Monday
Dec 1,2008
First of all sorry for the missing post about MAX US keynote #2 but I was quite busy and there was already a lot of information on other blogs and on twitter.
Let’s start this first blog post from Milan. Peter Elst and me were lucky enough to be able to attend the Nokia OpenLab event on time : we had to run a bit from Malpensa airport, to the convention center to get our MAX badge, then we did a quick check-in at our hotel to finally reach Sophia’s Restaurant at 6.30pm. We didn’t really know what to expect from this event but it turned to be a really great idea :
teams of 2 needed to think about a “new” mobile application concept and present the idea to the others. Sounds pretty simple, no ? After all presentations, attendees needed to vote for their favorites 3 concepts and the best team will win a MacBook Pro and a CS4 Design Premium (for each teammate). There was several really great ideas unveiled during the evening, and at our own surprise, Peter and me won (thanks to Peter for putting the original idea on the paper) ! 
Our idea :
A Mobile Emergency Alert Service
I won’t give you more details at the moment on this concept: it’s something that I still need to discuss with Peter to see if we will try to make it something real or not. Anyway, I really want to thanks Nokia for organizing such event and it’s somehting that I really to see more often, even in the non mobile world. Pictures available here.
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Wednesday
Nov 19,2008
Even if I’m not attending MAX US, I wanted to share what I’ve heard from my twitter friends and the live coverage done by Serge Jespers and Andrew Shorten (special thanks to them!) and give my first thoughts.
The Adobe Flash Platform
Even if it has been already used during presentations for at least 2 years now, the branding is now official : under the name Flash Platform you will find “everything you need to create and deliver the most compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience.”: CS4 suite, Flex framework, Flash player, AIR Runtime, ColdFusion, BlazeDS etc… That’s cool!:
It will be easier for me now to say that I’m a Flash Platform consultant than an AIR-Flex-CF [...] consultant
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Thursday
Nov 6,2008
My friend Neil Webb just started to record video tutorials tackling PHP remoting using Flex & AMFPHP. The first two are “Installing Apache, mySQL, PHP & AMFPHP” and ““Hello World!” PHP remoting example“. The next one will cover the Mate framework using php instead of ColdFusion. He is planning to do a complete series, so that a user can come to his site and have all the resources in one place
I always found video tutorials very valuable as an addition to an article or a course. So I wish him Good Luck! Go to his new Video Tutorials Page.
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Thursday
Nov 6,2008
After 6 years without a major ColdFusion event in Germany it’s finally time again! Chris Schmitz just announced CF Camp Munich 2008.
When: 27.11.2008 from 09.00 to 18.00
Where:Conference Center Orbis, Oberschleißheim
Price: 35 €
What to expect exactly:
A full day packed with presentations and sessions around the development of Web applications with CFML by well known speakers from the international ColdFusion community, networking, giveaway and raffle. Here are the sessions already confirmed :
- Mark Drew, the man behind CFEclipse: Introduction to ModelGlue
- Luis Majano, the developer of ColdBox Frameworks: The Framework ColdBox
- Andy Allan, the maker of Scotch-on-the-Rocks: Advanced PDF workflow with ColdFusion
- Gert Franz(Railo Technologies): 3.1 Railo
- Darren Pywell(Intergral Ltd.): Announcing merger Analytics - “Seeing is Believing”
- Adobe Systems(speaker tba): Performance Tuning and clustering with ColdFusion
- Peter Haak (Euro Payment Group and others): Securing Your Web Application
- and more to be announced [...]
So if you are around Munich at that dates, you should not miss it (all presentations will be done in English)! More details at http://www.cfug.de. I encourage all European CFUG members to attend this event to prove that CF developers are not so slow to move !
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Wednesday
Nov 5,2008
After the huge success of FOTB08 in Brighton, Flash on the Beach is going to be rocking in South Beach!
Got the winter blues? Looking for inspiration? If you live in U.S., you should not miss it! The venue will be The Jackie Gleason Theater : it fits the South Beach vibe perfectly, and is a spectacular green and white Art Deco building only two blocks from the beach and one block from Lincoln Road where you will find plenty of bars and restaurants.
Don’t think that Flash on the Beach is only about Flash, it’s about Flash, Flex, AIR, Photoshop, After Effects, Processing and many more. If you are a designer, developer, coder, student, manager, game developer, artist, animator or a newbie, then this conference is for you! Don’t miss this opportunity to see nearly 50 of the best minds in the industry delivering 3 full days of awe-inspiring sessions. April 6-7-8 2009, you know where to go : FOTBM09
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