ColdFusion & Flex/AIR Awareness sessions
Prisma IT & Adobe are organizing 'The Power of RIA' events in Brussels and Amsterdam. Based on the succesful 'Flex Awareness sessions' we have been organizing with Adobe during the last 2 years (we had one of them yesterday with – again – a full house), these FREE events will show you the power of creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex, AIR and ColdFusion.
Chances are you already are working with (or have seen) Flex. Did you know there's a product that is just like Flex, but runs on the server? It is a very powerfull RAD (or Agile as it is now called) programming language, that enables you to build J2EE applications. The syntax of the languages (CFML and CFScript) are a lot like MXML and AScript.
If you don't know ColdFusion and build RIA's, you should look at ColdFusion. You'll like it. Or even better, come to one of the events in Brussels on October 23 or Amsterdam on November 28 [register].
I hope to see you there!
Adobe MAX 2008
During this year's Adobe MAX in San Francisco, CA, I'll be doing a hands on session about Building ColdFusion powered Flex applications.
We'll be building a ColdFusion backend application and a Flex App, using Remote Objects and sending Value Objects to and from ColdFusion.
If you plan on attending one of this year's MAX events (and you should!) and after reading this you're thinking 'well it might be worth giving it a try', then hurry. The first session is already sold out, the second has only 3 seats left and the third some 20 or so. Registrations are open.
If you can't make it to San Francisco (or your boss won't let you go), don't worry. I'll be doing the same lab during the European version of MAX in Milan on December 1-4. My colleague Mark van Hedel will also be there doing a lab on AJAX powered ColdFusion.
Last year the dutch were responsible for being the biggest team at MAX, so we have a title to defend. We really need you to come. Apart from being a member of the biggest team of delegates, as a professional using Adobe technologies, you simply can not afford to miss it.
If you are planning to be there, leave a note. We could try and organize something for the dutchies.
Hope to see you there!
LiveCycle Workbench on Vista? .. not really
Last week I did a LiveCycle training for one of Australia's banks in India. Since LC 8.2 had been released and with that a great new version of Adobe's 'LiveCycle Building Appliciations' course, I needed to reinstall everything on my notebook. I completely neglected the fact that the workbench is not supported on Vista and just installed everything. Well .. it's not only not supported, it doesn't work.
Or does it?
well .. kinda. Everything works (at least as far as I could test). The only problem is that the display of the editor view doesn't work. I can select activities, change them etc. I just can't see them.
I'm planning to do some more tests to see if I can get this to work, but for now, if you run Vista (at least on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p) don't bother installing the workbench.
