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Free Flex 4 Training in Chicago

tapper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:11:00 +0000

I’ll be giving a free full-day, hands-on training session, where experienced ColdFusion Developers can learn how to build their first Flex application using the latest Flash Builder 4 beta software. This training is designed to help experienced ColdFusion developers get started in understanding how to add rich UI to existing and new ColdFusion applications.

Date / Time Thursday, November 19
Hyatt Regency Chicago on the River Walk,
151 East Wacker Drive,
Chicago, IL 60601
Registration: 8:30am

Registration
http://www.adobe.com/go/flextrainingforcfdevelopers

$10 to advance your career

codeslinger — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:10:00 +0000

If you are in the midwest this weekend, you should really, really consider dropping by BFusion & BFlex in Bloomington, Indiana. It is a bring your own laptop event full of hands-on tracks conducted by speakers from around the globe combined with optional full-day training sessions. The schedule is packed so full of content on Flex and ColdFusion topics that your only regret will be the inability to attend twice.

Here is a smathering of sessions from the Flex track (and remember, there is also a full day of fusion content too )

Hooking up Flex and ColdFusion. An introduction to CFAAS
Integrating BlazeDS and ColdFusion
New Flash Builder 4 WSDL and HTTP Connectors
Drag and Drop Image Manager with Flex & AIR
Practical Cairngorm for Adobe Flex Applications
Creating Your First HTML-Based Application for Adobe AIR with Dreamweaver CS4
Building Flex Apps with Swiz: Simple, fast, flexible, powerful.
Spark Components for Flex 4
Component Development using the Flex 4 Model
Using Merapi to tap into native code in your Flex application
Flex Component Development from Scratch
90 Minutes + Flixel = 1 Game
Creating Applications for the Flash Platform
Flex Intro for Developers
Introduction to Flash Catalyst

I am not sure how the folks at BFlex manage to provide this for a $10 price tag, but if you are close enough to even consider going to this event, it would be a mistake to miss it.

Hope to see you there,
Labriola

Flex Camp Chicago

tapper — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:01:00 +0000

I’m speaking today and tomorrow at Flex Camp Chicago. Today, I’m covering for Mike Nimer (who is recovering from some dental work), and presenting his “Flex for ColdFusion Developers” session. For those of you looking for the presentation or source code, you can find it on Nimers blog. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting my Unit Testing with Fluint session. You can find the code and preso for this session here

CFUnited Europe, AJAXWorld, and more conference stuff…

tapper — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:03:00 +0000

Next week I'm off to London to speak at CFUnited Europe, and the following week, I'll be speaking at AJAX World East. In both places, I'll be speaking about the joy that is Flex 3 in all its forms. The CFUnited talk is more focused on how Flex can improve the lives of CF Developers, while the AJAX World one is more focused on how Flex can help RIA developers increase their real world Retursn On Investment from RIA's. On another note, CFUnited has just released the session schedule for their Washington DC Conference in June, and rumor is that the session schedule for WebManiacs should be available shortly.

My Speaking Engagements for the first half of 2008

tapper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:01:00 +0000

1/18 – Flex Camp Chicago

1/24 – Flex Camp Omaha

2/24-2/27 – Flex 360 Atlanta

3/12-3/13 – CFUnited Europe

5/1-5/4 – CF.Objective()

5/19-5/23 – WebManiacs

6/25-6/28 – CFUnited

WebManiacs 2008, Coming soon…

tapper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:01:00 +0000

The WebManiacs 2008 conference schedule has been finalized and registration is open. Early bird pricing ends Jan 31. Consisting of a two-day ColdFusion conference (“CFManiacs”) coupled with a three-day Flex conference (FlexManiacs), hosting over 70 speakers and 130 distinct topics (some of which are hands-on), WebManiacs promises to have the most comprehensive coverage of Flex, AIR, and ColdFusion at the lowest price. Seating is limited, so folks should register early in order to get into the more popular sessions. I’ll be speaking on building AIR applications in the first few days of the conference.

Flex Camp Chicago

codeslinger — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:12:00 +0000

On January 18th, Mike Nimer, Jeff Tapper, Josh Berling, Shashank Tiwari and I will be presenting at Flex Camp Chicago. After a morning keynote from Bob Tierney, we will begin a full day of flex sessions. You can read more at http://www.flexcampchicago.com/, but don’t wait too long to register. We only have room for about 100 attendees and the spots are going very quickly. Labriola

CFUnited Europe

tapper — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:09:00 +0000

I've been asked to speak at the first ever CFUnited Europe this year. CFUnited, which has been running each year in the Washington DC area (earlier under the name CFUN) for the past 9 years, is branching out, and hosting the conference in Europe as well. The conference will be on March 12th and 13th in London. Hope to see you there! I hope to be presenting on Flex 3 for ColdFusion developers.

Ben Forta and Scorpio attack the CCCFUG

codeslinger — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:05:00 +0000

DP">Last night, Ben Forta continued his whirlwind tour of Scorpio, the code name for Adobe’s ColdFusion 8 software, this time in the beautiful environs of downtown Chicago. The talk was extremely illuminating, for a number of reasons. First, the people in the CCCFUG lived up to their rep by grilling Mr. Forta about every feature he demoed. When nearly an hour had passed in the presentation, and he was still on slide two, Ben asked if we could hold off on some questions until he got to the next slide. That request was greeted with more questions, which, to his credit, Ben answered. He was willing to answer any question we had, while throwing t-shirts into the audience to those that asked. Second, if you have never seen Ben speak, it is a sight to behold. I don’t think I have experienced that much raw information in such a short period of time. He covered an immense array of information in just under three hours, which was partly comprised of the following: 1) The new CFIMAGE tag
2) Argument Collections
3) Implicit array creation
4) A great demo on AJAX integration
5) A CF Debugger in Eclipse
6) … Wait, what? Yeah, that’s right, a ColdFusion debugger for Eclipse. Hopefully, your reaction is the same as mine – FINALLY! As Ben told us, the debugger was in CF back in version 4, but then it was phased out because supposedly no one used it. Well, it is finally back, and it is built on the existing debug framework in Eclipse, so it appears very easy to use. If you know how to use the debugger in Eclipse, you know how to use the CF debugger. Okay, where was I? Right… 6) .NET integration
7) … Hold up again, partner… .NET integration? Oh yeah, basically, CFOBJECT and CreateObject() will now support invocation of .NET assemblies within the CLR. CF users will be able to access local and remote assemblies, and will be able to use .NET methods and objects in ColdFusion. Ben then ran a pretty neat demo showing a CF app that dumped drive data for his machine… data derived from a .NET method. Very cool. Okay, sorry this is jumping around so much, promise it won’t happen again. Okay… Integration with Microsoft Exchange. No, we are going to stop again, because this one really blew me away. Ben, always the showman, showed this in demo, but it was an integration between CF and a Microsoft Exchange server. All you need is username, password, IP address, and CF app to submit and receive the data, and bam… ColdFusion logs in as if it is an Exchange user, and allows setting appointments, tasks, and sending emails all through the Exchange server. It was so simple, and yet so powerful, this demo really showed the degree to which CF 8 is going to effect the community. To be honest, there is a lot more than this. Generation of Connect presentations with ColdFusion. CFPDF, for manipulating the DDX of a PDF directly. CF Server Monitor, an incredibly robust monitoring system built on Flex. Plus about a dozen more features that Ben just blew past because we just didn’t have the time. Ben Forta showed Scorpio in all its splendor, and it had the room foaming at the mouth. And, although there was persistent questioning about a release date, all we could get from him was ‘mid-2007′… with the emphasis on ‘mid’, if that helps. It looks great, and I would suggest to anyone who can… get into the Beta. From what we saw last night, you’ll be glad you did. ps – Oh, and third… Ben somehow landed at Midway at 5:30, and got to 1 North State Street at 6:10. For those of you outside of Chicago, it might not seem like that big of a deal. For those of you from Chicago… I think we can agree Ben must have some sort of superpowers. I mean, besides all his other superpowers. Now I’ve said too much…

CFUnited Scheduler released

tapper — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:05:00 +0000

While the blog was down last week, the CFUnited Scheduler was launched. This is a cool little AJAX app, which lets you figure out which sessions you want to attend. You can browse the sessions by time, by presenter, or by track. If you are going to CFUnited this year ( a must for all ColdFusion Developers ), this is an invaluable tool!

By the way, I'll be presenting my topic "Flex 2 for ColdFusion Developers" Thursday and Saturday, both days at 8:30 am.

See you there.