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.
Integrating the Flex Skin Design Extensions into your RIA workflow
The Flex Skin Design Extensions are a set of extensions for various Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications (notably Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks) that allow you to easily create skins for various Flex components and other assets (such as cursor manager, drag manager, etc.) Richard will look at integrating these tools into your workflow, giving your Flex/AIR applications a custom look & feel. More...
CSS-Based Layouts with Dreamweaver CS3
The latest version of Dreamweaver offers more help than ever to build Web designs entirely with CSS. New, visual CSS tools enable you to move styles within and between files, as well as see how your changes will affect the design. Accelerate your workflow with new CSS layouts, and test your design with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Learn how to choose from the wide array of CSS layouts that are new in CS3, customize them to fit your needs using the CSS panel, and then make the design work across your site. More...
CSS Problem Solving with Dreamweaver CS3
Nothing is more frustrating than building a beautiful design with CSS, only to have it go haywire in the browsers. Armed with a methodical mind and Dreamweaver CS3, you can track down the source of any inconsistencies, learn how to work around them, and, if you're "lucky" enough to find a new browser bug - even share what you've learned with others. In this session, you'll see how to check for browser bug triggers with Browser Compatibility Check; review the cascade with the CSS Rule Tracker; and use Adobe's CSS Advisor site to exchange bug hunting (and fixing) tips with the community. More...
Accessible AJAX: Progressive Enhancements with Spry 1.6
A primary buzzword within the greater "Web 2.0" buzz has been AJAX - the use of JavaScript to manipulate page content without the necessity of a page reload. But while it sounds cool, the realities of implementing AJAX has been a huge, developer-centric undertaking with numerous pitfalls. That is, until now. With the release of version 1.6 of the Spry Framework for AJAX, designers and developers alike can take easily implement AJAX widgets, such as Accordion panes, Multi-tab interfaces and Sliding panels, as well as advanced data manipulation and form validation, without sacrificing backward compatibility for non-JavaScript enabled user agents. During this session we'll walk through the steps of a real-world project, as we implement a number of AJAX widgets, effects and data manipulations. More...
AIR: Visualizing the Possibilities of a New Platform
Count down the top Adobe AIR applications with this survey of the coolest apps launched to date. What is the most famous? The best-designed? The wackiest? Come to this session to find out. More...
Introduction to Actionscript 3 for Flash developers
Have you just started exploring the wonderful world of Flash interactivity but frustrated at trying to understanding how to code in Actionscript? This session will introduce you the Actionscript 3 language and syntax and help you learn the Flash object model and event handling. Are you afraid that you are not a programmer and would fall asleep before the session even begins? Don’t worry. Because your speaker, me that is, am not a computer programmer either. I would explain Actionscript in plain simple terms and soon you too can join in to the world of Flash coders. More...
User Testing for the Rest of Us
Professional web services are continuing to mature but there are still a lot of cowboys out there. This presentation is directed at those of you who suddenly need to start including a bit of usability testing into your work and also for those of you who maybe managing web projects and want to know a little more about how and where usability testing fits in. By the end of the session you’ll know a lot more about conducting fundamental usability evaluations and how you can better understand the work that’s being done for you. More...
Building Your Own webTV
Adobe Media Player (AMP) is an AIR based desktop app that expands Adobe's online video offering, adding to an emerging ecosystem that enables new ways to distribute and monetize media, while helping viewers discover and view high-quality content. AMP delivers more engaging video experiences to viewers while offering content publishers new abilities to distribute, track and build businesses around their media assets. More...
Dense and Hot. An introduction to your applications big bang
What exactly happens inside of Flex when it is loading your application? For that matter what is so special about the Application tag itself? How does it lay out its children? What does the creationComplete really mean? The answer to these and other exciting questions are contained in this session. We will dive deep into the Flex framework and piece together a forensic-quality timeline of the first few seconds of your application's life. You will never look at the Application tag the same way again. More...
Database Queries the Easy Way using Transfer Query Language
Transfer ORM provides you with a lot of functionality in terms of managing and modelling the data in your system, but it also provides you with the tools to do complex database queries, with a fraction of the code that you would normally write. Transfer Query Language is SQL-like scripting language that is built into Transfer ORM that allows you to do complex queries against your database, with far less code than conventional SQL. By utilising the XML configuration of Transfer, TQL can generate a large amount of the underlying SQL for you, while also allowing you to build queries that are based on your object model, which removes the need to concept shift back to the relational database model when developing. More...