MAX 2003 Report

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MAX 2003 Report

• Michael Smith MDCFUG
• michael_at_teratech.com

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Introduction

• Three conferences
• CF_Underground V
• Community College
• MAX 2003

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CF_Underground V

• How to be a Guru Coder
• UDFs, custom tags, CFCs
• Dogma and Change
• Performance tuning
• RIA
• Project mistakes
• What is my tag game
• Panel with Tim Buntel and Damon Cooper of
  Macromedia

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Community College

• Help MMUG managers and Team Macromedia to work
  better
• New product info
• Amazing
• t-shirt

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MAX 2003

• Deliver experiences to users. Eg miniusa.
  Evolution of business Raw materials, Goods,
  services, experience
• Flash paper materials print on demand
• Intro Flash app
• Central MAX guide and maps

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More general info

• 2500 attendees, 60 CF
• More than 80 of sessions on non CF subjects
• Special event at Olympic ice arena

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ColdFusion News

• CF is alive and kicking! 6.1 solid release.
• 10 million new googleable CFM pages this year
• US Senate and Bank of America run on CF
• CF 7 Blackstone
• Reporting and printed output to FlashPaper?
• Source code protection
• Flash components grids and forms

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Flash and Dreamweaver

• CSS for navigation and layout
• DW Word drag and drop clean HTML
• Dynamic CSS formatting in Flash
• Flash 7.1 faster, smaller download
• Studio MX 2004 integration of code, Flash, images
• DW CSS support

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Central etc

• Central local (occasionally connected) data.
• Central SDK
• AOL AIM support
• Information finds you mobile apps
• Director DVD authoring
• Breeze pods
• Central pods
• eHelp (RoboHelp and RoboDemo) merger with
  Macromedia

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Flex (aka Royale)

• Tag language for dynamic Flash generation
• MXML and action script
• Form generation, Animation in code, drag and drop
• Web service and Data binding controls
• Flex components
• Event handlers in Action Script

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More Flex

• Runs on top of J2EE server, in future .NET
• WYSIWYG editor for Flex Brady similar to
  Dreamweaver
• SVG (XML vector graphic language)
• http//www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/par
  adigm.html

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Flex code sample

• ltmxApplication xmlnsmx"http//www.macromedia.co
  m/2003/mxml"gt
• ltmxTextInput id"source" width"100"/gt
• ltmxButton label"Copy" click"destination.tex
  tsource.text"/gt
• lt/mxApplicationgt

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Community Resources

• User Group Community Connection T1s and
  Speakers, book authors
• Wireless access

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MAX Blogs

• http//maxbloggers.com/
• http//www.corfield.org/blog/
• http//www.macromedia.com/desdev/

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Next Year

• MAX next year somewhere on East Coast
• CFUN-04 in Washington DC area
• 26-27 June 2004
• www.cfconf.org/cfun-04/