MAX 2005 tidbits
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Tidbits taken away from Macromedia MAX 2005 Troy Pullis MAX 2005 Overview • Location: Anaheim, CA • Dates: Oct 17-19 • Cost: $795 (earlybird) + flight + hotel. Rode shuttle buses (no car rental). Only bought a couple meals since conference feeds you often! • People: Over 3000 attendees – network mania! • Fun event: Disney California Adventure • Oct 16: attended community college and welcome reception Keynote Highlights (Day 1) • ZeFrank Flash guru funny intro to MAX • Stephen Elop – Macromedia’s improvements to product development seen in the CFMX7 product! • Kevin Lynch – Flash platform roadmap. Player 8 already 80% installed. Peaks into the future. • Macromedia Labs launched – anyone can download Flex Builder 2 alpha now! • Bruce Chizen - Adobe merger almost complete Keynote Highlights (Day 2) • Flash video easier than ever in DW. • Jeremy Allaire – Brightcove demo • Breeze platform – developers can build Breeze Meeting Extensions. Sync SWF API and SDK. • Flash mobile – soon to be hot in U.S. Flash Lite 2.0 on labs in January. • Awards – Crash this Trailer was audience winner! CF Sessions • CFForm – Mike Nimer (engineer who created it) • Frameworks Overview – Jeff Peters (member of TeamFusebox) • CF7 Application Framework Hands On – Simon Horwith (CFDJ editor / author) • CF Enterprise Integration – Sean Corfield (MM.com architect, noted blogger) More CF sessions… • CF7 Printing & Reporting Hands OnGlenda Vigoreaux (roundpeg, Inc.) • Advanced CF7 Printing & Reporting Dean Harmon (engineer who created it) • CFC’s in CF7 Hands On – Dave Gallerizzo (Fig Leaf) Other sessions • CSS Box Model w/Dreamweaver – Ken Fricklas (Macrotrain.com) • Advanced CSS – Stephanie Sullivan (TeamMM) • Contribute Sites w/Dreamweaver – Joe Lowry (author/speaker) CF Printing & Reporting – detailed notes • Dean Harmon engineered this feature! • You can use CSS with cfdocument, works well. • cfdocument and cfdocumentsection rely on what’s inside <html>your page</html>. Make sure you have a complete html document with all styles included. • New 7.0.1 attribute: src <cfdocument src=http://zengarden.com> anything here is ignored </cfdocument> • Use cfdocumentsection for multiple headers and footers with the cfdocument tag. Bug #61118 should be voted for. I’m not sure how. • Report Builder is a Windows only app (for now). • Use report functions to do ANY cfml coding • 7.0.1 added new “htmlformattedtext” attribute. Allows limited set of XHTML markup for formatting reports. • Making better Excel files depends on lack of spaces! Zoom in and move fields together. • Use shared scopes to get around parameter passing roadblocks. • How to force a page break – do what is said in the Breeze preso • For more details: www.cfreport.org Entrance to MAX MN Guys Resources • MAX main page http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events /max/ • Video of keynotes http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events /max/max2005/video/ • MAX DevNet Reports http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/max2005/ • MAX pix http://flickr.com/groups/40996661@N00/pool/ Questions ? YOU SHOULD GO NEXT YEAR!
