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.
What's new and cool in the Google Maps API?
The Google Maps JavaScript API helped kickstart the mashup concept and continues to go from strength to strength. This session will introduce the latest additions, including integrated local business search, street level panoramas, Google Earth integration with KML, and lightweight maps for low bandwidth sites and mobile devices. More...
Adobe User Group: Code War! (And Early Registration)
All comers welcome -- no ticket required. State Champions, seven short programming challenges, two projectors, loud crowd.. mildly impressive prizes.
Connections Bar at Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour from 6pm 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...
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...
Workshop: FarCry 5.0 Jump Start
Spend a day with the FarCry Frameworks lead developer, and learn how to make the world famous, FarCry web application platform sing and dance. Suitable for ColdFusion developers coming to FarCry for the first time, and existing FarCry developers wanting to get up to speed with what the latest FarCry 5.0 release has to offer.
FULL DAY Price: $495 (inc GST) More...
Internationalisation with ColdFusion and Flex
When building and architecting web applications a common mistake is not to think about the issues related to delivering a website or a web application for a multi-national or multi-lingual target audience. Internationalisation and the associated topics localisation and globalisation comprise more than just offering support for more than one language or some freaky special characters. This session will provide an introduction in various aspects of how to build web applications using ColdFusion and Flex targeting an international audience and supporting users with different cultural backgrounds. More...
Hooking Flash up to Stuff, Just Because You Can
Michael's an obsessive tinkerer -- the type of guy who likes to dismantle the toaster. Join him as he hooks the Flash platform up to WII remotes, LED panels, Infrared devices, multi-touch screens and more. Why? Just because... besides who knows when that light bulb moment will strike for the next great Flash powered device. More...
MayoClinic.Com: ColdFusion Writ Large
Learn how MayoClinic.com arrived at an outsourcing model that actually works through -- sponsored open source development and building internal expertise. Take a peek under the covers at how Mayo has constructed a scalable and easily maintained, highly customized FarCry site through deep abstraction of internal meta data. More...
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...
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...