CFDevCon is a new U.K. based ColdFusion developer conference that is run by developers, for developers. This event promises to be highly technical, with an emphasis on topics relevant to actual application development. The first CFDevCon will be a one day event on November 9th, 2006, and there is...
Last week's ColdFusion/Flex seminars in Chicago and Boston went really well - they were well attended, highly interactive, and (judging by the follow-up e-mails I've received) well received too. I just arrived in New York, and will be presenting the same seminar here tomorrow morning. And then I'm...
BOF stands for birds-of-a-feather, and MAX BOFs are informal get together of like minded individuals, a chance to chat, share, learn, network, and more. MAX BOFs fall into two categories: Subject specific BOFs have no formal presenters and no set agendas, instead a moderator helps facilitate the...
One question that keeps coming up when presenting Flex (especially to those porting existing apps to Flex) is "how do I maintain session state in a Flex application?". This is an interesting question. Interesting less because of the problem itself, and more because it demonstrates just how webified...
Yesterday I presented a seminar entitled "Adobe Flex 2 and Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7" in Chicago. The session went really well, lots of interest, and a very engaged and involved audience. On Thursday we'll be doing it again in Boston. There are two sessions, I'll be presenting the one for CFers in...
While in Bangalore last week I snapped this picture of a car, a SCORPIO!
Last month I mentioned an app written by Ryan Favro demonstrating how to use Flex 2 to build a client that allows you to upload multiple files to ColdFusion. Well, Ryan has now written an article about his app for Dev Center. If you want to learn more about how his code works, check this out .
I am in the airport in Mumbai, the city formerly known as Bombay, en route from Bangalore to London. India is a vast country, about a third the size of the continental United States, and home to over 1,100,000,000 (four times the population of the U.S., and second only to China). My experiences...
We're looking for cool apps to highlight in MAX demos. And as per Ben Watson , if you get involved you could win an iRiver !
Two little gotchas and tips pertaining to that you should be aware of: There is no way to tell where to execute your command. If you need to be in a specific folder when the command is executed, you should execute a batch file or script, and have it change to the desired folder and then execute the...