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MAX 2003 Report. Michael Smith MDCFUG michael@teratech.com. Introduction. Three conferences: CF_Underground V Community College MAX 2003. 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
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MAX 2003 Report Michael Smith MDCFUG michael@teratech.com TeraTech
Introduction • Three conferences: • CF_Underground V • Community College • MAX 2003 TeraTech
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 TeraTech
Community College • Help MMUG managers and Team Macromedia to work better • New product info • Amazing t-shirt TeraTech
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 TeraTech
More general info • 2500 attendees, 60% CF • More than 80% of sessions on non CF subjects • Special event at Olympic ice arena TeraTech
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 TeraTech
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 TeraTech
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 TeraTech
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 TeraTech
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/paradigm.html TeraTech
Flex code sample <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"> <mx:TextInput id="source" width="100"/> <mx:Button label="Copy" click="destination.text=source.text"/> </mx:Application> TeraTech
Community Resources • User Group Community Connection – T1s and Speakers, book authors • Wireless access TeraTech
MAX Blogs • http://maxbloggers.com/ • http://www.corfield.org/blog/ • http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/ TeraTech
Next Year • MAX next year “somewhere on East Coast” • CFUN-04 in Washington DC area • 26-27 June 2004 • www.cfconf.org/cfun-04/ TeraTech