Code Slinger - ColdFusion

$10 to advance your career

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:34:00 -0400

If you are in the midwest this weekend, you should really, really consider dropping by BFusion & BFlex in Bloomington, Indiana. It is a bring your own laptop event full of hands-on tracks conducted by speakers from around the globe combined with optional full-day training sessions. The schedule is packed so full of content on Flex and ColdFusion topics that your only regret will be the inability to attend twice.

Here is a smathering of sessions from the Flex track (and remember, there is also a full day of fusion content too )

Hooking up Flex and ColdFusion. An introduction to CFAAS
Integrating BlazeDS and ColdFusion
New Flash Builder 4 WSDL and HTTP Connectors
Drag and Drop Image Manager with Flex & AIR
Practical Cairngorm for Adobe Flex Applications
Creating Your First HTML-Based Application for Adobe AIR with Dreamweaver CS4
Building Flex Apps with Swiz: Simple, fast, flexible, powerful.
Spark Components for Flex 4
Component Development using the Flex 4 Model
Using Merapi to tap into native code in your Flex application
Flex Component Development from Scratch
90 Minutes + Flixel = 1 Game
Creating Applications for the Flash Platform
Flex Intro for Developers
Introduction to Flash Catalyst

I am not sure how the folks at BFlex manage to provide this for a $10 price tag, but if you are close enough to even consider going to this event, it would be a mistake to miss it.

Hope to see you there,
Labriola

Flex Camp Chicago

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:46:00 -0400

On January 18th, Mike Nimer, Jeff Tapper, Josh Berling, Shashank Tiwari and I will be presenting at Flex Camp Chicago. After a morning keynote from Bob Tierney, we will begin a full day of flex sessions. You can read more at http://www.flexcampchicago.com/, but don't wait too long to register. We only have room for about 100 attendees and the spots are going very quickly. Labriola

Ben Forta and Scorpio attack the CCCFUG

Tue, 08 May 2007 10:17:00 -0400

Last night, Ben Forta continued his whirlwind tour of Scorpio, the code name for Adobe's ColdFusion 8 software, this time in the beautiful environs of downtown Chicago. The talk was extremely illuminating, for a number of reasons. First, the people in the CCCFUG lived up to their rep by grilling Mr. Forta about every feature he demoed. When nearly an hour had passed in the presentation, and he was still on slide two, Ben asked if we could hold off on some questions until he got to the next slide. That request was greeted with more questions, which, to his credit, Ben answered. He was willing to answer any question we had, while throwing t-shirts into the audience to those that asked. Second, if you have never seen Ben speak, it is a sight to behold. I don't think I have experienced that much raw information in such a short period of time. He covered an immense array of information in just under three hours, which was partly comprised of the following: 1) The new CFIMAGE tag
2) Argument Collections
3) Implicit array creation
4) A great demo on AJAX integration
5) A CF Debugger in Eclipse
6) ... Wait, what? [More]