Adobe is offering a free, full day of hands-on training for the new Flex 4 framework and Flex Builder 4 in Washington, D.C., on November 20. This training is designed to help experienced ColdFusion developers get started with building Flex 4 front ends to their ColdFusion applications, and will look at some of the new features in CF9 that make this easier. Twitter has it that our friend Adam Lehman will be TAing the DC session.

To sign up, go here: http://www.ce1.com/adobe/2009/flextrainingforcfdevelopers/

Just a reminder that our October meeting will be held on Wendesday, October 29 from Noon-1pm in W2205.

At this month's meeting, Nuri Cevik and I will go over some of the highlights from this year's Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. From Flash and the iPhone to a peek in to some of Adobe's upcoming products (or what we expect will make it in to Adobe's upcoming products), we'll cover the keynotes, special sessions, and highlights from some of the more interesting conference sessions.

As promised, Adobe has posted recordings of all sessions from the just-completed MAX 2009 conference in Los Angeles online. It's not technically all sessions from the conference — hands-on and Bring Your Own Laptop labs weren't recorded (and having sat in a number of them, I'd say they'd make pretty bad recordings anyway).

If you follow the link above, and click on the "View Sessions" button, you'll be taken to the MAX 2009 Scheduler — the same app conference attendees used to schedule their sessions. All of the orange boxes in the scheduler are regular sessions which were recorded. Just click on the small filmstrip icon in any of the orange boxes to see the archive of that session.

Adobe announced today a really cool thing for the larger Adobe developer community: free, live, online access to the keynotes from Adobe MAX next week in Los Angeles. In addition to the keynotes, Adobe will also be posting the streams from three conference sessions each day. It's not quite clear how they'll be determining which are the "most popular" sessions, but whatever they decide, the point is that you get to see the two keynotes plus nine conference sessions for free.

After October 11, Adobe will post streams from all sessions at MAX. For free. (Well, all sessions except for the hands-on workshops, which wouldn't translate particularly well to a single camera video stream.)

Pretty good stuff, eh?

Adobe recently posted two new tools to their Labs Web site: Adobe Story, a tool for collaborative film/TV script editing, and Squiggly, a spell checking library for Flex 3-based applications (including AIR applications).

Story is interesting not just because it's built around the principle of collaboration during script development, but also because it appears to be the first in a new approach to end-to-end video production that Adobe is taking. Adobe has the tools to handle everything from "planning to playback," as they call it, but now they just need to figure out how to fit everything together. My guess is that the applications in the CS5 version of the Adobe Production collection is going to focus a lot on inter-app integration.

Squiggly will certainly be handy for anyone who does rich text editing in a Flex-based application, though there's no guarantee that this library will make it in to a production release. Adobe states that they are trying to guage the level of interest in such a library on the Labs page for the tool, so it may be that they don't ever take it beyond "Labs quality." There's a link to a demo of Squiggly on the Labs page for the tool, so you can see how it works without downloading a thing.

Extensions seemed to be a subject of particular interest at this month's user group meeting, so I thought I'd point out a new article that introduces you to building CF Builder extensions. "Building Extensions for Adobe ColdFusion Builder" is an article by Simon Free on Adobe's DevNet which walks you through the basics of an extension and, more specifically, how the IDE_config.xml is core to CF Builder extensions. There's coverage of UI elements and "wizards" within your extensions as well.

Just a reminder that our August meeting is tomorrow, August 21, from Noon-1pm in W2205. I'll be covering ColdFusion Builder, Adobe's new IDE for developing ColdFusion applications. All are welcome!

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your participation to Today's meeting on ColdFusion ORM. Attached is the sample application that I presented and a copy of the presentation.

You can download a copy of CF 9 Public Beta @ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/ .

Nuri

Just a reminder that our July meeting is tomorrow, July 22, from Noon-1pm in W2207. Nuri Cevik will be going over the new Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) features in ColdFusion 9. It's pretty powerful and handy stuff, with more features under the hood than you can shake a stick at! There will be handful of swag to give away as well.

As always, all are welcome!