Tidbits taken away from Macromedia MAX 2005 Troy Pullis
Tidbits taken away from Macromedia MAX 2005
Troy Pullis
MAX 2005 Overview
• Location: Anaheim, CA• Dates: Oct 17-19• Cost: $795 (earlybird) + flight + hotel. Rode
shuttle buses (no car rental). Only bought a couple meals since conference feeds you often!
• People: Over 3000 attendees – network mania!• Fun event: Disney California Adventure• Oct 16: attended community college and
welcome reception
Keynote Highlights (Day 1)
• ZeFrank Flash guru funny intro to MAX• Stephen Elop – Macromedia’s improvements to
product development seen in the CFMX7 product!
• Kevin Lynch – Flash platform roadmap. Player 8 already 80% installed. Peaks into the future.
• Macromedia Labs launched – anyone can download Flex Builder 2 alpha now!
• Bruce Chizen - Adobe merger almost complete
Keynote Highlights (Day 2)
• Flash video easier than ever in DW.• Jeremy Allaire – Brightcove demo• Breeze platform – developers can build
Breeze Meeting Extensions. Sync SWF API and SDK.
• Flash mobile – soon to be hot in U.S. Flash Lite 2.0 on labs in January.
• Awards – Crash this Trailer was audience winner!
CF Sessions
• CFForm – Mike Nimer (engineer who created it)
• Frameworks Overview – Jeff Peters (member of TeamFusebox)
• CF7 Application Framework Hands On – Simon Horwith (CFDJ editor / author)
• CF Enterprise Integration – Sean Corfield (MM.com architect, noted blogger)
More CF sessions…
• CF7 Printing & Reporting Hands On- Glenda Vigoreaux (roundpeg, Inc.)
• Advanced CF7 Printing & Reporting - Dean Harmon (engineer who created it)
• CFC’s in CF7 Hands On – Dave Gallerizzo (Fig Leaf)
Other sessions
• CSS Box Model w/Dreamweaver – Ken Fricklas (Macrotrain.com)
• Advanced CSS – Stephanie Sullivan (TeamMM)
• Contribute Sites w/Dreamweaver – Joe Lowry (author/speaker)
CF Printing & Reporting – detailed notes• Dean Harmon engineered this feature!• You can use CSS with cfdocument, works well. • cfdocument and cfdocumentsection rely on what’s inside <html>your
page</html>. Make sure you have a complete html document with all styles included.
• New 7.0.1 attribute: src <cfdocument src=http://zengarden.com> anything here is ignored </cfdocument>
• Use cfdocumentsection for multiple headers and footers with the cfdocument tag. Bug #61118 should be voted for. I’m not sure how.
• Report Builder is a Windows only app (for now).• Use report functions to do ANY cfml coding• 7.0.1 added new “htmlformattedtext” attribute. Allows limited set of
XHTML markup for formatting reports.• Making better Excel files depends on lack of spaces! Zoom in and
move fields together.• Use shared scopes to get around parameter passing roadblocks.• How to force a page break – do what is said in the Breeze preso• For more details: www.cfreport.org
Entrance to MAX
MN Guys
Resources
• MAX main page http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/max/
• Video of keynotes http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/max/max2005/video/
• MAX DevNet Reports http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/max2005/
• MAX pixhttp://flickr.com/groups/40996661@N00/pool/
Questions
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YOU SHOULD GO NEXT YEAR!