Build an app in a week

Friday
May 7,2010

During the week of June 7^th to June 10^th there will be a series of 8 e-seminars targeted at EMEA time zones (yeah!!) and audiences, that will demonstrate how to build a multiscreen application (from start to finish) using all the power of Flash Platform, in combination with the device and technology of your choice. It’s a unique opportunity to learn about the power of the Flash Platform and you could have your questions answered by Adobe’s EU evangelists and experts during the interactive Q&A sessions.

Here is the list of the sessions:

June 7th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
Erase the Designer to Developer gap: Adding interactions to your design with Serge Jespers
June 7th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Connecting your design to PHP services with Mihai Corlan
June 8th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
Connecting a web application to a J2EE backend using Flash Builder 4 with Michael Chaize
June 8th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project with Mike Jones
June 9th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
Going multi-user with P2P in Flash Player 10.1 with Tom Krcha
June 9th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Developing multi-user applications with LiveCycle services with Tom Krcha
June 10th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT
Bringing web Applications to the desktop with AIR 2.0 with Piotr Walczyszyn
Jun 10th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Code once and run on multiple mobile devices with Mark Doherty

Even if I would have love to see one session on ColdFusion, you should not miss it so REGISTER NOW!

Category Posted in AIR, Flex, Learning, Mobile, Web2.0 13 Comments »

SOTR2010 Reachie awards… EMEA entries only!

Monday
Apr 26,2010

About 1 month ago I wrote a blog post regarding Scotch On The Rocks Award Nominations. It seems that some people misunderstood that only EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) entries are accepted and I also have some people telling me that they only know US ColdFusion developers blogging – ouch!

So to help a bit I started (with the help of my twitter friends) a list of EMEA ColdFusion bloggers that I’m sharing on Google Reader and I also created a list of EMEA CF twitterers. It’s far from being complete so please add in comments any new blog or twitter account that I missed (sorry in advance) and I will update the list.

You have no more excuses now, go vote!

Category Posted in ColdFusion, Conferences 16 Comments »

CFUG Belgium- (late)1st event review

Monday
Apr 26,2010

The launch meeting of the Belgian ColdFusion User Group took place on April 1st 2010: we had around 20 attendees (amongst them non CF developers!) which is not that bad for a first one. People were really interested by the User Group so we can count on them for the next one Marta Gal - a woman, yes! – has done our 1st community presentation about “XML import/export with ColdFusion”. Then Claude Englebert presented on ColdFusion Builder. Networking was really good and I’m sure that we will be able to do something cool with the 300+ ColdFusion developers working in Belgium Here are some topics that they would like to be covered in upcoming meetings: beginners sessions, ColdFusion for java developers, frameworks (ColdSpring, CFWheels, FW/1, ColdBox, Model Glue,… , comparison), ORM, Security, Clustering, Deployement, Flex & AIR integration, LCDS, ANT, multi-language CMS systems, extJS, etc… it’s huge!

So if you’re interested in presenting on one of those subject, just drop me a line/tweet

You will find a video recording of the introduction (Thanks to Peter Elst), and I put online the slides and the pictures taken during the event.

Next meeting will take place on May 26th, location to be confirmed depending on the number of registrations: we will have presentations from Ray “ColdFusion Jedi” Camden & Ben Nadel (2 ColdFusion rockstars) and Terry Ryan (Platform Evangelist). Alison Huselid (Product Marketing Manager) and Claude Englebert (EMEA ColdFusion Product Specialist) will join Terry for a “Meet the team” session (a free-form open discussions giving attendees a chance to face the product team and ask, comment, criticize, suggest, and more). It’s a good opportunity for any developer, project leaders or IT Director to join and ask any questions.

So please register quickly!

Category Posted in CFUG, ColdFusion 2 Comments »

Flex.org revamped!

Wednesday
Mar 24,2010

If you missed it, go immediately to the brand new Flex.org website as it received a facelift. It’s way better than the previous one! For those who don’t know what the website is about, you will find there some customer case studies, some hints to get Started with Flex and a also lot of useful resources to learn, to download products or to get in touch with Adobe’s evangelists and the Flex community. I should also mentioned that Tour de Flex has been updated also with Flex 4 samples.

Category Posted in Flex 6 Comments »

Flex 4 SDK, Flash AND ColdFusion Builder are out!

Monday
Mar 22,2010

You have probably already heard the news, it’s a pretty big one.

Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4 are finally released.

Flex 4 SDK introduce several improvements including:

new set of components (Spark) and support for FXG (graphics interchange format for the Flash Platform) to create more expressive interfaces.
improvement of the states that makes them easier to use.
integration of the Open Source Media Framework’s video class (via the VideoDisplay component).
many enhancements to the developer productivity, etc…

Flash Builder 4 (next version of Flex Builder 3) has been also greatly improved.

new designer/developer workflow: integrate easily with ColdFusion Builder and soon to Flash Catalyst
enable better data-centric development: support service introspection, connect to Coldfusion, php, Java classes, webservices…
improve productivity: getter/setter generation, event code generation, better refactoring, etc…
network monitor and Flex Unit support, etc…

ColdFusion is finally getting a real IDE with ColdFusion Builder.

eclipse based IDE with code insight and code assist support (CFC introspection, UDF, SQL support…).
integrated debugger
remote project support
extensible with CFML: write your own extension (ie. to support a framework) or download already existing one on RIAforge
integrate easily with Flash Builder

Now let’s see what is the offering:

Flash Builder 4 Standard Edition
full: € 211.75/upgrade € 83.49
not include profilers, network monitoring, Flex unit testing.