Oct 02, 2007
Some MAX photos
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Some photos from the conference, more can be seen here: http://www.cfugitives.com/photos.cfm?action=thumbs&gallery=11
Ed Sullivan, doing his thing!
The AIR Bus (I can't see how they got this inside!)
Ed Sullivan, doing his thing!The AIR Bus (I can't see how they got this inside!)
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MAX day 2 update
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Hey everyone, Day 2 summary as follows:
OK, remember when I said yesterday that this is still a "developers" conference? Well, the lines between design and development got seriously blurred today!
The day 2 keynote dragged a little, I have to be honest. What they did is concentrate on some specific products and services - most you've probably never heard of. There were, however, a few stand out's:
1) Adobe Share - share your documents anywhere, with anyone. 1GB free, a slick interface, and security permissions on your documents. https://share.adobe.com/adc/login.do is the URL, and you should sign up for the Beta. This one has legs....methinks!
2) Thermo. OK, I'm not a designer, but even *I* was floored by this. Essentially, take a photoshop comp, with all its layers, images, etc, and turn it into a Flex app, without writing a line of code. It truly has to be seen to be believed.
3) COCOMO: Adobe Connect (formerly breeze) in your flex apps, using (of course) simple one-line tags. This one will be worth a look, as time progresses.
Nothing like a little (advanced) hands-on ColdFusion reporting to get your day started! Personally, I think outcomes reporting is such a massive need at the corporate level, that I'd like to see big improvements in this area for CF 9.
Speaking of which, the codename for the next version of CF will be "Centaur".
I went to a hands-on Fireworks/CSS class, and totally got my ass kicked! I blame it on the whole left side/right side of the brain thing. Still, I got some great resources from the Fireworks evangelist for prototyping in a design tool and moving to production environment, which I'll share with you when I have more information.
Like I said, the line between design and development is blurring.
Some Adobe AIR and Flex accessibility rounded out a long day.
David
OK, remember when I said yesterday that this is still a "developers" conference? Well, the lines between design and development got seriously blurred today!
The day 2 keynote dragged a little, I have to be honest. What they did is concentrate on some specific products and services - most you've probably never heard of. There were, however, a few stand out's:
1) Adobe Share - share your documents anywhere, with anyone. 1GB free, a slick interface, and security permissions on your documents. https://share.adobe.com/adc/login.do is the URL, and you should sign up for the Beta. This one has legs....methinks!
2) Thermo. OK, I'm not a designer, but even *I* was floored by this. Essentially, take a photoshop comp, with all its layers, images, etc, and turn it into a Flex app, without writing a line of code. It truly has to be seen to be believed.
3) COCOMO: Adobe Connect (formerly breeze) in your flex apps, using (of course) simple one-line tags. This one will be worth a look, as time progresses.
Nothing like a little (advanced) hands-on ColdFusion reporting to get your day started! Personally, I think outcomes reporting is such a massive need at the corporate level, that I'd like to see big improvements in this area for CF 9.
Speaking of which, the codename for the next version of CF will be "Centaur".
I went to a hands-on Fireworks/CSS class, and totally got my ass kicked! I blame it on the whole left side/right side of the brain thing. Still, I got some great resources from the Fireworks evangelist for prototyping in a design tool and moving to production environment, which I'll share with you when I have more information.
Like I said, the line between design and development is blurring.
Some Adobe AIR and Flex accessibility rounded out a long day.
David
Oct 01, 2007
MAX Day 1 Update, from David
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
First order of the day, for all attendees, was the Keynote (well, after breakfast, of course). You know, there are a few things I noticed about MAX pre and post Adobe:
1) It's bigger, better. It's obvious that Adobe has more money to spend, and isn't afraid to spend it.
2) MacroMedia is still very much alive - personnel wise, anyway. All of the brains from MacroMedia were promoted, not jettisoned, which means Adobe made some very smart decisions that will stand to them in years to come.
3) This is still a developers conference.
the last point may get me into a little bit of trouble. Sure, this is an Adobe conference, and yes, developer tools pale in comparison to design, when it comes to revenue. Still, the development tools, such as ColdFusion, Flex, AIR and to a major degree Flash, were front and center.
The keynote would have bombed if it was just a catalog of adobe products, and what's new about each one - but it wasn't that. It was focused on providing solutions - the ones that engage the user and want them to come back for more.
I know it's hard to see where AIR fits in - but after you see what some people are doing, it makes total sense. I'll see if I can drum up some more speakers for the group while I'm here.
Ron and my schedules conflicted a little, but I took in two sessions he didn't mention:
1) Flash Accessibility: This is more work than you think it is! Imagine someone who can't use a keyboard, or can't see a screen, and you'll see what 508 is all about.
2) ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS). This was quite interesting. LCDS is like a live update of information on your page - using CF as the back end to monitor that data. With ColdFusion 8, LCDS was made more integrated out of the box. NOTE: Install LCDS when you install CF8, or it's going to be a headache to go back and fix it later!
The communities are well represented this year - with our own lounge area. Adobe really wants to push the community efforts, which is great news for us.
I'll have some photos to post soon.
David
1) It's bigger, better. It's obvious that Adobe has more money to spend, and isn't afraid to spend it.
2) MacroMedia is still very much alive - personnel wise, anyway. All of the brains from MacroMedia were promoted, not jettisoned, which means Adobe made some very smart decisions that will stand to them in years to come.
3) This is still a developers conference.
the last point may get me into a little bit of trouble. Sure, this is an Adobe conference, and yes, developer tools pale in comparison to design, when it comes to revenue. Still, the development tools, such as ColdFusion, Flex, AIR and to a major degree Flash, were front and center.
The keynote would have bombed if it was just a catalog of adobe products, and what's new about each one - but it wasn't that. It was focused on providing solutions - the ones that engage the user and want them to come back for more.
I know it's hard to see where AIR fits in - but after you see what some people are doing, it makes total sense. I'll see if I can drum up some more speakers for the group while I'm here.
Ron and my schedules conflicted a little, but I took in two sessions he didn't mention:
1) Flash Accessibility: This is more work than you think it is! Imagine someone who can't use a keyboard, or can't see a screen, and you'll see what 508 is all about.
2) ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS). This was quite interesting. LCDS is like a live update of information on your page - using CF as the back end to monitor that data. With ColdFusion 8, LCDS was made more integrated out of the box. NOTE: Install LCDS when you install CF8, or it's going to be a headache to go back and fix it later!
The communities are well represented this year - with our own lounge area. Adobe really wants to push the community efforts, which is great news for us.
I'll have some photos to post soon.
David
MAX Day 1 update, from Ron
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
David and I are here with about 3998 perspective CFugitives members. If David is successful and getting a fraction of them to come to our meetings, the local pizza guy is going to be able to retire early!
Kevin Lynch hosted the keynote... and you are right if you guessed that he had a highly produced presentation where he talked about AIR and all the wonderful things Adobe is doing for the world of Flash, Flex, Air, and ColdFusion. However, there was virtually no mention of Photoshop,only passing reference to InDesign,and no mention of Lighroom at all. That's ok... we are there to learn about web development technologies. (Lightroom is cool -- one day I'd like to explore whether it would be useful to catalog all the images -- gifs, jpgs, and source tiffs and PSDs -- that I need to keep track of.)
I attended a session on CF Server Monitoring and Management. it turned out to be CF8 specific. There are great tools in there to keep track of what database queryies are being using -- and how many times the queries are run, and how much memory they take to cache. It's long been possible to figure this out, but this makes it easy. One note -- the server monitors and profilers add very little overhead to the server... but the memory profiler is so resource intensive that we were strongly cautioned never to even turn it on on a production server.
Next up was a hands-on session on building Flex apps with a CF backend. It was basically a demo of the CF wizards in Flex 3. And, while it generated a bunch of code, the app didn't work in the end. That, by the way, pretty much sums up my experience with Flex 2.
Then, I attended Ben Forta's session on Building CF powered Ajax apps. Unlike Flex counterpart presentation (not hosted by Ben), this worked really well. He demoed the ajax app wizard -- which is pretty much identical to the flex cold fusion application wizard. Then we went on to coding by hand cfform tags with data binding to CFCs. yes, this was hands on session. We were given no code to start with. The resulting apps required no JS skills -- and worked perfectly the very first time.. Schweet! This session was clearly the most useful session for me today.
Tomorrow's another day... looking forward to more successful sessions.
Oh... one more thing. You know that Adobe swag that David always seems to come up with for our meeting? Well, that stuff is here, as you might imagine. But you get to pay for it. Mouse pads $5.95. (Does anybody still use mouse pads?) T-shirts $25. Adobe hats galore -- all for a price. So come to CFugitives meetings for a chance to get it all for free! (I must confess I bought a pair of USB-powered Lava Lamps. My daughters will love them, and will finally have a use for the USB ports on their laptops.
Ron
Kevin Lynch hosted the keynote... and you are right if you guessed that he had a highly produced presentation where he talked about AIR and all the wonderful things Adobe is doing for the world of Flash, Flex, Air, and ColdFusion. However, there was virtually no mention of Photoshop,only passing reference to InDesign,and no mention of Lighroom at all. That's ok... we are there to learn about web development technologies. (Lightroom is cool -- one day I'd like to explore whether it would be useful to catalog all the images -- gifs, jpgs, and source tiffs and PSDs -- that I need to keep track of.)
I attended a session on CF Server Monitoring and Management. it turned out to be CF8 specific. There are great tools in there to keep track of what database queryies are being using -- and how many times the queries are run, and how much memory they take to cache. It's long been possible to figure this out, but this makes it easy. One note -- the server monitors and profilers add very little overhead to the server... but the memory profiler is so resource intensive that we were strongly cautioned never to even turn it on on a production server.
Next up was a hands-on session on building Flex apps with a CF backend. It was basically a demo of the CF wizards in Flex 3. And, while it generated a bunch of code, the app didn't work in the end. That, by the way, pretty much sums up my experience with Flex 2.
Then, I attended Ben Forta's session on Building CF powered Ajax apps. Unlike Flex counterpart presentation (not hosted by Ben), this worked really well. He demoed the ajax app wizard -- which is pretty much identical to the flex cold fusion application wizard. Then we went on to coding by hand cfform tags with data binding to CFCs. yes, this was hands on session. We were given no code to start with. The resulting apps required no JS skills -- and worked perfectly the very first time.. Schweet! This session was clearly the most useful session for me today.
Tomorrow's another day... looking forward to more successful sessions.
Oh... one more thing. You know that Adobe swag that David always seems to come up with for our meeting? Well, that stuff is here, as you might imagine. But you get to pay for it. Mouse pads $5.95. (Does anybody still use mouse pads?) T-shirts $25. Adobe hats galore -- all for a price. So come to CFugitives meetings for a chance to get it all for free! (I must confess I bought a pair of USB-powered Lava Lamps. My daughters will love them, and will finally have a use for the USB ports on their laptops.
Ron
MAX Updates
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Hello everyone - Ron Hiner and I are at MAX in Chicago, and we'll do out best to post some highlights from each day. There's really too much to post everything, so we'll leave the details for the October meeting.
Some details in short:
MAX 2007 is being held in Chicago and McCormick West convention center. The place is Massive! I gave myself 10 minutes to get from the Community lounge to a session and I was late - I walk quick, too.
There are a lot of events happening, starting at 8:30, and going until midnight.
U2's Bono is here (more on that later).
Enjoy the posts.
David and Ron
Some details in short:
MAX 2007 is being held in Chicago and McCormick West convention center. The place is Massive! I gave myself 10 minutes to get from the Community lounge to a session and I was late - I walk quick, too.
There are a lot of events happening, starting at 8:30, and going until midnight.
U2's Bono is here (more on that later).
Enjoy the posts.
David and Ron
Oct 18, 2005
MAX Update - Day -1
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
Posted by David OMalley having to do with MAX
October 16th - 2005. MAX day -1
Pre-MAX there was a meeting for user group managers, where some of the exciting news was pre-announced.
Topics included were:
- The Flash Platform Roadmap
- Versions 8 and 8.5 - big changes for the player in how it is managed and distributed.
- Flex product line
- Yep that's right - no more "one size fits all", Flex will have options for all of us. This is probably one of the more exciting pieces of news from MAX, and more will be revealed....
- Macromedia Labs
- ColdFusion roundtable.
Plenty more to come - I'll blog as much as possible about the sessions and keynote presentations, but most of the details will be presented at the next meeting of the Connecticut ColdFusion user group.
David