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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.

Speaker Roundtable

Its a Jerry Springer style round table of industry pundits and audience participation. Bring your questions 'cos here's your chance to get those burning issues off your chest. More...

Adding Live Chat with ColdFusion and BlazeDS

In this session we'll take a look at how ColdFusion integrates with LiveCycle Data Services (and the open source BlazeDS project). Leveraging the power of BlazeDS, we'll create a simple chat application that can be added to a ColdFusion powered site or application. More...

BOF: AIR Funtime

Join Andrew Muller for an informal discussion on the virtues of AIR. That would be the AIR cross-OS runtime, not the nitrogen oxygen mix we breathe day to day. More...

BOF: Railo Open Source ColdFusion

Join Kai and AJ to here the latest on Railo, the open source ColdFusion server. Hot on the heels of the Scotch on the Rocks announcement, get the latest gossip on the JBoss/ColdFusion initiative. May feature Guest appearances ;) More...

Birds of a Feather Session 3 (Ideas?)

Birds of a feather are a community get-together where developers can share war stories and otherwise make fun of other communities More...

Birds of a Feather Session 4

Birds of a feather are a community get-together where developers can share war stories and otherwise make fun of other communities More...

The Google Maps API for Flash

For the past few years, Google Maps API for Javascript has been a great success story with the number of sites using the API increasing dramatically every month. However, until very recently Flash developers did not have many options for integrating their applications with Google Maps. This session will introduce you to the long-awaited Flash version of the API, step through a brief tutorial and show a few great applications developed with this API. More...

Worries, woes and wonders of ColdFusion 8 PDF handling

We've all expected it to happen - the "merger" introduced a whole set of new PDF functionalities in ColdFusion. Printing and Reporting have also improved and produce very reasonable results in most of developer's scenarios. This session will provide a brief overview on different ways to deal with PDF in CF 8 and then dive into how to use CFPDF and CFPDFFORM. You can be sure that we're also going to cover the edge cases where it's getting a bit tricky to achieve the expected results. More...

Code, Know Thyself: Using ActionScript Metadata

Ever wondered how FlexBuilder knows that contains DataGrid tags or that child tags of a VBox belong to its children array? Maybe you would like other Flex developers working with components you've developed to see particular properties organised into categories in the properties panel, or allow them to annotate their own classes to work with a runtime framework you're developing. All this and more can be achieved using metadata. More...

Integrating Flash content with LMS

A live demonstration of developing for and integrating with a selection of Learning Management Systems. Get an overview of Learning Management Systems how to create Flash content for easy LMS integration. Get to grips with SCORM, content integration, and packaging and to develop for for Non SCORM LMS. More...