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.
Demystifying Information Architecture
There is much confusion and ignorance regarding information architecture (IA) and it's place in web design. Many developers, like their design counterparts, are operating under misconceptions, hearsay and indeed disinformation. Because of this, many feel threatened by some 'usability guy' telling them what to do. 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...
Keynote: The Web Platform
The web is becoming more and more tightly meshed. Building applications from services around the web is common place. With the web as "platform" your application is more hub than silo. More...
SPECIAL EVENT: Kingpin Bowling Lounge
Starting 7:30pm till late - join us for an industry networking event like no other. Leave your high heels at home boys & girls, flat shoes are required. Bowl with webDU's best, test your skill against Daemon's pool champion Matt Bryant, and laser skirmish till your eyes bleed. Or keep up your heels in the relative calm of the VIP lounges.
Must bring your webDU Lanyard to get past security! 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...
Beyond Browsing - Web 2.0 Goes Mobile
With Web 2.0, the era of participation has spawned a whole new generation of web-based communities and hosted services - from social-networking sites with embedded widgets and social applications to wikis and folksonomies - a set of meshing behaviours and technologies bringing a whole new meaning to the idea of people facilitating, collaborating and sharing. More...
Keynote: The Long Arm of the Web
Join Mike Downey, Principal Evangelist at Adobe, for a look at web outside the browser -- covering a range of platform technologies including Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash. Downey will walk the audience through overviews of these technologies as well as examples of their use in real-world applications. You'll also see sneaks of unreleased new technologies currently in development including the "Thermo" project and the next release of Flash Professional. More...