Have to do a full writeup later. but we did have a great discussion tonight. Thanks again to Brookwood Media Arts for hosting us well after their office was officially closed for the day!

I led off with some cool coder-oriented features in Dreamweaver 8. That morphed into a discussion on code environments. so I showed off CFEclipse and the Flex AlphaBits. The group seemed to appreciate seeing them all together and just about everyone contributed their thoughts and current config.

Matt then did a great presentation on CFAJAX. Did a nice walkthrough of what it takes to do a full request/response cycle without a page reload and explained some of the weirdness/limitations of CFAJAX.

This spawned an excellent discussion on security. when to use and when not to use Ajax techniques. and some minimal coverage of frameworks. That pretty much filled our 2 hours together!

Everybody seemed to enjoy the meeting so i'm looking forward to a presentation on Coldspring from Chris Scott. a Philly local and clearly a bright guy at an upcoming meeting.

I'll be putting together a better writeup soon. Matt's also going to package up all the CFAJAX work he's done along with good and useful documentation and drop it out on our site for all to reference.

g'night. all. 'specially you guys out at MAX!