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MX Europe 2005 cancelled

by kai 14/11/2004

It’s a shame, MX Europe 2005 has been cancelled as to read on their website. The core issue is the lack of sponsors, which is easy to see if you have a look on the sponsoring companies on the right side of the page: Prismix and Interakt. Thanks for their support! I don’t want to […]

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maxbloggers.com is back again

by kai 14/10/2004

Maxbloggers.com is back again. Bloggers going to MAX 2004 in New Orleans with the intention to blog from over there, should register their feeds on www.maxbloggers.com

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MX Day, October 1st in Stuttgart

by kai 09/10/2004

On Oct 1st, Macromedia UK invited web developers to join the first German MX Days – which is intended to grow into a series and take place several times a year. The Stuttgart event itself was a nice one, Macromedia announced Kevin Lynch and Tim Buntel during the beginning of their event marketing phase, but […]

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Breezo: “Securing your ColdFusion MX Server”

by kai 13/09/2004

Macromedias User Groups do Tech Wednesday sessions via Breeze presentations nearly every week. As a User Group Manager you’re obviously not allowed to publish each and every recording and content people are distributing there, but this one is very interesting for everynody running a CF server… Securing your ColdFusion MX Server

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Public recordings MMUG Tech Wednesday

by kai 13/09/2004

Here’s a list of public sessions, Ed Sullivan (the Macromedia User Group Program Manager) sent around some while ago. Feel free to watch: Session: Lip Syncing in Flash Speaker: Team Macromedia Member, Chris Georgenes Description: Learn how to lip sync animations using Flash http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p48069653/ Session: Flash Video Kit Speaker: Macromedia Director of Product Marketing, Chris […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai 08/09/2004

Continuing with the form stuff: – Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. – Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai 08/09/2004

After cake, sweets, fruits and tons of coffee… – Printing and Reporting: always a mess to define proper print output and to define reporting formats. – Blackstone solution: * CFDOCUMENT with attribute format=”pdf” creates a pdf file. * Embedding CFLOOP in a CFDOCUMENT wrapper works, also with dynamic data inside * CFDOCUMENTITEM with type=”header” or […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone V

by kai 08/09/2004

Some more information on printing and stuff… – For creating reports, MM provides a Tool called ColdFusion Report Builder, some sort of visual tool to define the layout of a to become generated report from query fields or other data. This tool creates so called .crf files which are necessary to use CFREPORT. Included is […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone VI

by kai 08/09/2004

– Multiple Instances: For most of the people it was a mess to setup CF with multiple instances on one machine. There is a instance manager now which allows to duplicate complete CF installations. Also, the nasty issue with the replication of CFC instances in the session scope (they didn’t replicate) will be fixed…;) – […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai 08/09/2004

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session… – An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. – Did you know that CF was backwards […]

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