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Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks.
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Broadchoice Workspace - Beta Coming Soon!
We have just announced on the ArgumentCollection blog that we are taking signups for the forthcoming beta program of our new AIR-based product. That blog post contains the first screenshots of what we're all working on as well as giving some details about what the product offers as well as how it's built.
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BACFUG - September 17th - Seth Duffey - Image Manipulation
From the BACFUG website:
Image Manipulation in ColdFusion 8 - Seth Duffey
9/17/08 6:30 PM
Adobe San Francisco - Kojak
Connect URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/bacfug
Seth Duffey will walk us through what's possible with and the dozens of image manipulation functions introduced in ColdFusion 8.
Location:
601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103
The Kojak conference room is in lobby but you still need security clearance (so you must RSVP!).
We have a copy of the ColdFusion 8 WACK Volume 3 to raffle off as well as three of the Teratech/Adobe CF8 tag posters and the usual swag!
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ColdFusion 8 Tag Posters!
Teratech and Adobe have worked together to create these impressive posters for ColdFusion 8. User groups will be raffling off some of these shortly (BACFUG will raffle three off each month while supplies last) but you can also fill out a Teratech survey to get your own copy (U.S. only due to shipping costs). See the CFUNITED Blog for more details.
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Scotch on the Rocks 2009
Details will be announced at A Wee Dram Of Scotch and attendees at that one day event will get a 10% discount on Scotch 2009 tickets!
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Thames Valley CFUG
On October 1st, I'll be speaking at the UKCFUG about Design Patterns in ColdFusion. Thanx to Kevin Roche for setting that up.
As mentioned before, I'll be giving the same talk at the Devon CFUG two days earlier and a talk on Subversion and branches at A Wee Dram Of Scotch on September 25th.
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ACID3 Tests
With all the fuss about Google Chrome scoring 75/100 and a fresh round of comparisons of compliance (Safari on Mac gets 72, FF3 on Win gets 69 I believe?), it's interesting to read that an internal Alpha of AIR scores 100 according to Ted Patrick. Very impressive!
{posted via Google Chrome - on a Windows XP VM on my MacBook Pro}
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Google Chrome - first impressions
Sheep-like, I rushed to install Google's new browser, Chrome and was disappointed to see that it's Windows-only (for now). So I fired up a Windows XP VM and installed it.
It's fast, it's clean and intuitive. I like the ability to add "application shortcuts" for web pages - I have Gmail and Google Reader in my quick launch menu already. Nice.
It has very few settings / options. Just the stuff you need. It won't import bookmarks etc from Safari or Firefox, just Internet Explorer. Black mark for that!
I don't like the fixed blue "chrome" (I have XP set to use the silver theme) but I admit that it's "very Google". The bookmarks bar is a little strange - a pale blue "balloon" below the address bar. Again tho', it's very much in keeping with the Google UI approach even if it isn't what we're used to.
And it'll all be open source so you can take it apart and see how they've done it.
Overall: very favorable so far.
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A Wee Dram - location and more details
A Wee Dram of Scotch has a location - The Square Pig in Holborn - and has posted the full schedule for the day:
- Adobe Keynote - Adam Lehman and Claude Englebert
- ColdSpring - Mark Drew
- RAD Object-Oriented CFML Development - Peter Bell
- High Availability: Clustering ColdFusion Applications - Mike Brunt
- Subversion: Better Living Through Branches - Sean Corfield
- Setting up a Solid Local Development Environment - Kurt Wiersma
- Railo 3.1: The Open Source Story - Gert Franz
Gert is a new addition to the schedule - it'll be great to hear an update on Railo going open source! Mark's talk went over extremely well at cf.Objective() this year - if you're curious about ColdSpring or just starting down that path, this will be an excellent talk for you! Kurt's talk was also very well received at cf.Objective(), as was Mike's. Both talks have a lot of solid, "from the trenches" experience in them. Peter's talk was very well received at both Scotch on the Rocks and CFUNITED - I really enjoyed this talk at Scotch and learned a lot from it! Mine is a new talk I was planning for CFDevCon, that looks at how Broadchoice is using Subversion for more than just simple version control.
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ColdFusion free for education
As announced at CFUNITED this year, ColdFusion 8 is now available for free for learning purposes to all students and educational staff worldwide. This is something that many people in the community have been requesting for years so it's great to see Adobe pull this off!
For more information, check out these links and blog posts:
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Nice jQuery-based CF_AJAX widgets
Michael Sprague has created a nice set of custom tags that use jQuery to provide alternatives for cfgrid, cfwindow and cftooltip. Currently a "prerelease", this will become a RIAforge project in due course. Another example of the power and simplicity of jQuery.
(via Vince Bonfanti's blog)
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How to Drive Fusebox 5.5
I was checking the Proton Arts web site today and noticed that Jeff Peters' much anticipated How to Drive Fusebox 5.5 is now available!
Just under twenty bucks gets you 110 pages containing sample applications that illustrate each of the new approaches possible in Fusebox 5.5.
I love the cover art - especially the freeway sign showing the five possible styles of application!
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A Wee Dram Of Scotch
A one-day CFML event in London to fill the gap left by CFDevCon. Thursday 25th, September 2008. Adobe keynote, talks by Mark Drew, Peter Bell, Mike Brunt, myself and Andrew Shorten. And raffles (of course - since this event is organized by the makers of Scotch on the Rocks!).
Price? A ten quid cash donation on the door which will get you two free drinks and a discount on Scotch on the Rocks 2009.
If you were going to CFDevCon - or wanted to go but couldn't afford it - come along to A Wee Dram of Scotch and catch some of CFDevCon's speakers for the cost of a few drinks!
More details will be posted on the Wee Dram website shortly!
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CFDevCon (and other UK news)
Unfortunately, CFDevCon has collapsed due to lack of funds. I felt they were ambitious trying to plan yet another CFML conference in England after we'd already had CFUNITED Europe and Scotch on the Rocks, and so close to Flash on the Beach (and another web dev conference just before?) and then MAX Europe in Milan shortly after. Hopefully they'll be back next year with a better date.
Despite that, I'm still going to be in England around that time (since my wife is judging a cat show in Telford in early October).
So, I'll still be speaking at the Devon CFUG on Monday, September 29th, about Design Patterns. I'll also probably be speaking at Thames Valley CFUG in late September (still working that out with Kevin Roche).
I'll also be speaking at a one-day CFML event in London - along with several other folks that y'all might know! Entrance will be just ten quid, cash, on the door (and will include two free drinks). See Big Mad Kev's blog post for more details.
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Free Advanced ColdFusion, Flex & AIR Training!
Yes, it's true! If you head over to Bloomington, IN for the weekend of September 6th & 7th, you can get free training in advanced ColdFusion from Peter Farrell, Dan Wilson, Elliott Sprehn, Adam Haskell, Mike Brunt and Kurt Wiersma as well as advanced Flex & AIR from Mike Labriola, Zach Stepek, Simon Free, Kevin Schmidt and Aaron West!
That's a smokin' deal courtesy of BFusion & BFlex '08.
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MAX Keynote Video - 30 on MAX
If you were at MAX last year, you saw a video collage in each keynote of people saying why they loved the web and technology and good user experiences. This year, they're planning something similar and Adobe want you to contribute by making a short YouTube video tagged with 30onMAX (click that link to see what others have already posted on YouTube). See Ted Patrick's blog (first link) for more details.
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