Pittsburgh ColdFusion User Group

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JUNE PITCFUG MEETING:
Adobe 2009 Announcement Tour - ‘Burgh Stop:
ColdFusion 9, FlashBuilder 4, FlashCatalyst 1, ColdFusionBuilder 1, Flex 4
Thursday June 18th - Adam Lehman

There is a lot going on at Adobe with the products that many of use on a daily basis, and this is the focus of their June 2009 Tour.  FlexBuilder is being renamed to FlashBuilder to better reflect its role as an IDE not only for developing applications with the Flex framework, but also for the development of ActionScript applications.  ColdFusion version 9 (“Centaur”) is full of new features.  ColdFusion Builder (previously named “Bolt”) is a new Eclipse-based IDE for ColdFusion application development. Flash Catalyst (previously named “Thermo”) is an application that bridges the gap between design tools (such as Illustrator) and the Flex Framework. Check out Adobe Labs for the Beta downloads: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/ and http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/
Also:  Building a data-centric application using Flash Catalyst beta and Flash Builder 4 beta <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcatalyst/articles/building_datacentric_app_flashcast_flashbuilder.html> and Video: Flash Catalyst and Flex 4: Part 1 <http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=110> & Flash Catalyst and Flex 4: Part 2<http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=111>

Adam Lehman, the product manager for Adobe ColdFusion, will be visiting Pittsburgh on June 18th for an evening of information-packed presentations & demos, along with some fun, food & prizes. Adam has worn a few ColdFusion hats, most recently as a member of Ben Forta’s ColdFusion evangelists team.  He has worked as a ColdFusion developer on both sides of the fence – writing code as an CF application developer as well as writing code for the CF product itself.  On top of that, he’s a local guy, hailing from the Greensburg area.

Adam will be bringing along software to raffle off at the meeting.  We’ll also have some books to raffle off, as well as lots of good swag from Adobe. 

This event is jointly sponsored by two Pittsburgh Adobe User Groups: The Flash User Group, and the ColdFusion/AIR/Flex User Group.  We are also involving user groups from surrounding geographies in WV, Erie, and State College.  Please forward this message along to anyone that you think might be interested.  We will be holding the meeting at our usual location – the IMPAQT offices  at Foster Plaza in Greentree.  Driving directions and other details are on our website at www.PITCFUG.org.  The agenda will be:

5:30 - Food and Networking
6:30 - Introductions & Prize Drawings
6:45 - Presentations and Demos 

RSVP for the meeting is highly advised, so that I can be sure to hold the event in a room that is large enough – as well as to order enough food!  Registration only takes a minute at http://pittsburghadobe.eventbrite.com/  .

 

Meetings of the Pittsburgh Adobe ColdFusion User Group are held at IMPAQT’s offices in Greentree. The discussion begins at 6pm, with networking and food starting at 5:30pm. Our meetings are sponsored by IMPAQT and Powell Genealogy. Click HERE for directions.

ADOBE MAX2008 USER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ARE ON ADOBE TV

Adobe’s annual user conference - MAX - was held last November. Video recordings of many of the presentations from MAX2008 are available for viewing at http://tv.Adobe.com#ch+Max. These are great, high quality videos chock full of technical information and production directions.

GREAT  RIA APPLICATION LINKS !

Here are some great links of great applications - most are Flex-based, and many received Clio awards (more info here). All are mind-blowing when you think of what is behind them in the way of coding.
www.ImmersiveMedia.com     www.GetTheGlass.com 
www.Agencynet.com

LIBRARY OF COLDFUSION PRESENTATIONS

If you missed any recent meetings which were viewings of previously recorded presentations, you can view them a your leisure by visiting Charlie Arehart’s User Group TV site: www.carehart.org/ugtv and selecting the presentation of interest. This is a great resource of information on topics related to ColdFusion, including Flex, AIR, AJAX, and the like.

The Pittsburgh area ColdFusion Users Group normally meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Our meetings begin at 6:00 pm, and are held in Greentree at the Foster Plaza offices of IMPAQT (click on the DIRECTIONS button for more details). We will always have at least one presentation at each meeting, along with any organizational discussions that are needed. Our meetings are sponsored by IMPAQT, who also provide the Pizza and pop/soda.

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COLDFUSION SERVER INTERNALS

“ColdFusion Internals” was a past topic of the online CF User Group (www.ColdFusionMeeting.com). Click HERE to view the recording.

MONTHLY DRAWINGS FOR FREE ON-LINE TRAINING FROM WEBUCATOR.COM

Webucator.com provides customized on-site and instructor led training on a variety of products, including ColdFusion, AJAX, and SQL Server. They have started a new user group program that allows us hold a monthly drawing in which the winner gets a 12-month subscription to the course of their choice. Click HERE see the courses that are available to the winners.

FLASH PLAYER 10
FLEX 3.2 SUPPORT

Here’s what the bloggers have to say about coding Flex applications for the new Flash Player:

Matt Chotin blogged about the official stance on Flex and Flash Player:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2008/10/flex_and_flash_player_10.html

How To Build Flash Player 10 Applications using Flex SDK*
http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/

Using Flash Player 10 within Flex Builder*
http://blog.everythingflex.com/2008/05/20/using-flash-player-10-within-flex-builder/

COLDFUSION NOW FREE FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

At the CFUNITED keynote address, Ben Forta (Adobe Chief Evangelist) announced that ColdFusion will now be availablee to ducational institutions at no cost! Users have been asking for this for a long time, to help increase the crop of CF developers.

GETTING THE WORD OUT!

Please send any information you might have in terms of contacts for ColdFusion developers and companies in the Greater Pittsburgh area to the E-mail below. This could be information for yourself, so that you get added to our E-mail distribution list, as well as other companies or developers that you know of. We rely heavily on word-of-mouth to publicize our existence. If you have ideas on how to get the word out, please let us know.

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