ken.auenson.com » CFUNITED 2007 http://ken.auenson.com/blog Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:16:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 CFUnited 07 – Advanced Styling and Skinning in Flex 2 http://ken.auenson.com/blog/2007/06/28/cfunited-07-advanced-styling-and-skinning-in-flex-2/ http://ken.auenson.com/blog/2007/06/28/cfunited-07-advanced-styling-and-skinning-in-flex-2/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:17:55 +0000 Ken http://ken.auenson.com/blog/2007/06/28/cfunited-07-advanced-styling-and-skinning-in-flex-2/ I attended a really great Flex session this afternoon by Rob Rusher of effectiveUI.com.
Read on to hear my thoughts on the topic.

This session was devoted to introducing the many available methods of customizing the look and feel of your Flex apps through skinning and styling.  I am just beginning to get into Flex and am not a strong designer, so this session was perfect for me!

I learned some very valuable tips that seem to make it very easy to give a Flex app a customized design.
The presentation will be available on the effectiveUI website, under News & Events -> Presentations.

Luckily for me, Rob was giving out swag!  I won a free training class at their offices in Denver!!! 

Thanks again to Rob Rusher and effectiveUI!

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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

    2. 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!

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    I had a long morning, waking up @ 5am and not arriving at the hotel until 2pm. :(

    This evening I met up with a friend, Rick Root, who I first met here @ CFUNITED in ’05.  We seem to get together every year and catch up on our current lives both personally and professionally.  We ended up eating @ P.F. Chang’s.  Great food and great company!  Unfortunately I wasn’t hungry enough to finish the meal… If you know me, you know that means something!  The waiter left a lot to be desired, but the overall experience was a good one. 

    Anyway, if you are still reading this far in, I just wanted to say that I plan to blog a note for the major sessions I attend every day while here @ CFUNITED. 

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