpenBD, Railo, CF8 & CF9
- Learning more about using GIT for my source control
- Contributing to a project on GitHub, in fact I've created three of my own repositories, and forked one, to start doing that. (http://github.com/talltroym)
- Digging deeper into the ColdFusion on Wheels documentation
- Developing my web applications using progressive enhancement. This means using the least modern and lowest quality browser that my user audience makes use of, in this case Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, and then adding more capable features for more modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
- Using Selenium for testing my web applications
- Considering how ANT can help me in my development
- Learn how to use MXUnit
- Consider how a Continuous Integration (CI) server could help improve the quality of my web application development.
- Setup a CouchDB server and write a simple CRUD application to learn how it works
- Scrutinizing my web application security
- Considering ValidateThis as a centralized way to control my applications form validations
- Start testing my application code against OpenBD
- Looking at some of the application server logs to trouble-shoot the problem the next time one of my applications start mis-behaving rather then just restarting the service right away
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