Geoff Bowers (Daemon, Australia)
Speaking On
Make Your Website Fly! Varnish Cache Unleashed
Going in circles retrofitting a legacy app with one foot nailed to the floor? Optimised the daylights out of your web app but still want that nitro boost to performance? Building a modern "HTTP Accelerator" or "Reverse Proxy" is easy. Learn the strategies you need to turbo charge your site by sweeping all the (crap code|lousy infrastructure|insert problem) under the carpet, and caching pages in front of your web site instead. More...
Speaker Roundtable & Awards
Its the traditional Jerry Springer style round table of industry pundits and audience participation. Bring your questions 'cos here's your chance to get those burning issues off your chest. Plus, we announce the winners of this year's competitions. More...
Speaker Details
No stranger to putting on a song and dance, Geoff's been invited to speak at Allaire/Macromedia DevCons (1999 Boston, 2000 Washington and 2001 Orlando), InternetWorld, FlashKit and other venues. Sick of traipsing off to the US, Geoff and fellow Daemonites founded webDU and decided to have the world's best technology conference right here in the Antipodes.
Apart from all the hard yakka working for Daemon, Geoff's a regular poster to the Daemonite blog, one of the lead developers behind FarCry CMS , and Master of Full As A Goog. And in his freetime, he's a CFUG regular and the list-admin for CFAUSSIE, FUGLI and a host of other Australian mailing lists. Geoff's also the co-author of the best selling "ColdFusion Developer Study Guide".
Has previously done talks on...
Black Art of Custom Tag Development
ColdFusion components have been ascendant in recent times, dominating with their objectness. But the humble custom tag is making a resurgence. Learn the ancient art of cobbling together custom tags from an old master; sub tags, thistag, associating tags, a touch of attribute wrangling and more. Don't miss this veritable cf_smorgasboard. More...
Blackstone Event Gateways
ColdFusion has long been the easiest way to create applications that respond to Web requests from web browsers. Blackstone, the next major versions of ColdFusion, opens up a whole new world of applications that can respond to events and messages from everything from Instant Messaging (such as XMPP/Jabber and Lotus Sametime) to mobile phone SMS text messages, to Internet socket requests, to system events, and much much more. In this session you'll learn how easy it is to write your own event and messaging apps, understand what's happening behind the scenes, and get a first-hand look at the new ColdFusion Java Event Gateway API, used to create pluggable ColdFusion Event Gateways for CFML developers. More...
Speaker Roundtable & Awards
Its the traditional Jerry Springer style round table of industry pundits and audience participation. Bring your questions 'cos here's your chance to get those burning issues off your chest. Plus, we announce the winners of this year's competitions. More...
Speaker Roundtable & Awards
Its a Jerry Springer style round table of industry pundits and audience participation. Bring your questions 'cos here's your chance to get those burning issues off your chest. Plus, we announce the winners of this year's competitions. More...
Speaker Roundtable & Awards
Its a Jerry Springer style round table of industry pundits and audience participation. Bring your questions 'cos here's your chance to get those burning issues off your chest. Plus, we announce the winners of this year's competitions. More...
Taming the Client
Wireframes, mockups, prototypes, methodology madness and more. Managing large web projects is a mixed bag of new technology, high flying expectations and compromises. Geoff tells tales from the trench, client war stories; things that work and things that don't. Good fodder for your project swiss army knife. More...
Taming the Code
Learn the essentials on how to tame the code in your development team. Reassess your development environment, increase productivity and improve the accountability of your team. Geoff lays bare the painful realities of managing programmers and uncovers the secrets behind what it takes to regain control. More...
Taming the Code II
Learn the essentials on how to tame the code in your development team. Reassess your development environment, increase productivity and improve the accountability of your team. Geoff lays bare the painful realities of managing programmers and uncovers the secrets behind what it takes to regain control. More...
UNSWTV: Video Portal War Stories
UNSWTV is an ambitious, university wide video portal built to deliver hi-res video capabilities to staff, students and faculty alike. A first of its kind, UNSWTV transcodes any video upload and publishes direct to the web, iTunes U, and YouTube services. A warts and all case study, bringing together a smorgasboard of mini-projects into one. More...
