ken.auenson.com

The following are my notes from the Keynote this morning typed on my PDA/phone…
I was hoping that CF 8 would be released, but that did not happen.

CFUNITED Keynote

• Taratech

• Wiki’s – The future is in apps that allow users to add content and interact…
• Fusebox
• Spiral web & Spiral Dynamics 

 

• Ben Forta & Tim Buntel

• 8 Reasons you want it now

1. Making Apps is easier 
• Eclipse plugins & wizards
• Server Monitor
2. Confidence in production apps
• Server Monitor & API
• Multiple Instances
• Stable & backwards compatible
3. Runs in more places (environments)
4. Happy Users
• Flex & AJAX
• Reporting
• PDF Apps
• On-Demand presos
• Images
5. Secure
• Multiple Admin accounts & RDS
• Strong encryption
6. CFML evolution
• JS operators
• Argument collections
• CFC interfaces
• File handling functions
• Array & Struct creation
• CFC Serialization
7. Plays well with others
• .NET
• Exchange Server
• RSS & ATOM
• LC DS ES (life cycle, etc)
• Flash Media Server
8. Fast!
• Overall performance
• CFCs
• List Functions
• Stats for improvements (see Ben’s notes which make more sense than mine!)
• functionality, improvement
• Structs, double
• Lists, triple
• Switch, triple
• Cfparam, hundred
• Dates, five
• Regex, double
• Isdefined, double
• CFC, tens
• BlogCFC, 1.25
• Adobe.com, 1.25
1. new features like CFTHREAD

CF8 Release date (D8)… SOON

• Flex, Today & Tomorrow
• Examples of FLEX usage
• Yahoo Maps
• Scraplog, Buzzword, Sherwin Williams, adobe cycle tracking, piknic
• Adobe Media Player
• Adobe Premiere Express (video remixer)
• CF 8 Server Monitor
2. Flex going open source
• We can probably look for Flex 3, AIR, CF8 @ MAX
3. AIR
• Html,flash,flex
• Drag & drop
• On/offline
• Local filesystem
• Multi-window
• Local db
• Html rendering
• memory and performance profiling
• Source code refactoring
• JS/AJAX wrappers
• Deep linking – address bar, bookmark

Oh, and a little birdie says that CF8 will have event gateways in the standard edition!