I enjoyed the flash demonstration at the last meeting. I hope to have some time soon to get into it and see what I can do. :-) Thanks to Scott.
Adobe Developer Week
Be our guest at a week of free online seminars exclusively for developers!
Learn about the Adobe Engagement Platform, including Flex, LiveCycle, and other Adobe technologies, during Adobe Developer Week. This free, week-long event features live, online sessions presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q&A sessions.
Featured Sessions Include:
For maximum flexibility, you need only register for the individual sessions that fit your needs. Don't miss this must-attend developer event.
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Presenter: Todd Hay - Director, Platform Marketing & Developer Relations
Built around Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash, and HTML technology at its core, the Adobe Engagement Platform blends the strengths of Adobe technologies and open standards to provide a versatile foundation for extending the reach of information, processes, and services to customers, partners, and employees anytime, anywhere, and in any medium. Attendees will learn about the technologies that make up the Engagement Platform, as well as understand how Adobe technologies can be used together to create intuitive, rich content, documents and applications.
Presenter: Ben Forta - Sr. Technical Evangelist
Flex revolutionized the client side of your application, but what to use on the backend? Discover how ColdFusion 7 and Flex 2 have been built to complement each other, via Flash Remoting, Flex Data Services and ColdFusion event gateways, Flex Builder plug ins, and more.
Presenters: Emmy Huang - Product Manager & Gary Grossman - Principal Scientist
ActionScript is the primary programming language of Flash and Flex. If you're new to ActionScript 3.0, discover how this important update further advances the language to offer developers a fully object-oriented programming model, increased performance, and new language features for the next generation of rich internet applications.
June 16, 2006 | ColdFusion App Developer, Community, Flash App Developer, Internet Application Architect, IS/IT Manager, Java App Developer, .NET/ASP App Developer, Web Application Developer
Presenter:James Ward - Systems Engineer & Jorge Taylor, Manager, Engineering
In this session you will learn how to use Adobe's tools and AJAX together to easily build new rich web pages or enhance old ones. Or, take it beyond the web page and easily build rich web applications using the Flex framework, Eclipse based IDE, and server components. You will also learn how to easily build RIAs which connect to SOAP and RESTful web services.
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We have been given two copies of Image Component and one copy of Zip Component from Alagad which we will raffle off at future meetings. Here's a description of each product:
Image Component:
The Alagad Image Component is a 100% native ColdFusion Component used to create and manipulate image files. Written entirely in ColdFusion CFML, the Image Component does not require installation of any additional software. The Image Component is not a CFX tag and is not Platform dependant.
Because the Image Component is written in pure ColdFusion and instantiates only native Java objects, it compiles with the rest of your CFML files to Java bytecode and performs much better than competing products.
Using the Image Component you can perform all of the most frequently requested image related functions including:
* Read and Write Images
* Create and Draw Into Images
* Resize Images
* Find the Widths and Heights of Images
* Draw Text Into Images
* Draw Images Into Other Images (watermarking)
* Control Image Compression Quality
* Much, Much, More! (Over 60 image manipulation methods available.)
The Alagad Image Component requires almost no effort to install and use. Simply place the component into your custom tags directory or any directory in your site and then instantiate it using the ColdFusion CreateObject method. Once you have the Image Component instantiated you can use its methods to begin creating and manipulating images.
Zip Component:
The Alagad Zip Component is a ColdFusion Component (CFC) used to create and manipulate zip files. Written entirely in ColdFusion CFML, the Zip Component does not require installation of any additional software. The Zip Component is not a CFX tag and is not Platform dependant.
Because the Zip Component is written in pure ColdFusion and instantiates only native Java objects, it compiles with the rest of your CFML files to Java bytecode and is extremely portable.
Using the Zip Component you can perform a wide range of actions on zip files, including:
* List all files in zip files
* Add files and directories to zip files
* Extract files and directories from zip files
* Delete files and directories from zip files
* Read data directly from zip files into variables
* Write data directly into zip files from variables
* Control zip file compression
The Alagad Zip Component requires almost no effort to install and use. Simply place the component into your custom tags directory or any directory in your site and then instantiate it using the ColdFusion CreateObject method. Once you have the Zip Component instantiated you can use its methods to begin creating and manipulating zip files.
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