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Tim Buntel (Sydney, Australia)

Tim Buntel is the Windows Azure Platform Product Manager for Microsoft Australia where he is responsible for key technologies in cloud computing. He has been involved with software product management for more than a decade at companies including Atlassian, Adobe, Macromedia, and Allaire where he was responsible for various developer platform products including Flex/Flash Builder and ColdFusion. Over the years, Tim has been an active participant in software product evangelism as a frequent author and keynote speaker at Adobe MAX and many other industry events worldwide. This is Tim's sixth appearance at WebDU.

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Adobe User Group Meeting + Early Registration

6:30pm for 7pm, Sydney Hilton, Level 4, Room 1. Refreshments: Cash bar. RSVP: pam@rocketboots.com.au by Tuesday 20th March. Must RSVP to be eligible for door prizes. We'll have early registration available for conference delegates who want to avoid the early morning rush on Thursday. More...

BOF: Floating on Cloud Nine. The weather looks cloudy!

Panel discussion on Cloud services. Virtualised infrastructure, platforms and software. Talking aaS. More...

Blackstone Rich Forms

Almost every web application uses forms. For everything from simple text inputs to complex multi-step processes, forms are one of the most important ways in which users interact with an application. But developers usually end up spending the bulk of their time on layout and UI design instead of back-end logic and functionality; 200 lines of code for HTML tables for a few form inputs! Blackstone, the next major versions of ColdFusion, is going to change all that with its Rich Forms features. More...

Blackstone Technology Preview

A preview of the major themes that ColdFusion 7 (codenamed Blackstone) will address: including reporting and printing output, simpler ways to create compelling UIs, Increasing productivity, new ways for deploying your apps, most importantly, source code protection. More...

ColdFusion Printing and Reporting

The need to generate printable content from Web applications (and web browsers' remarkable inability to satisfy that need) is the most requested ColdFusion enhancement. And Blackstone addresses this need head-on, featuring both powerful free-form PDF and FlashPaper generation, and sophisticated banded report-writer functionality. In this session you'll get the chance to see these exciting new features first-hand, presented by the engineers who helped create them. More...

It’s all a big pain in the aaS

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS? Even among the ranks of analysts and industry “experts,” the current state of the cloud is, well, cloudy. But for every developer, consultant, start-up, or IT organisation, the current transformation to cloud computing - in all its variances - is the most important development in recent memory. This session will help explain why you should care. What are the acronyms and vendors you need to know? How can you get your new business off the ground in hours instead of months, and bootstrap it yourself? How can you move major portions of your budget from CAPEX to OPEX and make your boss shed tears of joy? Cloud computing is no longer a matter of “how” but “when” and you can be among the first with some simple preparation now. More...

Keynote: Blackstone Next Generation ColdFusion

Since shipping CFMX 6.1 in 2003, the ColdFusion product team has been tapping away crafting the next major version of ColdFusion. Code-named "Blackstone," Macromedia's flagship server product is due for release any day now. Tim Buntel, ColdFusion Product Manager, bares all for ColdFusion 7 in this MXDU exclusive. More...

Keynote: The Future of Flex & ColdFusion Scorpio Unveiled

Ted Patrick, Flex Evangelist, joins in for a sneak peek of "Moxie", next generation Flex, CS3 integration and the future of the Flex platform. Scorpio is the codename for the next generation ColdFusion platform. Tim Buntel Sr. Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe Systems defines ColdFusion's future direction, and ground breaking features. 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...

Scorpio: Better User Interfaces

Scorpio includes several innovative new features that deliver a better experience for your application's users. In this session, you will learn how to create presentations on demand, work with images, PDF documents, plus a few surprise new features. More...

Scorpio: Server Monitoring

Learn the inner workings of ColdFusion Server. Discover what specific threads are up to, how processing time is being used, and more. The secrets of Scorpio's awesome monitoring services revealed. More...

The Value of a Rubber Chicken: better team development through shame... and tools!

As teams grow, they need better processes to keep things going smoothly.  Of course there are tools to help with this; peer code review, source analysis and reporting, continuous integration and so on.  But don't underestimate the value of good old fashioned guilt and shame!  Wall boards, rubber chickens, stockades in public places all let developers know that keeping the release on track and bug free are serious business. 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...