Last Wednesday I did an “Introduction to ColdFusion 9″ at the Adobe User Group Belgium for the Flex 4, Flash Catalyst, ColdFusion 9 pre-release event: Other speakers were Serge Jespers, and Maarten Cox. My talk was targeted mainly to non-ColdFusion developers, so I showed only simple features.I tried also to make the audience realize how simple but powerful ColdFusion is and how it could be a great addition to any existing data center (especially with CFaaS/ESL and new integration capabilities).
Peter Elst managed to record a video of my talk (except the last 5 mins I think) – thanks a lot to him! So here is the video and the slides. Hope people enjoyed it even if I think that I could have done better Next time for sure…
I wanted to do a quick post regarding those two conferences I attended: if there is no reviews here it’s just because I put them on InsideRIA. I started to contribute with those reviews but I’m planning to do more.
I forget to mention in my review the Award Show at the end of the day, and Live Music from SX who just won the Road To Fame (video below) – congrats to them!
It was my first SOTR so I was happy to finally meet IRL Andy Allan and Leanne (I already met Kev McCabe last year at MAX Europe). We had also a great Pre-Scotch at O’Neills listening live to the Bible Code Sundays. Stay tuned for SOTR in Brussels, Munich and Amsterdam around the end of October this year!
Those are definitively 2 conferences not to miss in Europe!
So the announcement is now official: Flex Builder“Gumbo” is being renamed Flash Builder! As a Flex developer, when I first heard about the rumor, I was a bit worried: I had many difficulties to make Flex adopted by European “enterprise” customers, as I had to avoid using the word Flash! Sad but true, Flash used to have negative connotations for many clients – they were seeing it as a product only interesting to create games and banners.
So the clear distinction between Flex and Flash was very useful at the beginning to introduce the product and demonstrate the power of the Flash Platform. Hopefully for us, things evolved in the last 2-3 years, and Flash now is clearly seen as a mature product for enterprise development. Anyway I want to point out few things that could require some attention :
This post is maybe a bit out of topic, but I wanted to promote this particular TV show – Dollhouse – and avoid the frustation of seeing it not renew for a Season two (can you hear me Fox?).
Created by Joss Whedon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”,”Firefly”,”Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along”…) and starring Eliza Dushku (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”,”Tru calling”, …).
Echo is an “Active”, part of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Actives know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time, confined between missions to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse. After each scenario, Echo returns to the mysterious Dollhouse where her thoughts, feelings, experiences and knowledge are erased, and enters the next scenario with no memory of before. Or does she?
As we are approaching the end of Season One, it’s the right moment to rewatch – or watch for the first time – past episodes (season finale “Omega”, airing 5/8).
Ben Forta just finished his quick European trip (UK, Belgium and Netherlands) to present “a sneak peak at ColdFusion’s future”. I was lucky enough to see him twice: the first time at the European Commission in a meeting room packed of 80 developers, the second time in Brussels in front of 45 developers.
Both presentations started with a quick demo of BlazeDS data push and LCDS built-in conflict management: even if I’ve already seen this demo several times, it’s always nice to see the reaction of the audience. Will BlazeDS replace LCDS Express in Centaur ? No words on that yet…
Second part focused on Centaur and Bolt: I really loved the introduction tag line
” Advancing rapid application development
and turning developers into heroes. ”
Next time for sure… 
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This post is maybe a bit out of topic, but I wanted to promote this particular TV show – 
wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Actives know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time, confined between missions to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse. After each scenario, Echo returns to the mysterious Dollhouse where her thoughts, feelings,
experiences and knowledge are erased, and enters the next scenario with no memory of before. Or does she?
