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I presented at the Cleveland CFUG and AUG meeting last night. Due to the fact that our regular AUG night would be the night before Thanksgiving, and we didn't have a presentation ready yet, and the subject matter was good for the AUG, I decided to make it a combined meeting.

I did a "ColdFusion 101" topic. This is definitely a topic I'd like to do an Adobe Connect recording on in the future, but I didn't have a lot of time to prepare for the meeting, so I was working completely unscripted, and... we were at a new location last night, so I didn't want to risk it.

I thought it went pretty well. My goal was to build something dynamic from scratch within the two hour time limit. What I was able to do was build a website with a login, logout, different roles, and display all records and edit an individual record in a database... In fact, one of the slowest parts of the presentation was just getting the HTML and CSS right! I also put both the Login and the Logout menu items in a table with other menu items, which in retrospect, made it a little more difficult, and was probably a mistake. I didn't use a framework, and my goal wasn't to produce perfect code. I just wanted to show people what's possible, and I think I did that effectively.

I can see myself presenting this content again in the future, and record it next time. However, it probably won't be until the new year. I do encourage other user groups to contact me to do this presentation, especially those that are not ColdFusion groups.