By the time you read this, another MAX will be in the history books. In fact,
with a record attendance of around 3,500 developers and designers, this MAX
in Vegas will also be in the record books.
Along with the usual great conference sessions, this year there was a special
event referred to as the "BarCamp - The unconference event" called MAXUP. I
presented a MAXUP demo, A Flex 2 Signature Panel at MAXUP, where I showed the
audience how easy it was to combine a Flex 2 UI for capturing a mouse-created
signature with the ActionSript 3 Drawing API and a remote object call to a
ColdFusion component. Leveraging work that James Ward blogged about on
cayambe.com, I retooled the back-end as a ColdFusion CFC (I make remote
object calls to the CFC's functions), and made some mino... (more)
Flex 2 and the Flash Media Server are a match made in heaven. By combining
the two technologies, streaming Flash videos at my office has become a nice
part of my daily routine and a good excuse to add another monitor to my
desktop. Whether your musical genre taste is classical or rock 'n roll, it's
relatively easy to quickly create a desktop library of Flash videos. In this
article, I'll... (more)
Whether it's in factories or workshops, in mines or forests, in offices or
homes, or even in our sacred ColdFusion Administrator, anything that impairs
the efficiency of workers is always worthy of improvements in the process or
changing the way of doing things.
Levering ColdFusion ServiceFactory to get work done is one example. Figure 1
is a screenshot of an example Flex-ColdFusion hybri... (more)
I have been collecting DVD movies for years now and, on some occasions, I
have forgotten that I already owned a particular movie. More times than I
hate to admit, I have ended up with two copies.
At my wife and budget's insistence, I created a Flex 2 application with a
ColdFusion, CFC-based back end that allows me to store a DVD inventory with
the expected data inputs (see Figure 1) into ... (more)
Mike Givens is the CTO of U Saw It Enterprises, a Web technology consulting firm based in Marietta, GA. He is an Adobe Corporate Champion known to share his experience and evangelism of all things Adobe. Certified in both ColdFusion 5 and as an Advanced CFMX Developer, he has been using ColdFusion since the days of Allaire Spectra. For the last 11 years, he has been seen with his head down - deep in the code.
Keith Bergelt
Gaurav Mantri
Aditya Banerjee
John Karamitsos
Kaj van de Loo
Bob Little
Alois Reitbauer
Chris Schin
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