Conference Sessions
A stellar line up of talent presenting four, jam-packed session tracks; Web Experience, Flash Platform, ColdFusion and RIA Development. Covering a gamut of topics from Flash fundamentals, CSS based design, ColdFusion insights, to Flex, AJAX and team process management. A veritable feast of cutting edge, web techniques.
The not-so-ancient art of Mobile Flash Video
The last 3 years have seen an explosion of video on the web, and what format has risen to the top? Yep, Flash Video (FLV) is top dog when it comes to fast and easy video distribution online, thanks the ubiquity of the Flash player. Now, with Flash Lite 3, FLV comes to to the mobile platform! See first hand from Flash Lite ninja Dale Rankine how easy it is to create FLV applications in Flash Lite 3 and bring sexy back to your mobile handset. More...
Wipe that HTML off your app this minute, young man!
You've got terrific ColdFusion apps, but that HTML front end is so 1999. Your users need something far more, well, useable. Business applications deserve richness too, after all. So this session will show you how to start with your existing business logic, then take it to the next level with a rich Flex user interface. Then, just when your users are holding a parade in your honor, take the same logic to create a desktop version with the AIR runtime. You’ll be dragging and dropping to the desktop and interacting with the OS in no time. We’ll show you that Flex and AIR are 1) not difficult, 2) able to be adopted in stages (no need to throw out your whole app and start again with Flex), and 3) a great compliment to your existing ColdFusion applications. More...
XD: Adobe’s Approach to Application Design
Through the process of designing desktop applications, web experiences, and rich Internet applications (RIAs), Adobe has developed an approach to application design that can be leveraged by designers and developers to drastically improve the experience users have with their applications. We’ll provide an introduction to our approach along with case studies revealing some of the guidelines, principals, and patterns that feed our process. More...
So you think you can design?
Website design. Why is it some people take 30 minutes to create a fantastic design while others spend weeks fiddling around to end up with crap? Take a look inside what makes a great design that you, your users, and your client will love. More...
The 3rd Way: Handling 3D on the Web
Discover the latest 3d web possibilities since the outbreak of open source 3d engines in Flash (Papervision3d, Away3d and Sandy). Rob compares the relative merits between these and other competing 3d formats. See what constitutes good use of 3d, and how things can be done well, what happens when 3d is abused, and how the application of 3d can create compelling and intuitive user interfaces. More...
Workshop: Building 3d Websites in Flash
From the basics of 3d, to staging, lighting, textures and 3d modelling. Whether its animation effects or compelling user interfaces, learn modern 3d techniques for the web from one of the industry's leading 3d flash developers.
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Workshop: Flex 3.0 Crash Course
A one day crash course in building Flex applications with Flex Builder. Join Kai Koenig, Adobe Instructor, and James Talbot, the Adobe Master Instructor who built the Flash/Flex training curriculum and certified hundreds of instructors. This hands on workshop focuses on the Flex Builder development workflow while students build a data enabled, rich internet application from the ground up.
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Black Art of Custom Tag Development
ColdFusion components have been ascendant in recent times, dominating with their objectness. But the humble custom tag is making a resurgence. Learn the ancient art of cobbling together custom tags from an old master; sub tags, thistag, associating tags, a touch of attribute wrangling and more. Don't miss this veritable cf_smorgasboard. More...
Workshop: Transfer Training Workshop
A full day workshop working with the author of the Transfer Object Relational Mapping Framework, Mark Mandel. This workshop will take you through building a sample application with Transfer, covering Eclipse IDE setup, installation and configuration, usage, and some of Transfer's more advanced feature set to show you how you can use Transfer to drastically cut down the amount of SQL and ColdFusion you need to write when developing applications, and start delivering applications in a fraction of the time you did previously. This workshop is suitable for those people who have never used Transfer, or any other ORM, as well as those who already have a familiarity with it.
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Actionscript 3 Graphics Programming
Whether creating games or visualising data in flex applications, knowing the concepts and tips and tricks to Actionscript 3 graphics programming can save development time and increase quality of projects. More...