Topic: Flex

Speaking at Ebay DevCon

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at Ebay DevCon in Chicago, June 16-17. For those not familiar with the event, Ebay puts on this annual conference for all the developers who build/integrate on their platform. You might not be doing too much with the Ebay's APIs but I'm sure most have needed to integrate with PayPal. Personally, I want to find out more about the Skype development options. With the impending VoiP features in Pacifica, I'm curious if we could leverage the Skype network in our Flash/Flex applications.

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0 comments - Posted by Adrock at 3:38 AM - Categories: Flex | AIR

See You At cf.Objective()

After much delay, I've finally got a hold on the sessions we'll be presenting at cf.objective() 2008. It was a bit harder to plan for this conference since the team behind cf.obj() is really focused on enterprise development. This meant I couldn't offer the same old 'ColdFusion 8 Feature X' type of presentation and instead had to come up with some higher-level ideas. Here's what we've got lined up...

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0 comments - Posted by Adrock at 4:26 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Flex | AIR

3 ColdFusion Sessions During Adobe Developer Week

Next week marks the return of Adobe Developer Week and I'm presenting 3 different ColdFusion sessions. The first session on Monday is aimed at new CFML customers and is an overview of the award winning release. On Wednesday we'll step it up a notch and explore the Adobe Technology Platform and how to build ColdFusion powered Flex/AIR applications. The final sessions on Thursday is a bit more advanced and I'm really looking forward to it. We'll use the open source Blaze DS project to add simple chat functionality to an existing ColdFusion application (while providing an overview of CF/LCDS integration). Check my calendar for more details.

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9 comments - Posted by Adrock at 5:50 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Flex | AIR

Free ColdFusion 8 Training

I'm working with New Toronto Group (one of our largest ColdFusion partners in North America) to put together a free 2-hour training session on ColdFusion 8. There is a ton of new stuff in CF8 (the largest release to date) and I'm going to try and cover as much as I can in two hours. If you are still running a previous version of ColdFusion join us to find out what your missing. If you've just moved to CF8, I'll show you how to get started using some of the new features like:

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8 comments - Posted by Adrock at 11:59 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Flex

The Next Generation of Software Starts Today

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA innovation by bridging the real-time, dynamic capabilities of the Web with the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop.

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1 comments - Posted by Adrock at 1:22 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Flex | AIR

onAIR European Tour

he onAIR tour is getting ready to roll out soon. This time it's a multi-country extravaganza through Europe. If you are currently building Flex/AJAX based applications in Europe, you really should step out for this event.

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6 comments - Posted by Adrock at 10:35 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Flex | AIR

Is Adobe Flex Really Accessible? You bet your robot voice it is!

Speaking as developer whose built large scale .gov websites and applications that met the US government's eGov and section 508 standards, building accessible applications for the flash player is a heck of a lot easier that building for the browser. Of course, there isn't anything inherent to Flex that just auto-magically makes you applications more accessible just because they are in the Flash player. It's still up to us as developers to code our applications in a responsible manner that inter operates well with the existing tools like JAWS (the leading screen reading software). However, there are some things about Flex that make our lives a lot easier. When asked about Flex accessibility (which comes up quite frequently) it's almost a joke to point out that it's as easy as 'accessible = true'.

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2 comments - Posted by Adrock at 6:00 AM - Categories: Flex

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